misc Whale Watch So here's the progress report: they've got around 30 miles to go before they hit the ocean, and as the water gets more saline, their health and mood seems to be improving. (Probably
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments For May 20-26 Hey everyone -- episode two is in the can for your listening pleasure information. Thanks everyone for your contributions; this week we turn our white-hot spotlight onto Kerbot2000, KWillets, "T", Marc, and classydave.
SF News We're In Bad Reporter! We're In Bad Reporter! This is totally our dream come true. When we started SFist, we would muse idealistically to SFists Eve and Jackson, "hey, wouldn't it be great if this site really does go somewhere, and
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Residency Requirement And the hits keep on coming! Now the Chron's reporting that Ed Jew's been told he has five (5) days to prove that he lives in San Francisco, through tax records or a
SF News Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She
Arts & Entertainment Why Aren't <i>You</i> Paying For The Chron? You know we love the Chronicle around here at SFist -- where else would we get breaking news updates, steal pictures, and follow the lives of the Gettys and Trainas? So we're still
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Comments Of The Week Hi, folks -- as promised, here's our very first "Top 5 Comments Of The Week Audio Podcast." While there's a clear reason we're not in radio, we hope you'll check out this five
Arts & Entertainment Cocktails With The Man Who Killed America (er, <i>Captain</i> America) On Saturday, fantastic Hayes Valley comic book store Isotope played host to Ed Brubaker, who's as hot a writer in the comics industry as anyone. Recently, a story written by Brubaker made headlines
Arts & Entertainment Back To Indie For The EBX It all seems very amicable, and no one's saying anything about this formally, but it hasn't been a secret that a lot of people have been unhappy with the Village Voice Media's franchising
SF News Gavin's Only Friends... Photo from Drew Altizer's 7x7 blog. Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of Tina Turner's cat courtesy of the Institute for Private Dancing Studies.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Our sources report that only like four non-media people showed up for the anti-Jerry Falwell protest (picture above, and two more pictures after the jump). --Chris Daly called Newsom campaign manager Eric Jaye
misc SFist Contest: David Gordon's Pick Up Performance- Dancing Henry Five Anyways, enter away if you want to go-- we'll announce winners on Thursday. Good luck!
Arts & Entertainment We Will Soon 'Be Free To Move About The Country': Southwest Airlines Coming Back Continuing a string of semi-interesting news regarding lower-cost airlines, Southwest has announced that it's starting service directly to and from SFO on August 26. During a media conference at SFO last week, Gavin
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Halou and Greenworld Part 1 of 2 of SFist Wendy's hard-partying midweek SFIFF musical adventures! At the SFIFF, we waited out the line on Wednesday to “go green” with local bands Halou (video above) and Tarentel
SF News Step One In Insidious Scheme To Legalize Pot Complete Assembly Bill 684 seeks to legalize the growing of hemp for industrial uses -- rope, cloth, oil, all that good stuff. It's not for smoking, okay? Okay?! In fact, the bill, which passed
Arts & Entertainment Do Your Part For The Tubes After the jump: video of The Tubes' appearance at Bimbo's, here in SF in 1976; and another surprising interpretation of "Dancin'."
Arts & Entertainment Letters To (Another Pub's) Editor--Martinis At The Mark Five parts vodka, one part gin is a "San Francisco Martini?" And it may have originated at a San Francisco institution? While our personal martini recipe is different (all gin plus a misting
Arts & Entertainment Mo' Money, Mo' Young Lawyers, Mo' Problems For Their Firms? It's good to be a lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for starting associates, leading to peers to
Arts & Entertainment James Beard Awards Are Good To San Francisco Media Culinary legend James Beard has some prestigious awards named for him. The winners of the Journalism and Broadcast Media awards have been announced, and the Chron came up big. Seriously, I know we're
Arts & Entertainment Chron's Education Reporting Gets High Marks Jill Tucker's series on Junior ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corp) and Nanette Asimov's features on California's special education program have won top honors in the 2006 John Swett Award for Media Excellence, which
Arts & Entertainment 'Bad Reporter' Is Best Of The West Most of the news about print journalism is a little depressing -- circulation is down, money is tight, etc, etc. So it gives us immense pleasure when we can share a little positive
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Critical Mass, April 2007 The rolling Rorschach test that is Critical Mass once again delighted and frustrated those in S.F. tonight. We saw pissed-off bus riders, but also a few delighted hotel guests. We saw some
SF News Reactionaries React to Gavin's Reaction First up, Screamin' Lou Dobbs who broke Godwin's Law in envoking Nazis to describe Gavin's statement. Said Lou: "They might as well work for Hermann Goering, I mean, they're running so much propaganda,
