SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sleeping According to the Chron, Tapioca Ed, did, however, have the time to pen an essay for the Sunset Beacon (which has not yet put Jew's essay online, but you can read last month's)
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Since SFist Sarah L didn't get to the SJ Metro last week, we hit them next! There are too many pigeons in the South Bay, says Gary Singh. Moms other than Pat Tillman's
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the SF Weekly. Know why? Because SFist was voted READERS' CHOICE BEST BLOG!!!!! Yay! We're so excited! Thank you, SF Weekly readers! There's no link for the Best-Of readers' choice
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
SF News Muni: "I'm melllllting! Melllllllllllting! Oh, what a world, what a world!" So, how's that commute going, subway riders? Any better today? More Muni-Meltdown, or less Muni-Meltdown? Above, we've embedded an animation of Metro activity yesterday afternoon; call us crazy, but is seems as though
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Interview: Lyrics Born Lyrics Born + The Coup-- Thursday March 1 @ The Fillmore... AA, $23, doors 8pm Best show you've ever played There have been so many, that's tough. I always love playing Austin, Sydney, Portland, London,
SF News Your Commute: Onwards and Upwards to Phase II MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
Arts & Entertainment Fun On Public Transit It's so much fun to complain about public transportation that we sometimes forget it's almost just as fun to take it (well, sometimes, anyways.) Here's two events that'll bring a bright ding-ding to
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppins Have no Need fer Formalities Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Swarthy youngster: "It was the drunkest I've been since I was underage." -- From Trecko/In the Haight Hippie chick: "You
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
SF News Off To The Village Voice Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising, Part Three There's so many 1906 earthquake related events, we've gotta do a third post rounding up your tourism options! Keep sending those events on in! Previous posts here and here. Additional events listings here,
Arts & Entertainment It's Peter Berlin Day, What Did You Get Me? Inside the Castro, it wasn't much warmer, but event MC Heklina did the best she could to heat things up as, among other things, the Mayor's office officially proclaimed it "Peter Berlin Day"
SF News Edgar Winter Group Expresses Dismay Today's Examiner announces Muni: Free rides to be a thing of the past. Well, duh -- should they even be a thing of the present? Political statement makers aside (maybe), we'll admit to
SF News Interview: Andrew Sean Greer Who is that charming young man riding his scooter up Divis for the early-bird special at the Metro Cafe? It's Andrew Sean Greer, California Book Award winner for , San Franciscan, and one of
SF News Et Tu, BART First MUNI announced they wanted to raise fares. Then Caltrain hopped on board the fare raising train (ha! we made a pun). And now BART. Why, raising fares is the new black. Thanks
Arts & Entertainment Revenge of the Essefficist <i>Update: Metreon Tix Now on Sale</i> Greetings loyal readers. Welcome to Tuesday. You know those annoying people you see at Giants games with the laptops, busily availing themselves of the free wi-fi network? The Essefficist is them. Even as
SF News Paying More For Less We rant and we rave, but the fact is, SFist is stuck for local transport without Muni. Even if we had a car, where the hell would we park it? So when we
Arts & Entertainment Bright, Indeed Unless you're hitting A.C.T. or Berkeley Rep, it's a bit tough to find good theater to go to on a Wednesday night. Right now (and at least through early April), however,
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
SF News Muni, Muni, Muni! We all know how much our readers (and our staff) lurve to complain about the Muniserable. And it's not just when they're sticking it to the First Amendment. In fact, and every progressive