misc SF's Garbage Like LA's? No! While others are pushing their dust-covered garbage cans back out onto the curb east of One Rincon, those of us west of Balboa Park are having our hands slapped for keeping ours out
misc Ban Ki-moon and His Gays The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, gave a speech to the World Affairs Council at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel yesterday, but was upstaged by a few gay (or bear) activists.
misc Get a Job - Corporate Web Marketing Analyst [Dolby Labs] - Senior Online Marketing Manager/Director [Confidential] - Director of Communications [The Vote Solar Initiative] - Database Architect [Adify] - Marketing Manager Online Advertising [CyberCoders] For
misc iDating + iPhone = iIntercourse For $25 a pop, you can attend iPhone-only iDating marketing schemes parties. "The iPhone makes speed dating more user-friendly, because you're rejecting a photo, not a real person," says iDating party thrower Niko
misc SF Gays Are Boring: Meth Use Down, HIV Rates Stable Wired News just reported about the San Francisco Department of Public Health's finding that speed use among SF gays and SF-native Stephanie Tanner has decreased over the past three years. (Is there some
misc Blocker: 1500 20th St. Exploring San Francisco through the lens of individual city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 9: 20th
misc Power Outages?! Is anyone else's power going out every five to ten minutes today? Annoying. So far we have reports from One Market, Harrison/Fourth Street, UCSF Mission/Bay, parts of the Financial District --
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week You guys know what this is about by now: our readers' commentary is the sheen on the apple that is SFist, and we like to recognize those whose input has amused, educated, or
misc Charter School Scandal Uprep was intended to serve disadvantaged students and put them on a college preparatory path, but the school has been hit hard by cheating scandals as of late -- earlier in the month,
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going
misc Get a Job Take, for example: - Clarity Administrator (Sounds life coach-y, job title-wise, but we promise you that it's not.) [Zenex Partners] - Video Software Engineer [NVIDIA] - Geotechnical Engineer [Cinci Engineering] - Controller [Iconma]
misc Because We're Six-Years-Old and It's Friday: the Washlet Yeah. It's a toilet seat that "make[s] you cleaner and more refreshed than you ever felt before." That is to say, it warmly washes (and dries!) your sphincter and crotchal areas to
misc Dykes On Bikes Win Hair-Pulling Trademark Battle Dyke on Bikes -- the women who kickoff the annual Pride Parades and Dyke March by riding on their mechanical clitorises, with mammary glands fluttering to and fro -- have won the right
misc Blocker: 1400 Sturgeon Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker No. 8: Sturgeon St.
misc <em>Dreamgirls</em>' "Family" Via NBC's Family in the '80s Here are some of your favorite NBC stars from many, many years ago, singing one of the weaker ditties from Dreamgirls. Who knows? Maybe this will jumpstart cast members from The Office and
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Plenty of interesting stuff happened in San Francisco last week, and our readers, as always, added funny, insightful, and interesting angles to the stuff we wrote about. Our furious, fabulous five for last
misc Canine-On-Canine Crime in Golden Gate Park And for God’s sake, if you live near the park, keep your cat(s) indoors. They don't need to be outdoors as much as us human beings do, so keep them safe.
misc Were You Saying "Boooo" or "Gavin Boooo-som"? Here's a clip of Gavin on some time-filler radio show a couple days ago, talking about playing baseball and giving us an incredibly humorous taste of what he looks like when he's had
misc Week Around The -ists Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into
misc God’s Angels Now Giving Lap Dances To Jim Mitchell Famous for creating the Mitchell Brother(s) O’Farrell Theatre and then committing fratricide with a 22-caliber rifle, Jim Mitchell helped give San Francisco the sick reputation it still (sort of) maintains. Today
misc Oh Yeah, Bricky Baby, Your Facadism Gets Me Hot But check out their PR's garish and surprisingly epic promotional video for the new pads. The best part? How they seamlessly weed out your more unsavory tax bracket dwellers (i.e., you, us)
misc Free Slurpees Today, So Go Now. I Said Now! Since it's July 11, 7/11 stores (get it?) are giving away free Slurpees until 11 p.m. this evening. (Store locations in San Francisco found here, in Oakland here, and in Berkeley
misc Get A Job (One Where You Can Still Read Us, Of Course) - Marketing Communications Associate (H5) - iPhone Media Engineer (Apple) - DBA / Data Analyst (Oak River Insurance Co.) - Marketing Assistant (International Museum of Women) - Outreach Coordinator (On Lok) - Senior Technical
misc Fallen Idol, Mate: Sydney Falls, San Francisco Climbs Oh dear God. Sydney, Australia has locked itself in the bathroom with a razorblade, threatening to cut its wrist, because you just totally don‘t understand them. It seems after an eight-year high
misc Blocker: 1400 Montgomery Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 7: Montgomery St.
