misc Win Passes To Midnight Mass with Peaches Christ! Over here at SFist we have lavished the love on Peaches Christ, like the fans (stalkers?) that we are. It was like a dream come true when she offered us some tickets to
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Billy, From Grateful Dogs Hey! Grateful Dogs is having an adoption event this Saturday from 12-3 at the West Portal Starbucks. Overcome your knee-jerk contempt for corporate coffee long enough to come and see some of the
misc Polly Wanna New Home? Fans of fancily feathered fowl were flummoxed a fortnight ago when they awoke to find that the flora that many of the famous parrots of telegraph hill called home was cut down. And
misc Win Passes to See <i>Scared New World </i>! Thanks to all of you who entered yesterday's contest for passes to see , and congratulations to the lucky winners! As we told you yesterday, The Film Arts Foundation and Larsen Associates are offering
misc Hair-Raising Halloween--Coffee Style Welcome, children, to a very special Halloween episode of the Trimethyldioxypurist. We have an update, an experiment, and a couple reviews of some coffee beans. When we think "candy," we obviously first think
misc SFist Cares ... About Your Spare Change We suppose this change in the entreprenurial charitability of young children explains why we're always sitting around SFist headquarters with a full bag of change at the end of the night but the
misc Win Passes to see <i>Come Fly With Me Nude</i> We here at SFist are looking forward to the The 21st Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, which runs from Nov 3-9 at the Kanbar Hall and the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco,
misc Halloween News Just in time for Halloween, Animal Care and Control has issued a renewed warning asking city residents to be careful about bats. San Francisco has seen five rabid bats over the last two
misc Housing Bubbles: Luck Of The Draw Shirley Jackson, put down that rock! At 7:30 a.m. yesterday, the SF Redevelopment Agency hosted a low-income housing lottery that attracted over 4300 applicants. The SF Redevelopment Agency, along with Centurion
misc Freaks and Geeks -- So Chic Hey, no one told us that Gavin was giving a State of the City address last night! We totally would have gone! It was all blah blah blah, Tony Hall, blah blah beautification,
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Rufus, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the left side of the site, half-way down) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Rufus has a similar story
misc SFist Rants: La Cumbre Taqueria La Cumbre, on Valencia at 16th, is the kind of place people tell visitors to San Francisco to go to get some "real Mission Mexican." Heck, it's the sort of place we can
misc Doin' The Evolution Jeanne Caldwell, whose husband, Larry Caldwell runs an organization that sues schools over the teaching of evolution, filed the suit. Because it's for the kids, you know-- they might not be able to
misc SFist Cares ... About Sharing That's why we're big fans of Creative Commons. They've taken the complex legal nightmare known as the current copyright law and provided an easy way for us to say that we're hip to
misc Win Tickets To See Chronic Town and Zoo Station at Last Day Saloon! Our fondness for tribute bands has been well documented in the past, so we're pretty psyched to have tickets to giveaway to the Chronic Town and Zoo Station show at the Last Day
misc Animal Roundup: Deer Shot, Orinda Safe Remember that terrorizing deer that killed a dog in Orinda? Breathe safe, ladies -- he's been rubbed out -- with one shot. The trapper making the town safe again works for the US
misc For Sale on eBay: Fake Island Seriously, at the current high bid of $222,322, this thing is a steal for any San Franciscan. When was the last time you saw anything in The City at that price? It
misc SFist Raves: Citizen Cupcake When the Virgin Megastore on Market opened, the top floor contained a restaurant we spent hours in. Overlooking Market and Stockton streets, we sat there with our textbooks (while frequently reading magazines, don't
misc SFist Answers--Fantastic Fourth! Howdy, fellow 'Fisters and fans of the SF Bay Area -- it's another episode of SFist Answers, where we strive to provide helpful answers, or at least decent-sounding BS, to those burning, itching
misc SFist Rants: Our Mail Carrier We have lived many places in our 34 years on this earth, but we've never lived anywhere with more lackadaisical mail carriers than San Francisco. The list of rotten service we've experienced staggers
misc Housing Bubbles: Pop Goes The Market and the Market Goes Pop It's time for our monthly housing market speculation fest, as the real estate housing numbers come in for September. Like 'NSYNC sez, it's dirty pop! (Out of charity for you, we won't do
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Louie, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the left side of the site, half-way down) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Not to sound like the
misc Make Us Pretty Everybody wins: you get your work looked at by folks in other cities; our logo looks less beige, and everyone feels all fancy and artistic. What's not to like? Banners must be 728
misc Win Passes to <i>Quality Of Life</i>! Bay Area filmmaker Benjamin Morgan shot , his cutting-edge directorial debut film in our very own Mission district. The story of two young graffiti artists arrested for vandalism, this film has gotten a lot
