misc Get Poked for Free On Tuesdays What with all this ballyhooing over health care, would you like to test drive some alternative medicinal practices? Take, for example, the prickly art of acupuncture, the popular practice of inserting tiny needles
misc Week Around the Ists Chicagoist scoped out the spectacle, the crowds, and the madness surrounding Oprah's 24th season premiere, which shut down a stretch of the famed Magnificent Mile (aka Michigan Ave) and sent some residents and
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. , Fly The West Coast with prices starting as low as $49. Eddie Izzard Stripped Too, 1/23/2010 at
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dog Playing Pool Object if you must. Call us pandering or lame, but by god it's been at least several days since we posted something adorable-pet-related, and this dog shows some real talent. Clearly higher up
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adorbale Google Street View Animation It was between this, a cute animated video for Google Street View by Google Japan, or this, a clip of backstabbing Tyra Banks acting like a raging hypocrite during an interview with Cynthia
misc Photo du Jour 460 "Behind the flowers" by Darwin Bell (with a special guest appearance by... Darwin Bell!)
misc Video: Bay Bridge Webcam Time-Lapse Footage If you thought Captin_nod's time-lapse footage of a portion of the Bay Bridge construction from last Friday evening was rad, check out this intense footage of the entire weekend gleaned from the
misc Video: "BBC" Reports on Mission Hipsters Cheeky "BBC correspondents" Edvan Cinque Terra and Darvid Tokishi take the piss out of Mission hipsterdom, "a culture where apathy is considered sexually attractive" (hm, sounds pretty British to us, too) in the
misc Video: Surprise Curve on New Bay Bridge Bypass Sarah Phelan of the Bay Guardian captured some great footage of the newly opened Bay Bridge this morning. You can see the new, surprise curve that folks have been talking about today at
misc Photo du Jour 458 Burners climb on an art structure during Burning Man near Gerlach, Nev. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
misc <i>Vice</i>'s Guide to San Francisco New York publication of note Vice -- that glossy, in-your-face magazine that features stinky Brooklynites wearing too-tight clothing and interviews with depressed music bands -- has come out with a very special San
misc Angry Clarion Alley Mural Project Letter to Incite Taggers? Oh oh. Also, remember when San Francisco artists used to know that they lived in a city with grime and/or grit? Granted, Valencia Street is, for better or for worse, an affectedly
misc SFist History Lesson: The Key Route and the Bay Bridge For those of you killing time waiting to see if the Bay Bridge reopens on schedule, why not spend ten minutes watching this charming film, "The March of Progress," about the engineering marvel
misc Week Around the Ists Torontoist covered the aftermath of a horrifying cyclist-car confrontation—between a bike courier named Darcy Allan Sheppard and Ontario's former Attorney General Michael Bryant—that left Sheppard dead: they covered a mass memorial
misc Video: Bay Bridge Construction and Full Moon Time Lapse Captin_nod put together this mesmerizing video featuring time-lapse photography of yesterday's ongoing Bay Bridge construction and the rising of last night's very lovely full moon. You can also check out these Bay
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. , Fly The West Coast with prices starting as low as $49. Home Boy, a story about three young Pakistani
misc Whast's Going On Here, Nova? Heh. Also, for reals, you should try their tartar. Most of their menu, actually, is tasty. It's also a pretty good place to get tanked, especially when 21st Amendment is too loud and
misc SF Zoo Searches for "Alexis," Budding Philanthropist, Gorilla Lover, Origami-Maker Thank you to the kind tipster who warmed our hearts with this story from Kron 4/Bay City News. The San Francisco Zoo is searching for a young girl named Alexis who visited
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Puppy Can't Get Up And here ends our coverage of adorable pets for the week.
