misc Ask SFist: What Are Your San Francisco Values? This most recent question comes from your Editor's brain. What in heaven's name does "San Francisco values" mean? We've come across this term again over the last few months, one we suspect we'll
misc How Weird Street Fair Photos On Sunday, the annual How Weird Street Fair took place on Howard Street (get it?), with many residents showing up for the organized fun festivities wearing very bright colors. Described as a way
misc Week Around the Ists DCist was shocked when a local newscaster threatened a gay blogger on live TV while they were discussing Kirby Dick's new film, Outrage, a documentary about outing closeted politicians who fight against marriage
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misc Film: The Death Star Destroys the Starship Enterprise Here's a great follow-up to last fall's Imperial Fleet Week: Death Star Over San Francisco, by Mike Horn of Current TV. Military force was authorized yesterday minutes after the E.T.'s 48
misc Help an SFister Land That Sonoma Wine Job News of Sonoma County’s “Really Goode Job” first hit SFGate on April 28. Since then, hopefuls coveting the $10,000/month, half-year gig for Murphy-Goode have been applying online and uploading videos
misc Aptly-Named "Trigger" Scraps with BART Train In case you haven't already read about this adorable Jack Russell named Trigger over at SFAppeal, here's a recap. Last month, Trigger pulled a Houdini and escaped from his family's home, which is
misc Surfing Turf Wars C.W. Nevius clued us in to some surfing turf wars and comical lingo in his column today. There's apparently been a large number of newbies risking their lives at the treacherous Fort
misc Drag Queen Spoofs Those Pro-Corn Syrup Ads LA-based drag queen Jackie Beat, who was recently up here for Lip Service at the Castro, just made these three spoof ads of those Corn Refiners Commercials in which one mother gives another
misc Nerd Alert! It's Odd Day Nerds the world over are reveling in the fact that today, 5/7/09, is the third of 6 days this century in which the date happens to be made of three odd
misc Help a Mother Out This Mother's Day By now, many of us have read about the saga of a local mother's efforts to find a spot in a homeless shelter for her and her three children. We all feel kind
misc Photo du Jour 304 Reminiscent of Donna McKechnie's "Tick Tock" number from Stephen Sondheim's Company -- which featured McKechnie power dancing on moving elevators within a 1970s metropolitan landscape of marriage, love, sex, song, and Stritch --
misc Pics from the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon C/o SF Weekly, please enjoy (or balk at) these NSFW photos from the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon which went down last Saturday at the Center for Sex and Culture. Among the celebrity, um,
misc AutoTuning the News, Obama Edition This guy, Michael Gregory (who previously gave us this charming clip that wended its way across the webs and onto Rachel Maddow's show, among other places) has a great talent for making monotonous
misc Matt Baume Recaps the Courage Campaign Training Event Stop8.org's Matt Baume attended the Courage Campaign's training event in Oakland this past weekend, and learned three main tactics for gaining marriage equality: 1. Tell good stories; 2. Persuade through agreement; and
misc Photo du Jour 302 Next to Christmas and the start of the fall TV lineup, the start of tomato season is our favorite time of year. Also, the city's top chef/on-air talent, Joanne Weir, penned the
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist's week started off with a slight shock—the Boeing 747 that's used as Air Force One, plus military fighter jets, flew without warning over lower Manhattan, causing people to evacuate buildings. It
misc Fear Not, Everyone: We Will Have The Good Weather Back Soon An afternoon in Dolores Park from Aaron Fagerstrom on Vimeo. Please remember in these difficult, rainy times, that we are relatively spoiled living in this rare Mediterranean climate, and that the pretty Dolores
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. V Australia, now offering round trip airfare to Brisbane from $639! The Wall Street Journal, upgrade your download with
misc Photo du Jour 301 Jennifer Siebel and Bevan Dufty share a guffaw during today's "501 Day," a benefit supporting Goodwill. If you bring in a pair of old denim to the Castro or Union Square Levi's stores,
