Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
Arts & Entertainment Are They Running Out of Candidates? As far as we know, our mom is NOT behind this movement. But we're totally flattered that blogswarm at Calitics thinks we should run for mayor. We're even more flattered that our CrackBerry
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy As always, if you have any questions to either the driver or the security guy, e-mail us at [email protected]. Now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast. Earlier this week, the Examiner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego Burrito Enthusiast Talking Smack About S.F. While intra-city burrito debates are a San Francisco tradition, we were a bit shocked to come across this article from a San Diego-based pub in which a "burrito expert" of sorts totally disses
SF News Guvernator's May Budget Revision The Governor's annual May budget revision was rolled out yesterday. The document still shows a net operating deficit of $1.4 billion, but represents this as "major progress as compared to the $4.
SF News PG&E Grants More Than $100K To Area Schools Pretty nice when an area powerhouse (pun sort of intended) puts some money into public schools. Pacific Gas and Electric has awarded 22 area schools a combined $108,500 for "for innovative solar
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --Belly dancers, including local troupe Fat Chance Belly Dance, perform at the Mighty tonight with dancer Ansuya. 8:30 p.m., 119 Utah (x 15th), $15. --Buy Mom an orchid at
misc Teachers In E. Palo Alto School Dist. Going To Be Slightly Less Underpaid Ahh, teaching. That difficult, underpaid profession. We're totally behind those who are bringing future generations up to speed with the world being better compensated. Unfortunately, the salary typically given to this profession is
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
SF News Imagine a World Where Muni has Money Fortunately, the report also had a list of the ways that Muni can turn its losses around. Here's a handful, with more after the jump. No need to convene a freakin' panel, Gavin
SF News eBay StumblingUpon An Acquisition? Has anyone used StumbleUpon? And is it really that cool? It looks like eBay may think so -- though we can't really see how a company like StumbleUpon fits into eBay's wheelhouse. Okay,
SF News Your Commute: Cars In The Chron Remember how everyone was so upset because it turns out that SF doesn't collect on like 60% of parking meter money? Well, the second half of the study is in and it turns
Arts & Entertainment Mo' Money, Mo' Young Lawyers, Mo' Problems For Their Firms? It's good to be a lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for starting associates, leading to peers to
SF News There'd Better Be Enough Agave To Go Around Suggested donation: five hundred dollars. Or, if you're feeling particularly moved by the theme, 5,437 pesos. Ha ha ha! Seriously, though, dollars only.
SF News Population of Richmond Reduced to Just 24 "We, the people of District One," the manifesto modestly announces, "demand the recall of Supervisor Jake McGoldrick." Except it's only signed by 24 people. We don't have the census in front of us,
SF News The Warriors: The Dream Continues, Tonight Improbably, almost impossibly, the Golden State Warriors' dream season continues tonight with game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal matchup with the Utah Jazz. The Warriors are into the semis by virtue of
Arts & Entertainment Are You Out Of Your Half-Dome? Nature Getting Pricier Prices on everything, as always, are going up-up-up. National Park entrance fees appear to be no exception under the administration's current plan. Starting next January 1, for example, Yosemite's gate fee is set
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i> A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience
SF News Happy Birthday, Care Not Cash In honor of the anniversary, Team Gavin has launched a full court press showing that despite appearances, things have improved. Question: what is the proof? Answer: according to Trent Roher, about 1,800
Arts & Entertainment What the Puck? Another <i>Real World</i> Tryout Coming To San Francisco Hey check THIS out. Tryouts for MTV's are nigh. You guys have until Monday, May 7th to see if you'll be the next to fill the shoes of Pedro, Puck, or Judd . . . and
Arts & Entertainment Nic Dillon from Casados Best show you've played and what made it great? Heather and I have played a lot of shows. Our favorite shows are the ones where we can tell people are really listening and
Arts & Entertainment Don't Blame Us, We Voted For... John Kerry! The former presidential candidate was in town the other day -- and how things have changed. Before, he was greeted by Bruce Springsteen, roaring crowds representing about 48% of the voting
SF News American Football Spectacular: Capsulizing the 2007 NFL Draft's First Round It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,! All hard information was culled from NFL.com's pretty excellent draft tracker site. Proceed. * Selection # / Team (trade info)
Arts & Entertainment 'Bad Reporter' Is Best Of The West Most of the news about print journalism is a little depressing -- circulation is down, money is tight, etc, etc. So it gives us immense pleasure when we can share a little positive
SF News Amy Lee Gets Her Revenge On San Francisco Well, Lee filed a suit with the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing for having to go through all that nastiness. She eventually got her position after another raucous hearing but felt
