SF News Muni Makes Us Drink (But This Time It's Free!) First, come out for the Richmond Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Newsom and Supervisor McGoldrick, this Saturday, July 29 from noon to 2 at Presidio Middle School (450 30th Ave between Geary and
misc Craigslist Encounters: 15 minutes of Craigslist Fame Last year a Canadian blogger (Kyle MacDonald) started a quest to turn his one red paper clip into a house using Craigslist and his bartering skills. After completing 14 trades he finished his
SF News Life Of Reilly Interestingly, the only local news source that seems to be covering the story about Clint Reilly's attempt to stop McClatchy Co. from buying the Mercury News are the McClatchy Co-affiliated papers (which include
SF News Then he Growled, with his Grinch Fingers Nervously Drumming... Holy crap! Is it even possible? Supervisor Dufty wants to a holiday? According to a statement from the Duftster's office, he wants to make "an effort to send the message that there’s
SF News Speed King So what are we to do about it? Well, there's creating more bus-only lines but that'll piss off businesses who are concerned about the loss of potential car-driving customers. See the fracas about
Arts & Entertainment We Are Two! All of us here at SFist want to thank all of you for what have been a great, great two years. While all of us write for SFist for the sheer joy of
SF News Thou Dost Protest Too Much The bill actually came up for a vote but Sandoval pushed it aside to a committee, claming that he can't really support the bill because even he's having trouble speaking English, Shakespeare style.
Arts & Entertainment Reversal Of Fortune Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes,
SF News Political Junkie: Sanity Alert! We are very sad to report to you that Chris Daly is in the Chron today -- but not for hauling off and hitting anyone, or yelling at someone so loud that the
misc Unskinny Bop This is actually part of a long standing battle in the city over the private booths. Critics have called them exploitive as club owners make it so the women who work in the
misc Shameless Self Promotion Yet Again Maybe it's because we love the idea of folks going through the pain in the ass intrusion of "registering" with real (or false) personal information in order to vote for us. Maybe it's
SF News Gavin & Tom's Excellent Health Care Adventure The plan came about as a response to a healthcare plan by the aforementioned Tom Ammiano, one which business leaders did not quite dig. So Gavin decided to throw in his own plans.
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
SF News Going to the World Cup With Fabian Núñez Hey, we just found out a way to go-- just give tons of money to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez? He's taking some of his biggest fund raisers to Germany to watch the Finals.
misc SFist Barks and Whines: Argus Lounge Sports Basement in the Presidio used to be one of our favorite stores because they welcomed (past tense) dogs inside. They changed that policy last year and we are afraid our behavior may
SF News <strike>John Haggett</strike> Jack Neeley The man to your left is a cabdriver named Jack Neeley, not rogue cop John Haggett -- and he's richer by an undisclosed amount after settling his lawsuit with the Chronicle for their
misc Craigslist Encounters: No more Craigslist for you! Who wants Craigslist? We do! We do! Unless, of course, we own a bunch of newspapers whose classified ad revenue is falling due to Craigslist kickin' its ass and happen to be an
misc Craigslist Encounters: Free Stuff! Buy your own store! Or an Airplane Hanger! Right now there are over a dozen free pianos on Craigslist. It seems that budget cuts to state sponsored art programs are finally having an effect on music appreciation! There are also over
misc SFist Cares ... About Getting Your Ride Clean The AIDS/LifeCycle is coming up and one of the locals riding it sent us a message about a bike/moped/scooter wash this Sunday 11am-4pm on Market & Sanchez to raise money
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Three Eve Batey: While I’m asking what you’re going to do for money now, of course I also want to know – Nathaniel Ford: Increase patronage! EB: Well, yeah! NF: Increase our patronage,
SF News Netflix Settlement Becomes A Little Less Bogus Subscribers who were customers before January 15, 2005 will get one month of free upgraded service. That is, if you can have three discs out at a time, you get upgraded to four,
SF News R.O.T.C in the U.S.A First up, the School Board, as a member of the Board, Mark Sanchez, has introduced a measure that will ban JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps) programs. Apparently, every school child in the
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part One Nathaniel Ford: Thanks for coming in. Eve Batey: Oh, thank you for having me. NF: By all means. I guess this will be an opportunity for you to get to know me and
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Hot Aluminum Roof It also reminded us how Apple is the quintessential San Francisco company. The products are expensive. They're not quite as fast as the others, but make up for it with style. There's constant
SF News Ketchup Girl We'll be straight with you -- we're having a hard time following the whole "is Annemarie Conroy qualified" debacle that's been afoot for the past few days -- something about a report being
