Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads You see, America? You see what you get when you complain about a little boob action? You get the most boring halftime show imaginable featuring a snooze-inducing performance by Paul McCartney, AKA The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Words Well, surely you have $5. Five whole dollars buys you all the pizza you can eat at Poetry and Pizza on Friday. That's tomorrow. We double-checked the hipster central calendar. You're free. Don't
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF News It's Wednesday. Do You Know What Your Baseball Stadium is Named Today? Even though we've always disliked the naming of stadiums after corporations (but think the voting on it is silly) we took a shining to Pacific Bell Park. Shortened to its nickname, Pac Bell
SF News Political Junkie: We Care Too! SFist Cares is a great, great feature, profiling various ways you can volunteer or give back to the Bay Area community. Plus, SFist Mary-Lynn's funny as all get out. Political Junkie, by contrast,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Mission Statement (Of Sorts) From Your Trimethyldioxypurist After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about
Arts & Entertainment Nineties Nostalgia Remember the nineties? Back when nobody knew Scott Weiland was a big junkie, but wondered why every single that Stone Temple Pilots came out with sounded like a song recorded by Nirvana or
SF News SFist Cares ... About Your 1040 Because your desperate need for cash outweighs your normally laissez-faire attitude towards paperwork, SFist is pretty sure you're starting to think about your taxes and how you can get that killer refund this
SF News Bagging It -- A Less-Than-Inspired Response to a Real Problem The San Francisco Commission on the Environment -- a group that meets bimonthly and serves to advise the Mayor on matters of the environment -- is recommending that the city impose a charge
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Byron Brown Byron is a Graphic/Fashion Designer and "GrassRoots" marketing specialist who works in San Francisco under the moniker of VIRGIN69. VIRGIN69 is a boutique and clothing company and SO much more. We're still
SF News Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration Rafkin puts her money where her mouth is as Head Instructor at Studio Naga, which teaches the art of Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen. In addition, she oversees the Women's Self Defense and "Street Smarts"
SF News Britney Spears' Baby -- How Can We Help? In light of that big hullabaloo that's going down in D.C. tomorrow, something SFist is trying as hard as possible not to think about (we prefer the hand over the ears and
SF News A Million for Tsunami Relief? By a 2-1 margin, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Finance Committee Ok-a-lee-do-keed a proposal to give one million dollars out of the San Francisco General Fund for tsunami relief. The two supervisors
Arts & Entertainment Are You Stoned and Have Twenty Large to Burn? We love to watch a meme spread on the internet. In this case we can trace the explosion of the JL421 Badonkadonk from Palo Alto's NAO Design. It looks like it first appeared
Arts & Entertainment Hipsters Lend a Helping Hand The tsunami benefit show at 12 Galaxies last night was a huge success, with a packed house and great acts raising over five thousand dollars for the American Red Cross' disaster relief efforts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zegnatronic! Adriel Hampton reports on his blog that Alex Clemens, the mastermind behind SF politics must-see site Usual Suspects, has proudly bought ad space on the back of Frank Chu's "Impeach Clinton/12 Galaxies"
SF News Armageddon It What with the tsunami and the upcoming inaguration, disaster scenarios are all the rage. To help calm down an unsettled world, the German Reinsurance company, Munich Re, has come out with a list
SF News Political Junkie: Have You Seen Me? Kevin? Kevin? Where are you, Secretary Shelley? Shelley declined to appear yesterday at a state legislature committee hearing investigating what exactly he did with all the federal get-out-the-vote money he was supposed to
Arts & Entertainment Learn the Secrets from People So Successful, They're Teaching Screenwriting Online Some of you aren't happy with San Francisco. You're the type who grew up here, maybe, or came here for college from some small town, and now you feel that you're getting a
SF News Smoke 'Em If You Golf 'Em Funny little thing about this law, though- it actually calls for the banning of smoking in every city park except one, the public golf course. Turns out that a high percentage of golfers-
misc SFist Cares ... About School Projects Obviously this is a time when there are some major needs in the world where you are inclined to send your money. We don't want to overwhelm you with pleas for donations. But
SF News Buh-Bye Rumors are already flying about possible replacements, with Pete Carroll, head coach of the National Championship winning USC, leading the fray. Sources say the Niners have already contacted him for an interview. Which
Arts & Entertainment Macworld Blogger Lunch It's January, which means it's time for the long awaited Macworld SF. Nothing like gadgets and booth babes to get the geek blood flowing. If you haven't had your fee paid by your
SF News The Giants Pitch in For Tsunami Relief While it's kind of tempting to snark on some of this- The Insider's big story today was what the stars were doing to help out, including an interview with Clay Aiken on the
