Arts & Entertainment Bush Street Nervous Breakdown Who knew there was so much money in tribute bands? Local Mick Jagger impersonator Rudy Columbini (he does kind of look like Mick, doesn't he?) has announced that he hopes to buy out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet More Free Stuff From SFist! SFist is proud to welcome our first local advertiser, Westside Organics! You may have noticed their handsome banner up there. We gave them a break on price because, well, we need the money
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Fro Busted SFist has ventured to a number of hair salons and would like to offer our thoughts on but a few of the many, many places in the city one can find a great
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
Arts & Entertainment Toy Story 3 Will Probably Be Really Crappy In another blow to an already failed relationship, Disney has begun ramping up production for Toy Story 3 at their new digital production facilities in Glendale -- meaning that it isn't likely Pixar
Arts & Entertainment From Beneath You, It Devours- This Week in DVDs Although most people think of DVDs in terms of movies, this week in This Week in DVDs we're primarily going to feature TV shows. And it's not necessarily because this week features only
misc The New Silver and Black Look, Jen, look! Oakland city council member Henry Chang (at left) announced yesterday that, after six years of wheedling, the Bay Area is officially getting a pair of pandas for the Oakland Zoo.
Arts & Entertainment The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City We've been playing EA Games practically forever - they're one of the biggest makers of both PC and console games on the market. But it seems all is not well in Redwood City
SF News Another One Bites The Dust While we may not be big fans of golf, we are, however, big fans of the Chronicle's golf columnist Brian Murphy. Well, more like big fans of his Weekend Water Cooler column that
Arts & Entertainment GTA: San Andreas Review - San Fierro Edition [Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] We loved the last Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. The eighties music and cars, the neon glow of faux deco, the
misc Thinking About Laundry With the Essefficist First things first: Hurray! John Ashcroft is stepping down. Second things second: Big ups to Jackson and Eve for coming up with the new Essefficist mascot over there on stage left. What says
Arts & Entertainment Sigh It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our
Arts & Entertainment This Week in DVDs Here's a look at some of the things that are being released this week: Shrek 2- Unlike a lot of sequels, we were thoroughly entertained and blown away by how good it was.
SF News Proposition It II - Election Boogaloo As Lionel Richie would say “Karamu, fiesta, forever/Come on and sing along." Proposition 63- Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax on Personal Incomes Above $1 Million. This measure basically calls for funding
SF News Co-creator Talks Smack About Mac It's the twentieth year of the Mac, and it's the twentieth year of Jef Raskin snarking on Steve Jobs. That's right, Mr. Raskin, one of the computer interface pioneers behind the original Macintosh,
Arts & Entertainment Chaos at the Chron SFist has been sitting on some insider dope regarding shakeups at the San Francisco Chronicle. It's a delicate situation, because we don't want to compromise our sources, but we want to inform you
misc The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may
Arts & Entertainment We're Too Sexy for this Blog Ever wanted to hobnob with VIPs, sipping top-shelf liquor and ogling models? Well, tonight's your chance. GenArt, a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting emerging artists in film, art and fashion will be
SF News Coming Out Party Shares started trading today on a hot IPO. Or should we say hott IPO. No, it's not some Richard Branson venture, technology firm or national retailer. The buzz on this offering is about
SF News You May Not Be Able to Buy That Hummel Figurine SFist was finally looking forward to some ad revenue from BlogAds when we noticed an AP story noting that San Jose's PayPal, a division of eBay, is experiencing glitches in the wake of
SF News Our Lady of Sadness We know, we can't believe the Senate would throw California a bone either! Barbara Boxer has gotten the Senate -- unanimously, no less -- to pass the California Missions Preservation Act, which will
SF News Crazy Carmelites Strike Again Okay, we'll admit it, Californians have a reputation for being wacky. Nutso. Bonkers. Flakey. Weird. Crazy. So maybe we are. Certainly the folks of Carmel-By-The-Sea have had their fair share of "Only in
SF News Gary To Barry: No Love As though things weren't bad enough on the Bay Area sports scene, we get the catty remarks of Yankee Gary Sheffield about BALCO and Barry Bond's failures as a person in this week's
SF News Monster Park Update @ 11:35: We managed to get our grubby little hands on the press release about an hour before the conference - and it was sent out only an hour before we put
SF News Literacy and the Election It must be Literacy Day here at SFist! We want to alert you to a publication geared for new and busy voters called the . Right now, as the website undergoes updating in time
