Arts & Entertainment Moscone Center Losing Forever Broken Video Art Piece Many of you may recognize the always black, powered-down, street-facing video panel on the side of Moscone Center West. But most of you probably have never seen it turned on and were not
SF News Here's How The Salesforce Convention Might Screw Up Your Life Yes, you just recovered from the crowds at Oracle OpenWorld, we know. But now an even bigger event, Salesforce's Dreamforce convention is here through Saturday October 18 to snarl things right back up
SF News Oracle OpenWorld Set To Make Moscone Center Area A Mess, Again With over 60,000 expected attendees, Oracle OpenWorld is one of San Francisco's biggest conferences. Though the event doesn't start until Sunday, preparations are already underway in the area of Moscone Center, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Few Photos From The Fancy Food Show It's that time of year, when the foodie industry fills the aisles at Moscone Center for the Fancy Food Show. Hot trends include an array of jerkies for Paleo dieters, previously obscure grains
SF News What To Expect From Today's WWDC: Steve Wozniak On A Segway While Apple isn't expected to release a new iPhone or iPad at this week's World Wide Developers Conference, they will (possibly) jazz up their laptop line. And more. Washington Post reports: "At last
SF News 100 Gallons of Spilled Cooking Oil Greases Up Evening Commute An oil collection truck made a slippery situation near the Moscone Center in SoMa late this afternoon when it spilled 100 gallons of cooking oil out on to the roadway at Fourth and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Food Frenzy At Moscone Center Lentils for breakfast? Boozed up juice boxes for adults? Jelly bean mosaics? A wicker basket filled with TEN GRAND of fresh black truffles? Various food TV celebrities left, right and center? Yup, it's
Arts & Entertainment Spammers Unite for Free Booze, Cubicle Tchotchkes ad:tech San Francisco landed here yesterday and is currently underway at Moscone Center until Thursday. We've acquired access to the exhibition hall and had a chance to briefly peruse the delightful offerings
SF News Your Macworld Live-Blog Links Good Lord, what blog isn't over at Moscone Center today, getting moist over Steve Jobs? (We would be there, too, but it's positively glacial outside today. Burr.) Anyway, for those of you who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events, for the non-baseball inclined: --It's the Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival! Short films in the backyard. $5, 199 Valencia (x Duboce), doors at 8, movies at 9. --We know, we always give
Arts & Entertainment Oh, the WonderCon of It All Can you hear that? That distant sound? As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced? Holy nerd alert, Batman! WonderCon is coming! Yes, this Friday, Saturday, and
Arts & Entertainment Phil Ting kicks off the S.F. Solar Task Force Standing atop the Moscone Center this afternoon, S.F. Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting announced the creation of the San Francisco Solar Task Force. It plans to issue a set of recommendations to assist San
Arts & Entertainment Opening Day At The Mall We're thinking there is no one in the Chronicle offices this afternoon, as they all seem to have raced over to the grand opening of the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall. Check out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Looks With Dread to the East Replace Minas Morgul with the Moscone Center, the Witch King with Kevin Smith, and put a "d" in front of "orcs," and you've got WonderCon 2006. It's coming this weekend, and you can
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Speculate Different What actually happened was a little less earth-shattering, more a confirmation of what had already been announced. Apple's big push was the release of the first two Intel-based Macs: the iMac and the
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Bad Blood Speaking of bad blood, Yahoo announced it would undercut eBay-owned Skype by adding Voice Over Internet Protocol capability to its Yahoo Messenger at cheaper rates. The National Broadcasting Company joined the Apple revolution
Arts & Entertainment Gaming the Downtown Art Scene SFist loves it when punk kids get embraced by advanced-degree wielding curators, independently wealthy socialites and other high-art hangers-on. So when Robin tipped us to Thursday's "Video Game Art Show" we had to
Arts & Entertainment S'Wonderful WonderCon has come! That's right, Northern California's answer to Comic-Con is coming to the Moscone Center this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This event is not just about comics, folks. It's about all the
SF News SFist Macworld Lunchbreak Because of the potentially inclement weather, we were confused as to where the meeting place would be. We tried Chevy's (hey, Jason, the hostess there wanted me to tell you that they only
SF News Macworld Rumors Abound on Internets Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing -- the trademark white earbuds of the iPod sprouting from the head of our President. All the better to block out the sound of Iyad
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 Conventional Wisdom As Boston takes stock after the shock of the recent Democratic National Convention and New York braces for impact in preparation for the soon-to-hit RNC, SFist recalls that twenty years ago it was
