misc SFist Rants: Emergency Kits Was anyone else a little unnerved to see that "major earthquake in San Francisco" is listed as the number 2 scenario for FEMA practice, right below "terrorist attack on New York" and right
misc SFist Cares: Special Edition - Katrina We're a week on from when Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast of the US and still rescue efforts are continuing. . They're not over by a longshot but the progress that's been made
SF News Questioning TechConnect Feeva.com which provided the Union Square hotspot and which Google is apparently behind, have now linked to this Business 2.0 article on their website about possible Google WiFi plans because it
SF News New Orleans Saints to Play The Raiders Tonight With all the tragic events going on in the South, it's way too tempting to look for an angle and try to find a way to make it about ourselves. But we do
SF News Save Crescent City! Though New Orleans was spared the worst of Katrina, it doesn't mean that's it's all coming up roses for the Big Easy. A levee has broken, folks who evacuated may not be able
SF News Ist'wonderful So say 'Ni hao' to Shanghaiist, 'Bonjour' to Parisist and 'Yo' to Phillyist. While the last two haven't 'officially' opened (in other words, our globe-trotting publisher didn't send us the email yet), thanks
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Special Edition: Leonce Gaiter's <i>Bourbon Street</i> San Francisco knows noir. It's been 75 years since Dashiell Hammett's seminal masterwork, which set the standard for the genre, was finished on Post street. And just as Hammett used the crime novel
Arts & Entertainment Review: Los Hombres Calientes So did the seven piece band live up to its name? Well, consider this. It was a lovely San Francisco late spring day, in the low to mid 60s and seriously breezy. But
SF News Wanted: N'Awlinsist Editor We've joked on the site before that the only other editorial job in the nascent 'ist empire that we'd like to take would be the one in Crescent City, AKA The Big Easy,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Case You Missed It: King Cakes That said, there are things about Mardi Gras that do appeal to us -- those metallic purple, gold, and green beads, for example. We got our annual fill of those from our brother-in-law,
SF News SFist Loves a Protest Okay, San Francisco. Admit it. Protests are big old parties. There's people smoking pot, hooking up, screaming, cheering, dancing, drumming and maybe even breaking stuff. It's nothing to be ashamed of. The fact
SF News Remembering Daniel Price Almost exactly one year ago, a normally-jaded San Francisco was stunned by the news of a man shot to death on Gough Street. Daniel Price was escorting his wife home from a Christmas
SF News Cuckoo for Locoweed Now, we're not knocking public schools in the slightest by relating this story. A student at San Jose's Overfelt High was sent to the principal's this Monday for her strange behavior. In the
