SF News A's Brand Baseball: Some Of Our Best Friends Are From Boston The A's have lost 8 games in a row, and 11 of their last 12. The A's are 9 games below .500. The A's have been outscored, in 2005, by every team in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Have a Finger! Breaking news! Breaking news! OMG, breaking news!! They figured out whose finger was in the Wendy's chili!! The San Jose cops announced that they've positively identified the finger that Anna Ayala "found" as
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Yeesh. Dear Oakland A’s, We get it. We understand that the team’s philosophy is very, very complicated, and involves math. It is not just about putting together a bunch of big, slow
SF News SFist Does Not Cause International Incident When we found out that the representatives from the different publications represented a readership numbering in the tens of millions across India, Pakistan and Nepal (the national Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, for instance,
SF News Everybody Loves a Hagiography He also wants the paper to work more with its Web site as a "continuous" news source, but admits a lack of interest in blogs, claiming many are just "people writing about what
SF News Nancy Pelosi Gets a Lift We San Franciscan's like to think that we come from a brave and hearty stock. Constantly living under the fear of the next Big One, we're the inheritors of a proud tradition of
SF News Joltin' Joe O'Donaghue And how did O'Donoghue take it? Afterwards, he dismissed the resolution and referred to Board President Aaron Peskin as both an "angry dwarf" and Heinrich Peskin. We're not sure which probably got under
SF News Why We Lurve Nerds and Geeks But Michael Doeff emailed us a link to Geobloggers.com -- which is less practical but infinitely cooler. Some folks from the UK have figured out a way to add lattitude and longitude
SF News What's the Dilly-o, Delio? The question we have to ask is this: were journalists just traipsing about the country side, fabricating quotes and anecdotes merrily for years without repercussion or something? For all the old media bleating
SF News The Sky is Falling! And then last night, three pieces fell from a FedEx flight onto homes and yards in Danville. The flight was carrying deliveries to Dallas-Fort Worth, but shortly after takeoff, started losing cargo. Betten
SF News Tourist-Baiting The Examiner's in the middle of a week-long article series about San Francisco's tourism industry, where Examiner reporters try out various tourist services. Yesterday's Nellie Blys took cabs from various locations around the
SF News The Huffington Roast Okay, we're going to go ahead and put our two cents in on this, while scrupulously avoiding actually linking to it -- we will, however, link to the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke's thoughts
Arts & Entertainment No Suit For You We have no idea if Mike Nolan will be a good coach or even if he can win with the 49ers, but he's already gotten on SFist's good side. Last week he petitioned
SF News Has Flickr Lost Its Baring? Without a doubt one of the most useful web applications around and the single best photo sharing doodah out there, Flickr really is in a league of its own. And we love Google
SF News Frank Chu Sells Out In a move sure to shock the world of San Francisco advertising, Frank Chu has left his current sponsor, Barbary Coast Consulting for Adidas. Yep, first there was Mars Blackmon, then L'il Penny,
SF News Where's Barry? "dangerous drugs and controlled substances to friends and acquaintances, particularly athletes, for whom he kept no medical records or for whom the medical records were fictitious, inadequate or inaccurate." Ting denies the charges
SF News Stizzem Cizzells in Sucka Free, Boyee! After a selection process that left many of the participants wondering if the voting was being done completely objectively, San Francisco has been crowned the next American Id...oh, wait, never mind. We
SF News This Weather Blows And It's Not Even Windy What in the name of Sam Francisco is going on here? We paid our dues. We holed up in our homes for the winter storms. We crawled along in Bay Area traffic thanks
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Fools in the Rain Baseball is, like, so weird. A 6-game homestand that included Barry Zito’s first win since last July, Rich Harden’s first major league complete game and the catch of Eric Byrnes's life
SF News More Surgery for Bonds Even scarier is that those dark, icky thoughts in the back of all Giants' fans minds, that they just might not have Barry at all this season, is becoming more and more reality.
Arts & Entertainment Webby Award Winners Even though the Webbies award ceremony is moving to the East Coast this year, Bay Area-based websites cleaned house in the actual awards. A big liver-flavored rawhide with a ribbon on it to
SF News Sacto Weekly Asked For Retraction It seems that Harmon's piece, "My Dinner At Applebee's With White Supremacists" (linke to in We Read the Weeklies the following Thursday) was retooled for the Sacramento News and Review as "My dinner
SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
misc A Bear By Any Other Name What the what is that the San Francisco Zoo has gotten themselves in a bit of a pickle over the naming of two new grizzly bears that they rescued from Montana. The zoo
SF News Et Tu, BART First MUNI announced they wanted to raise fares. Then Caltrain hopped on board the fare raising train (ha! we made a pun). And now BART. Why, raising fares is the new black. Thanks
