Arts & Entertainment Always Take A Transfer People, please! If we promise cross our heart to pick up hard copies of the Examiner, would it kill Mr. Anschutz to put up the articles just a little bit earlier? It cuts
SF News Get Ur Geek On: Apple Bites At stake is something that SFist holds very dear to our heart -- the concept that bloggers have what journalists working in any other medium have, namely, journalistic privelege. We have our own
SF News The Old Lady Who Lives in a Hospital The story began two years ago when Nome fell and couldn't get up, breaking her legs. Her legs were set and she was sent to a convalescent home and somewhere along the way,
SF News Barry Talks Balls. His Own "I can tell you my testicles are the same size. They haven't shrunk. They're the same and work just the same as they always have." That thumping sound you hear is Bud Selig
Arts & Entertainment The Crane, Boss, The Crane! Like toddlers fascinated by heavy machinery, we are so excited to report that they're going to be moving giant cranes underneath the Bay Bridge again!!! Remember the last time they did this, back
SF News Your Commute: Soon to Be Taxed According to Arnie, that whole taxing gas to make people drive fuel-efficient cars thing is working a little too well. With a huge budget deficit and money quickly running out on all the
Arts & Entertainment This Octavia House Duboce Street's loss is Hayes Valley's gain, as the City and Caltrans laboriously rebuild the Central Expressway offramp one block over from where they laboriously tore it down, but leave Octavia to become
SF News The Raiders Got Back Every year, Al somehow manages to pull money out of nowhere and sign some splashy free agent. Some work (Rich Gannon), some don’t (Warren Sapp). This despite obstacles that a certain owner
SF News Anthony Tashnick Wins at Mavericks SFist has always taken note that it's pretty hard to go wrong taking pictures and film of surfers. It's also nice to watch nature at it's most terrifyingly powerful. Put the two together,
SF News Suicide Isn't Painless Since the bridge was built in 1937, an estimated 1,500 have leapt to their death on the bridge, but the number is completely unknown as the bodies of many who have jumped
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
SF News Jef Raskin, RIP The dean of Macintosh design, Jef Raskin, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Saturday in his home of Pacifica. A true visionary, he helped bring computing to the masses by thinking of new and
SF News SFist Goes To City Hall -- What's Up With SFPD Press Passes? We were originally tipped to the meeting of the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee by a friend at the SF Call, a local alternative news source that you can find online.
SF News Irony Thy Name Is City Hall Since we hear that the SFPD is issuing passes on the basis of how "breaking" the news is that is covered by the respective organizations, we'd like to remind everyone that you heard
SF News "Ohpleasegodno." While "Run, Rob Reiner, Run" has a nice alliterative zing to it, the prospect of our wonderous and magical two party system leaving us no choice but to elect a Hollywood actor as
SF News Yahoo May Have Already Bought Flickr Google and Yahoo want to buy it outright, while venture capital firms are flooding it with all kinds of creative proposals. "We get four or five calls a week from VCs," says Stewart
Arts & Entertainment The War Memorial Code Philippines Founding Father Emilio Aguinaldo, while in exile from Spain in Hong Kong, conceived the flag. The flag incorporated various components of other Filipino flags and was designed to represent the Filipino rebellion
SF News Meet Your Newest Oakland Raider: Randy Moss Moss, an absolute phenom out of Marshall University in West Virginia (and a high school teammate of former Kings point guard Jason Williams), has been accused by Vikings fans of not being a
SF News Kottke to Success? He's quit his job and is attempting to pursue maintaining his site as a full-time venture. More power to him, we say. He's looking for a few (well, probably a few thousand) good
SF News Barry Meets the Press Oh sure, he played the usual cards. He denied ("I don't know Canseco, besides 'hello' and 'good-bye'), stonewalled (a moderator stepped in any time the Grand Jury testimony was mentioned), changed the subject
SF News Plot to Kill President <b>Not</b> by Bay Area Resident So apparently everyone was shocked -- shocked! -- to hear that someone wanted to kill our dearest President George W. Bush. Of course, SFist's first thought was to call most of our friends
SF News Good News on the Homeless Front. Maybe. The best news and the most controversial news was the report claiming that there are 2000 fewer homeless people living on the streets of the city compared to 2002. The census was undertaken
SF News Welcome to Papago Park: A's Preview Oakland A's fans everywhere should be forgiven for the fit they threw on December 18, 2004. Just two days after trading Tim Hudson to Atlanta for three guys we'd never heard of, the
SF News Robb Retires Making official what was probably obvious for the past two years, Giants relief ace Robb Nen quietly retired over the weekend. Nen played a huge part in recent Giants history, in pitching against
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
