Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Dry Spell Hey, have you heard? Apparantly men and women are very different, and at times they have problems connecting romanically! Who knew? Somebody ought to make a movie about that. Ha ha ha, we
SF News Steve Young Enters the Hall of Fame Being from Philadelphia, SFist always thought 49ers fans had it too easy. After all, their team won Super Bowls, they had the model franchise, and they had the Sainted Joe Montana at Quarterback.
SF News Don't Send Your Loved One's Remains to the Southland As if we didn't have enough to worry about already (sex offenders in Cupertino trying to hit on you, insane criminal clowns), UC officials have admitted that they have been less than diligent
SF News Link Love from the Gavster! Somebody who has a bigger crush on Gavin than we do (how else to explain them visiting Gavin Newsom's campaign page) pointed out that if you drop by his homepage at, where else,
SF News Fair Fares Part Deux The protests against the fare hike opened with the traditional forming of the slightly-over-the-type-named organization with the slightly-over-the-top political agenda, the Coalition for Transit Justice. On Tuesday, they and others held a rally
Arts & Entertainment Happy Parrot Day! February maybe the dreariest month, what with it being the dying days of winter and there being a dearth of sports on TV, but cheer up, San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors has
Arts & Entertainment Please Abandon Us As Well Our theory is this: American Idol is like sex, in that it's freakin sweet when it's going on, but a few minutes after it ends you've forgotten most of it. We know, it's
SF News Anaheim or San Francisco: Which is Safer for the Children? So we're cruising Defamer today for pretty, young gossip, and we stumble across a map of Anaheim, centered on Disneyland, from the Megan's Law Database via southland blogger Flagrant Disregard. Even we were
Arts & Entertainment The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why? why? Dear Lord, why? Frankly, we
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF News It's Wednesday. Do You Know What Your Baseball Stadium is Named Today? Even though we've always disliked the naming of stadiums after corporations (but think the voting on it is silly) we took a shining to Pacific Bell Park. Shortened to its nickname, Pac Bell
SF News Barry's Bum Knees If Giants fans are looking a little more nervous these days than they already were, it’s because it was reported today that on Monday, Barry Bonds went in for his second knee
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipping This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist in 1776 that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his
SF News It's Only Exciting Until Your Laptop's Battery Dies Our neighbor, we learned, received a minor electrical shock from his keyboard - "I was just typing," he said, "and then, bzzzzt!" He shook his hands and widened his eyes like Marty Feldman,
SF News Wait, Wait Just a Minute H&M, Now Wow, this news just keeps getting older. We were aghast, we were agog, and now were still awaiting. From that nation up north that brought you irresistibly spiffy furniture with funny names: more
SF News Fair Fares? For a long time, bus fare in the city was $1.00. Then, in 2003, they raised it by another $.25. Since they’ve raised the fares, however, we’re pretty darn sure
SF News Right On! Back on Tuesday, Athletics Nation carried the third and final part of their interview with Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, who is generally considered something of a genius in his field. Kos
SF News Tragedy Upon the USS San Francisco We apologize for being so late to this story. It's funny -- it's been out there in the national press, but except for one brief mention in the Chronicle, and an even briefer
SF News More Crazy Cartoon Hijinks So, in this particular episode, Buster goes to Vermont to meet a sweet little girl named Emma and learn about making maple syrup. Funny little thing about, Emma, however: she has two mommies.
SF News Just Us In the "No s**t, motherf**ker" department, John over at the Legal Reader recently posted an excerpt to an AP story which points out that under California's weapons registration law, the chances
SF News Tribe.net Running Its Own 10K Confidential to Tribe.net: when you're done patting yourself on the back, you might want to take a look at recategorizing your job listings so that it isn't a pretty much line-for-line plagiarism
SF News Talks Begin Between Guild, Chron Guild negotiators said their members have been skeptical about recent management claims that labor concessions are needed to put the newspaper on a more solid financial footing. In particular, [Writer's Guild Executive Officer
SF News Chamois Whammy Seems San Francisco based Pottery Barn Kids is recalling "about 92,000 chamois blankets because the decorative stitching can come loose, posing a strangulation hazard to a young child." The high-markup quality polyester
SF News If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em ... and THEN Beat 'em. The women on AskMen.com's tedious list are all extremely thin, coiffed, and wealthy...in other words, probably not you. Big yawn. We'd much rather have seen a list of "Top 99 Women
SF News SFist Was Robbed! Next time we're sending out schwag bags to all the voters. Looks like we've been snubbed by the august nominating committee (read: random cranks on the internets) for this year's Bloggies. Oh well.
