SF News Infamous Eastern Span to be Named after Infamous Western Man? And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name
SF News Lead the Cheers for a Champion Like football? Like dancing? Are you lacking a Y chromosome and willing to be judged almost entirely by your bubbly appearance? Then becoming a professional cheerleader could be right up your alley, and
SF News Quit Whining About Crime For those of you who take one look at a Craigslist posting for a room in the Bayview and think to yourself, "It's too dangerous," it may be time to reevaluate. Fact is,
SF News "Rent" Not Paying Rent? From what we understand of the deal, the San Francisco Film Commission is paying $12,000 rent each month to the Treasure Island Development Authortiy, but is subtracting the cost of the work
SF News We've Got Spirit, How About You? Sure, everyone's talking about the Big Game. But what about the little game? High school football playoffs in the Central Coast Section (Spartan Spirit!) start tonight (maybe) but not without controversy. SFist got
SF News WWJD? Okay, so SFist isn't always as impartial as we'd like to be. We're bloggers - our prejudices are bound to shine through from time to time (well, okay, always). With all this talk
SF News What Big Game? It's the Big Game this weekend! Tips on how to take that wacky "BART" train to "the East Bay" are exchanged, history is retold, anecdotes about marching band and intra-school antics are fondly
Arts & Entertainment Bush Street Nervous Breakdown Who knew there was so much money in tribute bands? Local Mick Jagger impersonator Rudy Columbini (he does kind of look like Mick, doesn't he?) has announced that he hopes to buy out
SF News An SFist Cameo on DCist ...or is it a DCist cameo on SFist? Our sister site notes that one of our local boys, Adam Werbach, and his new group, the November 3 Theses, have invaded their town to
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
SF News Jury to Scott: Murderer! The verdict is in, and it doesn't look good for Scott Peterson. He probably should have left for Mexico while he still had a chance (granted, the cops had been tracking his car
SF News The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look good for
misc The New Silver and Black Look, Jen, look! Oakland city council member Henry Chang (at left) announced yesterday that, after six years of wheedling, the Bay Area is officially getting a pair of pandas for the Oakland Zoo.
Arts & Entertainment The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City We've been playing EA Games practically forever - they're one of the biggest makers of both PC and console games on the market. But it seems all is not well in Redwood City
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P., Mac Dre Mac Dre, the Vallejo rapper shot in Kansas City last week, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mountain View cemetary in Oakland. Unfortunately, the funeral home, which only seats 100, was not
SF News Explosion in Walnut Creek Two construction workers were killed and two others remain missing after yesterday's huge explosion in Walnut Creek. A third person is still unaccounted for, but they think he might be an injured man
SF News Another One Bites The Dust While we may not be big fans of golf, we are, however, big fans of the Chronicle's golf columnist Brian Murphy. Well, more like big fans of his Weekend Water Cooler column that
SF News The Masses: Consider Them Risen Up You know, it's getting so that we can't leave the house these days without running into an angry mob. This evening, during our nightly constitutional through downtown San Francisco, we were startled to
misc Crazy About Cats, or Just Plain Crazy? SFist loves animals. But even we got a bit of an allergic sniffle when we read about the more than 80 cats taken from a home in San Carlos on Friday. Achoo! And,
SF News Warriors... Come Out to Play-ay! Remember when we told you we were going to see the Warriors on opening night? Well we did, and they lost, which wasn't that surprising, since, you know, it was the Warriors. Our
SF News Political Junkie: RCV results (background music of tapping telegraphs).... this just in -- the RCV results, with computer glitches fixed, for the contested districts. Mirkarimi wins Dist 5 with 50.3% of the vote, with Haaland in
SF News So Best Sort of relating to an earlier post today, our boy Gavin's definitely not having the best week. His tax increases lost (so MUNI fares may go up to $1.50, 300 city jobs
SF News Bush to Bay Area: "F**k you!" Why does the Bay Area hate George Bush so much? Is it really about partisan machine politics or an innate culture of dissent? SFist thinks it's more a matter of self-preservation. The fact
SF News Disenchantment in the Streets It wouldn't be San Francisco if people weren't deluded into thinking anyone cared what we say. Which is why protest events have been long planned in response to this election. As one coworker
Arts & Entertainment More Depressing News We could barely read the paper this morning, we were so depressed. So we thought, "Hey! Read Datebook instead! It's always quote unquote fun!" So what should our scarred soul see? Infighting over
