SF News American Football Spectacular: Regarding Adversity It was painful to watch. We knew this was an outsized match when we saw in ahead on the calendar. SF vs PHI. Crap. We knew. This is part of what being at
SF News Your Commute: Just Keeps Getting Worse As if a burning truck full of beer wasn't enough, the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transit Comission has just released numbers showing that local commutes are taking 4% longer than before, and ranked the
SF News Fires in the City A second fire in the Inner Mission in about as many months, as firefighters rushed to a burning apartment building on Capp Street between 18th and 19th Street early Thursday morning. Three people
SF News American Football Spectacular: Hard Times Ahead or, Tackles Can Be Considered A Type Of Hug You sitting down? OK. Listen, we've gotta talk. Such is your Oakland Raiders' schedule in the forthcoming three weeks before their bye week, that when October 9 comes, OAK could be 0 -
SF News Baseball as Oakland Starting this Saturday, the Oakland Museum of California is hosting an exhibition from the Baseball Hall of Fame, called Baseball As America, displaying the history of America's game. The show's been traveling across
SF News American Football Spectacular: Game On It was time. Your Oakland Raiders meant to contend with the two-time defending NFL Champion New England Patriots in the marquee 2005 NFL Kickoff game. No, let us begin again, the Raiders did
SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Bay Area Pillaging Preview Welcome again to American Football Spectacular, your guide to American football in the Bay Area, and all points beyond. After yesterday's 49ers preview, we turn our eyes Eastward, towards the trill of The
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Crayfish Fast forward a few years to the Grand Lake Market in Oakland. We spotted another crayfish vendor, but this time we subdued our long enough to ask an important question. "How do you
SF News Is San Francisco Going Red State? The study was done by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research who based their results on voting patterns. A flak for the study said that race was usually the determining factor as
Arts & Entertainment Spelling Counts Har! Remember Maria Alquilar, the lady who misspelled the names of the geniuses on the mural she was installing for the Livermore library? (or maybe Albert always spelled his name "Eistein," you never
Arts & Entertainment Much Ado About Green Day You might have heard that after a long relationship with Oakland's Lookout! Records, Green Day recently decided to take back their pre-Dookie releases due to concerns over unpaid royalties. If you want to
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Servin' Up Summertime Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About... Let's get the girl some teeth During practice a couple of months ago, Bay Area Derby Girl (and Varla model) Mad Maxine, slammed into a wall and knocked out her front teeth. Damn! That's hardcore stuff (don't look if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Bitter Melon Bitter melon is, obviously, bitter. Western palates shy away from this sensation, but it's a common component throughout Eastern cuisine, where many consider bitterness to be a cleansing panacea. Piles of these exotic-looking
SF News A's Brand Baseball Midseason Report: Bye Bye Byrnesie The All-Star break, which ends when games start today, is a time for the players to give back to the fans (or some such nonsense). It's also a time for baseball writers to
SF News I Make This Look Good Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to
SF News Your Commute: We're Waiting.... ....and waiting.... and waiting.... and there's still no word on whether we're having a BART strike or not. Even getting bored of hitting "refresh" on the sfgate.com window, and as you guys
Arts & Entertainment Piedmont Bird Callers Do Letterman Piedmont is known for being full of seriously nice houses -- we always joked that the city's raison d'etre is so that rich folks wouldn't have an address in Oakland (okay, we bear
Arts & Entertainment Wayans World According to the plans, the brothers want to build an amusement park adjacent to the studio. The park will be like "Universal Studios in Los Angeles but with a hip, urban atmosphere reflected
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jacob Leland Hometown team loyalty and keen insight into local's seasonal wardrobe? You may have noticed the Oakland pride creeping into new SFist contributor Jacob's posts. When he's not cyber heckling the Red Sox Jacob
Arts & Entertainment Review: Bloc Party @ Slim's First things first: the opening band. SFist is loathe to hate on local acts, trying hard to make it in this town. BUT ... we will say that Oakland’s "The Death of a
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The G.O.A.T. When the A's left the Bay Area for nine games against Tampa Bay and Cleveland, we at A's Brand Baseball wrote: Such a break from major league competition could be just what the
SF News Your Commute: Up, BART, Up After two hours of debate, BART voted to raise its fares again, starting in January 2006, upping the minimum fare from $1.25 to $1.40. South Bay fares are going up an
SF News Behold, the Power of Ambivalence "There is something to be said about coming from an 'apathetic' or non-judgmental viewpoint," he told us via email-interview -- too often, he says, discussions of important issues become "either a shouting match
