Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this
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
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
SF News California Recall: Where Are They Now? So whatever happened to those 135 people who ran for governor in the 2003 recall election? Well, a bunch are in the Bay Area news today! Cue up the end-of-the-movie
SF News Auntie Em, Auntie Em! There Was A Twister! What an uneventful week to start as SFist Weatherman. Last week had all the action. We love to make fun of folks that live in hurricane, tornado and blizzard regions (but it'
SF News Your Commute: Yikes! So there you are, a Palo Alto mom driving down Charleston Road, with your precious baby carefully strapped into your state-of-the-art car seat. As you reach the Alma Street train
SF News You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Merger's About You So Carly Fiorina is no longer the most powerful woman in business, or at least, the most powerful employed woman in business. Hewlett-Packard let her go today after months of speculation that
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jared Rusten Functionally beatiful, since Jared encourages looking and touching. Not something many artists encourage you to do when you see their art, but Jared hopes that you will feel compelled to touch his chairs.
Arts & Entertainment Are You Stoned and Have Twenty Large to Burn? We love to watch a meme spread on the internet. In this case we can trace the explosion of the JL421 Badonkadonk from Palo Alto's NAO Design. It looks like it
misc Bird? Plane? Billboard. SFist just has to say that if you want to propose to us, we don't really like grand gestures like getting down on one knee on the Jumbotron, or on live
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,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Midnight Movies Who doesn't love candy? We sure do! Unfortunately, when you get as old as SFist, it isn't cool to wander from door to door asking neighbours for a fun
Arts & Entertainment Dead Heads to Palo Alto We have to go into the back of our closet for our tie-dye, but if we can locate some by Saturday, the Jerry Garcia show at Art21 in Palo Alto might be
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Alexander Tonisson More importantly you, like us, will have to reexamine your ideas about what it means to be an altruist and if your desk job really does have meaning. In addition to being a
misc Animal Beat It's high time for a roundup of Bay Area animal news! (Does anyone know when Animal Cops San Francisco is going to start? We're dying here!) Lock up your
SF News Some Follow-Ups Mimi the pregnant toe-licking Japanese Chin dog has been found, wandering University Avenue in Palo Alto. Since being taken home, Mimi has mostly been hiding in a closet. The City of San
SF News Touchdown! SFist is not the biggest football fan in the world, but we definitely love video games. And while many have tried, nobody is taking John Madden Football's spot in the starting
