SF News Craigslist Encounters: Not-So-Free Parking One of the best things about Craigslist, other than its amazing ability to waste our time, is that it shows us that whole beauty is in the eye of the beholder thing. For
SF News Political Junkie: A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Mayor Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got
Arts & Entertainment Fire (Preparedness) In Noe Valley Ready, aim.... and look out for firebugs this Saturday at the Noe Valley Farmers Market, as the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) and the SF Fire Department highlight this month's safety theme, "Light
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: <em>Danielson: A Family Movie</em> Danielson: A Family Movie is a must see for any fan of adventurous music or artistic visionaries. You have two more chances to see it on tonight at 4:30pm at the Roxie
SF News More Concrete, Please Yeah, San Francisco's nice, we guess. But you know what it REALLY needs? Parking garages. Yeah, get rid of that stupid Yerba Buena garden, and that useless Golden Gate Park, and that , smelly
SF News Rock and Roll Even the rich aren't immune from the laws of gravity -- the folks living in those multimillion dollar homes perched precariously on the edge of Telegraph Hill are all a little on edge
misc The 'Fisties: Most Ineffective Activism But all those totally unsuccessful efforts pale in comparison to 2005's greatest activism-loser: the Muni fare strike. Because it could've been so awesome, if it had worked. There is no organization more loathed
SF News You Can't Get There From Here ... Yet Also on the agenda for the meeting: the Third Street Light Rail project is behind schedule and over budget. Suprise! Service will be start in fall of 2006 at the earliest -- what
misc Down and Out at the University of California What's been going on is that the UC have been hiring people for average kind of salaries (for professors and school administrators) but then giving them lots of free stuff on top of
Arts & Entertainment It is Obvious That we Yvesdrop in Social Spheres That are Widely Different Guy: “Hey, watch for a parking spot for me, will ya?” Other guy, under his breath: “There’s some weird planetary s**t going on right now, man.” -- From Ginevra / Outside Artists'
SF News SFist Wants A Pony For Christmas Known as "the holidays", this is the time of year when we have to quit blowing all our expendable income on candy and pr0n, and must use it instead to buy what they
SF News Sometimes We Have To Wait Until November To Get Our September Summer The only thing missing from this full-blown summer are the extra hours we lost to Daylight Takings Away a couple weeks back. (Did you know the federal government has already legislated extending Daylight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coit Tower: A Summary You know, with all this Bill O'Reilly brouhaha, we totally realized that, as stalwart San Francisco residents, we'd never actually to Coit Tower. In fact, we only know it as the rightmost icon
Arts & Entertainment Recovering Yvesdropping Boy: "My mom taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was a kid. And I made lots of bags and pillows. They're pretty much the same thing. Except one has
Arts & Entertainment The New de Young Building The original museum was built as the Fine Arts building for the California Midwinter International Exposition. The exposition made a profit, and the building and money were donated to The City and named
misc Stanford Brings Home the Victory Well, the Cardinal bested the team from Carnegie Mellon with their tricked-out autonomous Volkswagen nicknamed Stanley on Saturday in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The stock Tuoareg was modded with all sorts of high-tech
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Dr. Atomic The opera focuses on the last days leading to the explosion of the first atomic test bomb, in June and July 1945. It is centered about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientific director
misc Housing Bubbles: The August Numbers If only you buy a house on Pacific Avenue for $300 like Monopoly! The August real estate numbers for the Bay Area are in and boy, it doesn't look good for anyone. For
misc SFist Answers Greetings, folks. Welcome to SFist Answers. We think the name of the column says it all. If you have a question you'd like us to answer, you can either e-mail us or leave
SF News Downhill Potrero! Gav really just cannot make up his mind! After first saying he'd think about moving the Jonny Moseley birthday party ski jump to an eager and enthusiastic Potrero Hill, he's now all like,
Arts & Entertainment The Next Person to Carry On a Secret Affair With Paula Abdul Could Be YOU! Image of an actual San Francisco auditioner (auditionee?) from TVRules.net. American Idol Auditions Thursday, August 18, 2005 Cow Palace 2600 Geneva Avenue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe For The (Accidental) Soccer Mom? You Bet! Strange weekend. We're almost exclusively pedestrians, but every so often we're forced to go through the hell that is renting a car. While we hate driving, we were more than happy to make
misc SFist Rants Encore Edition: What the F**k is Wrong With People? And when we say "people", dear readers, we don't mean you (especially those of you who have donated to fight animal abuse already, for which we thank you). We mean these bastards who
SF News Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth Err, no. This is San Francisco after all. During a vote on whether or not to accept it, possible soon-to-be City Assessor Geraldo Sandoval kicked it out to the Rules Committee because, we
