Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Oakland Raiders Parking Lot Anyhoo, when SFist was younger, we had a boss who wouldn't stop talking about . When the movie played at SFMOMA, he took half the department with him to see it. During the work
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Time Again for Free Stuff From SFist! The sun in the sky, Heirloom tomatoes are here! Call New York and gloat. Avocados free, Over your neighbor's tall fence. When ripe, steal at night. Safeway sucks ass. Berkeley Bowl: No parking.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jason Blalock Jason Blalock combined inspiration from an old SFist fav, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and his shock and awe-induced state from encountering the Raider Nation, and turned this all into art. Jason's film Oakland
SF News Your Commute: Open Your Golden Wallets, San Francisco Okay, this is really getting ridiculous. First, they told us the Bay Bridge is going to be ugly and expensive. Then they said they'd raise bus fares. Then they said they'd raise parking
SF News Your Commute: The Park Grill MUNI's bad enough -- people laden with bags moshing their way onto teeny-tiny trolley cars, a mother holding an infant and frantically clutching at your head and jacket sleeves as she attempts to
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: 2.4 Hours on Craigslist Even by 3:45 on Saturday, the lines were so packed around the Roxie that we had to walk onto 16th Street to try and read the (extremely poor) signage on the box
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
SF News Pave Paradise, Put Up a Parking Garage Unlike previous campaigns, activists at the rally held last week stressed that they were not trying to oppose the parking garage (which would be hard to do since they're more than half-way done)
SF News Googlers Frugal? So if you're a nerd, then you were probably snickering over the blatant lack of understanding and glaring innaccuracies in Sunday's 60 Minutes web-themed episode. Snicker, glurck, hehehehe. Kottke called local search guru
SF News This Old House As we said, there's nothing legitimately wrong in what the Giants are doing, and as die-hard supporters of the Orange & Black we're okay with the Giants searching through the sofas looking for
Arts & Entertainment Calendars for Font Freaks Anyway, most commercial calendars are fairly bland, anyway -- especially the typography. But good news has arrived: FontShop, an international purveyor of fine typefaces (the U.S. office is based right here in
Arts & Entertainment Airport Holiday Roundup We're going to let you in on a little holiday travelling secret... Don't Do It. Seriously. Wait for teleportation or, say, February. But if you must go somewhere during the holiday season, the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Black Box is Beautiful Don't get us wrong, we love elaborate theater sets and admire the craftwork and imagination that go into creating them -- there's something oddly sweet about an intricately built space that will be
misc Thinking About Laundry With the Essefficist First things first: Hurray! John Ashcroft is stepping down. Second things second: Big ups to Jackson and Eve for coming up with the new Essefficist mascot over there on stage left. What says
misc In the Middle of the Road With the Essefficist Tuesday brings the Giants and the Padres the Essefficist. What could possibly be better? Don't answer that. Today we turn to an issue especially dear to many a San Franciscan: parking. Specifically, parking
SF News Get Some Balls [] The big news in San Francisco over the weekend was, of course, Barry hitting home run #700. Oh, and the Giants are still up by a half game in the pennant race, but
SF News Giants Fan Killed In all the (justified) glory for Barry Bonds hitting the big seven-oh-oh, there's some sad stories as well. A Giants fan was killed after the Giants beat the Padres on Friday night, in
SF News Spare the Air On the down side, it's still hot and, eeeegh, it looks really gross out. On the up side -- free BART! As part of the Spare the Air program, BART is working with
SF News Binding Nemo? But according to the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), the city didn't go nearly far enough in asking for concessions from Pixar in terms of contributing to the local community.
Arts & Entertainment Minty Fresh Hey! Have you wondered what the heck that big building across the street from the parking lot for the Metreon at Fifth and Mission is? Why, it's the Old San Francisco Mint! The
SF News FU, SUVs We were wondering why we've never seen the Governator prowling the streets of San Francisco looking for "Special Interests" to eliminate, Commando-style. At first we thought it was because hardly anyone here voted
