SF News Sutro Baths Back Then We found this short clip of people frolicking at the Sutro Baths -- which, really, looks like so much fun! -- shot by Thomas Edison on October 25, 1897. But our question is
Arts & Entertainment Nolita Uses Anorexic Model In Ads That headline doesn't seem like news, but this model appears to be of a different eating-disorder variety. (Think The Insider-anorexic, not Anna Wintour-anorexic) Anyway, SF Fashion Week -- which came and went without
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #2 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: 1. Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails Red Wine (w/ Bonus DVD): Hands down, one of the best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Tuesday's Fall TV Premieres We also aren't going to watch CBS's premieres of "NCIS" at 8 p.m., "The Unit" at 9 p.m., or the series premiere of "Cane" at 10 p.m. That last one
SF News Four Months 'Til The City Takes Over Lots of people think that the SFHA is pretty much a mess, but it remains to be seen what's going to happen. We're kind of hoping to see what happens if Mirakarimi makes
Arts & Entertainment Is San Francisco Really "Cougar Country"? These days, its primary meaning has shifted - it appears that more often people use the term to refer to an age disparity in dating. Where do cougars hang out in S.F.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tofu Warning/Recall Although neither death nor illness have been reported, state health officials are warning people to steer clear from tofu produced by South San Francisco-based Quong Hop and Co. According to the Chronicle, the
Arts & Entertainment Dita Von Teese Pics! We're a little late to the party on this one (sorry, sorry, sorry, we've been totally swamped at our day job lately, which is why we've been kind of MIA -- curse you,
SF News Oh No Chris Kavanagh!: Ed Jew Copycat It seems that he actually lived on 63rd Street in Oakland, where he was in the process of fighting his own eviction by new landlords, and in order to be on the board,
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Arts & Entertainment How Did We Let This Happen? "Chris first got on our radar a year ago," Rasha Drachkovitch, president and co-founder of 44 Blue, said in a statement. 44 Blue considers Crocker "a rebel character that people will find interesting.
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After There's a gym at the Super Mondo Corporation where we work and today there was some big volunteer thing going on with a bunch of kids learning basketball moves. Attending the big goings
SF News Baby, You Can Charge My Car That idea of congestion pricing in San Francisco, meaning charging people to drive in certain places around the city, has moved from crazy pipe dream stage to crazy pipe dream planning stage. Recently,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fall TV Premieres Tonight Abandoned kids, wannabe models, sitcom groaners, socialite teens, and a screaming Brit. It must be Wednesday! Firstly, we have CBS's "Kid Nation," at 8 p.m., in which a bunch of kids are
SF News Mark Leno/Moai Head Separated at Birth: the statuesque Mark Leno and...a statue. Sort of. Work with us here, people. Leno image: Sentinel / Roshani Dhungana
Arts & Entertainment Giveaway! Win Tickets To See Gunther! We love the Eurotrash!!! Wanna win tickets to see Gunther, the Swedo-pop source of the delightful "Ding Dong Song (You Touch My Tralala)"? (YouTube clip from his show in LA above.) The mulleted,
Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
SF News SFist Blotter In a somewhat-better type of neighborhood self-policing in Berkeley, neighbors are now going in large groups to Becky Temko Tot Park in downtown Berkeley, so another neighbor won't yell at them. Local parents
Arts & Entertainment Bring The Musicologist Back! Ghuman is a British citizen born in India, and an Oxford and Berkeley graduate who's working on a book about the influence of India on English music. She was coming back from England
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Only 102 Shopping Days Until Christmas At least that was how long we all had last week when we saw these Frosty-esque Snow People up for sale in San Francisco. Have you seen any recent evidence of "Christmas Creep"
misc It's Got to Be the Morning After 49ers 17 Rams 16- If you were to take a step back to see that the Niners are now 2-0 and in first place of their division, the appropriate response would be "really?
SF News The Telephone Hour From the moment you first plugged it in, your home telephone has been waiting for the moment when its existence would be justified. And now! At last! The Gavin Newsom '08 Phone Bank
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Chicken John gets slapped for raising campaign money via Pay Pal. Assumes he's "the first candidate who's raised funds this way...this is a situation that no candidate has ever been in
