misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
SF News Day Around The Bay --A guy jumped onto the field to say hi to Barry Bonds yesterday. Arrested, drunk. [The Chron photo pool, the Snitch.] --They're looking on the Oregon coast now for the missing Alameda County
Arts & Entertainment iPhone San Francisco Debut We got these great pictures of the iPhone debut at the Apple Store in Union Square from Matt Johnson, a visiting staffer from our sister site Phillyist. Hope you had a nice time
SF News Day Around The Bay --Apple iPhone madness begins! That's a picture of the line in SF yesterday night by photo genius Steve Rhodes, who reported around 60 people in line by midnight. We're hoping to have more
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Amanda M. Lynch You can see Amanda Lynch’s art the second Garage Biennale pavilion in a show called “Fired!” on Sat. June 30th from 7-10. Swarm Gallery will feature the same show opening in Oakland
SF News Bus Stop, Bus Go, She Stays, Love Grows Gavin is also proposing that in an order to speed up bus routes, he wants to eliminate some stops. Or, as Beyond Chron would call it, declare "...War on Transit-Dependent Populations." Which stops
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For A San Franciscan Our recent "3 Questions" subjects have included Megan Marrone, Kevin Rose, Phil Bronstein, and the founders of Yelp -- all pretty darned high-profile people. However, as compelling as we find those folks, our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Deathtrap Intersection at Fell and Masonic The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk SF held a news conference a few days ago concerning this intersection in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Is this crosswalk part of a Class 1
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
SF News Where'd Your Trash Can Go? Newsom, in his defense, says that SF has more garbage cans than any other comparable city, and he thinks people are using them to throw away personal or commercial trash instead of signing
SF News Day Around The Bay --Who owns the new East Bay Express? [the EBX's 92510] --Oh, Newsom's all for foot patrols. [KCBS.] --The Bike Coalition and Ross Mirkarimi want lights at Fell and Masonic. [Examiner.] --Wanna pay someone
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Ok, here's my question... .why would 2 fare inspectors, in uniform & orange vest, be wandering INSIDE ATT park on Tuesdya night during the game? Looking for future fare evaders? It just seemed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Night At The Tadich Grill There's a lot to love about the Tadich Grill, that venerable San Francisco institution. We've eaten there many times before, and there are some things some folks don't get about it that we
SF News Surprise: Parking Garage Company Wants to Build LA-Style Garages in SF More room for cars means less room to house people -- and less room for housing means rent's going to get even higher. Not to mention: more cars means more traffic; slower Muni;
SF News Day Around The Bay --Doesn't that MUNI car look gorgeous? [Picture by DottieBoBottie from the SFist Flickr stream.] --No fireworks in Oakland this July 4. [Chron] --Enigmatic rock-tosser and Democratic presidential contender Mike Gravel was at Pride
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: No Photos Permitted. Really? Don't get arrested but do send your best shots into the Flickr and tag them "sfist". Click!
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Beck earned the fans love for two things in particular. In '93, in the midst of that dogfight of a pennant race, he went out day after day after day to save games
SF News SFist Blotter Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina,
SF News Day Around The Bay --This is an awesome picture from the Pride celebration yesterday. [37°C (we learned how to make the degree sign! Thanks, commenters!), from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Left in SF's Robert Haaland had
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Craig Billmeier US Air Guitar Tour (tour bus and all) June 27 • San Jose CA • The Blank Club (21+) or June 28 • San Francisco CA • The Independent (21+) When did you first begin to air
Arts & Entertainment Life at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic: Predictable, but not Always Lovely Here's a news flash for you: many of the people who live in the Tenderloin Housing Clinic have dispositions that are different from those who do not require assisted housing. In other words,
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week: Oh, Behave! The signal to noise ratio, frankly, went to s***. We believe that our soon-to-be-implemented new comments system will be a big help, and most of you stayed within bounds and were a great
SF News Day Around The Bay --Pride was fun! (Have you noticed we always have great weather for Pride?) [Chron, ABC 7, CBS 5.] --Who were the bloggers floating the Newsom coke rumors? We don't it was us. [Chron.
SF News The Last Swells By The Numbers Hey -- we're not doing our usual light-hearted romp through the Swells society column this weekend, because we've got sad news. The doyenne of Swells, Catherine Bigelow, announced in this week's column that
misc Week Around The -Ists From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the
