Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
SF News Gavin's Only Friends... Photo from Drew Altizer's 7x7 blog. Image replaced to avoid hotlinking. Photo of Tina Turner's cat courtesy of the Institute for Private Dancing Studies.
SF News Delays Shoulda Been Reduced Hey check out these totally sweet NextBus thingies from Melbourne! Man, those rock. Anyway, how was your subway ride this morning? Awesome? Was it awesome? We bet it was awesome. Awesomely MELTY! "It
SF News Eyewitness Account of Muni Meekness I thought the head of Muni was very forthcoming when stating that things did not go so well with the launch of the T and it's ripple effects on the system. Unfortunately the
Arts & Entertainment Compression Artifacts Become Unbearable at JPG Magazine Some kind of storm's a-brewin' over at JPG Magazine. The friendly photo mag, a sort of side-sibling of Flickr, will be under new management as of its next issue. The founders, Derek and
SF News Political Junkie: Scheduling Conflicts Soooooo.... guess who is having a mayoral event that very same day???? In order to qualify Mayor Gavin Newsom for the ballot this coming November, we need your help. We are going to
misc They Can't All Be The Stonewall Riots Many have offered touching words of remembrance, but few words strive to such tenderness and dignity as those of a commenter identified only as "Magda," which sounds like the kind of name you'd
SF News Yahoo Maps Digging A Little Deeper Into SF According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it hopes will prove more
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Hottest Place in Town It's another fine mid-Spring night in San Francisco: 51 degrees, foggy, swirling winds. So what do people do? They put on their parkas and head over to Mitchell's Ice Cream in the Mission
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Jazz 100 Warriors 87- Stop us if you've heard this before, but after a back-and-forth game, the Warriors lost the game in the closing minutes as their offense was unable to score. Actually,
SF News Day Around The Bay --Our sources report that only like four non-media people showed up for the anti-Jerry Falwell protest (picture above, and two more pictures after the jump). --Chris Daly called Newsom campaign manager Eric Jaye
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Long story short, we were on vacation last week and didn't have time to get to "The Bachelor." We'll give you a (possible!) double dose next Monday. Post Tribal Council, and Boo created
SF News Never a Dull Moment in the TL We've all had to deal with loud, bothersome neighbors moving in next door, right? Just imagine having the neighbors at the Seneca Hotel, operated by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. The city supplies the
SF News Swells By The Numbers Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 65. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 9 (including George Shultz, Dianne Feinstein's husband, and Spike Lee). Minority count: 6
misc Mary Cheney Loses a Turn To be fair, the seven-cent copy is "used," though for what purpose we cannot imagine. You can also obtain a "collectible" copy for $29.99 -- the seller explains that the book is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Our head is areel with all the options for fun this afternoon! Here's a partial list: --Are you one of those people who says, when people ask you how old you are, "29
SF News Smelly Gas By St. Luke's The smell itself wasn't poisonous or anything (beyond to the nose, of course) -- it turns out the pipe, which hasn't been used since the 1940s, had retained, along with some stale water,
misc Easy Way to Do Good Tomorrow We just love this cute pic of a mail man loading letters and food. It's the perfect example of a nice canned food drive happening nationwide tomorrow. Some (or is it just us?
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
SF News Mysterious Cyborg Indian Attacks Our Telephones San Franciscans awoke last Saturday morning to discover a strange robot had taken control of the horizontal and the vertical on their answering machines: a recorded voice begging victims to support Assembly Bill
SF News Belmont: More cars! More pollution! The idea behind the Climate Protection Agreement is that dense housing (that's multi-unit buildings, like a duplex) near transit will reduce car usage and oil dependence and air pollution, transforming miserable freeways to
SF News Imagine a World Where Muni has Money Fortunately, the report also had a list of the ways that Muni can turn its losses around. Here's a handful, with more after the jump. No need to convene a freakin' panel, Gavin
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
SF News eBay StumblingUpon An Acquisition? Has anyone used StumbleUpon? And is it really that cool? It looks like eBay may think so -- though we can't really see how a company like StumbleUpon fits into eBay's wheelhouse. Okay,
Arts & Entertainment Mo' Money, Mo' Young Lawyers, Mo' Problems For Their Firms? It's good to be a lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for starting associates, leading to peers to
