SF News Kerry Eleison This year we find the Bay Area teams at opposite sides of the salary cap spectrum. The Niners got rid of some deadweight (like Ahmed Plummer) and are rolling in dough. That sounds
misc SFist Cares: Salute Your Volunteers! While we celebrate volunteers all year 'round, National Volunteer Week is officially April 23-29th. As part of this, The Volunteer Center will host its annual awards event "Hat's Off: A Celebration of Community
SF News There Oughta Be A Contest State Senator Joe Simitian (pictured at left) has announced the finalists for his "There Oughta Be A Law" contest, where state citizens can submit their proposals for a law that California needs. You
Arts & Entertainment Blame Canada: When Performance Art Goes Bad Last Friday, a performance art piece got ugly -- and we don't just mean because it failed to critically explore the (mis)/dissemination of the capitalist hegemony: Novato performance artist Joe Canada promised
SF News Can You Hear the Drums, Gerardo? Doing some damage control, Gerardo wrote an editorial in Monday's Chron trying to explain what he meant when he said he didn't think we needed a military. What he wanted to say is
SF News Barry's Annual State of the Barry Speech For those who haven't heard, BARRY HAS ARRIVED IN TRAINING CAMP! We repeat, BARRY HAS ARRIVED IN TRAINING CAMP! A day late, however, something that drew a raised eyebrow from some ("oh my
SF News El Gordo Tips The Scales Thank goodness SFst Rita tipped us off to Novato's El Gordo, who weighs 32 pounds, after a recent 10 pound weight loss. That's right, before going on his diet, this cat weighed 10
SF News Black Box Comes to California You might remember the Diebold Voting Systems black boxes from such films as "Ohio: How to Steal an Election" or "Georgia: How to Steal an Election, the Phantom Menace." Not to mention such
SF News For Those About To Crap We Salute You While the chief issue is that Animal feces make up nearly 4 percent of residential waste (and think about it: that's just from the people who actually bother to pick it up) in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Swearing Festival It did. Unfortunately, while the concept was brilliant, the execution wasn't. The problem wasn't in what was scheduled; it was in how long it took for what was scheduled to take place. Long
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>! Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away
SF News Getting Around Town About $6 million's going to Muni, the Karl Pilkington of transit agencies, to continue work on the 3rd Street Light Rail. That's sure to go well. We'll be getting $91,000 in bike
SF News But In the End, We Still Live in San Francisco Last week, the Highland City Council voted to forbid any city official from spending county money at any sort of official event in the city. This means they can't attend any event or
Arts & Entertainment The Self-Contained Adventures of the SuperFisters Sounds great, right? Yeah, we were totally into it up until the last three pages. You know that feeling you get at a movie, where you know the closing song is playing but
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Elixir Bar Almost 800 years later, those dogs on the other side of the pond that bark with an accent are about to get their own Magna Carte. Following in the footsteps of San Francisco’
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. (Link
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Ira We'll miss Miller, as we thought he was one of the best football reads there was. He wrote in a bare-bones style and just stuck to football, shying away from long discussions of
Arts & Entertainment Classic Cars In The Rain So we're out on our lunch break, with no umbrella, trying to cross Market Street. , we grumble to ourselves. We look up, and -- hey, wow! A parade of classic cars coming down
SF News Fox News Hearts San Francisco The big show was Tuesday night when Hannity & Colmes not only had our very own Gerardo Sandoval on their show to be lamb to the slaughter and discuss the possibly earth-shattering news
SF News Fancy Rich Person Magazine Bestows Approval On Fancy Rich Person Museum Our last move to make our travel easier and more stylish involved our pretending not to speak English to avoid conversation with our lecherous coachmate. Somehow, we suspect that that's not what they're
Arts & Entertainment A Little Wonder, a Little Con WonderCon has come, gone, and left us a little sad. For some reason, the magic we felt last year was lacking this time around. Maybe it's because we're just plain tired of the
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Yokai Daisenso</i> We acknowledge that it's a good movie, and that the violence isn't completely gratuitous. It makes a solid point about the objectification of women and the consequences of treating people as means to
Arts & Entertainment Small Space, Big City When we first moved to San Francisco, we lived in a teensy-weensy little basement apartment that was so small we could only have two people over at a time. Plus, it had a
SF News Model Plaintiffs It's not just Kimberly Guilfoyle's male model making the news today -- today's installment of This Week In Police Brutality features a piece about two models and their sister, who were allegedly beaten
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Tries WineParty It's not hard to figure out the appeal. You get a bunch of people together in a friendly environment with a half-dozen or so bottles of wine, and people get to unearth new
