misc The 'Fisties: Freaky Geekery 5th Place — Neogentronyx: As first reported by CNet, Carlos Owens is an Anchorage steelworker who moonlights as a designer of larger-than-life robots, known as Mech (or Gundam Mecha, if you're an otaku like
SF News SF Getting Its V Card If approved, Virgin'll be the only major airline based in California, and will have the potential to create as many as 2,000 local jobs, with an eventual additional 20,000-30,000 indirect
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Weinstein Ted Weinstein is a fierce proponent of the Bay Area’s literature scene. He is also good at getting the authors he represents to finish their manuscripts. His methods are a trade secret,
misc SFist Answers: New Year's Special A reader of SFist Answers writes in anonymously: This year, I'm celebrating my last under-21 New Years Eve. What fun things can the local twenty year old chick do to bring in the
misc SFist Rants: Get Outta My Face When I'm Shopping! We don't put up with telemarketers, yeah? There's all these fancy "do not call lists" and all that kind of stuff. You can even post a "no solicitors" sign on your door. But
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Cries Freedom! Last week, the Governator put an abortion loving lesbian in charge of his Administration. The Right was not amused (neither was the Left, but that's neither here nor there in terms of this
misc The 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop For Food The Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market gets plenty of press, and we do love the high-quality ingredients you'll find there. But it's not perfect: High prices make for expensive visits, and the many tourists
SF News Bedbug Army Attacks San Francisco After the New York Times recently published an article on bedbugs (Boo, TimesSelect), their media profile has certainly risen. Our old friend Sam Dodge at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, who have been dealing
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Very Worldly Teacher: "You could have him gesturing at stuff." Student: "He can't gesture! He's British!" -- Academy of Art University Woman: "You know, in Georgian Republic, I was very religious, but it was banned.
SF News SF Murder Rate 2005 Well, the 2005 body count in SF is now up to 92, after a man was found strangled to death in a SoMA hotel, making this the worst year in SF for murders
misc The 'Fisties: Pizza Pizza Schmizza. It's just a piece of dough topped with tomato and cheese. What is all the fuss about, really? Why are people so impassioned about their opinions of what makes the best
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day For The VTA Man, today's not the VTA's day. The San Jose light rail was shut down for about an hour and a half to clear out the carcass of a truck making an illegal left
SF News Give Trees A Chance In a location where our car gets broken into and vandalized on a regular basis, we are not surprised that there are people who for some reason think it's clever, smart or even
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Elbert Chang Today’s interview subject, Elbert Chang, appreciates Fry’s. Which is what you might expect from someone who will repair friend’s guitar amps for free. When he’s not winning friends and
misc The 'Fisties Through a painstaking and highly proprietary process, we've come up with 15 or so awards about which we're most passionate -- from the highly debated best burrito, to the hotly (heh) contested best
Arts & Entertainment Shhhhh! The loud crass holidays impeding your Oprah-like search for your spirit? Perhaps some time spent without the distraction of dialogue would help you clear your mental palate. Until the gentlemen come along and
SF News Your Commute: Fastrak Lanes Caltrans is warning us in advance that it's going to open up two more Fastrak-only lanes on the Bay Bridge. Why the advance notice? Well, because only 1/3 of drivers have Fastraks,
Arts & Entertainment Not Literally Shooting Singles We don't know why this bothered us so much -- is it the implication the the person is so recently single that they have no good pictures without their ex that seemed off,
Arts & Entertainment Come Download Uncle John's Band We would say that something like this is "the death of the 60's" but that corpse has been long dead, ridden with more wounds than Sonny Corleone (speaking of which, has anyone else
misc Keep your Eye On The 'Fist This December First, you'll wanna come see us pretty regularly, because we'll be giving away fabulous prizes every stinkin' day of December. That's right, 31 days of free stuff from SFist! Some of our contests
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Redux: Stuck in the Middle With You This week he got rid of his previous Chief of Staff, a Republican, and brought in one of Gray Davis' old aides, Susan Kennedy. The move has gotten conservative's panties all in a
SF News No-Host Bar If this were an Evite, a bunch of people in San Francisco would be frantically changing their responses from "yes" to "unfortunately, something's come up," for Memphis, TN Democratic representative Harold Ford Jr.
SF News Political Junkie: Smother Mother Come here, widdle Andrew, let Mommy bury you in her bosom! San Francisco's current best Freudian drama took another lurch into the Viennese land of cigars and trains steaming into tunnels, as the
misc Down and Out at the University of California What's been going on is that the UC have been hiring people for average kind of salaries (for professors and school administrators) but then giving them lots of free stuff on top of
