Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pipettes: This all-female, British, Phil-Spector-sounding band gains more and more popularity by the day. See them tonight so that by next year when they're too big for SF venues, you can
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Monster Bobby Occasionally we are reminded that San Francisco is not the very center of the world. Rare occasions, true, but still, when an interviewee points out that they may not have an encyclopedic knowledge
misc Week Around the -Ists Londonist, celebrating their third birthday, watched as their city turned a little more American. The Miami Dolphins and New York Giants were in town, with some very big cheerleaders. US-style litigation hit the
SF News That Was Muni's Guide to the Weekend that Was Sorry we're so late with this feature this week. Our tardiness involves a sordid tale of broken 2Wire gateways and AT&T not being terribly helpful. But anyway: on with the show!
SF News American Football Spectacular: All That Glimmers For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has . There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams have seen the bottom drop
SF News Two Survivors Found Mounted on Plane Wreckage in the Bay This morning at around 11:30 a.m., two people were seen standing on top of a single-engine A35 plane that crashed into SF Bay. The plane went down near (and, thankfully, not
misc What-ever: Hyphens Pulled Earlier this month, the newest (and truncated) version of the OED got rid of many cherished hyphens. The editor, Angus Stevenson, "eliminated some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition," according to a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Mike Birbiglia Here at SFist we like to think of ourselves as givers. We give. You take. Again and again. So here you go, we're doing our part. We've got a pair of tickets for
SF News Two Bombs Found in SJ, Fremont Good Lord, people. It seems that we had not one, but two bomb scares yesterday. First, bomb no. 1: after stopping a car for a routine traffic violation in San Jose, police found
SF News High Nerd Concentrations = Top Blogging Markets Who knew? According to the Scarborough Research -- an institute that measures the lifestyles, shopping patterns, media behaviors, and demographics of unholy, evil American consumers -- San Francisco was ranked as one of
SF News Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin Tries to Slash SF's Environment Dept. Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week he introduced a wee bit of legislation that
SF News No Snoop for You: SF Dishonors Dogg, Exotic Erotic Ball Founder Yesterday, we got a press release touting the fact that the city was going to issue a proclamation to Perry Mann, founder of the Exotic Erotic Ball, and Snoop Dogg. Our reaction? Get!
Arts & Entertainment In this Metaphor, the Mayor is Jafar, and the Proposed Events Office is the Lamp, and Halloween is Aladdin (and Bevan is Jasmine) And those answers are: Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, you're not surprised? Well excuuuuse us, Amazing Kreskin. Anyway, the report has a whole slew of very specific instructions (but they're barricaded behind a stupid
SF News Join Us, Won't You? We're looking for contributors in the following areas: Politics (and the local political machinations, people, and slap fights), arts & entertainment (what's happening in clubs or on the Internets), and general city news.
SF News How to Help Your Fellow Californians/Fire Victims As of now, six people have died and more than 500,000 people are in "mass migration" over the mind-numbingly destructive wildfires happening all throughout Southern California. It is, for lack of a
SF News Your Mecke Photo Fix for the Day Objectifying Gavin Newsom is dead. We've shifted our stalker gaze on Quintin Mecke, and so have many of SFist's more randy readers. Where does he stand on the issues? Who cares! (Well, actually,
SF News Still a Hella (Ella Ella) Good Fight Over a Helipad SF General UCSF has been holding several community meetings over the issue and came up with several proposals to alleviate concern. The proposals include changing the flight plan so the helicopters spend more
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Sia @ Fillmore 10/25/07 If you fell in love with Sia when you were bawling your eyes out about the Fisher family then Thursday's night concert is for you. Sia, our favorite Australian pop singer, is coming
SF News SoCal Ablaze Whether you like it or not, SoCal is a part of us. So, this one is going out to our lower half: stay safe, San Diego and SoCal. Fueled by disgusting, freakishly warm
SF News Our Nightly Festival of Lights Remains Undisrupted Many residents didn't participate, and in fact most of the people we talked to had never heard of it. Inconceivable! How could they have avoided Lights Out's bombardment of enviromessaging? The event had
misc Now Here's Something We Never Saw Coming We have to say that this certainly puts Phineas Nigellus's quote about Dumbledore in "Order of the Phoenix"-- "you know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts... but you cannot deny
SF News We Suspect that this Film was Secretly Financed by the Exploding Fake Blood Packet Industry Ho hum. The outside-of-Tahoe location looks pretty, at least. And WTF is up with Atom's videoplayer not letting you fast-forward? Those four minutes of stewing just gave us extra time to think up
SF News Vawanda Vindicated: Shocking Muni Confessional is 100% True! But our John-Stossel-Like hunger for the truth was unsatisfied. So we got in touch with Judy Morgan at the SF Arts Commission; and as it turns out, all of the posters are totally
SF News Here Comes Sickness Muni inspectors and dispatchers went all French yesterday and called a sickout. Their union, the Transport Workers Union, Local 200, is currently in contract negotiations with the Powers that Be and obviously it's
misc Finally, An Alternative to Clubbing Baby Seals Bay Area polluters (that's all of us, kids) are responsible for contaminating the Bay with such nasty toxic materials as sewage, flame retardants, and Teflon. Mother seals who eat contaminated fish, pass the
