misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Kiva, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. We're just so happy
SF News Dan Gillmor Makes His Move The promise of the Internet was simple, but incredibly powerful: to be a medium through which we could connect and collaborate, for mutual benefit. It's happening. As the Net matures, we are learning
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Some Of Our Best Friends Are From Boston The A's have lost 8 games in a row, and 11 of their last 12. The A's are 9 games below .500. The A's have been outscored, in 2005, by every team in
Arts & Entertainment Stuff To Do If You're Bored We already mentioned this in our interview with Craig Newmark, but the cool kids (read: blog nerds) will be at the Citizen Journalism meet-and-greet at the Varnish Gallery at six and then yukking
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Mana: Beyond Belief</i> It was the usual scene outside the Roxie during a film fest -- odd groups of people clumped in odd places on the sidewalk, frantic-looking pedestrians just trying to get into Truly Med,
SF News SFist Does Not Cause International Incident When we found out that the representatives from the different publications represented a readership numbering in the tens of millions across India, Pakistan and Nepal (the national Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, for instance,
SF News Everybody Loves a Hagiography He also wants the paper to work more with its Web site as a "continuous" news source, but admits a lack of interest in blogs, claiming many are just "people writing about what
SF News Why We Lurve Nerds and Geeks But Michael Doeff emailed us a link to Geobloggers.com -- which is less practical but infinitely cooler. Some folks from the UK have figured out a way to add lattitude and longitude
Arts & Entertainment Dowd! Friedman! It's Punditpalooza! According to Leah Garchik, the double-bill might never have happened. Dean Orville Schell got Dowd to appear and came up with the idea of adding Friedman to the bill. When he asked an
SF News Tourist-Baiting The Examiner's in the middle of a week-long article series about San Francisco's tourism industry, where Examiner reporters try out various tourist services. Yesterday's Nellie Blys took cabs from various locations around the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Honey - ABBA Gourmets often say that cheese is the food world's analogy to wine, but we think honey is a better candidate. Our food writing idol Edward Behr wrote that "honey, in its
misc Get Ur Geek On Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn
Arts & Entertainment Attack, Revenge, and Return Of course we can't disclose anything too super about the film that isn't out there already (for that matter, we can't even disclose the stuff that out there already). But we can say
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Betty, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (she'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. We think she's adorable
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Sarah Lefton What’s in a name? Depends on the name. As far as names go, the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy says a lot about the proprietor’s sense of humor. So does the company motto:
Arts & Entertainment <i>I'd Kill For A Parking Place</i> Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nic Harcourt There are approximately 3300 Bay Area Dwellers who listen to subscribe to an LA radio station. While SFist has our own beef with local radio, we were a little curious about what makes
misc Animal Roundup 'Cause everyone loves news about animals! Unsafe sex kills, people -- 12 penguins at the SF Zoo have died of chlamydia. We don't even want to know what's going on in that penguin
misc E to Zed In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Emmy's Spaghetti Shack, in Bernal Heights is somewhere we've wanted to try for a while. So when the time came
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: We Are Beautiful, No Matter What You Say SFist has lived in San Francisco for a long time and has been to our fair share of parties. We've been to hoity toity parties, arty parties, everyone tripping their balls off parties,
Arts & Entertainment Webby Award Winners Even though the Webbies award ceremony is moving to the East Coast this year, Bay Area-based websites cleaned house in the actual awards. A big liver-flavored rawhide with a ribbon on it to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Beth Allen Now SFist isn’t naïve, we know that most of you never actually read to the bottom of these interviews. That would be a major mistake in this case. Make sure to check
SF News Et Tu, BART First MUNI announced they wanted to raise fares. Then Caltrain hopped on board the fare raising train (ha! we made a pun). And now BART. Why, raising fares is the new black. Thanks
SF News SFist Raves: MUNI Moments Yeah, MUNI stinks on multiple levels. Bitch bitch bitch. All the more reason to give props where props are due. A few weeks ago we were taking the bus, the number and destination
SF News SFist Rants: That Irritating KOIT Commercial Surely Ethan and we (Cecilia?) are not the only people who are annoyed all to s**t by this TV spot about a strange cube-worker who is driven into an insane rage by