SF News "Ohpleasegodno." While "Run, Rob Reiner, Run" has a nice alliterative zing to it, the prospect of our wonderous and magical two party system leaving us no choice but to elect a Hollywood actor as
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Kevin Shelley -- Hacked! California politicians are in a state of shock after hearing the news that soon-to-be-former Sec. of State Kevin Shelley's Palm Pilot was stolen from his Glen Park home. "It's crazy! I'm getting emails
Arts & Entertainment Rock That Sexy Bod Got plans for Saturday night? No? How about SFist gets you and three of your friends in the door for Sensual at the Luna Lounge for free? SFist is like your buddy who
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Penises. Pubic Hair Optional. BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
SF News Kottke to Success? He's quit his job and is attempting to pursue maintaining his site as a full-time venture. More power to him, we say. He's looking for a few (well, probably a few thousand) good
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As Hollywood Preps for Their Prom And then there's something called The Academy Awards on this Sunday. Ahh. We kid. (Or pray at the Church of Ironic Detachment, take your pick.) Of COURSE TV is all about the Oscars
SF News Barry Meets the Press Oh sure, he played the usual cards. He denied ("I don't know Canseco, besides 'hello' and 'good-bye'), stonewalled (a moderator stepped in any time the Grand Jury testimony was mentioned), changed the subject
SF News Plot to Kill President <b>Not</b> by Bay Area Resident So apparently everyone was shocked -- shocked! -- to hear that someone wanted to kill our dearest President George W. Bush. Of course, SFist's first thought was to call most of our friends
SF News Good News on the Homeless Front. Maybe. The best news and the most controversial news was the report claiming that there are 2000 fewer homeless people living on the streets of the city compared to 2002. The census was undertaken
Arts & Entertainment Save the Gizmos! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting an event tonight to highlight "endangered gizmos," or technology products that are on the cutting edge of innovation but that could fall prey to increasingly more restrictive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are You Really That Desperate? Okay, SFist admits that the dating scene is ugly. Really, really ugly. We've never had much luck at hooking up with folks at bars or clubs, though granted the line between consuming enough
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
SF News A Suggestion From Seattlest Our man on the PNW sport beat, Seattlest Seth, has a modest proposal that could be just the thing to turn around the fortunes of the Golden State Warriors, and it has nothing
Arts & Entertainment <strike>Marin County's</strike> San Francisco's Robin Williams Harshes on Disney -- Loves Pixar In the "d'oh, we totally forgot" department (we've been sharing a blunt with Al Gore), yesterday evening our snarker-in-arms down south Defamer (who we swear is actually Thomas Pynchon drinking away his career
Arts & Entertainment S'Wonderful WonderCon has come! That's right, Northern California's answer to Comic-Con is coming to the Moscone Center this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This event is not just about comics, folks. It's about all the
SF News Let's Go Out To The Court-Room... Spring is in the air -- can you smell it? It's that intoxicating mix of grass, red clay, pine tar and chaw. That's right -- pitchers and catchers report in just a few
SF News A Good Lay Be still our hearts, the latest issue of our favoritest newsletter ever is finally out: "San Francisco Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." This issue's highlights include a balanced look at Baptism
SF News Your Commute: Decongestants We have that cold that's going around (sniffle), so maybe that's why we find this decongesting plan so intriguing -- but Jake McGoldrick, chair of the SF Transportation Authority (and Chris Daly confrontation
misc It's Hard to Leave Your Heart in San Francisco Now, there might be some of you wondering how could this be? How could the city that gave us the Summer of Love, the Winter of Love, and that damn Tony Bennett song
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Oakland Raiders Parking Lot Anyhoo, when SFist was younger, we had a boss who wouldn't stop talking about . When the movie played at SFMOMA, he took half the department with him to see it. During the work
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes a Dive Similarly, there are coffee-related ventures where the coffee quality doesn't matter. Not as much, at least, so long as it's hot and plentiful and the server is quick on the draw with that
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Devil and Daniel Johnston We should confess that, before seeing the Sundance award-winning documentary this Sunday for the second weekend of IndieFest, we didn't know very much about the eponymous singer-songwriter -- we liked that charmingly-naive "Speeding
