SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Don't Bother Us, We're In Mourning We knew it was coming, but we're still weren't ready when the news came down. SFist's beloved Coronet Theater is closing its doors forever this Sunday, in preparation for demolition by the owner
Arts & Entertainment Lose Those Extra Pounds: Laugh Your Ass Off Friend of SFist and Bay Blogger Alex Blagg doesn't need us anymore. Sniff. His shows at the comedy club 50 Mason have been written up in the Chronicle, so he reports "[T]he
SF News Gavin Goes on the Offensive After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Born in a Barn We bring this up because, for much the same reason, it's so easy -- even for us permissive, enlightened San Franciscans -- to look askance at an adult who likes to dress up
Arts & Entertainment Emerging Technology Conference: New Media Sticking It to Old Media. But How's the Food? Of course our first mission was to find Yahoo News Editorial Director Bill Gannon and his loyal band of editors who were nice enough to take SFist out for a drink and give
SF News You're So Vain, You Probably Think This Merger's About You So Carly Fiorina is no longer the most powerful woman in business, or at least, the most powerful employed woman in business. Hewlett-Packard let her go today after months of speculation that there
Arts & Entertainment Blogger Powers, Activate So the left-wing bloggers, with Berkeley’s own Daily Kos leading the way, did some digging. They found out that Talon News Service is pretty much a house organ of the Republican Party
SF News BART! For those of you wondering why BART has been almost MUNI-like, it's because of a little software glitch that's throwing everything off. Due to that little glitch, switching equipment is malfunctioning somewhere between
Arts & Entertainment <i>Xin Nian Kuai Le</i> (Happy New Year) And a and/or Gong hay fat choi, depending on your dialect, to you! It's Chinese New Year's! Lunch is on your Asian-American friends, who should be flush with red envelope cash today.
SF News Giants Get 2007 All-Star Game Making official something that's been talked about for months, Major League Baseball today announced that the 2007 All-Star Game will be held at the Stadium Formerly Known as Pac Bell Park. Isn't it
Arts & Entertainment Has Ribity Gone Too Far? Art critic and photographer Claudine, who has been something of a modern-day Chalfant or Ahern by cataloging photos of graffitti pieces throughout the city, left a comment in our Get Ur Geek On:
SF News Your Commute: The Park Grill MUNI's bad enough -- people laden with bags moshing their way onto teeny-tiny trolley cars, a mother holding an infant and frantically clutching at your head and jacket sleeves as she attempts to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foodies Donate Know-how to Help Tsunami Victims In what has to be the most delicious way to help those who lost their lives, loved ones and communities in the Tsunami disaster, a group of foodie bloggers from around the world
Arts & Entertainment Teen Versus Teen Versus Teen Versus Alex But Had he not been a semi-famous local we'd have had a hard time deciding who to vote for. His colleagues, Michael Braun and Anne Shivers, both seemed like such young people -
SF News Sutter Students to be Chipped and Tracked We just received a press release from the Northern California chapter of the ACLU via our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seems Brittan School District of Sutter, California (about an hour north
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
Arts & Entertainment SF Watches: Movies This Weekend Obviously, the "at" where it "is", is 7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival. You knew that already, didn't you? However, what if that screening of you had your heart set on is
Arts & Entertainment SFIndieFest: Scenesters and Mormons - One and the Same? At first we thought these folks seemed were milling around post opening-event . However, as they started seating for Sons of Provo, we realized that, finally, we were going to get to sit with
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's What? It's the Essefficist, Silly! Snarkity snark snark, ya know? Fetch the comfy chair. Anyways, it seems only right that the Essefficist bring you crucial information about tasty, locally produced, cooling treats as we enjoy this unseasonably warm
SF News It's Wednesday. Do You Know What Your Baseball Stadium is Named Today? Even though we've always disliked the naming of stadiums after corporations (but think the voting on it is silly) we took a shining to Pacific Bell Park. Shortened to its nickname, Pac Bell
SF News Barry's Bum Knees If Giants fans are looking a little more nervous these days than they already were, it’s because it was reported today that on Monday, Barry Bonds went in for his second knee
SF News Political Junkie: We Care Too! SFist Cares is a great, great feature, profiling various ways you can volunteer or give back to the Bay Area community. Plus, SFist Mary-Lynn's funny as all get out. Political Junkie, by contrast,
