Arts & Entertainment Interview: Karen Dere Karen shares a love of one SFist's favorite websites, fecal face, which you should visit right now if you don't already have it bookmarked. Karen's ties with The Giant Peach mean that this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cares About Literacy SFist knows we're awesome so we find it really sad that some people can't read us. It would be one thing if people read us, but there are plenty of people who can't
SF News Explosion in Walnut Creek Two construction workers were killed and two others remain missing after yesterday's huge explosion in Walnut Creek. A third person is still unaccounted for, but they think he might be an injured man
SF News The Masses: Consider Them Risen Up You know, it's getting so that we can't leave the house these days without running into an angry mob. This evening, during our nightly constitutional through downtown San Francisco, we were startled to
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
Arts & Entertainment "Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn"- This Week in DVDs So in light of this week's being another crappy week in DVD releases (wait til next week! We're talking Buffy, Spike, Will Ferrell and David Brent -- could it BE any better?). We'd
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready to Write If you're seeing some writerly types walking around looking a bit more haggard, worn out and overly caffienated than usual it's only because November is NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. For the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: MontyLuke This week we bring you an interview with Monty Luke, DJ extraordinaire and someone man enough embrace SF despite his ties to LA. In the interview below Monty shares the secret location of
Arts & Entertainment Hate Leads To Suffering SFist's had a complicated relationship with George Lucas since 1999. He reminds us of a high-school boyfriend who found us on Google and won't stop calling. Dude, we loved you so much at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cares After sitting around this morning nursing hangovers, wounded egos and sad souls, we realized that life must go on and for many people in the area life is already tough and will only
SF News Disenchantment in the Streets It wouldn't be San Francisco if people weren't deluded into thinking anyone cared what we say. Which is why protest events have been long planned in response to this election. As one coworker
Arts & Entertainment Sigh It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our
misc The Essefficist Votes It's election day Q & A. Whoo hoo! First, let's hear from loyal reader Redd Harrington: Kerry! We love that guy! Thanks, Redd. You're a trooper. And from loyal reader Frog Dog: Dear
Arts & Entertainment This Week in DVDs Here's a look at some of the things that are being released this week: Shrek 2- Unlike a lot of sequels, we were thoroughly entertained and blown away by how good it was.
SF News Exercise Your Right to Vote Sorry for the lateness of our postings -- we're all out voting today. And we'd love to hear your balloting stories! Any funny antics involving ranked-choice voting? See any precinct hookups while waiting
SF News Let's Play BALCO! For a trial that's supposed to be leak proof, this whole BALCO mess is leaking all over the place. In response to charges of misconduct brought on by details of the investigation leaking,
Arts & Entertainment Scary San Francisco It'll be cold. The crowds will be horrendous. No one's gonna give you any candy anyway. Why bother stepping outside on Halloween? Be one of those creepy people that stays home and turns
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Jane Kim The next time you complain about how busy you are, take a look at Jane Kim's packed schedule. Between her job as youth program director at the Chinatown Community Development Center, her position
SF News Proposition It II - Election Boogaloo As Lionel Richie would say “Karamu, fiesta, forever/Come on and sing along." Proposition 63- Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax on Personal Incomes Above $1 Million. This measure basically calls for funding
Arts & Entertainment SFist interview: Michael O'Connor There's a whole lot of competition in Michael's race -- 21 other candidates, to be exact. No doubt many candidates were spurred on by the new ranked choice voting, which will allow people
SF News Proposition It Seriously, reading through all the ballot initiatives is one, big-huge time suck. While we were waiting in line at a store over the weekend, we heard one guy behind us talking to a
misc Dr. Evil Dr. Philip Zimbardo is the Stanford Professor who conducted the original prison experiments. On Thursday he will be presenting a lecture entitled "The Psychology of 'Evil' and the Politics of Fear" at Stanford.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Renee Saucedo If you live in District 9, then you've probably witnessed one of Renee Saucedo's bike tours as she's ridden around town with friends drumming up support for her campaign for Supervisor. SFist loves
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Give Snark a Chance - Join SFist! Actually, we might pay, but you'll have to accept a postdated check for 2010 or so - kind of like having stock options. We do offer an engaged readership, a lax editorial policy,
SF News Yes, We Had No Banana Far be it from us to post stories making some spurious claim about some noted official and then disappear whenever they try to defend themselves. So when said noted official tries to defend
