misc Recycling Old Ideas With the Essefficist Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Idol The line starts at 6 a.m. today, but it's unclear whether you should have camped out last night or should expect to camp out tonight (bring a jacket and keep your vocal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whiskey in a Grande Latté While whiskey and coffee don't really have anything to do with San Francisco per se, it could be said that they are two of our favorite things. Among other things, they involve two
SF News Starf**ker SFist is the first to admit that we've had a hand in a lot of crappy press releases, but there's something about Godiva's ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’ Celebrity Charity Auction that
SF News Pick Up Your Own Towels After six weeks of fruitless negotiations, the San Francisco hotel workers union, UNITE 2, has called for a two-week strike against a number of local hotels. The boycott is against the San Francisco
misc In the Middle of the Road With the Essefficist Tuesday brings the Giants and the Padres the Essefficist. What could possibly be better? Don't answer that. Today we turn to an issue especially dear to many a San Franciscan: parking. Specifically, parking
SF News 5.9 Earthquake The quake was felt as far north as San Francisco and Santa Ana (though SFist must confess we were so engrossed in Wonkette this morning that we didn't notice a thing), and it
SF News Anchor Steamed Sophie Maxwell is working on legislation to put zoning protection for businesses in place. Meanwhile, SFist really isn't sure what to think on this one -- SFist's usual liberal guilt/privilege position supporting
SF News Your Boss is Watching Sipping our coffee and doing the morning blog rounds we stumbled on this short item in Gizmodo - it looks like the boss will finally be able to see through your lame "I'm
SF News You're So Money, Baby SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in America. Much like those US News
SF News Caressing the Hand That Feeds You SFist brings you another update on the Governator's bill-signing binge -- and this one will hit you right in the gut if you're an unrepentant file-sharer like we are. It is now a
Arts & Entertainment Where's the Alka-Seltzer? Wow, that was a doozy. Who knew journalism would involve so much drinking? Oh, wait, that was actually just SFist medicating our neurotic anxiety. That's right, we went and listened to a number
SF News I Want My GOTV Those of you who look down when you walk may have seen the sidewalk graffiti for www.indyvoter.org. Indyvoter.org is encouraging younger people who previously haven't voted to actually get to
SF News Will the Last Columnist Please Turn Off the Lights? Imagine our surprise this morning when we opened up the sports section only to see farewell columns by the Sporting Green mainstays Tom Fitzgerald and Glenn Dickey. Not only that, but right next
misc The Essefficist is All Wet It's Tuesday again? Already? Damn, how often does the Essefficist have to answer your nagging questions? Nag, nag, nag! You're always after us for the bestest answers to anything that ever crawled up
Arts & Entertainment Unleash Your Inner Coen SFist wants to encourage all of you Bay Area folks to get out there and actually use your degrees in film for something other than the local pub quiz. That's right, people. it's
misc SF Schools Want Your Opinion Monday: Roosevelt School Auditorium, 460 Arguello Boulevard Tuesday: Gordon J. Lau School Auditorium, 950 Clay Street Wednesday: Thurgood Marshall Auditorium, 45 Conkling Street Thursday: Horace Main School Auditorium, 3351 23rd Street For more
SF News This Week in SFist Barry Bonds has done it! Steven Williams of Pacifica emerged from the scrum with the ball, which some have valued at two million bucks. SFist hopes that a least a little of that
Arts & Entertainment Party on Valencia Guilt-Free SFist is proud to be a product of public high school. Not only did our sports teams lay waste to the local private schools (well, except for the Catholic schools), we beat them
Arts & Entertainment Manic Moon Day For those of you not fasting next weekend, you , can 20% of the population in San Francisco suggest Zhong Qiu Jie instead? Those of you who don't feel the Mandarin Chinese (or who
misc Namaste Ok, that's not really fair. More than 20 million people across the US practice some form of yoga, so it's not just us here in the Bay Area. But we do have an
SF News Poison in the Post The Los Gatos post office was evacuated yesterday after 14 postal workers and one customer became mysteriously ill. People reported an odd odor and a weird metallic taste, and a few people broke
SF News Thinly Veiled Prank Goes Awry You can add Mormons to the list of groups the Stanford Band has managed to offend as Stanford Athletic Director Ted Leland issued an apology to Brigham Young University for the band's behavior
Arts & Entertainment Got Some Spare Time in November? SFist spent a nice day at the beach on Sunday with some friends and learned about a rather interesting project over drinks at the new Sutro's at the Cliff House (a review of
SF News The 700 Club Whether you like Barry Bonds or not as a person, you have to respect him (actually, be in awe of him) as a ballplayer. And since you probably don't ever have to have
