misc Week Around the -Ists LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late night spot in Los Angeles,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Blue Angels are Done for the Day. Lt. Nathan Miller gazes out his workplace cubicle going 300 miles per above North Beach. The fellow in back is merely along for the ride, just another tourist taking things in. That's right.
SF News Citation, All I Ever Wanted. Citation, Having to Get Away With Gavin caught up in a tough re-election campaign against...ummm...well...huh.... he's started playing up his street people street cred. Recently, he announced a plan to deal with all the vagrants
Arts & Entertainment "Absoludicrous" Found Footage Fest Back in Town This Weekend All of you YouTube addicts out there are probably familiar with many of the "absoludicrous"* found video clips from Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett's touring Found Footage Festival (*Mr. T makes an appearance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews András Schiff Someone told us a story of a famous pianist who believed in bringing culture to the people, and went to a factory in Italy to give a lecture in front of a piano.
SF News Free Market Head-Scratcher: Who'd Have Thought, Bargain-Basement Housing Not Always of Highest Quality But like we said: it's cheap! Jeff's been making the most of rent control for years and years now, and he'd like to keep it that way. Well, of course! Who doesn't like
SF News UPDATE: 19th Avenue Car Collision Shuts Down Intersection Five people were sent to the hospital today after two cars crashed into each other at 19th Avenue and Sloat, shutting down the Sunset District intersection. According to the Chronicle, at around 2
SF News Baskets Are the New Minimalism It’s a classic example of fixie bike lust: the carefully accented color coordination, expensive but mismatched wheels, improbably narrow handlebars, and, of course, lack of any unsightly “extras” such as gears and
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Tuesday Fall TV Premieres OK, we're kind of loathe to even mention one of tonight's series premieres because it is that infamous sitcom that's based on a series of Geico commercials. We're speaking, of course, of "Cavemen"
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #3 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 2. Marjorie de Muynck - In The Key of Earth: Within four epic musical movements named: Pulse, Light,
misc Douchebags of the Week And yes, we guess we could have gotten out of our car to pick the garbage back up to dump off, but, well, first of all, iyick, and we were late for a
Arts & Entertainment Crafts, Books, & Booze Ever think of starting your own crafty business? Want to meet a bunch of people who have, including a local author who wrote a book on the topic? Or maybe you just want
SF News Love Fest Shooting We had a feeling that all this "love" business would get people in trouble. Late afternoon on Saturday, two people were shot around Love Fest action on Market Street (at Sixth and Seventh
SF News Yay for Buses and Oxygen! Boooo for Pretending that Hummers are "Low-Emission"! So, obviously, SFist can't even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Prop A. We've been covering its progress for months, and now it's evolved into a smart, fair compromise that has
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Seahwaks 23 49ers 3- Remember when the Niners, like, beat the Seahawks, like all the time? And remember how their impressive displays against the Seattle Blue Men made people think the Niners were
misc Week Around the -Ists Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and Griese's in. Maybe all that
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers Once again, we would like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Sarah Silverman Program, who has new episodes starting in October. Cazadores, because after a long week,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Commute Clot's 15th Anniversary Tonight A small goup of San Franciscans started an international trend about fifteen years ago when they participated in the first Commute Clot bike ride. Now it's called Critical Mass. What do you call
SF News One In and One Out One day in San Francisco politics you're in, and the next day, you're out. IN: District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, who successfully managed to fend off the petitions calling for his recall, which
SF News ...In A Material World Newsflash! It costs a lot of money to live here in the Bay Area -- 40% above the national average. Fortunately, salaries are generally higher here to cover at least some of the
misc We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to
SF News Bonds' 756th Ball Gets Asterisk Tramp Stamp Oh, this is so mean. And yet so funny. The guy who purchased Bond's 756th home run ball, Marc Ecko (a fashion designer, so girl doesn't really need a baseball), set up a
Arts & Entertainment An Army of Philistines We got word that 27,000 people made a reservation to attend this Friday's Opera at the Ballpark. 27,000! And there are still tickets left! Tonight is the last day to see
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Wednesday's Fall TV Premieres We're going to start with NBC and the series premiere of "Life" at 10 p.m. because everybody's favorite bumblebee Jennifer Siebel is in it! (See above.) She's only in the episode briefly,
