SF News Pepper Spray or Power Tools? A federal retrial began in San Francisco today over police use of pepper spray on nonviolent demonstrators. In the fall of 1997, images were broadcast nationwide of Humboldt County sheriff's deputies and Eureka
SF News My Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Yard A 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the South Bay today. The epicenter was in Saratoga, around 9 miles from San Jose City Hall (presumably the old one, not the new one with its
Arts & Entertainment Bonsaiiiii! The Bonsai Society of San Francisco will be holding it's annual auction this Thursday, September 9th at 7:30 PM in the San Francisco County Fair Building (Who knew it even existed?) at
SF News Spare the Air On the down side, it's still hot and, eeeegh, it looks really gross out. On the up side -- free BART! As part of the Spare the Air program, BART is working with
misc Housing Bubbles Is it just us, or is it just sort of hilarious that a two-bed one-bath condo on 18th Street is being offered at $737,000 and a single-family house in Pacific Heights is
misc The Essefficist Needs Your Help We here at the Essefficist, SFist's weekly question-and-answer/advice column, have been striving to bring you honest answers to life's nagging questions for the past couple of weeks now. However, we're a little
Arts & Entertainment Bay Blogger, uh, Friday Posts are usually excerpts from newspaper articles, wire services and legal rulings, generally about the personalities in the courtroom and precedent setting cases. It's a great digest for the news junky or legal
misc Labor Week: Somewhere Over the Rainbow No discussion of the Labor Movement in food-obsessed San Francisco would be complete without a mention of Rainbow Grocery, our own "independent, collectively run, worker-owned and operated" grocery and general store. Rainbow's history
SF News Señor Spanky (Probably) Revealed Lucky for us and our lawyers, there's been a tie! We received an equal number of votes for both Town Hall and Bacar. Both are relatively new, both chic, both doing well. Hmm,
misc We Only Work When We Need the Money! The roll out of the new Fair Labor Standards Act seems to have everyone confused. All that seems clear now is that no one really knows how many people will be impacted by
SF News Wine Snobs and Baseball? But what really cut was the photo included in the story, that of your typical effete wine-drinking Yuppie couple watching a Giants' game from tony box seats (with pictures of boats in the
Arts & Entertainment Get a Ticket, By Any Means Necessary It's hard to remember what it was like back then through our misty-colored "I Love the 80's" eyes, but there was a time when PE was the mightiest musical force that roamed the
SF News Somebody Pitch This to Ben Stiller When we first saw a t-shirt for an actual kickball league, we were pretty sure it was the coolest thing we had ever heard. After playing for several seasons, we can say that
SF News Watching and Learning We do love our protests here in the Bay Area. We love them so much that we follow protests in other cities like some folks follow football. Except it's always the same two
SF News Hey -- You Never Know! If that flashing $100 million lottery sign on the other side of the B of A clock on 101 had you dreaming like it did SFist (if SFist won, we were going to
SF News Oh My iPod "Well, HP wants a digital music player as part of their new line of media products for the home user." "Hmm. Over at Apple, we want to distribute our products to people who
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Three-fer So whats with the name? As it is explained on the website: Read on for the SF scoop from three of the nicest women weve ever interviewedWhen it's being used as
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go Out To The Lobby! SFist is worried that our a faithful readers will begin to think of us as the cinephile equivalent of a rice queen, but we promise we don't discriminate. It just seems like every
SF News Viva Hate SFist knew there was a reason we moved here! Recent polls show the Bay Area to be the most negative region of California, with 59% of people saying they think the state is
SF News BAAAAAART!!! SFist has its hand over its heart as the BART flag is raised and its national anthem ("Dublin/Pleasanton train arriving, platform 2") is played BART was named the best public transportation system
Arts & Entertainment La Playa en Fuego Every Labor Day tens of thousands of geeks, nerds, hippies, frat boys and all other sorts of disaffected rejects pile into vehicles and make a pilgrammage to one of the most inhospitable places
Arts & Entertainment Move Over Milan! Make sure to check out collections by Colleen Quen, Hieros, and SFist favorite, Fornarina. You can start hitting Fashion Week related events beginning tonight, but things kick into high gear tomorrow at the
Arts & Entertainment Oh You Pretty Things SFist is frequently complimented on our glowing skin and healthy hair. Is it clean living? A healthy diet of fruits and vegetables? Yet another unplanned pregnancy? No, we owe it all to Kiehl's.
misc Love Rescue Me Every time SFist hears tales of the exploits of our single bretheren, we give thanks that we're no longer "out there". We appreciated our frequent companion all the more when we saw this
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Oh-So Mysterio-So! Not to brag or anything, but we think we're really good at these interviews. We ask the hard questions. We show you sides of people you never even knew they had. Well apparently
