SF News SXSW Update We were wondering why it was so easy to get a parking place in the Mission last night when we remembered that all the cool people are at SXSW. Cool people like SFist
SF News Rich A** Ofays Still Some Racist Motherf**kers Between a skyrocketing homicide rate, brutal and incompetent police, moves to completely redevelop the last community stronghold in The City, the shutdown of a school named after a famous local civil rights leader
SF News Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow It snowed in the Bay Area this weekend -- the first March snowstorm since 1896. And we're not just talking snow like in the Sierras or maybe on the top of Mount Tam
SF News What's Going On At SXSW 2006? Our pals at Austinist have been busy with all sorts of fun at this year's South by Southwest conferences and festivals. Let's see what they'be been up to: In film, Austinist Bre went
misc The Winner Is Deceitful Above All Things We have a winner in our Fake Tales of San Francisco contest! As you may recall, we're giving out "The Heart Is Deceitful" movie swag to the person who came up with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Lemons Even though the SFist kitchen staff is at a writing conference, we're giving you some homework for the next two weeks: Swing by a local farmer's market, pick up some lemons, and give
misc SFist Whines & Dines: The 540 Club So what is this ‘pet-friendly’ group hiding from the dog blogging community? Having seen photos of earlier Bark and Whine Balls, we can only assume it is the unbridled humiliation of dogs in
SF News Honk If You Can See Frank Chu I just realized this morning on my way to work that I have not seen Frank in like 2 weeks! What is the deal? Is he on vacation? Is the SFist investigative team
SF News The Gray Lady: Bring Your Wallet to SoMa What we saw instead was a wallet-busting tour of an area that's got a lot of great bargains. Although SFist totally applauds the inclusion of City Kayak's Bay Bridge tour, we were wishing
misc InsideOut Travel Magazine Wants Your Photos They're having their annual photo contest right now, the theme of which is “Wonders of the World” and should be "photos of something (things, people, places, and/or moments) extraordinary you caught on
SF News About Those Photographs, Pictures Of.. What is there to say about the Barry in Drag photos that hasn't already been said? Like everyone else, our first reaction was "what the..?" followed quickly by "that's pretty funny" with a
SF News Paying For a Muni Ride (And Other Activities for Chumps) Hey, take one guess: what's the worst place on the web for finding up-to-date news about Muni? That would be Muni's very own website, of course, which despite having a section for "new
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>! Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Rancho Gordo Beans As soon as the weather presented a semblance of winter, we headed straight for the Rancho Gordo stall at the Saturday Ferry Plaza Market, where Steve Sando sells his excellent dried beans, explaining
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
Arts & Entertainment A Little Wonder, a Little Con WonderCon has come, gone, and left us a little sad. For some reason, the magic we felt last year was lacking this time around. Maybe it's because we're just plain tired of the
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Crashing Daly's Party Everybody may or may not hate Chris Daly, but we all agree -- everybody looooooves little Jack! Your Junkie's Best Celebrity of 2005, resplendent in his orange Che Guevara onesie, graciously received guests
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Tries WineParty It's not hard to figure out the appeal. You get a bunch of people together in a friendly environment with a half-dozen or so bottles of wine, and people get to unearth new
Arts & Entertainment SFist Looks With Dread to the East Replace Minas Morgul with the Moscone Center, the Witch King with Kevin Smith, and put a "d" in front of "orcs," and you've got WonderCon 2006. It's coming this weekend, and you can
Arts & Entertainment If You're Looking for Sin, Look in Berkeley Though we do tire, at times, of the alpha-male genre, few comic books or movies do it with more relish and gusto than Frank Miller's . So unless you're some kind of sobbing tree-kisser
SF News The Rich Get Richer in Real Estate Although the closest the WSJ gets to the Bay Area is Los Angeles -- which saw an 88% surge in inventory compared to a year ago -- a little digging around reveals that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Fennel We fell under this vegetable's spell long ago (as opposed to the Fennels on Veronica Mars, which are more recent faves) and we're happy to see it back at area markets, where it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: "American Idol" Tonight You can bet your ear plugs we'll be tuning in to "American Idol" tonight as the show continues with its seemingly endless episodes of auditions, because San Francisco is their next stop! The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Citrus Techniques But instead of once again extolling the virtues of winter's fruits we decided to offer some basic citrus techniques that will impress everyone who comes to your table. Photos by Melissa Schneider
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi, My Name Is Spot, And I'm An Alcoholic Long ago we resigned ourselves to being a crazy pet person. we're not sure when it happened -- was it when we noticed our Flickr page was sadly bereft of photos of actual
