SF News How Much Clearer Does Muni Need It Spelled Out? These observations are all common sense, but they've been made official in a report released last week by the San Francisco's Planning and Urban Research Association. The report (which, according to Bay Area
SF News Blogger Softball: Story of a Meme As we all know, it doesn't matter if you can write your way out of a paper bag, all that matters is if you can compete on the field of intramural athletics. We
misc SFisting: Things in Rubbers—The Interview SFisting: What happens at Things in Rubbers? TiR: I put everyday objects in condoms, take a picture and then post it to the site so people can laugh until they barf. So far
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Myleen Hollero And yet, Myleen, for various reasons has moved to the -ist down south, LA! Understandably, we begin our questioning of her there: What has been the hardest thing about moving to LA from
SF News Mobility Device for Disabled Cats, or Hoax? Yesterday, browings the internerd, we were intrigued by a little video linked from BoingBoing of a cat in a box tooling around a workshop on a set of wheels. The video [QT] purportedly
Arts & Entertainment Spelling Counts Har! Remember Maria Alquilar, the lady who misspelled the names of the geniuses on the mural she was installing for the Livermore library? (or maybe Albert always spelled his name "Eistein," you never
SF News Big Brother BART Edward Champion forwarded us note of BART's new 'awareness' campaign and it's, um, yeah. In the words of Lynette Sweet, a member of the BART board and the security comittee chair, "What makes
SF News Political Junkie: We Have A Winner! The votes from Ohio are in! The hanging chads have been dimpled! The electoral college has matriculated! We're calling the SFist Hottest SF Supervisor race -- and the Marina's own Michela Alioto-Pier takes
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban at One Bush Plaza? Oh boy, here we go again. Friend of SFist Thomas Hawk was happily snapping away yesterday when he was accosted by a security guard. His heinous crime? Taking pictures of the building at
SF News Everyone's a Bit Jumpy Thomas Hawk sends us pictures of a police action at the Montgomery Street BART station today. The details are still fuzzy, but apparently a 'mysterious package' was found and the station was closed.
Arts & Entertainment Know your rights all three of them Are you kidding? Of course we were at the BayFF on Bloggers' Rights. We'd like to say that we were there because we were dying to hear the roundtable discussion on legal issues
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens "What? This isn't the Beck show?" we heard a guy ahead of us in line cry out in the Great American ticket line last night. Nope, the sold-out show was for quirky folkster
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Now 4: The Scene First off, the crowd was huge. Our sources tell us the event was oversold. Hundreds with tickets had to wait outside, and hundreds more waited to pick up tickets from will-call. We ran
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Is CopyFighting So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Michael Maxfield Color of America? Red, white, blue! Color of the Giants? Orange! Color of San Francisco? Hot Pink! Wearing a Unitard! Way back when SFist self-interviewed, we shared a special San Francisco moment that
SF News May Just Look Official Enough Via the Flickr blog (disclosure: Yahoo owns Flickr, Yahoo pays some of this SFist's bills, but this isn't officially from Yahoo) we find out about an ID generator for photographers who use Flickr.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte It only turned out that this production of Cosi had been set into a hotel on the Riviera at the onset of WWI, instead of the traditional foothills of the Vesuvio. The change
Arts & Entertainment Public Space; Keep Out Well, thanks to intrepid blogger (and friend of SFist) Michael, the chain link fence is finally down. Michael gets huge props for actually Getting Something Done -- a rarity in this town --
SF News How Stella Lost Her Groove We didn't even know Terry McMillan lived in the Bay Area! Matier and Ross take a break from their relentless dogging of Chris Daly to report on the unraveling of Ms. McMillan's marriage.
Arts & Entertainment A Critical Look at Current TV Josh Wolf, a local vlogger, posted the following recently on his "The Revolution Will Be Televised" blog about Current TV's new rights agreement and payment schedule for content submitted to Current: Under the
SF News Oh, Arnold. The problem with a protest on the peninsula, of course, is that without Frank Chu how do you know it really happened? We took some pictures just in case. Since no news station
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deliver Us From Yet Another Burrito You know we love San Francisco. You should also know that we hate the fact that nobody f**king delivers (coming soon to an SFist Rant near you). So when we heard about
misc Housing Bubbles: The Market Is Falling! Panic in the streets of San Francisco! Further adding to housing hysteria, the Chron prominently fronts an article reporting that the housing market is going to crash some time next year. Set your
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Photologgers at the Apple Store The photo event at the Apple Store was, in SFist's opinion, a smashing success. People crowded the presentation space -- many there from the crew at Bay Area Photologgers, others who were just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Apricots We have been eagerly tasting apricots on our farmer's market forays, waiting for them to go from tart and unpleasant to juicy and sweet. Someday soon, we knew. Saturday wasn't promising until we
