SF News From the 1 California to the 108 Treasure Island If your weekend was anything like our weekend, you spent three days mewling like a kitten about the heat and canceling all plans to go anywhere at all. Not these four SFSU students
Arts & Entertainment Gathering: The Magic The odds for regular San Francisco men hooking up this weekend in the Marina have just dramatically improved with the arrival of the Magic: The Gathering competition tournament at Fort Mason this week
misc When Animals Fall It's just like Baby Jessica, only less so -- the Petaluma Fire Department rescued a man who got stuck in a well trying to rescue his dog. The dog, Snoop, fell into the
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
SF News Olympics Roundup It's finally time to get off the couch and get back to work. That's right, the Olympics are over, nothing went horribly wrong, everybody was smitten with being at the sites of the
misc Labor Week: Sex Workers Unite! [Ed. Note: Labor Day is not just the cut-off point for wearing white shoes - it's a day to honor the workers who make this country great. In our honor (we're workers too!
SF News How Cheap Is Your Apartment? One of SFist's biggest pet peeves is apartment hunting. Even worse, spending days (or months in some cases) finding any place in your price range, and then finding out your friend found a
SF News Bay Gold SFist loves us some women's beach volleyball. Sand, sun, world-class athletes and hot girl-on-girl action [Ed. Note: We really hope this doesn't get us filtered out of our own site at work.]. Our
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
SF News Sausage King on Trial SFist's coworker spent weeks in Oakland's jury pool waiting to find out if he would have to serve on a jury for five months. He couldn't talk about the case until he finally
SF News This Week in Bay Area Olympians Time for a good, old-fashioned roundup of the week our locals had over there in Athens: Concord-born Cal swimming superstar Natalie Coughlin has had a fantastic week. SFist has had a fantastic week
misc At the Hop I'm sure all of you remember Lucky, the bunny who had a lit firecracker attached to her, and was then thrown into a lake. We're happy to say that she has finally found
SF News The Supremes: Everybody Does Not Have the Right to Love The California Supreme court just issued their decision in the case regarding Gavin Newsom's move to let the city issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples. And it's not good for our newlyweds -
Arts & Entertainment Too Cool for School Man, the entire Bay Area publishing community seems to be jumping on the DJ instruction phenomenon. First it was the East Bay Express with their "School of Scratch" feature. The next day the
misc The Sweet Science Andre Ward, born and raised in Oakland, is currently in Athens, Greece getting ready to take on the world in the boxing ring. America's best shot for gold as a pugilist, he is
SF News Love and Human Remains Many of SFist's friends - and some of us at SFist ourselves, have been known to complain about the paucity of eligible straight men in the Bay Area. So we're sad to say
SF News Orange Leads to Yellow Every Time SFist can hold it for a long time, which is why we never even knew there were bathrooms at BART stations. Our understanding was that you were supposed to pee in the elevators
SF News Love and Endorphins SFist stayed true to its pledge on Friday and drunk itself into submission on Saturday at the North Beach Jazz Fest. [Ed. Note - After sitting in a park drinking beer for four
Arts & Entertainment My Guy Ever wonder if San Francisco really has soul? Far be it from SFist to answer such existential questions, but we can recommend that you at least attempt a meeting with one of Motown's
Arts & Entertainment Esseff Private Eye This Saturday, SFist was browsing the Sunset Branch library new books section, when we came across Fade to Clear. We were intrigued enough by the jacket copy to check it out, and we
misc Bless the Beasts and the Children SFist is going to take a bold stance and say that we feel cruelty to animals is wrong. And ever since reading Watership Down as a child, we have felt a special afinity
SF News Bear Hugs The Chron today ran a story about a bear cub that was killed because it was begging for food by coming up to tourists and hugging them. The bear had apparently learned this
Arts & Entertainment Bad Dogs, Bad Dogs, Whatcha Gonna Do? Awright! The Chronicle breaks the story that the next season of Animal Planet's Animal Cops will be filming in the great city by the Bay! The show, for those of you without Animal
Arts & Entertainment Forget Something During Your Stay? New York gets apples, DC gets donkeys and elephants, and Chicago cows - so naturally, San Francisco is filled with decorated hearts. I left my HEART in San Francisco, get it? (nudge nudge
