SF News The Presidentator? One good thing about the election being over is that we no longer have to be submitted to political ads. Oops. Strike that. Two weeks after the election, a "grass-roots" organization (meaning a
SF News Political Junkie: Number Crunching Now, SFist and your Political Junkie are not really statisticians, but the preliminary data coming in from the RCV reports compiled by the Center for Voting and Democracy yield some pretty interesting results,
SF News The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look good for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Festival Edition If SFist answered to mammon instead of to you, our readers, we might bother to have a big budget pick this week. But look at what's out there! Dude, it's so not going
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Karen Dere Karen shares a love of one SFist's favorite websites, fecal face, which you should visit right now if you don't already have it bookmarked. Karen's ties with The Giant Peach mean that this
Arts & Entertainment In the Eye of the Beholder Criticism is a funny thing. One person loves a piece of art and another hates it. Happens all the time. But today there's a particularly delicious example of this phenomenon to relish. Robert
SF News The Masses: Consider Them Risen Up You know, it's getting so that we can't leave the house these days without running into an angry mob. This evening, during our nightly constitutional through downtown San Francisco, we were startled to
Arts & Entertainment GTA: San Andreas Review - San Fierro Edition [Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] We loved the last Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. The eighties music and cars, the neon glow of faux deco, the
Arts & Entertainment New Release Tuesday Sure, there are new releases this week by Britney, Eminem and Shania, but what love have they ever shown to San Francisco? "Talkin' in the Mission / Over coffee, this is my utopia," sings
Arts & Entertainment Existential Angst, Plumbing Problems, and Spandex in Berkeley SFist's eclectic group of contributors includes a member of Impact Theatre. This means we've gotten to see this and past shows for free, but we still look at them from our traditional candid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Has Great Mexican Food. Psych! New York is such a big city full of bright lights and superstars, and you can get anything (and we do mean anything) you want delivered to your door at almost any time
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Gallery Cafe is at the corner of Washington & Mason, right across from the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. Here, they dispense with the questions about "which bean" or "which blend." Your choices
misc Crazy About Cats, or Just Plain Crazy? SFist loves animals. But even we got a bit of an allergic sniffle when we read about the more than 80 cats taken from a home in San Carlos on Friday. Achoo! And,
Arts & Entertainment Get It On /Bang A Can Philip Glass is the ensemble music crowd's bad a**, as he’s collaborated with popular artists such as David Byrne and adapted works by Brian Eno and David Bowie. He's scored films as
SF News Screw You Guys, We're Out of Here Ever since the election, there's been a lot of grumbling about our misfortune in being attached to the rest of the country. Finally, somebody did something about it: posted the Web site USoutofSF.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Bigfoot Graffiti art is an integral part of the San Francisco scene. Among artists you’ve probably noticed around the city, Bigfoot’s art stands out due to the consistency of his themes and
SF News Ranked Choice Voting, Ctrl-Alt-Delete A fatal exception has occurred down at City Hall -- the results of the instant runoff races have been delayed because of a software crash in the computers tallying the votes, which probably
SF News Bush to Bay Area: "F**k you!" Why does the Bay Area hate George Bush so much? Is it really about partisan machine politics or an innate culture of dissent? SFist thinks it's more a matter of self-preservation. The fact
SF News Disenchantment in the Streets It wouldn't be San Francisco if people weren't deluded into thinking anyone cared what we say. Which is why protest events have been long planned in response to this election. As one coworker
SF News Get Ur Geek On - Election Style If you're not stationed in front of the tube or out on the town (without WiFi) might we suggest monitoring the election via the innerweb? There's all sorts of resources out there, whether
misc The Essefficist Votes It's election day Q & A. Whoo hoo! First, let's hear from loyal reader Redd Harrington: Kerry! We love that guy! Thanks, Redd. You're a trooper. And from loyal reader Frog Dog: Dear
SF News Exercise Your Right to Vote Sorry for the lateness of our postings -- we're all out voting today. And we'd love to hear your balloting stories! Any funny antics involving ranked-choice voting? See any precinct hookups while waiting
SF News SFist Interview: David Pascal We haven't read the bios of every candidate for the Board of Supervisors (hell, there are twenty-two of them in District Five alone and we have a lot of other things to do