Arts & Entertainment While You're At It, You Can Pay Your Late Fees Too For those of you who love the antiquarian hunt, there's also a separate section for the "Best of Book Bay," with rare and unusual books (between $20 and $250), including the first ever
SF News Calling All Libertarians SFist loves the healthy California lifestyle like anyone else. We love being outdoors, eating healthy foods, getting our exercise. But we also love drinking and smoking. Is that a crime? That seems to
Arts & Entertainment I Love(a)Parade The parades in Europe now bring in 50 truckfuls of musicians and over a million ravers, and the organizers decided to bring the rhythms to San Francisco for the Love Parade's debut. A
SF News Pick Up Your Own Towels After six weeks of fruitless negotiations, the San Francisco hotel workers union, UNITE 2, has called for a two-week strike against a number of local hotels. The boycott is against the San Francisco
SF News Monster Park Update @ 11:35: We managed to get our grubby little hands on the press release about an hour before the conference - and it was sent out only an hour before we put
Arts & Entertainment You Belong Here Some things just go with certain places: clocks with the Swiss, bagels and New York, Arizona and snowbirds. Occasionally you encounter something that claims to be from one place even though it is
SF News 5.9 Earthquake The quake was felt as far north as San Francisco and Santa Ana (though SFist must confess we were so engrossed in Wonkette this morning that we didn't notice a thing), and it
SF News Getting The Shakes Earthquakes of magnitude 2-2.8 are nothing by San Francisco standards, but when Mount St. Helens starts feeling 10 of them in a 24-hour period, we here at SFist know that's not where
SF News Warrant Issued in Murder of Timothy Griffith The San Francisco Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of Rafael Antonio Cuevas, who is suspected of being the man who murdered Timothy Griffith after the Giants game on Friday,
SF News Anchor Steamed Sophie Maxwell is working on legislation to put zoning protection for businesses in place. Meanwhile, SFist really isn't sure what to think on this one -- SFist's usual liberal guilt/privilege position supporting
Arts & Entertainment How to Make a Manwich No, we're not talking about this Manwich, or even this manwich. We're talking about a classic San Francisco manwich, the kind many likely threw together after the Folsom Street Fair. That's right, September's
misc Tonight We're Gonna Party Like it's 5765 Sunset this evening marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, considered by many to be the most important holiday of the Jewish year. For a full explanation of the holiday, we recommend reading this.
SF News Sapp in The City Brian over at Jockzilla tipped us off to this little gem from Raiders defensive lineman Warren Sapp, quoted on the issue of living in San Francisco instead of Oakland in Sports Illustrated's upcoming
SF News Local Man Looks on in Horror as Ninth Inning Collapse Costs Giants a Crucial Game in the Standings SFist had high hopes for a series sweep for the Giants throughout last night's game against the Astros, but the bullpen had different ideas. Taking a three-to-two lead into the ninth inning, the
Arts & Entertainment Ready For Our Close Up Watching last night's premiere of "Lost" (by the way, that show kicks total a**) brought back fond memories of Lost star Matthew Fox's previous show, "Party of Five." While SFist isn't necessarily fond
SF News He Hits it High, He Hits it Deep, He Hits it Outta Here! Back in the halcyon days when SFist was launching and the Giants were getting their collective ass handed to them by the lowly Cincinnati Reds, it was looking pretty grim down at Third
misc Lean on Me SFist feels promoting literacy is something everyone should be involved with. Yes, we read alot, but we wanted to do more than that. So, we became a Project Read volunteer. The San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Putomayo, Eat Your Heart Out For those of you who like your ethnomusicology less with the pan flutes and more with the non-Western modalities, the San Francisco World Music Festival is presenting a number of innovative programs for
Arts & Entertainment Rabbit Food Now, SFist is an omnivore, and proud of it (we baa quietly under our breath when we eat lamb). But walking down Valencia Street, we noticed that the venue that formerly housed "the
SF News Get Some Balls [] The big news in San Francisco over the weekend was, of course, Barry hitting home run #700. Oh, and the Giants are still up by a half game in the pennant race, but
misc SF Schools Want Your Opinion Monday: Roosevelt School Auditorium, 460 Arguello Boulevard Tuesday: Gordon J. Lau School Auditorium, 950 Clay Street Wednesday: Thurgood Marshall Auditorium, 45 Conkling Street Thursday: Horace Main School Auditorium, 3351 23rd Street For more
misc Behind the Wheel San Francisco sure does love its bicycles. Every time we get on the Bay Bridge in our *gasp* car, we wish there was a way to ride our bike across the bridge to
Arts & Entertainment Manic Moon Day For those of you not fasting next weekend, you , can 20% of the population in San Francisco suggest Zhong Qiu Jie instead? Those of you who don't feel the Mandarin Chinese (or who
Arts & Entertainment Pimp My Ride Those of you longing to start airbrushing flames on or supergluing action figures to the side of your car, it's your weekend! Starting today through Sunday, it's Art Car Fest 2004! Intended to
Arts & Entertainment La Casa in the House One of SFist's favorite local charities is La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence shelter with offices in the Mission district that runs great programs for San Francisco's at-risk women, teens, and
