SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Don't Bother Us, We're In Mourning We knew it was coming, but we're still weren't ready when the news came down. SFist's beloved Coronet Theater is closing its doors forever this Sunday, in preparation for demolition by the owner
Arts & Entertainment Lose Those Extra Pounds: Laugh Your Ass Off Friend of SFist and Bay Blogger Alex Blagg doesn't need us anymore. Sniff. His shows at the comedy club 50 Mason have been written up in the Chronicle, so he reports "[T]he
SF News Burning For School So apparently the San Francisco school board held some public meetings to decide on the start of the new school year. Before Labor Day? After Labor Day? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Everyone was pretty
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Royalty Sometimes, SFist likes to dress up as a pretty, pretty princess. We're so cute afterall. When we're really feeling pathetic we put on our old prom dress, the one we wore when we
SF News Save the Old Church The Archdiocese has been looking to sell the church to a developer as the church has been closed since 1994 due to the fact they can’t afford the $7-$8 million in
SF News Did Ask Jeeves Buy Bloglines? Don't Ask Jeeves That Though we haven't felt the need to ask Jeeves anything in quite a long time (case in point: running the title of this entry through Ask Jeeves yielded no definitive answer), we adore
Arts & Entertainment Has Ribity Gone Too Far? Art critic and photographer Claudine, who has been something of a modern-day Chalfant or Ahern by cataloging photos of graffitti pieces throughout the city, left a comment in our Get Ur Geek On:
SF News Your Commute: The Park Grill MUNI's bad enough -- people laden with bags moshing their way onto teeny-tiny trolley cars, a mother holding an infant and frantically clutching at your head and jacket sleeves as she attempts to
SF News Nancy Pelosi: San Francisco Liberal? DCist forwarded us an article from Roll Call (paid subscription required) entitled "Q: Where Is Nancy Pelosi Not a San Francisco Liberal? A: San Francisco." We love it when DC politics realizes that,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Dema Grim So how did Dema qualify for the rarefied crew that makes the SFist interview list? Well it wasn't just because we love her clothes. It's because Dema is a one woman encapsulation of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Double Feature We signed up for the screenings that Larsen Associates offered credentials to but weren't already claimed by fellow 'Fisters. Which means we were given New York productions. Granted, we're the least removed from
Arts & Entertainment SF Watches: Movies This Weekend Obviously, the "at" where it "is", is 7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival. You knew that already, didn't you? However, what if that screening of you had your heart set on is
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: SFist has you covered See the complete schedule of films here, buy tickets here, and we'll see y'all there! SF IndieFest logo from their site. Thanks to SF IndieFest and Larsen Associates for making our coverage possible
Arts & Entertainment Happy Parrot Day! February maybe the dreariest month, what with it being the dying days of winter and there being a dearth of sports on TV, but cheer up, San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors has
Arts & Entertainment Please Abandon Us As Well Our theory is this: American Idol is like sex, in that it's freakin sweet when it's going on, but a few minutes after it ends you've forgotten most of it. We know, it's
Arts & Entertainment The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why? why? Dear Lord, why? Frankly, we
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF News Roses As we joked to Chicagoist, "Google's offices are pretty much heaven on earth. It's like the clock stopped for them in February of 2000." How do we know? Well, when we let our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As San Francisco Goes to the Dogs SFist made it clear last week that while we enjoy watching "animal rescue" shows, we also find them an emotionally draining experience. But that didn't stop us from watching the premiere of "Animal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Mission Statement (Of Sorts) From Your Trimethyldioxypurist After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about
Arts & Entertainment Deconstructing Leah: Paris Hilton at the SF Ballet Gala Since some of you may not be as thoroughly addicted to gossip as SFist is, we would like to present to you a primer on how to interpret Leah Garchik's column. You see,
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipping This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist in 1776 that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his
SF News Your Commute: Casual Day The East Bay's Casual Commute just got a little more codified with today's Chron cover story about the cheapest way to get across the Bay Bridge. We've never been able to find a
