SF News School Daze You know, we're kind of getting into the week-long series that the Chron's doing on the San Francisco school system. It's a comprehensive look at all the various factors affecting the perception of
Arts & Entertainment Maverick's Hits the Big Time We realize that those of you with Tivo don't have to trouble yourselves with the minutiae of daily television programming, but for you old schoolers with the VCRs and you hard-liners who only
SF News A's Fight! SFist A's fans' loss is our personal gain, as SFist Jake's brief hiatus gives us leave to post on yesterday's sixth-inning infield brawl at Anaheim! We love a good baseball fight. That's because
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Bay Area, Craigslist Paradise One of the more amazing facts about Bay Area Craigslist is its complete ubiquity. It is almost to the point where you can't live your life with it. How do people find rentals?
SF News Barry's First Day Back at Work Yeah, the Giants lost the season opener last night 6-1 as Jake Peavy shut the Black & Orange down, but that, of course, isn't what everyone is talking about. In something that should
SF News Beware the Three Seed On Saturday, the Cardinal absolutely handled number two seed Oklahoma 88-74 behind a Walton-like performance from 6-4 junior center Brooke Smith. Smith poured in 35 points on 14 of 16 shooting. She also
SF News Cuz It's the O.G. D-O-Double-G, W-B-C In short, SFist's official stance is this: Play ball! And onto the conversation: SFist Jon: World Baseball Classic-- brilliant idea or dumb-ass idea? SFist Jake: Brilliant idea. Are you kidding? When I watch
Arts & Entertainment SFist Looks With Dread to the East Replace Minas Morgul with the Moscone Center, the Witch King with Kevin Smith, and put a "d" in front of "orcs," and you've got WonderCon 2006. It's coming this weekend, and you can
SF News The Chron Calls Out The Cops We're taking a break from our usual SF Chronicle mockery for this irony-free moment: Well done! The Chron splashes the results of its years-long investigation into claims of police brutality in the SFPD
misc Bottom of the Coffee Pot: A Few Leftovers In the nearly year and a half we've been doing coffee-related writing here on SFist, we've taken a number of pictures that we've heretofore been unable to shoehorn into one of our "Trimethyldioxypurist"
SF News Giant killers? The Zags are 15-3 overall this year and once again steamrolling through the West Coast Conference (WCC), while the Dons lug an unwieldy 7-10 record into the game. The Men in Robes are
misc School Credit Give Gavin Newsom a shiny red apple! In an interview with this month's San Francisco Magazine (in blatant disregard of another interview with the Gavman in 7x7, which was optimistically labeled "exclusive"), the
SF News American Football Spectacular: Desperation And Reckoning San Diego Chargers at the Kansas City Chiefs, Saturday, 12/24/2005, 10:00 AM PST Wild Card playoff football is nothing compared to the atmosphere for two teams clawing for that last
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Special Edition: Warren Can't Wait With only a few days left before the Very Special Election, the Governor hit the campaign trail hoping for one of those idyllic campaign weekends where all the crowds are friendly, the energy
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Put a Fork In It And with that, we bid adieu to the Giants' season as baseball has moved to the playoffs and everyone's favorite drama, Waiting For the Sox/Yanks. Which means it's time for Your San
SF News Google's Next Stop: The World Word on the street (Fine, we actually just got an email from a friend. We can't lie -- our relationship with the street is a strained one, at best) is that Blogger parent
misc Animal Roundup: From NOLA to SF Well, maybe they're not sending human evacuees to the Bay Area anymore, but we're definitely taking the four-legged kind -- the first organized evacuation of pets from the devastated Gulf Coast arrived at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does the San Diego Comic-Con SFist attended the 36th San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) this past weekend. Last year's SDCC drew almost 100,000 attendees; after trying to negotiate the crowds, we can't see how there could have
SF News The Sky is Falling! And then last night, three pieces fell from a FedEx flight onto homes and yards in Danville. The flight was carrying deliveries to Dallas-Fort Worth, but shortly after takeoff, started losing cargo. Betten
SF News Stizzem Cizzells in Sucka Free, Boyee! After a selection process that left many of the participants wondering if the voting was being done completely objectively, San Francisco has been crowned the next American Id...oh, wait, never mind. We
SF News Your Giants: Breeding Lilacs out of the Dead Land Let's just come right out and say it: the Giants, now 8-10, had a crappy week. They went two-and-five against teams that, even without Barry Bonds (whose return is still shrouded in steroid-enhanced
SF News The Littlest SFist OK, not yet, but we have high hopes. Until then, big ups to SFist Amanda for what was not the easiest labor ever (but your hair looked good throughout), and our best wishes
SF News Your 2005 Giants: Six Down, <strike>154</strike> 156 to Go Considering that the Giants are missing their two biggest bats and have suffered through a couple of ugly bullpen metltdowns in the last few games, they've got to be pretty pleased with their
Arts & Entertainment SF VMAs? The Chron's Matier and Ross get back to the gossip we pay twenty-five cents in the MUNI for and report that Gav Daddy Newsom is aggressively wooing MTV to throw the 2005 Video
Arts & Entertainment SFist To Rock Austin That's right, SFist is getting on a plane early tomorrow and will be flying deep into the heart of Texas in order to bring you wall-to-wall reporting of the internerd/hipster fest that
