SF News Newsweek Calls Us Loony It's kind of a fun article too in that it's not often you see Bevan, the Bay Guardian, and Tommi Avicolli Mecca quoted in a national newsmagazine. But why, once again, are we
Arts & Entertainment Are You SURE You Don't Call It "Frisco"? "A fabulous party bringing together native San Franciscans who share the common bond of being born or raised in the most beautiful city in the world," we're perversely hoping that SFist Commenter Kevin
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
SF News Political JunkiEE If you think the Ma v. Ja race is content-free, you should try the State Senate District 8 race between Leland Yee and Mike Nevin. Yawn, unless you like trying to figure out
SF News Congratulations, Michela Alioto-Pier! Now Get Back To Work. Michela Alioto-Pier and her family are proud to announce that the supervisor for District 2 gave birth to their third child, a healthy baby girl, last night. They don't have a name picked
SF News California MMA Starts With a Bang and Ends With a "Looping Right Hand of Death" Last Friday was an historic night in California combat sports history, as the first ever sanctioned Mixed Martial Arts competition was held in San Jose's packed-to-the roof HP Pavilion. Anticipated since the establishment
SF News SF Clergy REPRESENT While a protest against us by the venerable Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence might make for a stall in the average San Franciscan's career path, dealing with we pesky liberals seems to have only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Million-Dollar Bake-Off We love those Food Network cookoff challenges! Make a birthday cake for Elvis! Decorate the best gingerbread house! Who can make the tallest ice/pastry sculpture? So we can't wait for Food Network's
Arts & Entertainment American Idol in SF: "It is Almost Nonhuman." The show starts with a cheap faux-emo cover of that "If You're Going to SF" song. We don't know who's responsible for this unbearable version of the song (Update! it was Me First
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Allen Salkin For the uninitiated, Festivus was the holiday Frank Costanza cooked up in lieu of Christmas and features a Festivus Pole instead of a Christmas Tree. Families get together, stage the "Airing of Grievances"
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
Arts & Entertainment Shop Early and Often! The Small Business Commission of San Francisco recognizes both the benefits of keeping our spending close to home and our desire to buy cool stuff with its Shop Local First Week. All this
SF News Gavin Gives Good Speech So, yes, yesterday was Gavin's big State of the City speech. In a speech entitled "Why it matters to be a San Franciscan," a question that answers itself if ever there was, in
misc For Sale on eBay: Fake Island Seriously, at the current high bid of $222,322, this thing is a steal for any San Franciscan. When was the last time you saw anything in The City at that price? It
SF News Interview: Andrew Sean Greer Who is that charming young man riding his scooter up Divis for the early-bird special at the Metro Cafe? It's Andrew Sean Greer, California Book Award winner for , San Franciscan, and one of
misc SFisting: Practice Your Rolls While we can think of about fifty places in the Mish to practice your Downward Dog without even trying, it's nice to find places where we can practice our favorite set of postitions
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Blood, Sweat, and Glitter</i> We've been trying to think of something negative to say about Sasha Aickin's since its world premiere last Saturday, but we haven't been able to yet. Even though the film deals with those
SF News Nancy Pelosi Gets a Lift We San Franciscan's like to think that we come from a brave and hearty stock. Constantly living under the fear of the next Big One, we're the inheritors of a proud tradition of
Arts & Entertainment Drinking with the O'Essefficist After soliciting answerable questions from myriad colleagues and cohorts, the Essefficist has some doozies to work with this week. (But don't let that stop you from sending in some of your own.) Having
Arts & Entertainment It's Abortion Protest Saturday There will be, of course, an anti-anti-abortion counter rally to be held in response. In fact, some pro-choice organizers are responding with all the love of open-mindedness and civil discussion that makes this
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Brings It But that's really not where the action is. Not even close. Sean Penn, in fact, just might have set off one humdinger of a Celebrity Spat as it also involves Matt Stone &
Arts & Entertainment Open Studio in the 'Town One of the things SFist loves about Oakland in all its post-industrial glory is that it's a great place for young artists to find studios. Take a walk through Temescal, West Oakland or
misc In the Middle of the Road With the Essefficist Tuesday brings the Giants and the Padres the Essefficist. What could possibly be better? Don't answer that. Today we turn to an issue especially dear to many a San Franciscan: parking. Specifically, parking
SF News Baghdad By the Bay While we've been working on SFist for a few weeks now, today we opened our (virtual) doors to you, the general public. This week will be your chance to tell us exactly what
