SF News Is This the Beginning of the End For GooTube? Remember back to the giddy days of Napster? Remember how everything could be found online and for free and everyone did nothing at work other than download their favorite songs? Remember how there
SF News Beautiful City, Ugly Buildings Rybczynski throws us a couple bones (he hypothesizes that part of the problem with architecture in SF may be that the city is already too pretty, and notes that also-gorgeous Rio has horrible
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Sadie's Flying Elephant With its scribbled over fallout shelter walls, Sadie's is a fine choice to prepare for the end of days. But even with the air-raid shelter feel it's charming nonetheless, with a long oak
Arts & Entertainment Two Gallants Tour News Watch Trainwreck Riders rock out on SF public transit, making unsuspecting passengers all sorts of uncomfortable, in their video for "Slow Motion Cowboy" , then check out Two Gallants' video for "Steady Rollin'" and
SF News Caltrans Wants Us To Go To Burning Man Convenient for vacationing tourists who intend to stay in SF, this closure is inconvenient for those of us who live in the Bay Area who enjoy the City when the Burning Man brigade
SF News Hey, We Can Finally Go To The Doctor! In 2007. As SFist Jon detailed for us, the 200 million dollar/year plan will cover uninsured (but employed at a level that disqualifies them from MediCal) San Francisco residents for care they recieve inside
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Peaches Christ But when we got a release on This Year's Midnight Mass Film Series (which runs at midnights every Friday and Saturday from tonight until mid-August, see the complete schedule here), we knew we
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: More Beard Awards Beard Papa does not serve twinkies, but their cream puffs are driving San Franciscans to insanity all the same. Oh, no one with vanilla cream on their lips has lunged at Chris Daly
Arts & Entertainment April 18, 2006 As promised, we completely slept through the 5:14 a.m. bells and sirens commemorating the 100th anniversary of the big quake -- but some of you more diligent San Franciscans didn't, to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beard Papa Brings Cream Puffs To SF As we were cadging a ride home from SFist Eve on Saturday night, we squealed with delight as we drove down Mission Street. Right by Yerba Buena Lane, there's a big sign: BEARD
SF News No Bus Butts Since then, our former roommate has quit smoking, and now Muni has, too, as yesterday the Board of Supervisors approved legislation banning smoking at all public transit stops in the City. Introduced by
Arts & Entertainment There’s A Brand New Dance But I Don’t Know Its Name When SFist Jackson announced, "Hey, I saw your BFF Dede today", we went scarlet (we don't wear green) with envy. When do we get OUR Dede Wilsey sighting? Taunting our jealousy, Jackson sent
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 News "The Contractor Is Performing Re-Work" and Other SF Transit Classics When the the Central Freeway replacement budget allocated $5.75ish million for "ancillary projects," nobody knew what exactly that meant, so they did what San Franciscans love doing -- a study! Now the
misc SFist Rants: 80W and 101 to San Jose: No, the Other Right Lanes What’s the problem with the 5th Street exit? It’s simple: really bad signage. You’re driving west, just getting off the bridge, and you know that you should be in the
Arts & Entertainment T to Zed Tis the season to be snowboarding and skiing. And for San Franciscans, that means road trips to Tahoe a plenty. For us the big question always is where to eat? You may well
misc The 'Fisties: Most Ineffective Activism But all those totally unsuccessful efforts pale in comparison to 2005's greatest activism-loser: the Muni fare strike. Because it could've been so awesome, if it had worked. There is no organization more loathed
Arts & Entertainment Come Download Uncle John's Band We would say that something like this is "the death of the 60's" but that corpse has been long dead, ridden with more wounds than Sonny Corleone (speaking of which, has anyone else
SF News Oh Really, O'Reilly? As you might imagine, Bill O'Reilly's comments about our fair city deserving a terrorist attack managed to raise a few hackles, including Chris Daly's, who was so angered by Bill's hot-headed comments that
misc Breaking News Story: Alien Invasion! Picture this story with the Drudge Report flashing lights, but we have an exclusive, late-breaking and developing story from The Weekly World News: ALIENS ARE COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO! We repeat, ALIENS ARE
SF News Tow This Dennis Herrera's already moving to reward the 98% of San Franciscans who reelected him city attorney (not you, SFist Jackson!) by announcing that he's extracted $5.7 million in settlement for the City
SF News End Bagism Cheer up, San Franciscans; all of the cities problems have been solved! Yesterday, Gavin Newsom announced that he had made a deal with major supermarket chains to cut down on those plastic grocery
Arts & Entertainment Election 2005: Interview with Jose Cisneros How would you work with the assessor to make sure that property owners are paying their fair share of taxes? The Treasurer’s office will continue to work closely with the Assessor to
