Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: November 19-25 This week, our picks are Travis who are playing with Maximo Park at the Fillmore tomorrow night. Friday night at the Fillmore, The Drones (listen to "Shark Fin Blues" here) are opening for
SF News Another Earthquake! As we only learned from reading the comments on our whiny post about the weather, there was just an earthquake in Berkeley about 30 minutes ago. It was a 3.0, centered near
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Conrad Black Postscript: I am writing this from the San Francisco Bay Area, where all summer a local politician named Ed Jew has been in trouble over his filing of an allegedly bogus claim of
SF News Day Around The Bay --Beer and wine are okay for the North Beach Festival next week, but no hard alcohol. --More folks are getting laid off from the Chronicle. The Chron has launched a Portraits In Grief-like
SF News Shipwreck'd At Ocean Beach Every now and then, when the sand moves, you can see the remnants of shipwrecks on the shore of Ocean Beach -- and yesterday, folks enjoying the warm weather at low tide caught
SF News Wanna Edit SFist? So hey, we've got some sad news. SFist is sorry to report that our beloved sports guru and fun-loving grammar anarchist Jon Shurkin is stepping down as editor. We're going to miss him
Arts & Entertainment It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site,
SF News Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop (On Our Reduced-Price Floor) Although the real-estate bubblewatchers got a head start on the festivities some time last year, we have been waiting until there's a whole lot of data before we begin the "Woe is us!
misc The 'Fisties: Best News Story 2005 So here's a random selection of our favorites from 2005. Did we leave out yours? Best Daly: Our favorite post this year? The provocative interview of Chris Daly's better half, of course! In
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Some Holiday Alternatives Last week we featured some of the more usual holiday fare, but the San Francisco Bay Area is known for its unusual holiday shows as well. with gears and hammers? Clowns and toilet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: A Guide for the Guides The guide book which got us waxing nostalgic about the internet bubble was Chowhound's guide to the San Francisco. Chowhound is one of our favorite places to waste time on-line, and an iconic
SF News Dan Gillmor Makes His Move The promise of the Internet was simple, but incredibly powerful: to be a medium through which we could connect and collaborate, for mutual benefit. It's happening. As the Net matures, we are learning
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gets <i>The Skinny</i> SFist loves local magazines, from to Other to Dwell. (And before all you "Wavefans" from the same IP address write in, the answer is "no".) We're so happy to welcome The Skinny, a
misc Doing the Math with the Essefficist Once again, here to answer yet more inane questions from our gentle readers, it's the Essefficist. Today's topics: elementary math, bay windows, and the Transbay Terminal redevelopment project. Here we go... What's one
SF News SFist Has Sold Out We have to be transparent about such things, so we'd just like to let our readers know that SFist has been purchased by SF Metblogs, who in turn have been purchased by Yahoo.
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part One -- Austin On Zero Dollars A Day So begins our sordid tale of nerd debauchery here in Austin. The San Francisco Bay Area is representing to the fullest extent of the law here in Texas, and we've had a hard
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 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
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
SF News It's Raining Rain Ah, it’s raining today and for those of us working, nothing quite sums up the first day back after the holidays like it being grey and miserable outside. It looks like it’
Arts & Entertainment Existential Angst, Plumbing Problems, and Spandex in Berkeley SFist's eclectic group of contributors includes a member of Impact Theatre. This means we've gotten to see this and past shows for free, but we still look at them from our traditional candid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Has Great Mexican Food. Psych! New York is such a big city full of bright lights and superstars, and you can get anything (and we do mean anything) you want delivered to your door at almost any time
SF News East Bay Pro-Choice Doctor Targeted All of the doctor's neighbors within two or three blocks of the doctor's North Oakland home have been receiving letters accusing their neighbor of "perpetuating the American Holocaust" and "bringing the shame of
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
