misc Top Drawers: SF International Animation Festival Ticket Giveaway The International Animation Festival starts tonight, kids. And speaking of them, don't bring yours to tomorrow night's wonderfully smut-filled orgy of animated shorts, Top Drawers. What's more, one lucky soul will get a
SF News Groovy, Odd Scam Hitting the Elderly Okay, we're not exactly sure how this works, but it's...bizarre. Seems that a trio of scammers are preying upon the elderly Chinese American community in SF (no, not Ed Jew). What's interesting
SF News Ew: 58,000 Gallons of Spilled Fuel Close SF Beaches After yesterday's fog-induced Cosco Busan/Bay Bridge crash -- resulting in 58,000 gallons of fuel and 8,000 gallons of "heavy-duty bunker fuel oil" spilling into the Bay -- Baker Beach, Crissy
SF News Photos: Cosco Busan Oil and Water Don't Mix But, and we hate to admit it, they sure do look pretty together. (The image above has been set as our desktop background!) But as attractive as oil and water looks on rain-soaked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink God Sends Waffle Truck To Civic Center This Morning Hi, guys. What's up? Great. So...huh, how do we put this delicately without hurting anyone's feelings? Ahem, the next time there's a truck in the middle of Civic Center selling nothing but
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Not Guilty Part II Oh, Ed. Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed. This does not seem speedy like you promised. Then again, you promised a lot of things. Sigh. After yesterday's whopping indictment by a federal grand jury,
SF News Oracle Open World Chaos to Commence Okay, granted, we're personalizing this a bit. We digress. But Oracle Open World causes so much congestion in the downtown/SOMA area; we're surprised that this is still allowed to go on. But
misc Blocker: 200 Front Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News Thwap: Bay Bridge Hit By Container Ship Egads! The west span of the Bay Bridge was struck this morning by a container ship, the Cosco Busan. According to the Chronicle, "Coast Guard officials said the incident was not serious enough
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink But of Course: Falafels = Terrorism According to CQ Politics, the FBI combed through customer data collected by SF and Bay Area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006. Why? To see what amount of Middle Eastern food products were
SF News P.M. Tenderloin Shooting According to San Francisco Crime (via Bay City News) a 19-year-old man was shot in the chest in -- where else? -- the Tenderloin. The shooting occurred around Ellis and Jones Streets, according
SF News Newsom -- As You Already Know, Knew -- Won The typically chatty Gavin Newsom spoke for less than 15 minutes last night, declaring a mayoral victory at last night's party at the Ferry Building. He stood alongside his father and gal-pal Jennifer
SF News Spare the Air Tonight, Folks Also, there's no free transit during winter/fall Spare the Air days. Bummer.
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Indicted It is done. According to the Chronicle, a "federal grand jury indicted suspended San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew today on charges of soliciting $80,000 in bribes from local businesses by threatening their
SF News Your Election Night Fêtes Too real, if you ask us. Election night will soon fall upon the city like a blanket of darkness. But that doesn't mean you should celebrate or grieve alone. Ripping off Inspired by
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Feisty If you've been using that awesome crafty google map of San Francisco you have Leslie Yang to thank. Leslie is a member of the San Francisco Craft Mafia, and runs Feisty Elle where
Arts & Entertainment The Zhooshing of One Rincon Hill We've always been warm for One Rincon Hill's late-modernist form. For some reason, though, we failed to realize this darling accent of omission, located at the tip on the building's west side, is
SF News More Measure G Lethargy We’re all for citizenship and all—we would even consider ourselves to be citizenship geeks. We love voting (of course) and jury duty (jury opportunity, we like to call it). We love
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Ingrid Michaelson & Melee Michaelson breezed through "The Way I Am" (the Old Navy sweater commercial) with audience participation. After a few tries, the audience finally clapped correctly (I don't think we impressed Ms. Michaelson with our
SF News Vote and/or Buy This Lovely Property Today The kids over at Curbed SF have the word on one polling place that's also an open house. Gross. Over in the enchanted Excelsior District, early morning voters have also been getting the
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #8 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. All bands this week featured in our Standout section are from the Bay Area. Arp, the brain-child of
SF News Breaking News: Record-Low Voter Turnout Expected Okay, like, people thousands and thousands of years ago, or whatever, totally died in wars and stuff so you all could have the chance to rock the vote. And like, you know, now
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco International Animation Festival In a city littered with film festivals, few of them stand out. This is one of them. Starting this Thursday (11/6), the San Francisco International Animation Festival will sample a wide array
Arts & Entertainment Remember: Tonight Is Guy Fawkes Night In SF Wait, remember ? Well, Guy Fawkes and his part in an attempt to blow up England’s Parliament in 1605. Why? Because Guy was an English Catholic and he wanted to ‘splode the Protestant
