misc Starbucks -- Bringing People Together Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. Many
Arts & Entertainment "Following Sean" on POV "I smoke grass," was the shocking line uttered by precocious 4-year-old Sean from Ralph Arlyck's 1969 short-film documentary "Sean," which was set in a Haight Ashbury flat that housed Sean's large family and
SF News Homeless Kerfuffle, Day Ten: Syringes, Syringes, Everywhere The Chron article explores two possible remedies: syringes with retractable needles (which cost much more than normal syringes), and 24 hour biohazard drop boxes. It turns out that the San Francisco AIDS foundation,
Arts & Entertainment Aloha, San Francisco! San Francisco is a great city for eating, we all know this. But, man, is it great to have a chance to satisfy your urge for Hawaiian food every year at the Aloha
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The shows coming to San Francisco this week give us an excuse to talk about some of our favorite music of 2007. Perhaps the best album we've heard this year comes from a
misc Sunnyside Fixer-Upper Uh oh. Looks like another fixer-upper in Sunnyside has been snatched up by an eager buyer. A 3-bedroom home in San Francisco listed at the bargain price of $399,000 is now "in
misc Blocker: 3400 Sacramento 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. Blocker, No. 10: Sacramento St.
SF News American Football Spectacular Remembers Bill Walsh Yesterday, the gentleman who came to be called The Genius passed away from leukemia at the age of 75. The importance of Bill Walsh to San Francisco sports, and the whole of the
SF News SF Doc Charged In Donor's Death San Francisco transplant surgeon Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was criminally charged on Monday with "dependent adult abuse." He's accused of prescribing way, way too man drugs to speed up the death of a developmentally-disabled
SF News A Cop's Perspective On Use of Force At AT&T Park It must be oddly freeing to have an ongoing, very public work-related crisis, because Officer Andrew Cohen seems to have a lot to say these days. And why the heck not? It's an
Arts & Entertainment Bauer On LAist On Bauer? Food Flap! You know how sometimes we point out when an out-of-town publication takes an outside-in look at our fair city? We've pointed to such pieces in the L.A. Times and the Economist even
SF News Tsk, Tsk: A Little Background On Ethics While we've been digesting the dueling banjos style competition for a Board of Supes Code of Conduct, we were left pickin' our skulls as to why the Supes don't already have a code
SF News Oh No Ed Jew! Please, Please Mr. Postman Sorry, readers -- Rita's not around today -- hope you can enjoy this Ed Jew update nonetheless! Still not a lot of info on Ed Jew's prelim court proceedings, but there is a
Arts & Entertainment From The 'Why Isn't Everyone Worried About This' File The way Wired's Noah Shachtman sees things struck us as astonishingly clear and pragmatic. "The Lawrence Livermore lab, outside of San Francisco, already has a pretty iffy security record -- barely-armed guards, affairs
Arts & Entertainment Oooh, We Feel A Little Dirty Oddly compelling stuff from Melissa Gira over at Gridskipper. "The Sugar Daddy Guide to San Francisco" answers that burning question of what leisure activities one can enjoy under the good graces of said
Arts & Entertainment Bi-Coastal Banana Bag & Bodice Snags 3 New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations Rising Fallen was cited by NYIT for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Production of a Play, and playwright Jason Craig was nominated for Outstanding Original Full Length Script. We are embarrassed to admit that
misc Week Around The -ists Over at Chicagoist, readers weighed in with their favorite memories of a local concert venue celebrating its silver anniversary and railed about the passage of a statewide smoking ban for Illinois. The former
misc SF's Garbage Like LA's? No! While others are pushing their dust-covered garbage cans back out onto the curb east of One Rincon, those of us west of Balboa Park are having our hands slapped for keeping ours out
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Day One Ed Jew Preliminary Hearing, Day 1 San Francisco Criminal Court (sorry, we can't find out what courtroom he's in) Picture by SFist Jim, who was at the plastic bag event taking pictures and
Arts & Entertainment Mass Of New Bat Segundo Interviews Include Berkeley Breathed Two-Parter! Holy Cow, Bat Segundo! What do you mean you moved to Brooklyn?!? Gah. A podcast that's truly fun, quirky, and valuable for fans of literature, this pseudonymously produced program made its home base
