SF News The NSA Wiretapping Scandal: Not Just For Phone Calls Anymore Well, AT&T denied the claim but this morning, Wired News posted documents given to them by Klein of inter-office documents detailing just what the NSA was up to. These documents were
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: And Then There Were Two Okay, folks, first let us apologize for not reviewing the delightful "chef reunion show" a few weeks back. Part of us wanted to, but we opted out because, honestly, who the hell wants
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Chaise Lounge Not that there is anything wrong with sitting on couches. We like to sit on the couch, which is a great reason to check out our next dog friendly bar – Chaise Lounge in
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election Interview So we've moved up a notch on the news scale -- instead of just reading anti-Chris Daly position papers on the internet, we actually reached out to the candidates we could find with
SF News R.O.T.C in the U.S.A First up, the School Board, as a member of the Board, Mark Sanchez, has introduced a measure that will ban JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps) programs. Apparently, every school child in the
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Hot Aluminum Roof It also reminded us how Apple is the quintessential San Francisco company. The products are expensive. They're not quite as fast as the others, but make up for it with style. There's constant
SF News California Catches Impeachment Fever Anyways, the bill has made it through the California Assembly Rules Committee which voted to approve the bill so they can consider it later. Huh? Actually, the vote was to amend a previous
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 We Have No Idea What Yvesdroppings Are Referring To Yes, we know that technically it should be "to what Yvesdroppings refer." Whatever. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Girl on Phone: "He wants to move to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Crossing Genres at the Magic Theatre Christmas, in May? Well, yeah. The Magic Theatre rearranged its season a bit. But The Long Christmas Ride Home may be worth the wait. Penned by Paula Vogel as
SF News Ketchup Girl We'll be straight with you -- we're having a hard time following the whole "is Annemarie Conroy qualified" debacle that's been afoot for the past few days -- something about a report being
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Air Guitar Championship Last Thursday night we went to go check out the San Francisco Regional of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship. And it was awesome. The competition worked like this-- the first round consisted
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: SFist Has You Covered In addition to our coverage, we'll be giving away tickets to DocFest screenings, of course. So come back to SFist early and often for all sorts of DocFesty goodness. In fact, let's kick
Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: Because No One Should Have to Go To LA Of course, we're still scouring the internets for any hint of game news. There's plenty of coverage all over the place, in particular GameSpot's media blitz and Joystiq's ongoing blog updates, dealing with
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Whole-a Whole-Lotta Lamb Ahhh parrots, lambs, and pepper monkeys -- welcome back to our review of the Top Chef animal farm. Another Top Chef episode in the can; the season will be over shortly, so watch
SF News Cody's No More Was it something we said? First there was the dispiriting news about Clean Well-Lighted's sale, and now the Chron reports that the flagship Cody's Books on Telegraph is closing, after 43 years. NO!
SF News Bikes 1, Cars 0 The "Healthy Park's Initiative" (that title polled much better than "Traffic Congestion Saturday!") now goes before Gavin who gave this definitive response: "There's a chance of a veto. There's a chance I support
SF News Palms, Palms, Palms for the Poor We were reading the Chron this morning and read up on their story about the planting of palm trees throughout the city. Let's just say right off we like palm trees. And let's
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
Arts & Entertainment Bedbugs, Bedbugs, Whatcha Gonna Do? But by the morning of the 27th, my arms, legs and other parts of my body were full of bug bites (I took some pictures of the bites). As I was sitting on
SF News Not Too Late to Catch Olympic Fever "We are honored to have been selected as a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games. San Francisco embodies the Olympic ideals of peace, friendship, universality and tolerance. This is a testament to the
