misc Math Is Hard You know, public schools just can't win. Up here in San Francisco, it's a constant "our schools are failing and segregated," so affluent upper-middle-classers have to spend gajillions of dollars on private schools
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coit Tower: A Summary You know, with all this Bill O'Reilly brouhaha, we totally realized that, as stalwart San Francisco residents, we'd never actually to Coit Tower. In fact, we only know it as the rightmost icon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Tamed Madness Bernard Loiseau was a sad casualty of a similar debate: this French chef committed suicide, alledgedly because the Michelin was going to take his third star away (on a scale of three). His
misc Yes, We're Kind After months of debate, San Francisco finally can legally go to pot (only with doctor’s approval, of course)-- we have our first ever codified marijuana dispensaries laws. Yay!!! Yesterday, the Board
SF News Finally! We've been looking forward to the opening of a Bay Area H&M like it's the damn Rapture or something, especially since it seems like they're everywhere else in the country already.
SF News Bill O'Reilly? You Have Been Served With San Francisco's honor besmirched by the falafel loving Bill O'Reilly, it was only a matter of time before Gavin the Good marched on in and made with the chivalry. After all, he
SF News If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball This SFist gives thanks every day that we live in San Francisco. There are only a few things we miss about our former Midwestern home: Steak and Shake, our family, and the NBA.
misc School District Employees to Strike This Week Last Thursday, teachers representing the United Educators of San Francisco met to hear from the SEIU as they consider plans to strike in solidarity with the custodians, cafeteria workers and secretaries. The teacher's
SF News He Told You So Chris Daly's being remarkably unsmug about the way the whole SF Grand Prix bike thing went down, isn't he? You may remember a few months ago, Daly staged a mock bike race to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone What do Holocaust dramas, hip hop and weddings have to do with each other? Nothing, but we've got all of them crammed into a mere weekend. and Brundibar at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Just
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: My AIBO Ate My Homework Steady on, San Francisco! The city, if not the entire blogosphere, is still reeling from the lack of a SFist Tech Roundup post last week. But we have a very good excuse. All
Arts & Entertainment Combots Finals Last night we took a long bus ride out to Fort Mason to check out the final rounds of the Robot Fighting League's Combots National Championship. SFist Chuck reminded us to make it
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
SF News The Mighty Mighty Unions Amazing what a difference two days makes, huh? After the unions triumphed in their combined opposition to Arnold's Very Special Election -- well, would you look at that? Sutter is settling with the
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 American Football Spectacular: Vermeil's <i>Shun Goku Satsu</i> Gambit. Pain. Both of our Bay Area NFL teams fell last Sunday, beneath the weight of a precious few key plays falling to the opposing teams' favor. For our San Francisco 49ers, the game
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Fidelio Photos by Terrence McCarthy/SF Opera. Above, from left to right, Christine Brewer, Greta Feeney and Arthur Woodley
SF News Fallon Walks Among Us Tipster Yoshi infoms us: On Sunday night, my girlfriend and I spotted a bespectacled Jimmy Fallon at Specs Bar in North Beach, digital camera in hand he looked like any other tourist, except
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: <i>Women in Love</i> As we waited in line to enter the Roxie for last Friday's screening of , we were very excited to see this film. A documentary on the "sexually radical lesbian community of San Francisco"
misc SFist Answers Rx Wow -- after faking answers to a few medical and psychological questions in our past few entries, we suppose people have been happy -- because these kinds of questions keep coming in! So
Arts & Entertainment A Wedding Cantata You probably haven't been to a vocal concert since your high school crush object sang that solo from in the annual choir festival. What relevance does choral music have to my everyday life?
Arts & Entertainment Prince For A Day The media orgasmatron following Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla through their edge-free trip to San Francisco practically peed itself the other night as the royals on-deck chortled their way through that old chestnut,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend, Sexxxy Film Festival Edition There are a lot of film festivals underway this weekend -- and we're going to most of them! So, stay tuned all next week for SFist reports from the trenches, but that doesn't
SF News The SFist Guide To Election 2005: The Local Stuff Wait, what's that you say? There's lots of political bickering in San Francisco? Well blow us down! We'd never have guessed. As usual, this year's local ballot features some posturing, some confusing language,
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
