SF News The Chron Calls Out The Cops We're taking a break from our usual SF Chronicle mockery for this irony-free moment: Well done! The Chron splashes the results of its years-long investigation into claims of police brutality in the SFPD
SF News American Football Spectacular: Super Bowl 2006, "The Big Show, Detroit Style" Pittsburgh vs. Seattle (in Detroit) Sunday, February 5, 2006 The Battle For Proof The Pittsburgh Steelers have undergone the most dramatic testing of any NFL team ever, after squeaking into the playoffs as
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Reefer Madness On Demand The week between Xmas and New Year's always makes us into shut-ins. Plus, it's raining, like, all the time. We're broke. We're pervs. And there's nothing on TV. But wait: there is. Something
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
misc SFisting: Sex Machines Slideshow: The Squeaky Thing Gets the Grease With San Francisco as the home of Survival Research Laboratories, the birthplace of Combots and Robolympics, and the location of Fucking Machines secret lair, we have to wonder just what is in that
SF News Muni Fare Strike an Overwhelming Success The strike was organized -- magificently, we might add -- by socialstrike.net. But we can't thank only them; according to their whois info, they received support, and this is true, from riseup.
Arts & Entertainment One City, One Book Maybe this is just stemming from a misplaced nostalgia for our fourth grade class, where everyone was required to buy the exact same edition of The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, but we
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Get Winn But Not A Win When we last left your San Francisco Giants they were busy pondering their '05 existence: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a season's outrageous fortune or
misc SFist Raves: Sailboats on the Bay While our tenure as a ship's captain was short lived, as we didn't know how to tack and ended up drifting downwind until our angry father found us and rescued us from a
SF News iTunes Prudery: The iTipper Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Fools in the Rain Baseball is, like, so weird. A 6-game homestand that included Barry Zito’s first win since last July, Rich Harden’s first major league complete game and the catch of Eric Byrnes's life
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Do We Hear Three in a Row? Here at SFist, we think a win is a win is a win and we’ll take those two. We’ll also take it if the Seattle Mariners, in town for three games
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week, While Wishing We Could Watch Ourselves We can't really explain why we get such a thrill out of seeing our beautiful town show up on prime time television, but we do. Maybe we're hoping to see someone we know
SF News The Warriors Come Out To Play. No, Really How hot have the Warriors been? Since Baron Davis was acquired, they have: - Beaten Minnesota, Sacramento, Phoenix, the Knicks, and 76ers - Have the best record of any California basketball team since
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Mission of Burma We headed out to the Noise Pop Mission of Burma show all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 9:00 p.m., standard concert time, only to turn up at Bimbo's and find out that
SF News The Warriors at the All Star Break Oh wait. That's the Washington Wizards, not the Golden State Warriors. Sorry. This season so far has been just about like every other last place Warriors season- the sporadic win and hope-inducing streak
SF News A Suggestion From Seattlest Our man on the PNW sport beat, Seattlest Seth, has a modest proposal that could be just the thing to turn around the fortunes of the Golden State Warriors, and it has nothing
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Be a Couch Potato Somewhere Else for a Change at Theatre Tableau Vivant Pass the Hat Productions presents an episode each of "Three's Company" and "The Golden Girls." Here's what they have to say about their show: "The only way to relive
misc They're Just Big Boned While both SF and LA were on the "Fittest" list, our fine city was close to the best at #4, while the City of Angels was a mere, pitiful #21. San Jose whupped
SF News SFist Gift Guide: Packard Jennings We read BoingBoing, even though they give us no love in response. So we saw this great collection of international-style illustrations done by Michael Durham, aka Packard Jennings (we're not totally sure which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Lark in the Morning Without a doubt, the coolest place in the Cannery: Lark in the Morning. It's a place where music is serious and music is fun. Classic instruments, like guitars, mandolins, recorders, xylophones, bongos, and
