SF News He Hits it High, He Hits it Deep, He Hits it Outta Here! Back in the halcyon days when SFist was launching and the Giants were getting their collective ass handed to them by the lowly Cincinnati Reds, it was looking pretty grim down at Third
Arts & Entertainment Unleash Your Inner Coen SFist wants to encourage all of you Bay Area folks to get out there and actually use your degrees in film for something other than the local pub quiz. That's right, people. it's
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SF News Giants Fan Killed In all the (justified) glory for Barry Bonds hitting the big seven-oh-oh, there's some sad stories as well. A Giants fan was killed after the Giants beat the Padres on Friday night, in
SF News Hello Officer! It looks like San Francisco middle schools will be getting more full-time armed campus cops, courtesy of a $4 million federal grant awarded to SF last week. This Department of Justice grant would
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Count Through a labor intensive process, Count creates a collage of sound by layering textures of small noises and sounds. This unique thumbprint has led musicians with a similar aesthetic to work with Count
Arts & Entertainment What to Do This Weekend: Theater SFist isn't sure how we missed knowing about this in advance, except to say that small theater marketing is typically, shall we say, less than ubiquitous. But the San Francisco Fringe Festival is
SF News From the 1 California to the 108 Treasure Island If your weekend was anything like our weekend, you spent three days mewling like a kitten about the heat and canceling all plans to go anywhere at all. Not these four SFSU students
Arts & Entertainment Interview: 3-6-4-1-4-6-Fi-eeive! Take a break from reading SFist and dial 415-364-1465. The voice on the answering machine is that of Kate Pocrass, detailing this week's Mundane Journey. Described as an "eagerness to interact with strangers
Arts & Entertainment Sussing Out the Fuss Few bands can believably be compared to Joy Division, the Cure, Duran Duran, and Echo and the Bunnymen. Especially if they are from Las Vegas. Yet The Killers, the newest indie dance sensation,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Three-fer So whats with the name? As it is explained on the website: Read on for the SF scoop from three of the nicest women weve ever interviewedWhen it's being used as
SF News Sunset Tragedy Police have identified the most recent victim of a hit-and-run on 19th Avenue as Tu-Cuong Tran. Tran, aged 26, was found lying on 19th near Lincoln at around 12:30 this morning. Read
SF News Missing Person A 27 year old San Francisco woman is missing after a road trip to Las Vegas. Kellie Phillips is a 5'8" African-American woman weighing approximately 140 pounds and was last seen driving a
misc Kittens Kittens Everywhere! SFist adores animals. In fact, if we could own 10 cats without the stigma of being "a crazy cat lady", we would. The San Francisco SPCA has a larger number of kittens than
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Willie Mays and Me How many of YOU have legal counsel with a cosmic connection to Willie Mays AND a more earthly connection to Willie Brown? Well we here at SFist accept only the finest contributors and
Arts & Entertainment Interview: One of SF's Own Think about how many people you know who are actually from San Francisco. Not from the South Bay, not from the East Bay, but from the city itself. Most of us come up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Return of the King (of Pancakes) SFist is a big fan of all things breakfast, especially when these things involve giant pink napkins, the way they did at Sears Fine Foods. If you don't know Sears, it's located at
SF News Did You Ever Know That You're My Hero? and then SFist found out about the SF women politicians karaoke night -- yikes! Will we survive? The San Francisco branch of the National Womens Political Caucus is sponsoring a sing-along with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Action Jackson [] When our intrepid editor isnt pulling together all the wonderful contributors and pieces you see here on SFist, hes working on a website for a national retailer based in SF. Clearly
SF News SFist Feature: Funny Money [] So whats up with our Secretary of State Kevin Shelley? Shelley, who was recently most well-known for making up the new alphabetical order for listing all those candidates for governor on the
SF News West De-Nile Now that the West Nile virus has been found in dead birds in San Mateo County and Santa Clara, officials are bracing themselves for the first human infections in the Northern California region.
SF News I Guess I Can't Wear Those Red Pants Anymore Making your world a little more paranoid, the reports that gang wars are back in the Mission. The (red-wearing) Norteno gang considers the South Mission their turf, while the upstart (blue-wearing) Sureno gang
Arts & Entertainment Join the Indie Pop Revolution Not Lame Records has released , a three-cd, 69-song set featuring the best of indie pop bands, including three Bay Area-based bands: The Bobbleheads, The Veronicas, and Preoccupied Pipers. IPO bands just finished a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If It Plays at the Chron, Part Deux The Chron candy insanity continues with the appearance of Reese's Pieces Peanut and Peanut Butter in the San Francisco Chronicle vending machine. (They're so weird we can't find them on Google! That is
Arts & Entertainment Minty Fresh Hey! Have you wondered what the heck that big building across the street from the parking lot for the Metreon at Fifth and Mission is? Why, it's the Old San Francisco Mint! The
