SF News New Auto Shop Takes Green Pretty Seriously Wired Magazine has an interesting feature piece on what we believe to be one of those "only in San Francisco" kinda businesses: a mechanic who not only specializes in hybrids, but attempts to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Zombie Prom": Halloween approaches, and soon Walgreen's and Rite-Aids will start stocking fun-size 100 Grand and Lik-M-Sticks. But until that glorious day arrives, check out this Zombie-themed dance club night in SOMA.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marga Gomez: Multiaward-wining lesbian/Latina comic makes her Plush Room debut with Joshua Raoul Broday on the ivories, and former Mornings on 2 personality and comedian, Mark Pitta. Show starts at 8
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and sadly no
misc Power Outages?! Is anyone else's power going out every five to ten minutes today? Annoying. So far we have reports from One Market, Harrison/Fourth Street, UCSF Mission/Bay, parts of the Financial District --
misc Because We're Six-Years-Old and It's Friday: the Washlet Yeah. It's a toilet seat that "make[s] you cleaner and more refreshed than you ever felt before." That is to say, it warmly washes (and dries!) your sphincter and crotchal areas to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Transfer kicks off their new Sunday party, "Tea With Honey," with famous Bay Area rave DJ Gavin Hardkiss. (The ’90s really are back. Beware of pacifiers and lollipops used as accessories.
misc Welcome to My Apartment: New SFist Editor Hi, I’m Brock, and I’ll be your new editor. A wee bit about me: I used to work here writing stuff, where I skipped innumerable important deadlines by looking at this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bikes, Cars, SFPD, Enforcement Actions As has been discussed recently, it's seems the S.F.P.D. has some stepped-up traffic safety enforcement actions going on these days. SFist Reader Kate told us about what she saw yesterday
Arts & Entertainment City Creating Halloween Containment Zone? Whoa whoa whoa. What's that about the waterfront? Well, the Rincon Hill blog says that Halloween might be forcibly migrated to Pier 32, according to "Scuttlebutt," which we assume is the gay version
SF News CalTrain Derails, Provides a Fence to Heckle their Crew Safely. How the f* did they manage to do that? And most importantly, how were they going to undo it last evening? See that giant red crane truck on the left? There's another one
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Critical Mass, April 2007 The rolling Rorschach test that is Critical Mass once again delighted and frustrated those in S.F. tonight. We saw pissed-off bus riders, but also a few delighted hotel guests. We saw some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: iPodding down the i-80 A first-generation Chevy Camaro (French slang for "companion") whisks this young couple over SOMA as they listen to the same iPod. Sans stereo, but avec good times. Adieu!
misc Shooting at the Walls of Heartache, Bang, Bang, I am the Warrior What's the game like? Well you, or you and a partner, or you and a group of friends, are a team. That team will have a "secret weakness" like chocolate ice cream perhaps.
SF News Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Skyscraper A bunch of developers have gotten together and proposed building some really fracking huge towers in the SOMA district at 1st and Mission We're talking taller than any other building in the city
misc SFist Rants: Curb Your Yellow Bus Elsewhere Our block circling antics have happened everywhere from Russian Hill and North Beach to Civic Center and SOMA, at varying days and times. However, we don't usually like to play the blame game
SF News Anyone For Tennis? The club was recently sold by it's owners to a developer who wants to build condos in its place. Members, however, aren't thrilled that it's being demolished and are fighting it. Yesterday, Fiona
Arts & Entertainment Nate Grover from Love is Chemicals Love is Chemicals will be at Café Du Nord tomorrow night, and if you haven’t seen this local act yet, Go! Nate Grover, the singer of Love is Chemicals. has undergone the
SF News Who Really is Rob Black? See, Rob joined the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and traveled to several third world countries to try and bring democracy to them. It didn't go so well. Or, at least, a
Arts & Entertainment ...Oh, and also, Bring a Change of Clothes When we reviewed issue one of "HtS," we blushed so hard we got a sunburn. The new issue promises a continuation of a story of lusty pirates, as well as SOMA hookups and
SF News Design Within Whose Reach? That's where San Francisco company Design Public's sample sale, which is running the entire month of July, comes in. Just log in to their outlet store with the password , and you'll have access
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Get Out and About Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. First girl: "Do you have a myspace account?" Second Girl: "No, but my dog does." -- From Jamison/SOMA A four-year-old
SF News The City Under the City Has Fabulous Shopping! But Not So!!! ... says Rodney Pimintel, Deputy Director for Capital Projects at the SFCTA. The as-yet-unbuilt Central Subway WILL connect to the existing subway lines on Market, come hell or high water; it
SF News A Tree Grows in the 'Loin There is, however, a catch. And that catch is that more trees mean more maintenance and more maintenance means more people and more people means more money. Money that we don't have and
SF News Search For Jerry Tang Continues On January 7, the Financial District, North Beach, and SOMA were canvassed based on a December 16 possible sighting by a security guard in the 1 California area. In that sighting: (A) security
