misc Starbucks -- Bringing People Together Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. Many
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Fewer Garbage Cans in San Francisco :( (And what are the brand names adorning the garbage strewn about our city according to a recent study? Let's see, in order: McDonalds, San Francisco Muni, Burger King, Starbucks, Safeway, FedEx and Jack
SF News No Danger-Flags Here, No Sirree Friend-of-SFist Matt V passes along these photos of a verrrrry safe looking taxi, sighted outside a Starbucks in the Abandoned Warehouse district of the Mission. "You choose what you pay," it says on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Survey Says</i>? 'Who Cares!' (Or, Please, No More News About McDonald's Coffee!) (Though we recommend you read The Shot's take on it, and all things coffee, of course) The type of person that goes to fast food places for coffee is generally looking for caffeine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No Scones For You The ban is being done in half the country, including SF. By the end of the year, Starbucks hopes to be totally fat free around the country. Turns out, Starbucks has been working
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News Down Goes Tower The reason for Tower going under is they got bought by Great American Group who decided to liquidate and sell of the company, something that makes no sense to us, that being buying
SF News Week Around The -Ists Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free
Arts & Entertainment Screw It, We're Moving To Busy Town Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession
misc Craigslist Encounters: Non-Discussion Discussion We're generally not one to sneer at anything Craigslist related, but oftentimes the "discussion" (if anyone can really call it that), which occurs on Craigslist's discussion forums look more like the redundant, back
Arts & Entertainment We Take It All Back, Mick LaSalle. OK, Not Really. The Mission District of San Francisco is the kind of place where transgender bike messengers live chockablock with marketing executives, thrift stores brace for the encroachment of Starbucks, and heroin addicts nod off
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Takes it to the Streets Submissions go to Yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Customer at Good Vibrations: "Oh, that's the one I use in the car." -- From Jonathan, via Amy Geezer pushing a grocery cart, to no
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An Obsession With Coffee? Oh, and you can consider the above set of links the Trimethyldioxypurist's guide to getting started as an enthusiast. Obsessive is a whole other level, and you'll know it if you're there*, and
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Ira We'll miss Miller, as we thought he was one of the best football reads there was. He wrote in a bare-bones style and just stuck to football, shying away from long discussions of
SF News Undercover Gavin While his going undercover is eminently snark-worthy, it is the typical politician who gets dinged for living too much in the bubble and not with the public. Would His Willieness ever feign riding
SF News Cancel That Macchiato He's still scheduled to appear in court again on the bomb charges this Friday, but they're now calling it a "burglary" charge. Hmmm. Well, this should be an entertaining story to read in
SF News Bomber? Bomber? Your Macchiato Is Up! We mock the SFPD, but only because we love! The Foggy Lady's finest have released photos of a "person of interest" that they want to talk to about yesterday's Starbucks pipe bomb incident.
SF News Starbucks Is The Bomb It's a triple espresso shot in your crime Blotter/coffee Trimethyl latte -- the SFPD were called in this afternoon to the Starbucks on Van Ness and Bush after an employee found a
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Need Help Getting Around Old lady: "Excuse me, young man, could you help me put this window up? I've had so much blow today. I'm tired of blow." -- From Joe/On the F Line Twenty-something guy
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Linden, From Grateful Dogs Hey, this coming Saturday is the third Saturday, so why not go check out Linden? Linden is a good size, good-looking golden retriever/chow mix, about 60 lbs. and just an all around
misc SFist Rants: Hating on Starbucks And yes, we're totally serious. Let's go to the way back machine and take a look at those bleak, dark days before Starbucks entered the world. You remember what that was like? The
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Billy, From Grateful Dogs Hey! Grateful Dogs is having an adoption event this Saturday from 12-3 at the West Portal Starbucks. Overcome your knee-jerk contempt for corporate coffee long enough to come and see some of the
SF News SFist Raves: Goodbye and Thanks Rand McNally Store Recently, we read in P.J. Corkery's always entertaining column that a few San Francisco stores are closing. They include the Disney Store (good riddance), Torrefazione Italia (yay! More Starbucks!) and the Rand
SF News Political Junkie: Starbuckses versus Pot Clubs Here we are, stepping blithely into Trimeth/Essefficist/SFist Tokes territory, to report that Supervisor Sean Elsbernd (no iPod) has announced that he's calling for a moratorium on pot clubs in the city,
SF News Gap Announces New Brand "Forth & Towne" -- Snark Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace How anything the Gap Empire was up to escaped our attention is beyond us, but Chicagoist let us know that Gap, Inc. will be test marketing their Talbot, J. Jill and Lane Bryant
