Arts & Entertainment Today In Jarring Craigslist Rental Ads: $1,000 For 80 Square Feet In Bro Pad Further proof that the Mission needs an abortion: this Craigslist ad seeks a roommate to pay a whopping $1,000 for an 80-square-foot room inside an apartment with four other "grown-ass men" working
SF News Apple Rumored To Be Making An iWatch, Or Possibly Something Else Entirely After reporting on the last thing Apple released, if there's one thing tech blogs know will do good traffic it's wild speculation about whatever the computer giant's next life-altering device will be. Is
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Lee's Pinterest Page Is Predictably Mediocre In an official announcement from the Mayor's office today, Ed Lee and Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann revealed that the latter will be moving his company and its social networking scrapbook service from dull,
SF News Reddit Fame Costs Tech Writer His License Plate David Murphy has a problem. It's not a big problem, but it's a problem. It's his license plate. A lot of people think that, after looking at it, he's a troll. Wrong! His
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Ed Lee & 1% Attend Fortune's '40 Under 40' Party At Zynga In fancypants news, a gaggle of tech ilk, public relations birds, and assorted media-ish types attended Fortune Magazine's 2011 "40 Under 40" fete at the Zynga headquarters in SOMA. (Think Out Magazine's OUT
Arts & Entertainment Chronicling Steve Jobs' Rainbow In extreme contrast to SFist Brock's collection of Steve Jobs backlash stories, we offer one from the opposite end of the spectrum. In response to SFist Jay's lovely double-rainbow post from yesterday, commenter
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/13: Jimi Hendrix Winterland Day, 'Inside Scientology', SF Beta 6.0.0 MUSIC: Amoeba will be hosting a Winterland Day Celebration, commemorating the worldwide release of Jimi Hendrix Experience Winterland, a four-CD box set documenting the band’s six historic performances at San Francisco’s
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/11: 'I Love You, (We're F*#ked)', Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra, Bad Movie Night THEATER: The Fringe Festival continues with gems such as I Love You, (We're F*#ked), "[a] wild mix" of stand-up comedy, storytelling and original music by Kevin J Thornton -- "a tale of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/12: Jonathan Richman, SF Beta Mixer, 'The Book of Love' MUSIC: Feeling down? Then get your dose of "musical Prozac" tonight, as Jonathan Richman kicks off his three-day stint at the intimate Make-Out Room, along with Tommy Larkins on drums. (7 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Chinese New Year, TechShop Opening, Tulipmania, Bluegrass Workshops Chinese New Year Parade and Fair: Does it rain during every Chinese New Year Parade? Find out tomorrow. There's also a community fair on Saturday and Sunday, featuring dance and music from throughout
SF News Twitter To Leave S.F.? Currently residing on Harrison and Fourth above a Subway and next to a Whole Foods, Twitter headquarters is appropriately nestled in SoMa's tech-industry neighborhood. For now, anyway. "Media reports say that Twitter Inc.
SF News Oracle to Purchase Sun for $7.4 Billion Doing what IBM failed to do earlier this month, Oracle will purchase computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems for around $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of cash, 9.50
misc Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra Performs "Stairway To Heaven" Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra Plays Stairway to Heaven from Scott Beale on Vimeo. Scott Beale goes to all of the adorable geeky things we're too agoraphobic to attend. (Unless said events are at
SF News Day Around the Bay Your Black Muslim Bakery women treated like "slaves." (Hot fish sandwiches don't make themselves, ladies.) [Oakland Tribune] Dan Noyes sticks it to Muni again, and not in a good way. Be sure to
SF News Day Around the Bay -- And then Nancy was all, "Like, what the hell, you guys?" [SF Examiner] -- The Central Subway Project. [Transbay Blog] -- Now you don't have to leave your bedroom to travel. Ever
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Toshio Hirano: Local country music star -- alongside his trusty bassist, Kenan O'Brien -- croons tonight at 9 p.m. at Amnesia; free. -- San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: David Milnes leads
SF News Kenneth Eng Arrested However, we pleased to pass along the latest news about Eng: He's been arrested. He was arrested in Queens a week or so ago for threatening to kill a neighbor and her dog,
SF News Shooting At Fresno State The shooter, Jonquel Brooks from Hayward, is still at large and considered armed and dangerous. From the information the police have released, Brooks got in a fight with three men (all of whom
SF News American Football Spectacular: Capsulizing the 2007 NFL Draft's First Round It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,! All hard information was culled from NFL.com's pretty excellent draft tracker site. Proceed. * Selection # / Team (trade info)
SF News City College Locked Down Sadly, because the Virginia Tech shootings have, in a perverted way, inspired copycats, City College today was shut down because a copy cat threatened to start shooting students. This all happened this morning
SF News College Basketball: How Was Your Weekend? The first weekend of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments is in the books -- are you still alive in your office pool? Not if you took the Road to the Final
SF News Houston, We're Still Having Problems One of the things we have noticed, however, is that comments posted do actually appear, even if our site tells you there's some sort of problem. Usually, it will take a few minutes
SF News Blackout! We don't know much of the details as there doesn't seem to be a lot of news on it out there right now. We just know we were halfway through reading Deadspin when
SF News Mountain Bike Racing and the Upside of Global Warming The best professional road cyclists in the world are competing for the maillot jeune on the rolling plains and brutal mountain passes of Europe right now, but this weekend, we've got our own
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
