Arts & Entertainment The New de Young Building The original museum was built as the Fine Arts building for the California Midwinter International Exposition. The exposition made a profit, and the building and money were donated to The City and named
SF News Not at the Fore Front For all of the rhetoric surrounding San Francisco as some sort of liberal mecca, one has to remember that we are the first city on the left coast, and not in a political
misc SFist Cares ... About Sick Kids Pretty much they continue to do the good work they're known for - providing a comfortable place to stay for parents and families of seriously ill children undergoing long-term treatment in San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jantine B. Jantine B does. Apparently such inborn knowledge leads to a love of radio, roller skates, Emperor Norton, and weed. Maybe also a lifelong fear of falling off this peninsula into the Pacific when
SF News Supervisor Shouting (Not Daly) We suppose the subject matter trumps the supervisor, as even a Daly-free meeting about condo conversions descended into shouting and gavel-pounding yesterday. Supervisor Bevan Dufty (pictured at right) had proposed that we give
SF News Ski Exhaustion Man, we're running out of pictures and titles for the ongoing ski jump saga in Pac Heights. So the big day's tomorrow! Skip work and watch Jonny Moseley zip by multi-million dollar homes
Arts & Entertainment City Guides' Scavenger Hunt You don't have to lose at Monster Park to be a Niner -- it's almost time for the Third Annual City Guides' Scavenger Hunt, and it's got a Gold Rush theme this year!
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
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Samantha Chanse Other than a few culinary issues, and a penchant for the New York Times, Samantha Chanse seems to be adjusting well to the west coast. She’s found cheap Maker’s Mark, a
SF News SFist Book Report: Tony Hall This Week If you read the Chron the way we do (i.e., looking for airline deals in the national section, scanning the Bay Area section in hopes of pictures of an angry Daly, only
SF News Ski Jump Redux So now that Laurie Beijan had her dream wedding at Flood Mansion uninterrupted by cries of "Tubular!" from outside -- what's going on with Jonny Moseley's ski jump plans now? The good folks
SF News Your Commute: Just Keeps Getting Worse As if a burning truck full of beer wasn't enough, the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transit Comission has just released numbers showing that local commutes are taking 4% longer than before, and ranked the
misc SFist Rants: Emergency Kits Was anyone else a little unnerved to see that "major earthquake in San Francisco" is listed as the number 2 scenario for FEMA practice, right below "terrorist attack on New York" and right
SF News Questioning TechConnect Feeva.com which provided the Union Square hotspot and which Google is apparently behind, have now linked to this Business 2.0 article on their website about possible Google WiFi plans because it
SF News Muni Fare Strike: Day One We asked after Chris, an organizer with whom we'd traded emails. He was busy coordinating activity around the city on his cell phone. We watched as two people in fluorescent green "Muni Security"
SF News New Orleans Saints to Play The Raiders Tonight With all the tragic events going on in the South, it's way too tempting to look for an angle and try to find a way to make it about ourselves. But we do
misc Win tickets to <i>Reel Paradise</i>! Our pals at Larsen Associates have come through again, giving us run of engagement passes for , which opens tomorrow at the Lumiere in here in the city, the Act in Berkeley and the
SF News What Goes Up, Sometimes Doesn't Come Down Of course, you could always not pay. To protest the fare increases, local activists have been calling for a fare strike. For the past several months, they've been handing out flyers, posting posters,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Myleen Hollero And yet, Myleen, for various reasons has moved to the -ist down south, LA! Understandably, we begin our questioning of her there: What has been the hardest thing about moving to LA from
SF News Downhill Potrero! Gav really just cannot make up his mind! After first saying he'd think about moving the Jonny Moseley birthday party ski jump to an eager and enthusiastic Potrero Hill, he's now all like,
SF News Haggling With Comcast The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay
Arts & Entertainment Interview: John Vanderslice The best things in life really are free. Free shows at Amoeba fall into the category of one of the reasons that living in San Francisco is totally awesome. Tomorrow (Tues.) the day
Arts & Entertainment Theater Review: <I>Blood Bucket Ballyhoo</I> Producer and director Russell Blackwood is an expert on stage blood. He knows how to make it dribble or spray, or flow from actors' mouths. He also knows how to poke out an
SF News Live Blogging The Gavster: Municipal Wifi Gavin is set to announce his plans for Municipal Wifi today at 2pm. Rumors are a-swirlin' already as to who's going to be responsible for deploying it. Google has been making apparent moves
SF News Is San Francisco Going Red State? The study was done by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research who based their results on voting patterns. A flak for the study said that race was usually the determining factor as
