SF News A Call to Wheels Tonight at 7:00 PM, the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission is holding a special meeting that could affect the future of mountain biking in the Bay Area. The Commission is
SF News SFist Blind Item(s): Their Staff Meetings Are Better Than Ours But, oh, to be a fly on the wall of a recent staff meeting at a local daily publication. In a sort of St. Crispin's Day for the newsprint set, their reptile-vanquishing leader
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Free Tibet Ars Technica covers a few other Google-related stories this week: Ken Fisher gives his review of Google Video, his disappointment with the service, and what he thinks is the company's reasoning for introducing
SF News The Warriors: Making a list, and checking it twice The War-holios' 2005 Chriskwannakkah Wish List A winning record. It's just what they always wanted! You to include one "big" present on any wish list and this was by far the Wang-Chungs' number-one
SF News American Football Spectacular: We've Been Used. Our 49ers won over the Houston Texans. Yet we write this with a sneer, for the fix was in. Houston had but to lose this game to garner the top pick in the
SF News The Warriors: Rubik Zirconia For the Warriors, the future is a Rubik's Cube. The War-winks have done the first part. They've got talent and chemistry, but not in enough quantities to get past the first round of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: an American Tragedy We saw the Met's new production on Monday, and one thought sprung to our mind: there is an East Coast-West Coast divide that would make the gangsta rappers proud. Oh, we are not
misc SFist Cares Holiday Gift Guide: Animal Lovers Now is not the time to forget the SF/SPCA where you can find all sorts of gifts, many very reasonably priced. We love the advent calendar of doggie treats! You know by
SF News He Told You So Chris Daly's being remarkably unsmug about the way the whole SF Grand Prix bike thing went down, isn't he? You may remember a few months ago, Daly staged a mock bike race to
Arts & Entertainment Election 2005: Interview with Jose Cisneros How would you work with the assessor to make sure that property owners are paying their fair share of taxes? The Treasurer’s office will continue to work closely with the Assessor to
SF News American Football Spectacular: p0wned-ership has its privileges Horrid. There are nearly no positives that can be taken from the 17 - 52 whuppin’ that Washington's football club put on our San Francisco 49ers in Week 07. Washington's squad simply cut
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches <i>Serenity</i> and <i>Mirrormask</i>; or: Why Weekends Were Invented Both are mandatory viewing, but we recommend ever-so-slightly higher, due to its having a bit more mass appeal. Romance! Intrigue! Stunning fight scenes! Sexy love scenes! Sparkly dialogue! Surprising fatalities! It's pretty much
Arts & Entertainment Back to School Night at Popscene Every time SFist hits Popscene we are struck with an overwhelming urge to cut our bangs. Last night we were mercifully spared this urge, which is a good thing, since soon our head
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Three Companies Big things are happening at SFist Tech, as part of our ongoing bitter rivalry against the cow-molesters at SFist A&M and those stupid frat jocks at University of SFist. This week,
Arts & Entertainment Femi Kuti at the Fillmore Okay, when we suggested that the Femi Kuti show was sold out, it's because these evil ticket websites won't let you buy tix day-of-show. What's up with that? Anyway, we'll hold off on
Arts & Entertainment Falling In the Gap Once a PD, always a PD -- Matt Gonzalez comes to the aid of fellow progressive (and former colleague at the public defender's office) Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, penning an editorial published on the
SF News Political Junkie: Let's Never Fight Again! So best is back!!! And do we see..... a Kimberly Guilfoyle-Newsom- in the future?? Matier and Ross report that Gav and Kim went together to dinner at Enrico's and then out for drinks
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Photologgers at the Apple Store The photo event at the Apple Store was, in SFist's opinion, a smashing success. People crowded the presentation space -- many there from the crew at Bay Area Photologgers, others who were just
Arts & Entertainment Current Mood: Live, Local, Latebreaking About a hundred folks showed up (though only 60 or so RSVPed -- naughty bloggers!) and included folks from Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart, Wordpress, Feedster, Blogger, and so forth. Mark Tamayo, aka SFist's
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Carly, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (she'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Look at this picture
SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Beyond Our Ken</i> North American Premiere It’s the story of two girls -- Shirley, who’s dating a doofy firefighter named Ken, the other, Chan, his ex-girlfriend. Chan introduces herself one night to Shirley, explaining that Ken has
SF News Supremes To Decide On Grokster Later This Spring Well, oral arguments in the MGM v. Grokster case concluded yesterday, and the reports from the scene conclude that the justices were very pointed in their questioning of the plaintiff, MGM. Reading different
misc California Highways Still Safe for Porn Last week, the legislature defeated a bill by Assemblyman John Benoit (R-Palm Desert) that would have made it illegal to watch porn from the comfort of your car. The problem with watching porn
