Arts & Entertainment Highlights From Friday Night At Outside Lands Friday evening's misty fog did nothing to dampen the mood of the thousands of music fans who streamed into the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park, where The National's set of somber rock
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Opens This Summer Boys, it looks like you'll have to start your own rock camp. Or wait until you're 50. But then again, your garage/basement is much more accessible. Additionally, for those of us ladies
misc "Leg Bones for Baseball Bats" - 1902 San Francisco Chronicle Researching San Francisco history means spending way too much time sitting in the dark. In the library, we mean, staring at microfilm of old newspapers. Hours of scanning those scratched and blurry archives
misc AlertSF's Alarming Alarmism Dear AlertSF, Why do you yell at us? You've done this to us five times today already, and we still don't understand you with the greatest clarity. To wit: The National Weather Service
Arts & Entertainment Don't Forget to Vote in the <i>Bye Bye Busan</i>® Contest! Today is your last chance to enter the contest by submitting a comment with your guess of the date and time the Cosco Busan will eventually sail through the uprights of the Golden
Arts & Entertainment Work Off That Turkey With a Ball to Your Gut The Third Annual Thanksgiving Dodgeball Game is kicking off at 9 p.m. at Dolores Park, Thanksgiving Day. While it's probably best that you go after your food's been well digested, there's nothing
SF News ...In A Material World Newsflash! It costs a lot of money to live here in the Bay Area -- 40% above the national average. Fortunately, salaries are generally higher here to cover at least some of the
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #1 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 1. Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time in the West: They have already conquered the #1 spot on
Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
misc Week Around the -ists Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily
Arts & Entertainment The Photo Of The Taxi Beast Bless you and may the Lord keep you, SFist readers! Look what turned up in the SFist Flickr stream (tag your pictures too!): a picture of the cursed 666 taxi medallion!!! Thank you,
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Plenty of interesting stuff happened in San Francisco last week, and our readers, as always, added funny, insightful, and interesting angles to the stuff we wrote about. Our furious, fabulous five for last
Arts & Entertainment Impeach At The Game Former SFist contributor Ted R. passed along this picture he took of an IMPEACH sign spotted at Saturday's Giants game during the national anthem. (We've helpfully circled the IMPEACH for you.) Is this
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
misc Easy Way to Do Good Tomorrow We just love this cute pic of a mail man loading letters and food. It's the perfect example of a nice canned food drive happening nationwide tomorrow. Some (or is it just us?
SF News The Warriors: Just Livin' the Dream Warrior Nation, can it get any better? Seriously. After Golden State's tenacious, gutty, and spirited come-from-behind 103-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in the O-rena, the Warriors have taken a 3-1
SF News Reactionaries React to Gavin's Reaction First up, Screamin' Lou Dobbs who broke Godwin's Law in envoking Nazis to describe Gavin's statement. Said Lou: "They might as well work for Hermann Goering, I mean, they're running so much propaganda,
misc Local Gays Make Good, But Stay Local "Are SF days as a gay mecca over? Or is the list biased to LA, DC and NY media types?" Cedric asks. Excellent questions! The answers are no and yes, respectively. Readers, of
SF News Cycling: Hometown Boy Makes Good, Again For most of the day it looked like a total Cinderella story for unknown Jason Donald, but when the very last rider of the 2007 Tour of California (TOC) prologue crossed the finish
SF News And Now...More Gleegate You can read the whole thing (it's pretty good), but there are several points to be had in the piece. -There was booze at the party but people brought it with them-- it
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Best Wknd It's the best American football wknd of the year. The four still-standing franchises slug it out for a slot in the Super Bowl. Awesome. Oh sure, that whole Super Bowl thing is great
misc It's a Hard Knock Life in California To determine all this stuff, the people behind the study, the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (got that?), factored in things like level of income, types of families, language and education.
Arts & Entertainment A Little San Francisco History On PBS Every now and then, we try to watch the national news so we'll get the jokes on the Daily Show the next day. So, even though Comedy Central's fake news outlets are on
SF News College Football: The Argument Against a Rematch or How the BCS Got It Right So the final pre-bowl Bowl Championship Series (BCS) poll is out, and guess what? Everybody's pissed about something, except for Ohio State and Florida, the two teams that received Golden Tickets to the
SF News Name That Bridge! Okay, before we all start screaming and shouting, it's more for the Golden Gate District than it is for the bridge as the district is about $87 million in debt. And even they
