misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Upper Playground Upper Playground is the real San Francisco treat, with apparel, accessories, lit, and art that has that safely countercultural vibe. Pick up a vintage polo for the office cool guy, a FIFTY24SF t
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
SF News Political Junkie: He's Just Not That Into You Dear Political Junkie: I'm a very attractive woman with a great job in New York and lots of dating prospects. The problem is my ex. I mean, he said it was over and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Makes You A Star It's probably an everyday thing for our pals at LAist -- you open an email and it's a request for folks to come staff a shoot. Well, we don't want to sound like
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
Arts & Entertainment Take Back The Nap When SFist was a young child, we'd always get sent home from preschool with a note that said, "Did not nap today." Man, we didn't know how good we had it! Nowadays, what
Arts & Entertainment Are You a Unique Individual Who Falls Into One of the Following Categories: Drunk, Exhibitionist, Drunk Exhibitionist? A penchant for getting arrested is also highly desirable. They aren't saying where this 18th season will be filmed, but we do know that the 17th season, which has already started production, is
SF News Harriet Miers -- Get In Our Belli! Sure, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers seems like, as Jon Stewart said before moving onto Tom Ammiano last night, "a Talbots shopper" now -- but back in the day, that girl could ! Before
SF News Blogger Softball: Story of a Meme As we all know, it doesn't matter if you can write your way out of a paper bag, all that matters is if you can compete on the field of intramural athletics. We
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: My Fair Lady Sushi Zone is a few steps up from the corner of Market and Octavia. Right now, the construction area on the east side of market, not yet connected to the new freeway off-ramp,
SF News Is That a Banana in Your Pocket? But wait, that's no ordinary banana! It's a banana-shaped foam cell phone cozy. You can get them sized for your flip-style phone or your brick-style phone. Perfect for when you have to wear
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Ready For The Rat Race With Your Trimethyldioxypurist My my my. Did we ever need our coffee this morning. Sometimes we forget that coffee's not always just this wonderful, pleasurable, leisurely thing. And when we need it, boy do we ever.
SF News Drinking With the SFFD The second-in-command of the San Francisco Fire Department, Deputy Chief Fred Sanchez, stepped down yesterday due to controversy over his actions involving a drunk battalion chief. Some people just can't take the heat,
SF News SFist Rants: Unresponsive Representatives Honestly, we didn't really expect to hear back from her. But we felt more confident we'd hear something from Senator Barbara Boxer, who has apparently been more interested recently in taking national stands.
Arts & Entertainment Adaptive Path's Fourth Anniversary Party It had certainly been a while since we made the walk from Market to Brannan. Why, it seemed like just yesterday we were working at Wineshopper.com on their brand-new website and eating
SF News David Versus Goliath -- And Goliath's Bigger Brothers, Backed By The Persian Army Buried inside the Chron's Bay Area section a while back, we found a story about an East Bay blogger who is currently embroiled in a court battle against Kaiser Permantente. As we're always
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Eggcellent TV This Week Ahhh...Puppetoons. Well, fear not egg hunters. Easter is not without its own share of spooky animated specials, and thanks to the folks at the Family Channel, you can catch two this Sunday!
SF News SFist Rants: We Want Our NBC We're fine, that is, until someone starts talking about, like, "Law and Order: Shoplifting Diversion Program" or something. For cable-free SFists do not receive NBC, since the local NBC affiliate switched from KRON
SF News Barry Meets the Press Oh sure, he played the usual cards. He denied ("I don't know Canseco, besides 'hello' and 'good-bye'), stonewalled (a moderator stepped in any time the Grand Jury testimony was mentioned), changed the subject
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Antenna SFist wasn't quite sure what to expect when we went to last night's screening of , and our mind continues to reel almost 20 hours after experiencing the film. With undeniable references to Lynch
Arts & Entertainment Googler Dooced? So we're up late last night, checking Susan Mernit's blog to see if she had already posted on the dinner at Yahoo yesterday, when we catch her post from earlier in the afternoon.
