SF News Landmark This, Baby! The San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board will be meeting next month to decide, well, not much, really. They're going to choose 10 buildings or places to recommend to the Board of Supes
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: The Italian Girl in Algiers. The San Francisco Opera opened its season last Saturday and picked up right where it left off last time we visited. , just like Cosi fan Tutti, is another joyful and energetic opera, another
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Steve Jones Snark aside, Steve has kindly submitted himself to the SFist interview process. Despite the fact that we’re thrilled that Steve was kind enough to answer some real questions, we promise that his
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Sasha Aickin Of course, SFist is all over Frameline 29: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. We're so pleased and honored to administer The SFist Interview to Sasha Aickin, director of one of the
SF News Gavin Gets Dirty For Project Homeless Connect Yes, that's our fair mayor washing the feet of a constituent at yesterday's Project Homeless Connect outreach event. Hundreds of volunteers and the homeless they aim to help were on hand to provide
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Staff of Life Pass the basket, please! The San Francisco-based US Bread Baking Guild competitive team won this year's Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, described as "the World Cup of bread baking." The team coach
SF News Been Thinking About The Wind A Lot Lately. Of course that did not stop us in our compulsive pursuits of all things wind the last couple days which led us to one of our favorite applets ever. The San Francisco Bay
SF News Smoky Halls and Kidneys Battered Until They Bleed With the preponderance of world class gyms and fighters in the Bay Area, SFist has always wondered why the San Francisco Golden Gloves has evolved into more of a fighter friends and family
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Boozin' Well, okay, let's be honest - it isn't just the Cares department here that loves the boozin'. We're not really snooty but we know what we like and we like good wine so
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part One -- Austin On Zero Dollars A Day So begins our sordid tale of nerd debauchery here in Austin. The San Francisco Bay Area is representing to the fullest extent of the law here in Texas, and we've had a hard
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
Arts & Entertainment Kamau's Going to Yuk It Up Like It's His Birthday Kamau has been working it on the local scene, performing his own stand-up, writing his own plays, creating an internet cartoon, and being a notarized public (apparently, he's got the notarized skills to
SF News Disenchantment in the Streets It wouldn't be San Francisco if people weren't deluded into thinking anyone cared what we say. Which is why protest events have been long planned in response to this election. As one coworker
SF News Warrant Issued in Murder of Timothy Griffith The San Francisco Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of Rafael Antonio Cuevas, who is suspected of being the man who murdered Timothy Griffith after the Giants game on Friday,
misc SF Schools Want Your Opinion Monday: Roosevelt School Auditorium, 460 Arguello Boulevard Tuesday: Gordon J. Lau School Auditorium, 950 Clay Street Wednesday: Thurgood Marshall Auditorium, 45 Conkling Street Thursday: Horace Main School Auditorium, 3351 23rd Street For more
SF News Funny Money Fallout Kevin Shelley still has his job do you have yours? Its time for a SunsetGate update! In the week since SFists hard-hitting book report about the strange fundraising transactions between Shelley
misc Kittens Kittens Everywhere! SFist adores animals. In fact, if we could own 10 cats without the stigma of being "a crazy cat lady", we would. The San Francisco SPCA has a larger number of kittens than
SF News Caltrans Must Be Loaded...Part Deux SFist first brought this story to you last week...Bay Area bridge costs are way over budget. We aren't talking a few hundred or thousand dollars here. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge
SF News Did You Ever Know That You're My Hero? and then SFist found out about the SF women politicians karaoke night -- yikes! Will we survive? The San Francisco branch of the National Womens Political Caucus is sponsoring a sing-along with
SF News Caltrans Must Be Loaded Caltrans threw SFist for a loop this weekend. The Chronicle reported that retrofit costs for the bridges are soaring...even though Caltrans hasn't exactly been forthcoming with this information. The San Francisco/Oakland
