SF News This Week in Barry: Here Comes the Judge Yesterday CNN reported that a federal grand jury is looking into whether Barry should be indicted for saying in the BALCO trial that he didn't knowingly and purposely do steroids when it's looking
SF News Gavin's In Another Shiny Magazine! SFist Jon, on the East Coast this week, took a break from his family vacation to excitedly email us that our boy Gavin's featured in national magazine photo spread, this time for Vanity
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: At the Pork End Of The Street Yes, folks, that is literally the worst headline ever -- at least until next week. Our horrible headlines are the latest in SFist's effort to induce you to watch what is possibly the
Arts & Entertainment The Slightly Tardy Adventures of the Superfisters starts off with an argument between Knightbat and his teen sidekick, Nightbird, both of whom bear a blinding resemblance to another superhero duo (and we're not referring to Superhorse and Supermonkey). Like many
SF News SFist Eve/Unscripted: The Drinking Game Guess who's going to be on Art Bruzzone's SF/Unscripted show this week? Who's in the hot seat for our local version of Oprah, Larry King, and Joe Scarborough all wrapped up in
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: You Wouldn't Like Her When She's Angry Hey, folks, welcome back to another recap of the "slow food movement" of reality TV shows, Bravo's Top Chef. It's deliciously vibrant, diverse, and, most especially cool, local! Again, we're recapping last week's
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Trainwreck Riders You may have seen that we described Friday night's Noise Pop headliner Jason Collett as "rainy Sunday afternoon music." Ironic, then, that on the actual rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see a
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
SF News Your Commute: And You Thought Your Job Was Bad Man, whose job do we not want this week? BART spokesman Linton Johnson's. Poor Linton had to do yet another round of ritual apologies after a massive computer failure crashed BART for about
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Starts Today We're wishing Noise Pop a happy birthday today, as San Francisco's indie-est music festival kicks off its 14th year. The all-festival badges are sold out, as are tickets to some of the biggest
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: In Brief Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Vista operating system won't be released until January of next year (link from CNet news.com). Office 2007 is also delayed to come out in tandem with
SF News Your Commute: Sucked Like It's Never Sucked Before We were about a hundred feet from the Millbrae station this morning when the train stopped. Then started to go back to the airport. The conductor announced over the loudspeaker that there was
Arts & Entertainment The Obedient Adventures of the Superfisters is unpretentious and sweet-hearted -- in one scene, during a calm stroll Noémie hears a click, looks up to a bridge to see a familiar-looking boy taking her picture, then chases him until
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 2 of 2) Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we broke it down into two posts! While the Chron calls up all the supervisors to get an explication of their beef, the Examiner reports that representatives
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 1 of 2) Gavin Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we're breaking it down into two posts! Newsflash one: The Chron reports that various city supervisors are annoyed that Gavin makes no effort to communicate with
Arts & Entertainment Review: Voxtrot Hipster posing, shoegazing indifference, emo angst, and punk anger have taken the joy out of being a rock star. A lot of bands make it seem like they would rather be somewhere else
SF News QB Kerry Cut Remember how we said the Rai-duhs weren't going to release Kerry Collins? Oops. Yesterday they officially released Collins in an attempt to save the Raiders 9.1 million against the salary cap. We
Arts & Entertainment The Masculine Adventures of the SuperFisters Romp's got a good heart -- he wants to fight bullies and protect the little guy, his limblessness notwithstanding -- and being all urban and everything, he doesn't do much thinking about it.
misc SFist Whines & Dines: The 540 Club So what is this ‘pet-friendly’ group hiding from the dog blogging community? Having seen photos of earlier Bark and Whine Balls, we can only assume it is the unbridled humiliation of dogs in
SF News CSI: Plumpjack (Enter the Naming Contest!) We've got Gavin-Sofia fever! Thanks, SFist Jackson, for the bang-up Photoshop job showing what the union of Mr. Newsom and Ms. Milos might look like! (Scientology Sea Org cap added by Jackson.) And
SF News Save The Trees Alas, Stanford University is currently mascotless, after the debacle involving a tree drinking a little too much of its own sap. We're not Stanford folks, so we can't explain to you why their
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sex and the U.S. Government Here at Stage Fog we try, a bit desperately at times, to wrench the week's picks into some sort of theme. "Sex and the U.S. Government" seems a bit of a stretch,
SF News Fox News Hearts San Francisco The big show was Tuesday night when Hannity & Colmes not only had our very own Gerardo Sandoval on their show to be lamb to the slaughter and discuss the possibly earth-shattering news
SF News Model Plaintiffs It's not just Kimberly Guilfoyle's male model making the news today -- today's installment of This Week In Police Brutality features a piece about two models and their sister, who were allegedly beaten