SF News Why, Our Morning's Been Just Splendid, Thank You One disadvantage to umbrellas is that they have a tendancy to block sidewalk traffic, particularly the ginormous, beach-sized variations weilded by imperious executives. Truly, a treacherous and double-edged sword. But it is a
SF News SFist Rants: Rats in the Maze At SFist, we love a lot of things, and we tell you about them. But we also hate some things, too, and we thought it was high time we told you about those,
Arts & Entertainment Rumors of The Coronet's Demise Are Slightly Exaggerated We're happy to hear that folks made it out to the Coronet, given that we, and everyone else had been told yesterday would be the Coronet's last day in business. However, according to
SF News SFist Listens -- To You SFist would like you to know that we always consider feedback. So to show you that we actually, sometimes, act on that feedback instead of just considering it, we wanted to point out
SF News It's Only Exciting Until Your Laptop's Battery Dies Our neighbor, we learned, received a minor electrical shock from his keyboard - "I was just typing," he said, "and then, bzzzzt!" He shook his hands and widened his eyes like Marty Feldman,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Over the Counter With the Trimethyldioxypurist Much like our experience in Boston, the nasty weather lately speaks to the needs of convenient caffeine. With buses running behind, traffic slowing, or possibly just a desire to stay home and keep
misc Calling Noah Of course, any sort of discussion about flooding caused by rain in these here parts must always be tempered by what happened in South-East Asia, but due to all the almost biblical amount
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+Kim (you all breathe
SF News Oral Arguments End in Gay Marriage Court Case After last Thursday’s nice, legalistic hearing on the legality of gay marriage, Friday’s hearing, the last of the two-day hearing, took a turn to the not so nice as the two
misc Let the Grievances Begin Today is, of course, Festivus. And with Festivus comes the traditional airing of grievances. Not to mention acknowledgement that we stole the idea from the Daily Quickie column on ESPN.com’s Page
SF News Get Ur Geek On - What We Want For Christmas Edition The Flash iPod has been rumored for a while now - in fact, it was speculated to come out before the iPod photo. Now we have more than a rumor we have an
SF News The Bell-Ringer Brouhaha of Ought-Four Could there be more to the story of Salvation Army's bell ringers being asked to leave the grounds of Target stores than what the Chronicle is reporting? Founded over 120 years ago in
misc One Fewer Car with the Essefficist I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! Our question this week comes from Rita, a frequent contributor and fellow SFist staffer: I have a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet More Free Stuff From SFist! SFist is proud to welcome our first local advertiser, Westside Organics! You may have noticed their handsome banner up there. We gave them a break on price because, well, we need the money
SF News Coming Out Party Shares started trading today on a hot IPO. Or should we say hott IPO. No, it's not some Richard Branson venture, technology firm or national retailer. The buzz on this offering is about
SF News Shhhhhhhh You might want to express your support for our city's striking laborers with just the big smile and the thumbs-up for the next few days: the police have started fining people who honk
SF News Chick Racers Rule For the uninitiated, the Crash Nationals are undoubtedly the best group therapy available for anyone who has ever been in a fender bender, stuck in traffic, or wished that someone would move out
misc In the Middle of the Road With the Essefficist Tuesday brings the Giants and the Padres the Essefficist. What could possibly be better? Don't answer that. Today we turn to an issue especially dear to many a San Franciscan: parking. Specifically, parking
SF News O Tannenbaum San Francisco has one less shady spot, as city workers stripped down a 100-foot pine tree in the Tenderloin. The pride and joy of city arborists, the tree was the only 'loin-area tree
Arts & Entertainment SFist Weekend Getaway - Marin Headlands It's hump day, which means it's time to start planning that trip out of the city this weekend. Last weekend, SFist had a car, so we decided to take a trip across the
SF News Walk This Way Those of you who were bipedal in 2002 will probably remember almost every day that year, there was someone getting hit by a car on 19th Avenue or a child getting hit by
