misc Blocker: 1300 La Playa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment <em>Conde Nast Traveller</em> Says <del>We</del> SF Rules Yay. Sure, the only-in-SF tourism industry is an important part of our economy, or whatever. And not that we're complaining -- we have won the top spot for 17 of
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Arts & Entertainment Stop, You're Making A White Stripe Nervous! First la Timberlake, now this: the White Stripes have just canceled their tour, which was supposed to roll through here on 9/21. It seems: "The White Stripes announced today that they
Arts & Entertainment Stuck Truck in Sunnyside For the two or three of you out there who might be driving through the Sunnyside this afternoon/evening, be sure to avoid the intersection of Congo and Mangels. It looks like this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Food Books For Labor Day We also enjoyed some of the essays on cooking and eating alone in Jenni Ferrari-Adler's Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, particularly Steve Almond's hilarious anti-snotty
Arts & Entertainment Shopping, Napa-Style And then, one morning, we were on said street, a smidge early, waiting for Cody's Books to open, and Napa Style's doors were already flung wide. So we wandered
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle's Etiquette Tips While Abroad We found Thomas Swick's traveling-abroad tips in this Sunday's Chronicle both cute and informative. But since we're stricken with a crippling fear of any existence east
SF News Day Around the Bay -- East Bay movie studio/shopping center deal? Fin. [Chron] -- #70: Early morning Hunters Point murder. [SF Crime] -- Lawsuit over AT&T Wireless' ability to suck. [Examiner] -- OMG: High School Musical 2
Arts & Entertainment Carmel Hell: 71 Miles' Midsummer Travel Tip/Warning Who doesn't love a weekend jaunt to Carmel? Well, those of us who can afford it, anyway. What's more, those of us who can tolerate its cloying horror. John
Arts & Entertainment Selections from <em>LA Times</em>' Critical Mass Article Too much ink has been spilled and too much bandwidth used to praise/bury Critical Mass in length. Now the LA Times gets in on the action. We'd love to break
Arts & Entertainment <del>Western Addition</del> NOPA in the Gray Old Lady Awesome last name recipient and New York Times contributor Nicole Spiridakis covered NOPA (AKA, "North of the Panhandle" -- of course) in this past weekend's travel section of the NYT,
SF News We Can't Wait for That Study to be Done so we can FINALLY Find Out Why Nobody Rides Muni So, is this a driver shortage or a NextMuni glitch? It's hard to know for sure. It's also hard to care -- after all, from a rider's perspective,
SF News Megabus Megacheap The big draw are the $1 tickets (yes, you read that right, one dollar to go to LA) -- if you're one of the first four people to book on a particular
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy I am so glad you responded to questions today because I came up with a big one yesterday. I was on an F heading up market around 3rd when a regular bus in
Arts & Entertainment Oooh, We Feel A Little Dirty Oddly compelling stuff from Melissa Gira over at Gridskipper. "The Sugar Daddy Guide to San Francisco" answers that burning question of what leisure activities one can enjoy under the good graces
SF News Fire And Mold At The Warming Hut More setbacks for those of you wanting souvenirs or a grilled cheese sandwich by the Golden Gate Bridge -- the Warming Hut's reopening after its devastating January 2007 fire has been delayed.
SF News Airline Passengers' Rights Group Taking Off It's the middle of July, and many of us have summer travel ahead of us. It's a good time to check out the state of the airline industry. The
SF News UPDATED: Twin Peaks Fire Updated with picture from SFist reader Oscar. Thanks, Oscar. Here's the Google Street View picture of the house. This is an SFist News Flash: a tipster reports that there's
misc Fallen Idol, Mate: Sydney Falls, San Francisco Climbs Oh dear God. Sydney, Australia has locked itself in the bathroom with a razorblade, threatening to cut its wrist, because you just totally don‘t understand them. It seems after an eight-year
Arts & Entertainment A view of (another) San Francisco We recently went on a trip down to Bolivia, where we took a three-day hike that happened to pass through a small village called....San Francisco! The store above was the only
SF News Day Around The Bay --Apple iPhone madness begins! That's a picture of the line in SF yesterday night by photo genius Steve Rhodes, who reported around 60 people in line by midnight. We're
SF News Day Around The Bay --They're laying people off at the Merc News too? [SFBG Politics Blog]. --A blogger gets sued for defamation in small claims court by a journalist who didn't like, among
