SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Drop and Give Me $2500! For the record, we've now got our shiny new MacBook Pro dual-booting into OS X and Windows XP, and the process worked without a hitch. Once we bought another copy of XP, that
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Old Friends (and Old News) Of course, it wouldn't be Apple without that sense of smug self-superiority, so we're glad to see the company got some digs in on the sidebar of its Boot Camp website: accusing Windows
SF News Way Better Than Million Dollar Baby (Not That That's Saying Much) "What's it like in there?" they'd ask us. "Is it scary?" "Well, no" we'd say, right before they'd remind us that the love of our life spends a lot of his free time
SF News SFist Goes To The 75th San Francisco Golden Gloves Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the Bay Area's greatest fighters from appearing
Arts & Entertainment All The Subtlety of Roller Disco, Plus the Nuance of Scott Baio Last Friday, roller films were the theme, with , Roller Boogie (one of the many missteps in the management of Linda Blair's career) and the aborted foetus that is Skatetown USA (which marks the
SF News Cuba, Yes. Barry No Naturally, the announcement has already spawned speculation as to why. Mainly in that it's a way to avoid the Olympic style steroid testing that the WBC will enforce. Or, to paraphrase a commenter
SF News American Football Spectacular: Bowl-tastic LIBERTY BOWL Fresno St vs. Tulsa Saturday, December 31, 2005 Fresno has been all slumpy since nearly upsetting USC in a monstrous toe-to-toe battle. Tulsa used to be in the same conference with
SF News SFist Tech Labs: We've Got a Report Due On Space That scandal, plus a less intense scuffle over the history of podcasting and the influence of vee-jays thereon, prompted Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales this week to change the site's policy and accept new
misc The 'Fisties: Best Bar, or, Staggering Through FISTies It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service
Arts & Entertainment The Superlative Adventures of the SuperFisters Kablammo! Oh excuse us. We were just reading some comic books. This week, courtesy of Isotope's guidance, we're checking out Harvey Pekar's new book, ; as well as Desolation Jones, a newish series inked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Gravy and Stuffing We think the idea will catch on. But what should you serve? Turkeys are at the height of their season right now: Every market seems to have them. (Note, we used a chicken
SF News Sunset Residents Contine to Bury Head in (Smoking) Sand It seems like just yesterday that we were sniggering over Sunset residents' concerns about illegal bonfires, but it was actually a few weeks ago. Since then, we've attended a (legal -- we were
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
SF News Potential BART Strike Set for July 6th While of course most folks probably kind of wanted BART workers to strike on Friday (four day weekend!), the union has tentatively set the date of a strike (video here) for midnight on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: An Imposter This Week The movie in question is Murder at the Presidio, which premieres on USA Monday, May 2nd, at 9 p.m. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a member of the "Criminal Investigation Division" investigating
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Monsters This Week Seems the folks at MTV have granted PR exec and maniacal SUV-driving Lizzie Grubman her own show, called "PoweR Girls." ("PowerR"...PR. GEDDIT?) We guess mowing down nightclub goers in the Hamptons is
Arts & Entertainment <i>Xin Nian Kuai Le</i> (Happy New Year) And a and/or Gong hay fat choi, depending on your dialect, to you! It's Chinese New Year's! Lunch is on your Asian-American friends, who should be flush with red envelope cash today.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads You see, America? You see what you get when you complain about a little boob action? You get the most boring halftime show imaginable featuring a snooze-inducing performance by Paul McCartney, AKA The
SF News Boxer Lambasts Rice Nothing like senate confirmation hearings to get the partisan juices flowing. Kos reports that Senator Barbara Boxer would speak her mind [link via 1115] as part of Dr. Condoleeza Rice's confirmation as Secretary
SF News Jeremy on '04 GOOD STUFF Sports: Swimming star Michael Phelps. He could have entered fewer races to help ensure better results in his best events, but he didn't -- he participated in every event in which
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
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Moments in Trimethyldioxypurism Ritual. It's very important in our society. A ritual can be more powerful than its components -- after all, don't we all know that person who drinks the dreaded in the morning, claiming
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Idol The line starts at 6 a.m. today, but it's unclear whether you should have camped out last night or should expect to camp out tonight (bring a jacket and keep your vocal
SF News Olympics Roundup It's finally time to get off the couch and get back to work. That's right, the Olympics are over, nothing went horribly wrong, everybody was smitten with being at the sites of the
