Arts & Entertainment Wind Bag Wants Your Plastic Bag What Beck wants to do is start up a campaign where his radio listeners and TV audience (all five of them) will send in their paperplastic bags and he'll then he'll get a
misc One Last Dance With Your Plastic Bags In honor of SFist Jon's recent karaoke catastrophe caught on tape, we, the arbiters of good taste at SFist, present you with the Backstreet Plastic Bag Boys' brazilliant idea for what to do
Arts & Entertainment SchwarzenWatcher Has the Latest on Arnie's Acting Career Looks like our Governor still has the acting bug as he filmed this commercial currently airing on Japanese TV trying to improve trade to the state. We do have to say that we
SF News Free Plastic Bags! The vote passed by a 10-1 margin with only cranky old Ed Jew providing the nay vote. We would assume that the vote would draw usual cries of "oh no they didn't" but
Arts & Entertainment Fake Question Time III- the Photos To paraphrase an old joke about hockey, we went to a Town Hall meeting last night and a protest broke out. Case in point, the above photo of an attendee making a calm
Arts & Entertainment Never Let them See You Sweat Yes, that was SFist on CBS 5 last night, hobnobbing with Phil Matier and thanks to SFist Rain, we finally have the clip of it. Watch SFist Jon pretend to be an expert
SF News Gavin Wants To Hear From You We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our
SF News Already Over Fake Question Time Our feelings regarding the sneaky scheduling of Gavin Newsom’s Third Fake Question Time this Monday can best be expressed through American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee’s latest single, “Over It.” The purple
SF News The Presses: Stilllllllllllll Stopped. Can you believe we're going to be on the teevee AGAIN? It's CBS this time, tonight at probably 5:30, 6:30, and 11. The lesson here: if you want a ticket to
SF News BART To Join 21st Century We love when public transportation officials have a light bulb go off over their heads. The first thing they want to do is to train the train operators to make their announcements more
Arts & Entertainment A Day After the First Day of Spring Yesterday was the first day of spring so we decided to celebrate a day late with a YouTube clip of Tchaikovsky's Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" from Disney's Fantasia. Then we realized that's
Arts & Entertainment Trapped In The Closet Sing-Along We said it was awesome, didn't we? Yep, sing a long to all twelve chapters of Kelly's hipoperia-- all with the video itself playing in the background. But wait, there's more! The night
SF News Political Junkie: Watching The Watchers As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to
misc Dear Gaviffer, We decided not to post your picture because we've seen enough of y'all to last a lifetime. Here's Gwen Stefani's video for "Sweet Escape" instead. As our blog hero, Perez Hilton, once said:
Arts & Entertainment Your Cute Video of the Day Ordinarily, we don't want to get viral with commercials and post them because we don't like playing corporate shills, but this video is kind of cute and San Francisco is kind of the
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Video Winner Hey, remember a few weeks ago when we mentioned that Noise Pop was sponsoring a one-day make a music video contest a la Iron Chef? Well, here's the winning video! The video's by
SF News Can You Take Me To The Bridge? For those who do drive that particular section, Caltrans is going to reroute you to an entirely new set of lanes and supposedly, you won't notice much in the way of a difference.
misc We Welcome our New Kink.com Overlords It looks like after all the complaints and controversy, Kink.com is now officialy the owners of the Armory. All this after a racous hearing on the issue in front of the planning
Arts & Entertainment Here's Your Cool Video of the Day We have no idea who did this or how or even why, but it's kind of a neat looking thing. The whole thing is kind of psychadelic, kind of arty, kind of goofy.
misc Here We Go Again You know, even we're thrown for a loop on this. The proclamation came the day of a gala event (link NSFW) at the city's War Memorial for the company. The event was held
misc Shooting at the Walls of Heartache, Bang, Bang, I am the Warrior What's the game like? Well you, or you and a partner, or you and a group of friends, are a team. That team will have a "secret weakness" like chocolate ice cream perhaps.
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Wired We may be crafty, but that doesn't mean we don't enjoy spending hours in front of a TV with some good video games once and a while. We'd love to tell you that
SF News Well the Landslide Will Bring it Down This all happened around 3 in the morning and luckily all sorts of alarms went off alerting people that something was up. As a result, nobody was hurt. The landslide pushed a pile
Arts & Entertainment Hail Fellow Well Met Check out the hailstone that SFist Jim captured on film at around 9:07 p.m. in the Haight! In his poetic phrasing, "bigger than a bb, smaller than a lemon drop." This