Arts & Entertainment Green Day's GRAMMY Noms The nominees for the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced yesterday in Hollywood, with homeboys Green Day earning an impressive six nominations. That's four less than Kanye West, two less than Alicia Keys
misc Do Think Of An Elephant ... because how could you not with a picture this cute? Elephant with a pumpkin! Ha! The Oakland Zoo held its annual Thanksgiving Leftover Pumpkin feeding for the animals in residence yesterday. We can
Arts & Entertainment Animal Instincts SFist isn't going to apologize for our unnatural love of anthropomorphized monkeys. Particularly when they're wearing pants. We love that! Ahem. What we mean is that we find the people/animal connection an
SF News Bay Blogger, Erm, Friday We're worried about Kat Hunter. Oh, we think she'll be fine. What we're worried about is the legions of lonely gamers out there who dream about meeting a smart, sexy woman who they
Arts & Entertainment Believe in Von Iva SFist was blown away by Von Iva when they opened for Metric at the Great American Music Hall in late October. This all-female Bay area-based band doesn't need no stinkin' guitars -- just
SF News The Condition of the Working Class in Redwood City -- Update And the saga continues. Electronic Arts seems to have pissed off one too many geeks, and now that this story has gone public details are beginning to emerge that don't look good for
Arts & Entertainment So That's How they Make Cameron Diaz Ugly Not geeky enough? If your Wednesday (next) is free (SFist has book club, sorry), check out "The Making of Shrek 2" presented by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the ACM. The presentation,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If Not for the Children, then for the Zombies We're informed by the Richmond Review that the California Psychological Association has named its "Legislator of the Year 2004." The lucky winner is State Assembly Speaker pro Tem (whatever that means) Leland Yee,
SF News SFist Interview: David Pascal We haven't read the bios of every candidate for the Board of Supervisors (hell, there are twenty-two of them in District Five alone and we have a lot of other things to do
SF News Sausage King Could Cook Stuart Alexander has been convicted of three counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted murder and the special circumstances of public employees on the job and a multiple homicide. Whew. You
Arts & Entertainment The Soundtrack Alone is Worth Fitty Bones! There are video games that are popular with gamers - Counter Strike, Half-Life, Halo - and then there are video games that become cultural phenomena. The audience is drawn not so much by
SF News He's Got the Biggest Ball in the World choked in gruesome, horrible, gut-wrenching fashion, there is some joy in Mudville a judge ruled that Steve Williams, the man who walked home with Barry Bonds' homerun ball #700, is - allowed to
Arts & Entertainment May the DVDs, Video Games and Other Tie-ins Be With You If at work you saw your computer programmers, IT workers, and Web designers walking around with a Christmas-y gleam in their eyes yesterday it was because in Geekville it was Christmas. For yesterday
SF News Heeyyy Batta Batta The story of the heckler out of Oakland Coliseum just keeps getting better and better. Today, Craig and Jennifer Bueno gave a press conference to announce that they would be pursuing both civil
SF News Oh My iPod "Well, HP wants a digital music player as part of their new line of media products for the home user." "Hmm. Over at Apple, we want to distribute our products to people who
SF News Touchdown! SFist is not the biggest football fan in the world, but we definitely love video games. And while many have tried, nobody is taking John Madden Football's spot in the starting lineup. With
Arts & Entertainment Rental Coup One of the many great things about living in the Bay Area is the number of great places from which to rent movies. While folks in the fly-over are stuck with Hollywood, Blockbuster,
Arts & Entertainment Music + Fun + Bikes = Social Change Or so says Vikter Veysey, who first approached SFist as we were riding our bike to the Caltrain Station along the Embarcadero. Although we turned town his invitation to be a bicycle ballerina
SF News Let Him Eat Cake Taking the art of self-absorption to new and previously-unseen heights, a 22-year-old San Franciscan, Ben Vanderford, has acknowledged that he faked a videotape of his own beheading in Iraq. He originally taped the
Arts & Entertainment TiVo-Lution Three thumbs up! Alviso based TiVo has gotten approval to allow subscribers to email recorded shows. Various entities in the television industry objected, as usual - you know, blah blah blah, proprietary rights,
SF News Chuck Johnson, Oakland Original SFist sadly notes the passing of Charles "Chuck" Johnson today. He will be truly missed by friends, family and the larger Oakland community. Mr. Johnson founded Soul Beat TV as a cable station
SF News Bear Hugs The Chron today ran a story about a bear cub that was killed because it was begging for food by coming up to tourists and hugging them. The bear had apparently learned this
