Jane Stillwater, a Berkelery blogger and Ghost Whisperer fan, is hopping mad. See, Stillwater is suing the US Army for a plane ticket and 15 mocha lattes because she had been given the green light to be embedded with troops in Iraq, which was canceled after "she bought the ticket for anyway and waited at a Starbucks for two days hoping the military would reconsider." (Really? Two days at Starbucks? Was superior Peet's Coffee......

God bless the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. Their blog, Pushing Back, claims that there are more medical marijuana spots than Starbucks in San Francisco, adding, the "state 'medical' marijuana laws breed confusion, abuse, and violence in neighborhoods and communities." However, City Insider points out, "the map is not click-able, so you can't zoom in to determine exact addresses. Even so, there appear to be dispensaries listed in highly improbable places,......

Wow. We hope we're this feisty, and wildly insane, when we're sixty-four. It seems that sixty-four-years-young Diane Craig of Danville was arrested yesterday for attempting to burn down restrooms of an Arco station, a Chevron station, and... a Starbucks? Oh, and the best part: She used firelogs and lighter fluid to set the establishments ablaze. But is Craig another run-of-the-mill arsonist? Hell no. When the fuzz found her at a nearby fast food joint......

Visitors to all the standalone Starbucks across the country yesterday evening couldn't get their buzz on. Why? Because of the temporary national shutdown. Starbucks workers, like these on busy Masonic (where there will be a rally to make that avenue safer at 11:00AM this morning by the way), learned how to do things the Starbuckian way last night. So. What do think, espresso fans? Did it work? Were the "parters" (aka workers) "energized"? Was......

For as much as everyone pretends to be indie coffee house-loving, Starbucks-hating, people of god -- we're not. Especially when we're lazy. If we're in the financial district and want our half-caff, venti macchiato with a double shot of sugar-free vanilla and only want to walk two steps from our door to get it, so be it. We're going to Starbucks. But NOT, however, on February 26th between the hours of 5:30 to 8:30 PM.......

Now that donuts have made a return to Bay Area coffee houses--minus its exhausting Homer Simpsonesque, white-trash irony--you can find the preferable pastries at places like Ritual Coffee Roasters (vegan! and actually good!), Seattle's Best at Border's Books & Music (double-glazed), and even Starbucks (plasticky). With the return of the donut comes the return of the brewed coffee. At least, according to today's New York Times, which profiles the Blue Bottle Cafe, scheduled to......

It wouldn't be SFist if it weren't rife with errors and bipolarity-tinged posts. But we got word of an especially egregious error we made today--something, we're ashamed to admit, we never knew. From the SFist inbox: Re: Starbucks post, it is Geary Boulevard west of Gough, Geary Street east of Franklin. Thanks. Now, we know how to correctly pronounce "Noe," "Gough," and "Montandon." We know to always pretend that the SF Green/Progressive Party is......

This tickles us ever so. Last year after 4,000+ folks in the Richmond held their breath until their faces turned blue, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban the popular coffee chain Starbucks from setting up shop at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Geary. Problem solved, right? Wrong. Being the crafty little coffee making bastards that they are, Starbucks "had the audacity to sneak a kiosk into the Safeway store at......

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Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to forfeit in the Weekly of the Week contest for the week. Next up, let's call it for the SF Weekly. Ephraim the Track Bike is back! And he mentions us! We love you, Ephraim the Track Bike! Did Ed Jew's people spearhead......

Since our trimethyldioxypurist is on the road for Labor Day, we're stepping in on the caffeine beat to pass along some sad news: Peet's Coffee founder Alfred Peet died earlier this week (Wednesday) in Oregon. Mr. Peet, born in Holland, opened the first Peet's at Walnut and Vine in Berkeley in 1966, and watched it spread nationwide (there's Peet's in New England now?). And the rumors you've heard about the Peet's/Starbucks connections are true: the......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. We should totally put needle disposal boxes in Golden Gate Park. Also, C.W. Nevius says that Newsom called him and yelled at him for 45 minutes after he wrote his first article on the issue. We'd put that call on mute. Gentrification is destroying Polk Street. City contractors still use sweatshop labor. Annalee Newitz has mice. Sonic Reducer's still at the Guardian. Cover article: Local bands to watch. You've......

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: What? MORE letters about Rainbow? Matt Smith threatens to derail Newsom's gubernatorial campaign if he doesn't do something about parking. Rape awareness campaigns in the Castro. Cover article: a man who went through the SF court program designed to assist the mentally ill homeless. Ha! We like the headline "Fresno? Fres Yes!" A locally-written musical about San Francisco life. This picture of the dancing Starbucks baristas is excellent. Meredith......

-- No official Halloween bash happening in the Castro, anywhere in SF. Hmm, this will be interesting/scary to watch come 10/31. [Chron, The Snitch] -- One dies in crash on the 101 in Millbrae. [Chron] -- Bush calls Bonds. [CBS 5] -- Barack Obama in Oakland, on local workers. [Oakland Tribune] -- Glorious, glorious Starbucks art. [ASD] -- Tim Redmond on journos and murder. [SFBG] -- Molly Freedenberg on our iconic treasure, Juanita MORE!.......

-- Will Harper has it that Chris Daly might run for mayor now that Gonzalez is out. Whoa, a real contender! Interesting. [The Snitch (SF Weekly)] -- Proposed designs for the new Transbay Terminal revealed, each one niftier than the next. Compared to what we have now, anyway. [Chron] -- Neighborhood group in the Inner Richmond might stop Starbucks from setting up shop. Amazing job, you guys. [Examiner] -- Train accidently kills a pedestrian......

Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. many businesses and residents in the Inner Richmond are protesting via petition an invasion of one of Starbuck's nigh ubiquitous stores....

Photo of an overwhelmed garbage can with news of fewer cans in S.F. than before. ...

Friend-of-SFist Matt V passes along these photos of a verrrrry safe looking taxi, sighted outside a Starbucks in the Abandoned Warehouse district of the Mission. "You choose what you pay," it says on the side, which is exactly how Lucifer would phrase an offer.......

What's with all the "McDonald's coffee is better than Starbucks," survey stuff going around? Evidently, a taste test or two places the coffee from the Golden Arches in a higher position than the ubiquitous chain-coffee house. This started about a month back with this Consumer Reports study, and has been percolating further on recent "stunning revelations" that McD's is going to serve actual espresso as well. One of the most bothersome aspects of this is major news concerns are talking and talking about it. STOP! PLEASE! ...

A reader of SFist sends word that another great SF place will close, that place being Canvas, the coffe shop/art gallery/what have you in the Iinner Sunset. Word has it that like the John Barylecorn, the lease was up and the landlord sold it to the Pacific Catch, a seafood chain. ...

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Superbowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans for......

If you were wondering where your yummy, delicious breakfast treats were at Starbucks this morning the answer is that Starbucks is no longer serving them. Now that trans fats have become Public Enemy #1 in the battle against obesity and heart disease, Starbucks has decided to fight the good fight and stop selling them. Starting today, any sort of muffin, doughnut or what have you that has trans fat will no longer be served. ...

It's the annual Best Of post, the one post in the year where I get to use the first person singular! Hooray! From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the Chron's series about police brutality getting upstaged by their misidentification of the cop in question; Kimberly Guilfoyle's new boyfriend,......

Steny Hoyer: I hope there aren't any hard feelings, Nancy. It's gonna be great working together. We'll get Starbucks, watch The View, have Botox parties... Nancy Pelosi: Bitch, please. You're lucky I'm even letting you touch me right now. If you eff up my Armani, I will cut you! SFist Elaine, contributing......

First the crash in the housing market, now this -- a woman in San Jose's been arrested for going to open houses near the Silver Creek Valley country club neighborhood, unlocking a door in the house while she was there, and then coming back after everyone left to steal stuff. She made off with 200 figurines (!!!) valued at $200,000 from one would-be home seller's collection and went through 10 houses total before the real......

Tower Records is officially donezo as it's closing up it's stores in the area. That's the bad news. The good news is that all of this means EVERYTHING MUST GO! THESE PRICES ARE INSANE!!!! Which is another way of saying they're having a liquidation sale. ...

Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on......

Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession of ours), but we didn't know about his blog until we saw http://www.ironicsans.com/2006/07/a_parallel_istaverse.html">this awesome post. So I got to thinking. What if the “istaverse” people existed in fictional cities? I’m sure they would write about the new Starbucks being built in that......

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it......

We're generally not one to sneer at anything Craigslist related, but oftentimes the "discussion" (if anyone can really call it that), which occurs on Craigslist's discussion forums look more like the redundant, back and forth of 3-year olds fighting over a toy. Don't get us wrong; there are some forum conversations which actually contain information. Just not most of them. Which is why it is so surprising that we find the spontaneous conversations which occur......