Oh good. Valentine's Day is just around the corner. And if the thought of next Thursday's approaching fillet mignon-for-two-free evening doesn't make you want to slice open an artery followed by nap-time in the bathtub, then how about not making Nob Hill Gazette's annual Lucky 13th Annual Eligible's List? (Yes, yes, you and your hipster S.O. are too cool to celebrate a Hallmark holiday, clearly, but what a privileged thing to decide not to......

We were out for a leisurely weekend walk up to Tower Market from our abode in the Sunnyside. Instead of heading straight up Teresita, we decided to do something a little different and detour onto Marietta Drive. ‘Tis true, we live life on the edge. While cruising down this precious, semi-hidden lane, we happened upon an open house for 401 Marietta Drive. Despite our sweats and sneakers, we decided to go ahead and horrify......

-- The al fresco SF Mayoral race debate, featuring full frontal. Gosh. What madcap wackiness will they unload on us next? [SFBG] -- "Not guilty," says Ed Jew. [Examiner] -- CW Nevius on Golden Gate Park a month later. [Chron] -- Earthlink's citywide wi-fi networks? Might fail. [LeftInSF] -- Jerry Brown's one-time top cop busted for DUI. [Oakland Tribune] -- This year's Halloween in the Castro theme: martial law. [Beyond Chron] -- White youths?......

You're not alone. We also want to know who's going to be the next new co-host on The View (it consumes us), but really, it's time to start thinking about more important things, like getting a job. How about: - Corporate Web Marketing Analyst [Dolby Labs] - Senior Online Marketing Manager/Director [Confidential] - Director of Communications [The Vote Solar Initiative] - Database Architect [Adify] - Marketing Manager Online Advertising [CyberCoders] For more jobs, visit our......

A photo of San Francisco's changing skyline...

Do you guys think it's true that Gavin Newsom refused to do anything with Conan O'Brien when Conan was in town last week because his feelings were hurt by Conan's jokes about him? If so, that is so lame! (Also, you can just scratch SFist off the Gavin Newsom party invite list right now.) So the official story is that Mayor Newsom didn't show up for NBC's Conan celebration day last Wednesday because Newsom......

So, how's that commute going, subway riders? Any better today? More Muni-Meltdown, or less Muni-Meltdown? Above, we've embedded an animation of Metro activity yesterday afternoon; call us crazy, but is seems as though just maybe things are starting to smoothen out a bit, with the exception of the never-ending clustering around Embarcadero. Of course, as with online profiles, the view from the net can sometimes enjoy a vitality that's lacking in real life. The......

We couldn't help but notice this letter to the editor in Sunday's Sporting Green: ...

SFist Sara S's got the jujubes! Please don’t mistake us for fans of human suffering but it’s high time a film was made to tell the uninformed public about the genocide in Rwanda. Beyond the Gates, at the Embarcadero, is a smart, engaging, often (rightly) painful view of the conflict from the view of a Catholic training college manned by John Hurt and Hugh Dancy. It’s a tearjerker but it’s really edifying to see how......

The folks at NBC 11 gave Gavin Newsom a camera, and asked him to take photos of his life for their "Moving Pictures" series. During the promos, we started cracking up because there were all these clips of Gavin in full "woe is me" mode, talking about "compartmentalizing your personal life" and whatnot, set to really serious music. We expected the actual interview to include much of the same....

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending......

p>Feeling quite adventurous, a few weeks ago we decided to test our legs on Mix Canyon Road a bicycle ride located just on the western side of Vacaville. We've heard amazing things from our biking friends about this road ("23% Grade! -- Steeper than the Steepest Part of the Tour De France!") and wanting to work off a little of our post-holiday gluttony thought it would be good for us.

Happy New Year everyone! What We Did On Our Christmas Vacation After having our plans to fly to Denver thwarted by a sinister snowstorm, we headed straight to Texas. We spent most of the time in Houston with our family and managed to type out our top 10 albums of '06 while our nephews watched "Pirates of the Carribbean" for the nth time. One night was spent in Austin with one of our favorite people......

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......

Everyone goes through phases where they think: am I nuts to think that I can afford to live in this city any longer? You spend so much for these teeny-weeny houses, the public schools are so tough to navigate, wouldn't it be nice to have a yard? But then you look at how nice the view is, and how awesome the people are, and how great our neighborhoods are, and you either think, how could......

Folks -- we want to encourage you to keep the questions coming. The best ones for us to answer are those with specific details. If questions don't hav enough detail, we are forced to simply snark (see question #1); if they are too open-ended, you'll see us blather on and on and on and on (see question #2)....

The San Francisco Opera went into hibernation, leaving opera addicts searching for their fix in the other companies, or in other cities. A charming option for the no-frill opera lover is the San Francisco Lyric Opera, whose Abduction from the Seraglio opened last Friday at the Florence Gould Theater, in the Legion of Honor. Mozart's opera, about a wife imprisoned in a pasha's harem, and the efforts of her lover to rescue her, is......

Shirley Jackson, put down that rock! At 7:30 a.m. yesterday, the SF Redevelopment Agency hosted a low-income housing lottery that attracted over 4300 applicants. The SF Redevelopment Agency, along with Centurion Real Estate, are offering 20 condos right by Pac Bell SBC AT&T Park at crazy prices -- studios, one-bedrooms, and two-bedrooms with market values between $500,000 to $1.3 mill are going for between $85-233K. They're offering 7 houses to low-income residents (about $46,500 for a single person, and $66,500 for a family of four) and 13 to moderate-income residents ($73,150 single, $104,500 family of four), with preference going to people who were previously displaced from low-income housing. There's also a cap on the equity you can build up in the house (the Redevelopment Agency will set your resale price when you move, so other low- or moderate-income families can move in). But you certainly can't beat the view in that neighborhood! 150 names were drawn, but pretty much everyone expects that the first 20 people are going to snap up their houses, if they can qualify for fixed-rate mortgages. Don't worry, though, SF expects to make more such opportunities available in the Mission Bay area, the Western Addition, and Bayview/Hunters' Point. ...

When the Virgin Megastore on Market opened, the top floor contained a restaurant we spent hours in. Overlooking Market and Stockton streets, we sat there with our textbooks (while frequently reading magazines, don't get us wrong) swilling coffee and taking in the view. In fact, some of our first dates with our now life-partner took place in the Virgin Cafe, back when our lives weren't dominated by local-interest websites and Citizen Kane. And then......

Gavin considering a run for governor? The SF Call closing its doors? Frankly, for us, it's harder to believe that SFist Derrick tossed cucumber and pasta with butter for a dish. Cooking cucumber? The mind boggles. Matt Gonzalez calls Donald Fisher out for campaign shenanigans, and we call Moss Beach Distillery out for overpriced menu shenanigans (love the view, though!). A moment of silence for our friends and family in London. Thanks to the......

When the A's left the Bay Area for nine games against Tampa Bay and Cleveland, we at A's Brand Baseball wrote: Such a break from major league competition could be just what the doctor ordered . . . We were right, too: those games against the A's really helped out the Devil Rays and Indians. Until Monday night's 11-inning comeback win over Tampa Bay, the A's had lost 9 games in a row; it......

We'll make this one short and sweet -- at Red's Java House (Pier 30), what you see is what you get. On a nice day, you can't beat being bayside; you can't beat the view and the sun and the cheap, short-order grub, and the outdoor patio is nice too. And there's a bar out there. With booze. We (along with Mrs. Trimethyldioxypurist) ended up there by pure coincidence. See, the plan was to......

It's looking like after years and years of discussion, the Powers that Be who are in charge of the Golden Gate Bridge areslowly moving towards putting a suicide barrier along the bridge to prevent people from jumping. Last Thursday, the Bridge Directors voted to study plans to put them up. The decision came after a tearful and emotional meeting the previous day in which families’ of people who jumped and a few people who survived the jump pleaded with the bridge directors to build the barrier. Of course, voting to study an issue doesn't necessarily make something happen as voting for a study is a sure-fire way to not make something happen, but this has been the biggest movement on the issue in a long time....

Weekly wrap-up....

A San Francisco classic reborn....