Yes, kids. Michela Alioto-Pier has some friends in high places, and last week we saw the announcement that Al Gore had officially endorsed her for mayor. The campaign announces today that the former VP turned climate-change preacher will be appearing at a campaign event with Michela on October 3 at an undisclosed location. more ›

In the second most important San Francisco/television news story today, former MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann announced that "he will host a new nightly hour-long primetime news and commentary show on Current TV, the low-rated network co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore." Olbermann will, most certainly, boost the profile of the rarely-watched San Francisco-based network. (For those of you who don't watch, which is many of you, Current TV is a decent watch. Highly recommend.) more ›

Oh dear. Former Vice President and Current co-founder Al Gore and his four-letter-word-eschewing wife, Tipper, will separate after 40 long years of marriage. more ›

Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two Current TV reporters nabbed by North Korean border guards while they were doing a story about human trafficking on the Chinese-North Korean border, have been sentenced to 12 years hard labor in what former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson has called a "high-stakes poker game" that has more to do with our nuclear relations than it does with these women and their alleged crimes. A Korean-language TV station has reported that the women were convicted of "hostility toward the Korean people." more ›

Usually when a Presidential candidate announces his VP choice it's either to try and help him win some state or area that could help him win or to try and strengthen an apparent weakness. For example, Bill Clinton chose Al Gore to help him try and win the south. And in 2000, George Bush selected Dick Cheney to help alleviate concerns about his lack of experience and evilness. So with that, we announce that Ralph Nader's choice as his Vice President is our very own Matt Gonzalez. more ›

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We could also use a Dunkin' Donuts. Failing that, the makers of Raweos could always set up shop next door.
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Google maybe plotting world domination, but the good news is that at least they're liberal. That's what happens when you have Nobel Peace Prize/Oscar/Emmy/Grammy/NL MVP Al Gore as a board member. more ›

-- Emmy-winner Al Gore might also win the Nobel Peace Prize. Weren't Bono and Princess Diana supposed to win that at some point, too? (You know, before she...vroom.) [Wired News] more ›

We watched the Emmy Awards last night (for what it's worth: yay, 30 Rock!), and the award shows fellating Al Gore continues, this time for Current TV, which won for Best Interactive Programming or Best iWorld Wide Web Doing God's Work or something inane like that. more ›

We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and concept are given as much weight as the words. We also love that the staff is predominantly made up of young people -- much younger than we are, we might add. (Incidentally, bad-boy Al Gore III is the associate publisher.) Some recent,... more ›

"Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine. We were being a little hyperbolic, of course. But a new diet, written by two Bay Area residents, quite literally aims to save the environment via your food consumption. more ›

Sounds like Sunday's Great Gorilla Race in Golden Gate Park was a success! The 4.3 mile race, run by people in gorilla suits to raise money for gorilla conservation, raised over $100,000. Four hundred people showed up, and given that there's only about 700 gorillas left living in the wild, that's almost a ratio of two gorillas per person. more ›

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. more ›

--They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. more ›

Oh hi Al Gore! Welcome to San Rafael, land of pleasure and delight. While you're here, don't miss the Marin Center Veterans' Memorial Auditorium. It's a lovely place -- just right for Keynote presentations and beards. more ›

Belmont (the Utica to our Manhattan, if we may make such a daring analogy) is an on-the-go suburb, in love with its cars and asphalt, and with no time for such frivolities as . Mayor Coralin Feierbach is one of the only Bay Area mayors to refuse to sign the Sierra Club's Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement, objecting to the pledge to "reduce sprawl, preserve open space, and create compact, walkable urban communities." Those crazy Al Gore environmentalists want us to WALK? What next! more ›

, Morgan's movie for the BBC about the unusual power-sharing arrangement and strained friendship between Tony Blair and chancellor of the exchequor Gordon Brown to let Blair lead the Labour Party first, and then hand it off to Brown next. more ›

claims to be the web's first carbon-neutral film, a designation that means Al Gore catered it or something. The film itself is about four minutes' worth of the best part of a horror film -- when the monsters attack and the sexy young humans die horribly. In this case, the monsters are thawed possums, and the sexy young humans gamely shriek and burst and run away, pursued by a predictably question-marky The End. It's all the sort of splattery fun you'd expect from the title; nothing more, nothing less. Actually, a little bit less: the film STRICTLY FORBIDS scrubbing, so no fast-forward or rewind. Dragging a playhead must cause global warming somehow. more ›

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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. more ›

-A woman's car breaking down caused a huge chain of events leading to her death and three hours worth of traffic on the upper deck of the Bay Bridge. -Where oh where did the snow go? more ›

Apple today issued a statement proclaiming that its internal investigation found that Steve Jobs is innocent of everything. This despite the fact they know he attended a meeting that never happened. We would get all cynical and say that one should never trust internal investigations but one of the people behind the investigation and who issued the statement is Al Gore and, well, we love you, Al!!! Apple has also said they are making adjustments to their current financial statements to make up for discrepancies and that they are working with federal authorities to prove they've done nothing wrong. more ›

-Lindsey Lohan's best bud, Al Gore, shows up in town to rally the troops to fight Global Warming. Save us, Al, save us! more ›

In an interview with the Chronicle last week, Gavin dropped some more Green-related news. Turns out he's looking into dropping turbines into both the ocean and the Bay to generate enough energy to feed the city and to maybe sell off to others. The Olympic Guys should love that. more ›

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro: Again, we're reduced to reading it online, as our source wasn't in the South Bay this week. Cover article: fashion in the San Jose city hall. What are all these positions we're voting on for? A handy-dandy guide. Exciting inside SJ politics with the Fly, and their new SJ politics blog, SV411.org. Al Gore and his movie. Skateboarders come to town. And soft-shell crab. more ›

, opening on Friday at the Embarcadero Center (and at the Sequoia in Mill Valley). more ›

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. more ›

God knows no one will ever confuse us with Josh Sens, so we don't want none of that SFMag stuff here. more ›