Arts & Entertainment Video: Documentary Lays Bare Sacramento Strip Club Trial With Late Carol Doda The son of Earl Warren, the legendary California Governor and US Supreme Court Chief Justice, may not have presided over such progressive liberal decisions as Brown v. Board of Education, but Earl Warren
SF News Gawker Founder Defends Coverage Of Silicon Valley, Peter Thiel Declines To Debate Him Nick Denton, the Gawker founder whose suspicions were confirmed last month that a thin-skinned Silicon Valley billionaire offended by unflattering coverage was bankrolling Hulk Hogan's devastating case against his media company, spoke out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soda Companies Say Warning Labels Are UNCONSTITUTIONAL Beverage companies are suing the city of San Francisco, claiming the soda warning label laws violate the Constitution. On Friday, American Beverage Association sued the city for two ordinances passed in June, which
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: The Savage Jew Nation Springing forth from SF's thigh, a new power couple is born: Savage Jew. Wednesday, Ed Jew appeared on hyperbolic grandpa/genius performance artist Michael Savage's show, The Savage Nation. Jew discussed why left-leaning
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval went into
SF News Tsk, Tsk: The Latest On The Board Of Supes Code Of Conduct Proposals As you may remember, Alioto-Pier (or MAP, as we like to call her) is spearheading the push to institute a code of conduct for supervisors, after the flap about Chris Daly saying that
misc Week Around The -ists LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of
Arts & Entertainment 'Bad Reporter' Is Best Of The West Most of the news about print journalism is a little depressing -- circulation is down, money is tight, etc, etc. So it gives us immense pleasure when we can share a little positive
SF News The Stuff They've Got In The Oven (Local Politics News, Non-Newsom) --The Board of Supes held hearings yesterday about whether to accept the Google/Earthlink citywide wifi plans. We must confess we're still very vague on the pros and cons of the proposal (all
SF News Sending Out an S.O.S. Estrella, however, refuses to take anything down, claiming first amendment rights and all that stuff. In a letter to the commission, she wrote that all of this is happening because she "discovered that
SF News DiFi Sucks And so the question is raised, why DiFi, why? In her speech to her fellow Senators, DiFi put up that famous picture of marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and talked about
SF News Gail Devers Extends Claws The errors in question involve track and field star Gail Devers, who was mistakenly described as having trained with admitted steroid distributor Remi Korchemny. To quote the book, "Among his greatest Olympians was
SF News Today In The Law The Susan Polk trial was in recess today, but it was still a pretty busy day for the local courts, which decided: *that kids who failed the state high school exit exam can
SF News Chron Reporters Headed For The Big House? Could they really go to jail over this? We at SFist are watching this case eagerly, and watching the comments on Phil Bronstein's post on the Chron's not at all grandiosely titled "First
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: OK to Play We're happy about the injunction, and not just because it guarantees kids will be able to develop the skills they'll need to survive in an increasingly zombie-slaying and drug-dealing economy. The bigger picture
SF News Muni Union Gnawing Off Own Leg? But what happens when the union starts turning on itself? Being Stallone fans, we know where this can end up. Given the fearful power of our Local 250, could this schism be a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Soup in the 'Fly It is no wonder that, when stealing the word amuse-bouche from the vocabulary of French cuisine, Americans commonly take only the first part, and unceremoniously dump its trailer. The First Amendment covers the
SF News Rally for Sandoval Our super-secret SFist sources have notified us that Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, repping the eleven for the Excelsior, is holding a rally today at noon, on the steps of City Hall. , you ask. Is
SF News Shearman & Sterling Subpoena Craigslist Late last month, the law firm Shearman & Sterling delivered a subpoena to Craigslist, Inc. as a plaintiff in a suit against a disgruntled employee in order to determine her name. Apparently Steve
SF News SFist Est Amicus Curiae Well, SFist got our legal history off to a good start -- we're involved in a court case, and we're not the defendant! Nor are we the plaintiff -- though if you don't
SF News Gropinator 2: Judgment Day A British reporter's claims that Arnold Schwarzenegger first sexually assaulted her, then libeled her in the press when she told the LA Times about the incident, survived a first round of review by
SF News Trouble at Technorati [] Friend of SFist Niall Kennedy managed to cause something of an uproar in the blogosphere this week. Trying to make a point about the tension between blogging and corporate public image by creating
Arts & Entertainment Snapping the Parade Hey photobloggers! Since you're bringing the digital camera downtown on Saturday anyways to defend your First Amendment rights on MUNI, don't forget to stop by and get some shots of the Chinese New
SF News Muni, Muni, Muni! We all know how much our readers (and our staff) lurve to complain about the Muniserable. And it's not just when they're sticking it to the First Amendment. In fact, and every progressive
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers