Defective Yeti came up with a handy clip 'n' save pamphlet for you to take to the polls. Easy and breezy. And let's not forget that AT&T's wiretapping building is located right here in San Francisco, smack dab over at 611 Folsom Street. Let's hear it for the unfortunate local angle!......

Well, well, well. Well. It turns out that after a recount and by a mere three votes, according to the scroll across the screen on during the People's Court, the new Vallejo Mayor is actually Osby Davis. The Folsom Street Fair-phobic Gary Cloutier, it seems, doesn't get the title. According to the CBS5 site,"[f]ollowing a recount, former Solano County supervisor Osby Davis has defeated Vice Mayor Gary Cloutier in the Vallejo mayoral race." Daivs......

But that's the entire point! Anyway, RicardoSF tells us in the comments section here that: In January's issue of The Advocate in the Rants & Raves section -- unavailable online -- "I think what goes on at that fair is pretty disgusting. Just because you are gay doesn't mean you support the Folsom Street Fair or go there. I don't." -- Openly gay Vallejo, CA, Mayor Gary Cloutier, when asked at a Vallejo religious......

O! What we wouldn't give to attend this press screening in Washington DC tomorrow! DCist has the pleasure of reporting on the anti-invert, pro-missionary sex group called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). Tomorrow they will unveil "raw and unedited" footage that they shot during this year's Folsom Street Fair for the National Press Club. "Raw" footage, you say? Oh my. You may remember that there was a scant bit of controversy due to......

Image: EFF The secret room at AT&T's Folsom Street facility is in the news again. Staffers from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation are in DC this week and next, trying to convince Congress that telecoms shouldn't be given retroactive immunity for their cooperation with the NSA's secret (and illegal? or illegal-ish?) wiretapping programs. Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who spotted the NSA's wiretapping room in the AT&T building and blew the whistle, is......

Photo of the long long line of people standing around waiting to get their passports. Still...

Many who fear him/her/it -- that is to say, loathe media as a civic institution -- cry out for zombietime's head on a platter, because there's ample room for disagreement. Such pearls as "[r]eliable impartial statistics on this topic are simply impossible to come by" regarding homosexual reprogramming (the American Psychological Association has loads of research on the futility of such experiments), or that participants going to the fair "are agreeing to be 'visually raped'" (not much of a rape if it's consensual), turn heads but also make zombietime so much fun and such a fascinating read....

Oh what's that you say? You enjoy the company of sweaty fisters, and you enjoy a spot of Earl Grey (hot)? Well today's your lucky day, and by "today" we mean "tomorrow." We were alerted to an alternative-alternative picnic happening at the Folsom Street Fair via the Finch Mob, a terrifying local gang of drug addicts. Apparently some folks are going to dress up real nice, and plop themselves down to have a fancy-dress......

-- Magic Bullets: Along with Bonde do Role and JuiceBoxxx, this local outfit (heavy on the bass lines, rhythmic keyboards, and melancholic vocals) performs tonight at 9 p.m. at The Independent, 628 Divisadero; $13. -- Queen Christina (1933): Young Swedish queen ends up kissing another dame as well as a dashing John Gilbert. Greta Garbo stars in this classic starting at 9 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way. -- Downy......

Un-American group the Catholic League, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights sect, has called for a boycott of Miller Beer ever since The Last Supper got the parody treatment from the Folsom Street Fair folks. Two great comments on our original post that can sum it all up, more or less: guest, "This isn't about christians, gays, or fisting; it's about ignorant American philistines too dull to understand that homages to The Last Supper......

Closeted homosexual Journalist Randy Hall of Cybercast News Service got his feathers all ruffled over this not-so-clever Folsom Street Fair (which he describes as a "multi-city block party for homosexuals") ad, which tamely parodies Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. Confusing the work of art painted by a probable homosexual over one's fantastic belief in Christ, the ad is decried as anti-Christian. Which? Well, all dildos point to yes. Feeling the pressure from wife-beating/molesting......

Sorry for the delay in getting SFist Tonight out. This afternoon was steeped in several fun-filled return trips to CompUSA, dealing with customer service. So much fun was had, folks, that we felt like putting our face through a window several times. Aaanyway, a few late-in-the-evening things to do at places where you can get as fucked-up as you want: -- Trannyshack's Pre-Folsom Street Fair Party: "Addicted to Porn": Famous SF midnight drag show,......

San Francisco and the Bay Area are getting ready to throw a big (albeit somewhat belated) celebration for Philip Glass’ 70th birthday with concerts all over the place and, of course, the premier of Glass’ new opera Appomattox. And the kick-off is this Friday night with a very special and rare intimate recital courtesy of San Francisco Performances. Mr. Glass will be playing several of his pieces with cellist Wendy Sutter and percussionist Mick Rossi at Herbst Theater....

Four blocks of Bernal Heights have no water service right now: a cement truck doing repairs on Folsom Street tipped over earlier this morning, injuring the driver and damaging the water line. Two blocks of Powhattan and two blocks of Folsom are affected, they're hoping to get water back on by the mid-afternoon. Picture of the repairs on Folsom from the PUC website......

Frameline -- purveyors of the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and many hosted-bar opening- and closing-night parties that we’ve crashed (but we hear the films are great, too!) -- needs your help. This year they will receive funding from the profits of the Up Your Alley Fair -- happening on Sunday, July 29 -- if they bring in a certain number of volunteers. Described as a “smaller version of the Folsom Street Fair,”......

The artists in We, Asian Sex Workers want to make it clear that they are not slaves or victims. They don't need to be "saved," but they would like some respect, or at the very least, sensitivity. As part of the fifth annual San Francisco Sex Worker Festival, curator Gennifer Hirano and artists Sarah Mac, Mariko Passion, Reagan Louie, Tracy Quan, Annie Chen, Surgeon Scofflaw, The Girls of Banteay Srei (Oakland, CA), and Ivy from......

It's been five years since SF Camerawork, a non-profit dedicated to photography and digital media, had its own gallery. Since 2001, Camerawork has shared exhibition space with New Langton Arts, but no longer. SF Camerawork has moved back to its old hood, and is celebrating its new location at 657 Mission St. (at 3rd) with a Grand Opening party from 5-9pm. Check out the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery, Ghosts in the Machine,......

Today's story about Oakland having trouble recruiting cops brings to mind a story that ran in last Sunday's Chron about the SFPD having trouble recruiting cops. How desperate are they? They set up a recruitment booths at the Folsom Street Fair. ...

Admit it, the weather has been outstanding. No one can claim our high-rentian bargain of getting spectacular September weather has not been delivered in full. The beaches, parks, trails and sidewalks are the place to be weekend after weekend this month. The Love Parade was lovely and the Folsom Street Fair was crotchless chapirific. Some nights has even been warm enough to remove the long sleeves and leave the windows open overnight while the mornings......

--Another successful Folsom Street Fair! --Another successful Dragon Boat race! --Another successful Burlingame Pet Parade! --Another successful Love Parade! Article by Catherine Rauschuber, pictures by Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal. See also the Sentinel's coverage, some of which is NSFW. (Luke's pictures are okay for work.). --Happy birthday, Jaynry Mak! --Give Gavin a raise (Sofia Milos makes an appearance later in this item as well). --District 6 candidate Rob Black gets the all-important......

In Color 2 (2475 Third Street, Suite 251 at 22nd Street) The Ghana Youth Photo Project Opening Benefit Reception: Fri., Aug. 25, 6-9 p.m. Last October San Francisco Camerawork’s youth mentoring program First Exposures sponsored Jamie Lloyd’s trip to West Africa to bring a photography program to 11 youths in Ghana’s capital city of Accra. The children not only learned a new skill but were also given the opportunity to visually represent their country, culture,......

Okay, we finally got out of the house and picked up a hard copy of the Bay Guardian. And yes -- we're in it! Your SFist editors are right behind the guy making what looks like a less-than sign with his right hand, and right in front of what looks like a giant inflatable beer, on page 53. As an extra bonus We Read The Weeklies feature this week, we present: The Best of the......

There actually is a local component to this whole NSA wiretapping/eavesdropping scandal, one that is about to make the scandal more scandal-y. It involves AT&T and the claims of former AT&T technician Mark Klein that sometime in 2002, AT&T allowed the U.S. Government to build a secret room in their Folsom Street office for the express purpose of eavesdropping not just on phones, but the internet too. And yes, whenever we read about this, we picture guys in black suits, black ties, and black shades running around the AT&T offices led by a mysterious figure smoking a cigarette. ...

For all you kids following along with the ups and downs of our trusty local transit agencies, here's the latest haps from the SF County Transit Agency: About $6 million's going to Muni, the Karl Pilkington of transit agencies, to continue work on the 3rd Street Light Rail. That's sure to go well. We'll be getting $91,000 in bike lane improvements, including better lanes on Market and in a region that is officially known......

Remember that totally awesome scene in Return of the King where the Witch King was leaving Cirith Ungol with the Orc army and Frodo started freaking out and then that big shaft of light shot out of the building as the people of Minas Tirith looked on with a dread that something great and terrible was coming? Replace Minas Morgul with the Moscone Center, the Witch King with Kevin Smith, and put a "d"......

Our local theater companies have shows much more unique than prix fixe menus for Valentine's Day....

Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Female: So I Googled myself the other day. Male: ....and? Female: It was a mistake to give that reporter my name at the Folsom Street Fair. -- From SFist_Rita @ a restaurant on 16th street Woman on cell phone: "He needs to see a shrink. Imagine him at 67, 77, 87. ... He'll stay in 4420, no, no, 4410. We'll have a......

Man, it was a busy weekend -- anti-war protests, the Love Parade, the Folsom Street Fair -- and not to mention Webzine 2005 and the ragingly hot SFist/Webzine kickoff party. Thanks for stopping by, Webziners! ...or maybe you stayed in and reviewed your options for the new TV season. There's always some baseball or football on too, along with more Sex In The City than you can shake a pair of $100 shoes at. That is, if your TiVo's still working! Other things we learned -- did you know you can detonate a bomb using a cell phone? Do you tip the cabby less than $2? (What if the fare's $8.50 and all you have is a ten?) Was that thunder we heard the other day? Is that Ross Mirkarimi giving you mouth-to-mouth? Phew! We're exhausted! Peel us a grape! Picture by Melissa Schneider...

Saturday: Best in Show, the store for the fancy-pants pet, is having a Pet Fair from 1-5. There will be pet photography, teeth brushing demos, and dog training -- along with all sorts of giveaways and prizes. Pack up Fluffy and Fido and come on down. Sunday: We're swiping Fluffy and Fido's leashes and harnesses for the Folsom Street Fair, from 11 to 6. The world's largest leather and fetish fair is, as always......

Blah blah blah, morality laws -- who cares? It's Dore Alley, the smaller, smuttier, queerer cousin of late-summer's Folsom Street Fair, and it's this Sunday. For one glorious, beautiful day, you can strut around with your ballgag or foxtail buttplug or gladiator outfit or (if you're feeling demure) just a pair of chaps. Our loyal SFist fans couldn't ask for a better opportunity to buy and wear our "Super Fister" tshirt; a tribute to......