Oh lord, what's to be done with these people? It's every week with the loud speakers in Dolores Park, blasting devotional music and testimony and dogma and so forth. You can hear them from blocks away. They're not there to persuade anyone; like Critical Mass or Dore Alley, these aggressive displays of difference just reinforce the gulf of "we're totally unlike you," rather than adopting the shrewd Scientology approach of "hey, look, this is......

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,......

"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....

Well, you could either go to Carnaval this weekend -- or you could go to the State Green Party Convention. Ross Mirkarimi (seen here going into the dunk tank) is giving the keynote address, and the delegates plan to debate issues like ranked-choice voting, lowering the voting age to 17, and immigration. They may also get to issues about global warming. The convention starts at 11:30 a.m., goes through the Memorial Day weekend and is......

The University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute has just published a study on the effectiveness of a new method to reduce greenhouse gas emission in California . While it may seem strange that an out-of-state university is concerning itself in California's affairs, we'll take it: the findings are pretty encouraging....

Possum Death Spree 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......

Hey, there's lots of stuff going on this weekend! And in exchange for telling you about it, we're going to ask again for a favor in return -- if you go to any of these events, would you mind terribly sending us your pictures of them, and we'll show them off on the site for you? Tag 'em SFist on Flickr, or mail them to editor-at-sfist.com! --It's time for the Bring Your Own Big......

-Police say they're taking a bite out of crime in the Western Addition. -And today's minor earthquake was in Lafayette. We still think there has been way too many of these minor quakes lately....

-You know what $250 bucks at a fundraiser gets you for lunch? A lunch box of sushi. That's it. For $250 bucks, we'd want kobe beef in gold infused soy sauce in a bed of rare Nepalese quail. On the other hand, you did get to listen to Hillary. ...

The Gavin Newsom Mea Culpa tour continues on as he put on his hair shirt on (with matching blue tie) and sat down with CBS 5's Hank Plante to talk about his rather crappy past couple of weeks. ...

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the progressives need something to do (so why not run a mayoral candidate?). Too many skyscrapers. Wi-fi and sunshine laws, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, cars in Golden Gate Park, and SF is totally unprepared for global warming. The gay porn Oscars! Cover articles: Noise Pop! SFist Elaine says to check out Scissors for Lefty. Dude, there's like a review for every band playing! Yay Noise Pop! L.E. Leone......

--They've arrested the guy who said he attacked Elie Wiesel. Gleegate attackers still at large. --Will you be underwater when global warming comes? --The only family members at James Kim's well-attended public memorial were wife Kati Kim (with their two children) and James's sister Eva. --Gavin Newsom's approval numbers are still in the 70% range, but someone's been trying to break into his house. --There's more human bones in the Santa Cruz mountains. --An......

It's always a funny thing in California in that it's good when it rains despite the fact that everyone hates when it rains. Take this winter. We haven't had that much rain and there's been all this worry about their not being enough water for our reservoirs and Tahoe's economy and dear God, it's the beginning of the global warming end! But on the other hand, we don't think there's many of you who've been thinking to themselves "gosh darnit, I really miss a good rainstorm. Why can't it rain 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? ...

In your Non-Gavin news.... -About 500 people walked around the city counting Homeless people last night. -Mirkarimi doesn't want any more liquor stores to open up in Lower Haight. -Caltrans to send transportation bond money to rural areas and less money our way. -Boy who was first thought of as a suspect, then a victim of recent shootings at the Hayward BART station, now under arrest for assault and gun charges. -Berkeley is about to......

KCBS is reporting that Peter "Byorn" Ragone has finally copped to using all those fake names and admitted that all the postings as "John Nelson" and others was him. He also said he wouldn't do it again and would only post under his real name. We wonder if that means he'll go as "Peter Ragone" while posting on MTV's "Sweet Sixteen" message boards. ...

So San Francisco's Department of the Environment-- you know we had one didn't you?-- has come out with their plans to make this city go green. Or more like cutting down on those nasty, nasty greenhouse gases so we can cut emissions to pre-1990 levels. The report was called for by Gavin as part of his Climate Action Plan, which he introduced in 2004. ...

-The Oakland Tribune starts a three-part series on how all this Global Warming stuff is beginning to affect us locally. -Silicon Valley is back and better than before. -Ron Dellums was a hit at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. -Man shot and killed on Eddy Street early Saturday morning. -Blue and Gold fleet wants to raise prices. -Everybody loves the idea of an early primary. -Electric car catches on fire and burns down a building......

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As previously reported on SFist, today is the day the official, real Question Time is supposed to happen. Sometime today, the Board of Supes will read off all the names of people who should be in attendance and add one name to the list, that being Gavin's. Gavin won't be there, of course, because he will be at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, hobnobbing with the stars, both poltical and movie. His attendance at the confab, however, isn't going over very well with some people. ...

-Yesterday was a mother fu----ing protest-off over abortion. -Pelosi and the Governator aren't even MySpace buddies. -Nobel prize winners meet in Berkeley to discuss Grey's Anatomy, Global Warming. -Man shot in Oakland-- homicide #6 for the year. -Six car crash on I-80 near Vacaville kills three, injures eights, and closes westbound lanes for more than six hours. Drugs and alcohol are suspected -The new dot.coms just aren't any fun. -Save the Presidio clarkia! Illustration of......

It's January 1, and here are the best things from the last 365 days....

-Lindsey Lohan's best bud, Al Gore, shows up in town to rally the troops to fight Global Warming. Save us, Al, save us! -San Jose man accused of trying to sell cool spy software to Asian militaries. -Turns out a couple of boats were leaking "discharge" into the Bay. That's not very legal. -Remember how everyone thought the cause of that Taco Bell e coli scare was the result of green onions? Nope, it was......

One good thing about being the area known as having the most-liberal, terrorist loving court system is that we get all the fun lawsuits happening here. Which would describe a lawsuit filed a couple of days ago against the Federal Government at the US District in San Francisco for slacking on a global warming report. ...

-Veterans Day celebrated with parades and a memorial featuring boots. -Scientists head up to the Sierras to try and track Global Warming. ...