Between the black n' purple checkered floor and the burlesque porn that was playing in the TV over the bar, we knew we had entered the perfect world's most interesting venue, Bottom of the Hill. (We continued that thought as we ventured into the sticker/grafitti laden walls of the cramped men's bathroom.) Bumping into Chris Reynolds, Eulogies' drummer, at the merchandise table before the show was unexpected as the porn but we digress. After a......

One day in San Francisco politics you're in, and the next day, you're out. IN: District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, who successfully managed to fend off the petitions calling for his recall, which have been vaguely annoying our readers for the last few months. The recall backers managed to get 3844 signatures (about 300 over what they needed), but the SF Dept. of Elections found that about 25% of the signatures were invalid. The recall......

Photo of a woman trying to get in the Federal Building despite the presence Code Pink protesters...

SFist interviews Chris Wiggum of Larsen Associates...

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Nothing too new to report on the Ed Jew got arrested front this morning, but the Chron did survey all the other Board of Supervisor members for their reactions. Let's go in order! --District 1 (Jake McG): "The appearance is so bad, we don't need a trial." --District 2 (Michela Alioto-Pier): Considers Jew a friend, "Let's remember he's not been found guilty of anything." --District 3 (Aaron Peskin): "If I was in his place, I......

Friend of SFist Charlie Anders reminds us that her nifty and unusual spoken-word group, Writers With Drinks, will be experiencing yet another stupendous explosion of literary greatness this Saturday, the 9th, from 7:30 to 9:30 at The Make Out Room. Presenters include: - Judy Budnitz, author of Nice Big American Baby and If I've Told You Once - Clifford Chase, author of Winkie - Sesshu Foster, author of Atomik Aztex - Anthony McCann, poet......

In today's installment, our new Muni Driver gives us his views on how to improve Muni. We'll get things started right away but first, a reminder. If you got any questions you'd like asked, send them to editor@sfist.com. ...

You've still got the Berkeley World Music Festival today, and Indiefest's Hole in the Head fantasy/sci-fi/horror film fest is in full swing! Your other options include: --This looks like a can't-miss! ACT is presenting Fields of Gold, a musical about Amish teens in the throes of rumspringa (sampling the modern world). Set to the music of Sting. We quote: The songbook of Fields of Gold features a mix of Sting and The Police’s most beloved......

Univision: "You okay, Gavin?" Gavin: "Imo get to that question when I get through this door!" KGO: "Did your hair get bigger, or is the doorway getting smaller?" Gavin: "Why's everybody gotta hate? I killed that town hall meeting. I'm the best mayor in the world!" Pat Murphy: "Is it true you got rid of your entire blue tie collection to quell the wrath of SFist Rita?" Gavin: "SFist Rita wasn't even here. What's up with that? They sent that creampuff, SFist Elaine, instead." SFist Elaine: "Whatev, Gavin. You are so DTM!*" ...

Remember the case we told you about last Friday, about the guy who killed someone with a mechanical robot dog? Well, the judge in the case (at left) got hit by a light-rail outside the San Jose federal courthouse yesterday around lunchtime. The judge was taken to the hospital but is reported to be okay enough to keep presiding over the trial. There's a strange situation involving the Peninsula Humane Society. A man's black lab......

SFist Jon and SFist Chris went to last night's Wolfmother show at the Fillmore. Opening up for them was Live 105 fave Silversun Pickups and some other band we'll get to. Thus explaining SFist's hangover today. Instead of doing a full on review, we thought we'd let SFist Jon and SFist Chris discuss the concert, that is what they can remember of it. And you know what this means? A whole post in first person!...

The SF Opera wraps up its Fall season with two girls behaving badly, Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Bizet's Carmen. Manon is a young woman, who on her way to seclusion in a convent, elopes with a poor student, Des Grieux. It is not said what peccadillo she committed to earn a sentence of life as a nun, but her brother, instead of being dismayed at the news of her disappearance, calmly expects her to show......

We went to the PlumpJack Cookbook signing party at Jack Falstaff last night. And none other than the mayor was sitting at the table, pen in hand, waiting for us to bring our copy of book. And he deserves all the kudos, as it’s hard to sign with a bleeding sharpie on glossy paper when you are left handed. We are getting carpal tunnel just thinking about it. No smudge, and his sleeves remained pure white. ...

SFist Reader Caitlin poses the same question many of us have asked: "Why does Muni seem to have fewer (and, therefore, packed) buses running than scheduled?" And we're sure the problems Caitlin describes aren't restricted to the 43. Is there anyone who can help us understand why we all seem to be seeing fewer, more crowded buses? How hard can it be to figure out what the busy lines are? For weeks now, I've seen......

Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon in New York City last year. The daytime events at the Swedish American Hall are booked solid, but tonight there will be a "Meet the Vloggers" event at the Apple Store which is open to the public (likely followed by drinks......

Seniors at San Jose's Independence High aren't talking about who super-glued 180 classroom and library door locks on the first day of finals, even after the principal canceled the senior picnic and the school offered a $500 reward for information. A freshman said, "I thought it was mean. If I get an F on my final, I'm going to blame the seniors." Entrepreneurial! Leah Garchik tells a tale of a guy walking around in a......

Just as the rain stopped, everyone has a new favorite blog topic--it's earthquake centennial madness! Eric over at and the Family Buick has a fairly lengthy write-up of the event, while Rangelife has a fever, and the only cure is--more cowbell. Sorry, wrong pop culture reference. We're still on the earthquake. Your favorite ex-bathroom attendant has a write-up on the plucky fire hydrant that saved so many, while sfdx has a different drink in mind. Mona has a beautiful pic of one of the survivors up on her blog. Some others, though, are more concerned about the effects of the next big one. Jennifer admits that she's been rattled by all the voice of doom coverage, and Jamison gets snarky over what he feels is unfair proactive re-distribution of blame. Maybe he should keep the turtle he found, a pet might make him feel better. Art makes us feel better. We love that we live in a town where art thrives. The Painted Ground of San Jose Avenue posts protest art this week, while the California Department of Corrections went big time and Kvatch takes over Market Street. This poster--literally--thinks locally. VJ Culture isn't protesting anything, but we do lament the fact we'll never be as cool and smart--at the same time--as he is. On the other hand, we have jerks here, too, as chronicled this week by Ed, in addition to Thomas Hawk's ongoing struggles with building security guards. So is it any wonder that sometimes we just go a little goofy? And sometimes, when the stars are aligned correctly, we have smart, goofy Newsom protest blogs that makes milk come out our noses. You suck! Have a nice day! Picture from If I Ran The Zoo. SFist Jacob, contributing. ...

Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Rough-looking woman to rough-looking guy, both of indeterminate age: "I'm not an exhibitionist, I'm an inhibitionist." -- On the 71 Haight bus/Submitted by Asatrex Mid-forties yuppie lady: “Well, he’s 70, but I’m telling you, he could PASS for 50.” -- Submitted by Genevra Old dude in wheelchair wearing purple velvet crown: “I’m telling you, man, love is the answer. My old lady’s kid?......

Send submissions to yvesroppings -- at -- gmail -- dot -- com. All quotes are from a gaysian boy on the phone with his mom, riding downtown on the 21: Sniff. Mom, I'm fine. I have like an AMAZING immune system right now. I take vitamins every day. Sniff It's just a cold. What kind of doctor are you going to go see on Monday? ... ... ...Ew. You should visit in the summer......

These are my top 12 favorite albums of 2005. That's right, I said "my" not "our." That's because once a year at SFist we get crazy and write a post in the first person (and also because my fellow SFist music writers probably have wildly different favorites of their own). Sufjan Stevens Illinois Young, ambitious, talented, and accomplished, Sufjan Stevens has topped the majority of 2005’s Best Of lists his own way, on tiny independent......

Har! Remember Maria Alquilar, the lady who misspelled the names of the geniuses on the mural she was installing for the Livermore library? (or maybe Albert always spelled his name "Eistein," you never know.) Well, "Shakespere" and "Van Gough"'s families can rest easy, Ms. Alquilar slunk back into town last week to finally fix the mural. Alquilar, who had previously said she would never fix the mural because people had been so mean to her about it, was in a feisty mood in the blazing Livermore sun as she installed her new spell-checked tiles, threatening to throw a rock at the Chron's photographer and telling them, "No pictures of me! If I'm in it, I'm going to sue you." (Chron and Oakland Trib, you stinkers!) A city official politely said that Alquilar needed to be able to focus. (F-o-c-u-s.) Alquilar billed Livermore over $6000 for the privilege of re-edits, but we're sure Livermore residents have gotten more than $6000 worth of entertainment out of the whole thing. As one local teenage wag told the Chron, "When the story first broke, I thought, 'Oh, Livermore, the town that misspells stuff,' The only thing we've got in Livermore is a library that misspells words." ...

SFist is sending out an APB to the world: are you a ravishing young woman? Do you drive a Jeep? Were you driving it around in the Sunset last month? If so, a young man named Luke really, really really wants to speak to you. Consider the dozens of missed connections that have been posted in the past few weeks by the local 30-year-old to be a series of love letters. True, he only......

SFist interviews Sarah Lefton, owner of the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy...

[Ed. Note: Sorry about all the aliterative headlines, we couldn't help ourselves.] Tiburon's Robert Redford was busy wining and dining indiewood out in Utah at his Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Netflix Film Critic and blogger James Rocchi (who recently attended a panel organized by the SF Weekly's Michael Fox) passed Defamer a report on how tense been among the the media in Park City. Seems Anthony Kaufman (who we think can be found......

Making your world a little more paranoid, the Examiner reports that gang wars are back in the Mission....