Love is in the air, everywhere you look around... Nerds in love, and you know we love it. Geeks are back, baby! And if your pardner gets hilariously wonky jargon-jokes like this, you may have just found your special someone. In the "why we love The City department:" The annotated notebook Dinah Sanders lost? Found! And turning up the cute dial past eleven, congratulations to Neekole and Brandon on their first anniversary! more ›

Beth Spotswood pops ten questions for Gavin Newsom, and we want answers. Speaking of interviews, Shout Magazine raps with local MC Paris. And a crop of top local writers weigh in on the JT Leroy fracas, including Thomas Roche, Mark Pritchard and our own SFist Violet. more ›

Who says stoners aren't productive and ambitious? At one point yesterday there were three posts in a row about the medical marihoonie: A jailed dispensary owner writes from a Fresno jail where three fellow advocates are also locked up, Charles "Eddy" Lepp stands trial this morning and faces four life sentences for growing cannibis and Mountain View looks to be the first town in Santa Clara county with a dispensary ordinance on the books. more ›