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Entries from SFist tagged with 'presidentialelection'

February 25, 2008

Ralph Nader announced yesterday that he will take yet another tireless stab at the Oval Office, this time running as an Independent in the 2008 presidential election. Oh joy. Prattling on endlessly about how the Democratic and Republican candidates aren't addressing the issues, and blah blah, who cares, this will be his fifth attempt at snatching the title President of the United States of American. What with a black man, Barack Obama, in the......

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January 28, 2008

It's that time of the year for all the big papers to weigh in on their choice for President and yesterday, the Chron weighed in and announced that they are going to support the guy who gives pretty, pretty speeches. You know, the Muslim dude who doesn't pledge allegiance to the flag, and just might be on the downlow: Barry Hussein Obama. And, yes, we know most of that stuff comes for a vicious, nasty email smear that's been going around and isn't in any way true, but come on, you gotta let us have some fun....

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January 13, 2008

Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye.Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city's only English-language paper. Gothamist believed that a writer who wanted pre-gentrified gritty New York and ended up getting beaten up during a mugging learned his lesson.DCist followed Mayor Adrian Fenty and the D.C. Council to New Hampshire,......

Continue Reading "Week Around the -Ists"

September 19, 2006

We'll tell you about two shows that have little in common except perhaps six degrees of separation....

Continue Reading "Stage Fog: Opposites Attract"

January 9, 2006

Oooooh, romance. Every Monday we review a slew of nifty comic books, courtesy of the neato kids at Isotope Comics, but we didn't expect the get a warm mushy feeling this week. Nevertheless, tiny little hearts and flowers bubbled out of our head as we read "True Story, Swear to God," the first volume of a romantic autobiographical comic book series by former Napa resident Tom Beland. A few years back, just as he......

Continue Reading "The Affectionate Adventures of the SuperFisters"

August 12, 2005

It's here, it's finally, really here! We've been waiting for months to publish our review of The Aristocrats since catching a preview screener. Drumroll please... If you like to laugh until it hurts, go see The Aristocrats. We kid, we kid. The above was our little ode to Peter Travers. Seriously, though, we didn't really know what to expect going into this. We knew it would be dirty, but dirty like your funny uncle,......

Continue Reading "Not-So-Guilty Pleasure: The Aristocrats"

January 24, 2005

Is Barbara Boxer getting ready to run for president in 2008? It kind of looks like it......

Continue Reading "President Boxer?"

December 27, 2004

Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of the year for me, in no particular order: Best Moment of the Year My Life: Getting married Bravest Mayor/Person Most Wrongly Accused of Losing the Democrats the Presidential Election: Gavin Newsom Senator Who Actually Should Take the Blame: John Kerry Worst......

Continue Reading "SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004"

October 18, 2004

Hey! You! Did you just turn 18? Did you just move? Are you 20,000 loud? Are you going to vote or die? Well, here's your chance -- today's the last day to register for the November 2 election. Embrace your elderly, non-Urban-Outfitters-cool status and exercise your franchise rights! This isn't just for the presidential election, of course -- send in those forms today and you San Franciscans can start up with the ranked-choice voting, and......

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