Otherwise known as stories we missed while we were on vacation... -The last time we heard from Krissy Keefer, the Green candidate for Congress, she and some of her gal-pals were banging the Taiko drum and handing out cookies to celebrate her official entrance into the race. We maybe a little fuzzy on our American history, but we think Lincoln started that way too. Anyways, we hadn't heard from her since then but last week, she and her Merry Band of Dancers took part in a celebration of Fidel Castro's 80th birthday, which the San Francisco Sentinel described as a "spectacular evening ensemble of music, song, dance and poetry." Keefer's dance troupe performed and Keefer performed the monologue during the performance. You know, nothing says "striving for mainstream political acceptance" like staging dance performances to celebrate Fidel Castro. While it's not official, word has it that Keefer is in talks to take part in a new VH-1 reality show "Dancing With Dictators." It's not know yet who'll she be dancing with, but we here the Stacey Keibler/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad team will be pretty hard to beat. more ›

If you have any understanding of San Francisco politics, or San Francisco at all, you have to have noticed that basically everything in this city breaks down to a battle between the "Downtown Business Interests" and that of the "Progessive Community." This is the Hatfield vs the McCoys, the Republicans vs. Democrats, the Backstreet Boys vs. N'Sync that splits our fair city. But who exactly are the "Downtown Business Interests" and the "Progessive community?" What do they believe in and what do they think of the other side? And what do they want out of this city and how do they hope to achieve it? Well, after the break, SFist breaks it all down for ya. more ›