Please, for the love all that is holy, make Armando Benitez go away....

SFist interviews Oliver Chin, author, and Immedium publisher...

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

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond wants.... Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Also -- impeach! And be nicer to pigeons. Chris Daly likes putting city propositions on the ballot. Ed Jew -- get to know him now, since he didn't get any coverage during the election. A tattoo artist shot in the head in East Oakland. Buy a San Francisco Values t-shirt from the Guardian. Cover articles: The Year In Music (why the Bay......

Is nothing sacred? Next Monday, NBC will be airing a live-action version of the Rankin-Bass puppetoon classic The Year Without a Santa Claus, starring John Goodman as Santa, Harvey Fierstein as the Heatmiser, and Michael McKean as the Snowmeiser. Also present in the cast are Delta Burke and Chris Kattan. Pardon us. The mediocrity is making us a little nauseous. The original, 1974 version of The Year Without a Santa Claus was, for a......

Every Head Coach has inclinations about how they like to run their team. For example, our Niners' savior-genius Bill Walsh ran a short passing game informed by strong running. Bill Cowher, Head Coach of the Steelers, prefers heavy ball-control pounding with a dash of trick plays, and a powerful 3-4 defense. The two Head Coaches in The Battle Of The Repurposed are both out of their comfort zone, and that is fascinating....

The Year 2005 has finally come to an end, and none too soon. It kind of blew. We have higher hopes for 2006. But even though the calendar may say 2006, and even though vacation is officially over, you'd never know it by watching TV. This is another week where the reruns outnumber the new episodes. Come next week, that will no longer be the case, but we're hard-pressed to really find anything to......

...any way we want to, got it? This week -- with 100% less poo! Well, we hope. Last week's triumph of the Guardian was a shocker, let's see how our three competitors fare in this, the last We Read The Weeklies of 2005. The Guardian pulls no punches with its cover story on The Year in Film. Daly vs the Ellis Act. Mirkarimi's Comcast metaphor comes up again. More on the HopeNet raid. Fascinating......

It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service of getting us drunk. Yes indeed, ‘tis the season for recognizing the best of the best, the places that don’t settle for second place, that realize life is a marathon not a sprint, and any other clichéd ‘successories’ slogans you can think of. Crack-a-lack-a!!......

Looking back on 2005, we think the year could be described as "The Year The Earth Fought Back". Starting out with late 2004's tsunami, through the summer of hurricanes - culminating in Katrina - and then the south asia earthquake... well, we don't want to jinx the rest of the year but we hope there isn't anything left for her to throw at us. While we sit around waiting, let's not forget that there......

First off, don't let the name of the program fool you. Dick Clark will NOT be hosting Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve this Friday. That privilege is going to Regis Philbin, and we think you already know how we feel about Regis. So skip it. Or go outside. Or go to sleep before midnight even strikes. Because New Year's Eve? Blows. In other news, this week TV offers up the inevitable "Year in......

Whether you plan on celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Chrismukkah, Kwanzaa, or Festivus, the month of December blows. Err...we mean the month of December is magical. If you'd prefer to experience some of that magic from the comfort and safety of your own home, we've got a few TV viewing suggestions. Airing tonight on ABC at 8:00 p.m. is that classic celebration of Christmas depression, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Watch the old blockhead attempt to survive......

The Chron today ran a story about a bear cub that was killed because it was begging for food by coming up to tourists and hugging them. The bear had apparently learned this technique from its mother, and, having great success getting food this way, lost its natural fear of humans. The bear had to be killed because, having grown impatient with the hugging, it swatted at an 11-year-old Boy Scout to get the food in his knapsack (Always Be Prepared, I suppose)....