As you know, San Francisco's honorary Granddad was celebrated in a ceremony at City Hall earlier today. While the emergency warning siren might have failed to entertain us, but the San Francisco Boy's Chorus, the San Francisco Girl's Chorus and the Gay Men's Chorus repeatedly belted out San Francisco's unofficial theme song for the lucky folks who managed to squeeze in to the dome room of City Hall. more ›

As gooey-romantic-at-heart Andrew Dalton dutifully pointed out, at noon today, Valentine's Day, Tony Bennett will return for a special Valentine's day performance of the city's unofficial theme song under the dome at City Hall. The event is free and open to the public. If you cannot make it, the city will also broadcast the Bennett's performance "in the plazas and parks around Union Square and over the radio waves like our very own honey-throated overlord." But best of all, our typically chilling emergency warning will belt out "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" at noon, or so says Gizmodo. more ›

Noted crooner and Supreme Chancellor of San Francisco Tony Bennett, used the stage at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party Saturday night to implore his audience to join his campaign to reform this country's drug laws. Before singing "How Do You Keep The Music Playing" in honor of the late Whitney Houston, Tony (who has had his own troubles with troubles with controlled substances) compared her unfortunate death to the recent loss of Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson, saying: more ›

Fifty years after he debuted "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" at the Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel, noted San Francisco fan and former Belvedere mansion owner Tony Bennett will return for a special Valentine's day performance of the city's unofficial theme song under the dome at City Hall. The event is free and open to the public, of course. And because we can't all just drop what we're doing on a Tuesday and head down to Civic Center (or possibly because the city is testing out some sort of Tony Bennett mind control device), the city will also broadcasting the 85-year-old crooner's performance in the plazas and parks around Union Square and over the radio waves like our very own honey-throated overlord. more ›

The classy crooner may have left his heart in San Francisco, but now he's also leaving his home in Belvedere. As Curbed points out today, Bennett's lavish bayside estate is up for sale for a mere $27.5 million. more ›

From Tony Bennett to the Village People, several musicians have written songs about our beautiful city. What do you think should be our theme song? Over at yelp, they are arguing about Journey vs. Beach Boys vs. Otis Redding. We think it should be "San Francisco" by Vanessa Carlton. We heard it live (see above youtube clip) last night and we fell in love with it. Now we know it's not a classic like... more ›

So now that our Nance is the women in charge, how did her big soiree go? Jam-a-riffic it sounds like as besides performances by Carole King, Wyclef Jean, and Tony Bennett, Pelosi had various members of the Grateful Dead and some other jam-band types play her party. Apparently Pelosi is a big fan of the Dead which we're not buying at all but we guess that's part and parcel of representing a district (does this mean if we ever achieve political office we'd have to pretend to like the Counting Crows?) more ›

If the sun is shining a bit brighter and the birds are chirping a bit chirpier it could only be because today is a big day-- as of this posting, our little Nancy is officially now the Queen. In fact, her little "First 100 Hours" plan is now on the clock. How excited is she? She's been throwing herself four days of parties in celebration of it, all to be later shown in an episode of C-Span's "My Sweet Inauguration Party." In a stab at snarkiness, the NY Times even refered to it all as a "Pelosi-Palooza." And the fact some of those parties could raise a little money for her and her party, well, that's just a happy little coincidence. more ›

Well, it's April 19, 2006, and the goodwill created by celebrating disaster rising above disaster has now officially dissipated. The Chronicle reports that numerous public officials are disgruntled at various protocol lapses that left them feeling insufficiently fawned over at the big 4:30 a.m. party.

There was predawn political infighting because some elected officials weren't offered a coveted spot on stage, an awkward moment when the master of ceremonies called into the audience to locate former Mayor Willie Brown even though he was standing not far behind her, and what should have been a memorable finale with the crowd singing a roaring rendition of "San Francisco" puttered out because many didn't know the lyrics.

San Francisco's favorite but least read Q&A columnist, the Essefficist, answers a question about what you can order online if you're really missing San Francisco. more ›

For all those SFist readers feeling blue about today being Valentine's Day, cheer up little buckaroos because you're not alone. Turns out, there's a lot more out there than you think. According to some study, San Francisco ranks as the 38th best city for singles between 18-24. That's only one better than our brethren to the South in San Jose and two better than Sacto, but eight spots below Fresno (Fresno!). And in something that will give our neighbors much to be happy about, Oakland lapped us and came in ranked 19th. In other words, if Oak Town is a rockin', don't come a knockin'. While that might be slightly embarrassing for SF, try being New York and having to contemplate the fact that Jersey City out-ranked the Big Apple. more ›