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......

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?) ...

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. ...

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....

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......