SF News Political Junkie: SFist's First Write-In Candidate! We love it when our commenters get involved in local affairs! We were so proud when we first noticed a commenter had gotten a letter to the editor published. We wonder if another
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Posts So what happened with all those stories we've been telling you about all week? Fret no more! Here's your answers! *Madison Nguyen beat Linda Nguyen, 62% to 37%, for the District 7 San
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn in Iran; SFist Struggling To Care Look, you've probably noticed lots of other people talking about this, and look, it's not like we don't care about the Middle East or Iran or anything (hey, we read both Persepolises, we'll
SF News Wanted: New MUNI Boss Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took
Arts & Entertainment Dowd! Friedman! It's Punditpalooza! According to Leah Garchik, the double-bill might never have happened. Dean Orville Schell got Dowd to appear and came up with the idea of adding Friedman to the bill. When he asked an
SF News SFist Raves: The N Judah We complain about MUNI all the time, and we're not about to take it back. But like all great passionate affairs, our hate, anger, frustration, and disappointment is tempered by deep love, like
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
Arts & Entertainment SF Watches: Movies This Weekend Obviously, the "at" where it "is", is 7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival. You knew that already, didn't you? However, what if that screening of you had your heart set on is
SF News Alta Bates to Disgruntled Employees: Take Your One-Day Strike and Shove It The Chron quoted Alta Bates Summit's vice president for medical affairs, Dr. John Gentile, as suggesting the sympathy strike is meant to unify the unions so that they can bargain collectively for a
SF News Summit Faces Uphill Battle Alta Bates Summit's director of public relations, Carolyn Kemp, was quoted as acknowledging that the results of the audit "were not in our favor" but also downplayed the significance of the specific complaints.