SF News Photo: Al Gore And Tim Cook Gossip Before WWDC Keynote Each sporting black attire, Nobel Prize recipient and former Vice President Al Gore and Apple CEO Tim Cook chat before today's keynote address of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. During Monday's keynote at
SF News Al Gore Jazeera? Arabic News Network Possibly Buying Out Current TV [Updated] After several months of rumors that Current TV was looking to sell out, Qatar-based, Arabic satellite news network Al Jazeera is reportedly finalizing a deal that would take over the cable news network
SF News Current TV Contemplating Selling Out Current TV, the independent television network founded by Al Gore in 2005 with headquarters right across from AT&T Park, has been entertaining offers to be acquired by some other network or
SF News Al Gore Coming to S.F. in Support of Alioto-Pier for Mayor Yes, kids. Michela Alioto-Pier has some friends in high places, and last week we saw the announcement that Al Gore had officially endorsed her for mayor. The campaign announces today that the former
SF News Keith Olbermann Coming To Current TV In the second most important San Francisco/television news story today, former MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann announced that "he will host a new nightly hour-long primetime news and commentary show on Current TV,
SF News Al and Tipper Gore Separate After 40 Years Oh dear. Former Vice President and Current co-founder Al Gore and his four-letter-word-eschewing wife, Tipper, will separate after 40 long years of marriage. According to an email obtained by Associated Press, Al writes
SF News Current TV Reporters Sentenced to 12 Years in N. Korean Jail Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two Current TV reporters nabbed by North Korean border guards while they were doing a story about human trafficking on the Chinese-North Korean border, have been sentenced
SF News Matt Gonzalez for VP, Says Nader Whenever a presidential candidate announces his VP choice this early in the game, it's either to try to help him win a state, or to strengthen a weakness. Take, for example, Bill Clinton
SF News Day Around the Bay Your Black Muslim Bakery women treated like "slaves." (Hot fish sandwiches don't make themselves, ladies.) [Oakland Tribune] Dan Noyes sticks it to Muni again, and not in a good way. Be sure to
misc Net Neutrality Symposium at USF and on Your PC Come and see NN guru Tim Wu, Art Brodsky, Richard Clarke, Lawrence Spiwak, and a host of others. Why should you care about Network Neutrality? Here's why. Al Gore took the initiative in
SF News Gavin Newsom's <del>Power Point Demonstration</del> SotC Address Did you see or hear about Gavin Newson's State of the City address? We did. For a few minutes. It seems the Gavin went on for over 100 minutes, as SFist Jim already
SF News Google Still Hating America If you may remember, Google first got in trouble when they didn't do one of those cute logo cartoons to Support the Troops. Now they're in some more trouble with conservatives for celebrating
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Emmy-winner Al Gore might also win the Nobel Peace Prize. Weren't Bono and Princess Diana supposed to win that at some point, too? (You know, before she...vroom.) [Wired News] -- Bay
Arts & Entertainment Current TV Wins Emmy For Some Reason Also: really? Why? Aside from having sweet Mission Bay offices -- with self-consciously placed arcade games in their front windows -- Current TV takes itself way too seriously to be important. They have
Arts & Entertainment Good Magazine Will Do You Good (Block Party This Sunday!) We've been big fans of Good Magazine since their premier issue came out last fall. We love the inspiring stories they cover and the ways they present them -- graphics, design, and concept
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Carbon Footprint Off The Dinner Table "Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine.
Arts & Entertainment Gorilla Suits Okay, we're lame, but we are deeply enjoying the description of the race in this Chron article: "I wanted to be Al Gore-illa, but the Al Gore mask didn't work over the gorilla
misc Week Around The -Ists Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the
SF News Day Around The Bay --They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by
SF News Hi Al But what's that? You're going to be speaking there on Wednesday, May 23 at 7PM? About your new book, ? And you'll be signing copies? And we can buy tickets at http://www.ticketmaster.
SF News Belmont: More cars! More pollution! The idea behind the Climate Protection Agreement is that dense housing (that's multi-unit buildings, like a duplex) near transit will reduce car usage and oil dependence and air pollution, transforming miserable freeways to
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Peter Morgan and <i>The Deal</i> We'd been wanting to see ever since we saw The Queen, and it did not disappoint! We're grasping for analogies here! It's like the Godfather, only about politics! It's like Amadeus, if Salieri
SF News Apocalypse Comes Full Circle There's probably some kind of remarkable statement to be made here, about how it's a carbon-neutral film about monsters frozen in ice by climate change millions of years ago. Discursive wheels within wheels!
SF News RagoneWatch (A Day Late) Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of John Nelson), Peter
SF News Jobs iNnocent Not everyone, however, thinks that all of this settles the case. One guy interviewed for a story and who obviously doesn’t worship at the cult of Steve Jobs (blasphemer) thinks Jobs is
