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Chris Daly Doesn't Back Down (Budget)

You know we'd never say Chris Daly backed down from a fight, especially not in the title of a post! However, we did just get an email from the Gavin Newsom 2008 people

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San Francisco Is Subject Of a Casual Gaming Hit

Every Monday, Logler.com presents its "Casual Games Global Top 10," a list ranked by data from major download portals. Just so happens that the number one game this week is called "Big

Top 5 Comments of The Week: Non-Audio!

Hey, everyone -- here are the semi-arbitrary Top 5 Comments of the Week. For this, our fourth week of doing it, we thought it'd be a swell idea to try it out in

Chris Daly Backs Down (Blue Angels)

Quick, look out your window! Are pigs flying? Mark this day on your calendar, because pugnacious Supervisor Chris Daly has actually backed down on something he's proposed (other than running for mayor, that

Day Around The Bay

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big

What to do About the Angels Blue?

But surely you jest, said supporters, those things never crash! Oh, but they do. Over the weekend, a Blue Angel crashed at an air show in South Carolina, killing the pilot. An investigation

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SFist Interviews Scott Campbell

Scott is the Art Director/Concept Artist at Double Fine Productions, creators of the acclaimed Psychonauts computer game, and he's a regular contributor to the Hickee comic anthology, the latest edition of which

SFist Baseball Preview

A quick lookthrough of the predictions has the A's losing out to the Angels in their annual season-long dogfight as Sports Illustrated even has the Halos winning the whole thing. As for the

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Lock Up the Women and Children

The party will be held at the Angel's clubhouse at 4019 Foothill Blvd. in East Oakland and thousands are expected to attend. From all over the world too. The highlight will be a

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Review: Comedy Death-Ray at SketchFest

SFist was excited to hit SketchFest’s Comedy Death-Ray act last night at Cobb’s. The line up (full of Mr. Show and I LOVE the ‘80’s alumns) looked promising. After the

...And A Protest In A Pear Tree

Hark! The herald angels at Left in SF heeded our plea and forwarded along some pictures of last night's singalong Christmas carol protest of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's holiday party. As you

Diary Of a Poll Worker

I just got home. It took an hour and a half for the sheriff's deputy to come pick up the ballots and supplies. This was long after the parking operations guy had come

SFist Has Something Nice to Say About MUNI-- <a href= http://www.sfist.com/archives/2006/08/11/we_have_something_nice_to_say_about_muni_no_really.php>Again</a>

But anyways, to make a long story short, this guy gets on at Haight Street and tells the driver he's only going to go for a stop or two because he's just looking

Week In SFist: Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair!

"Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love.

Brittanie Bobs Her Hair

This month's Zelda Fitzgerald, mayoral paramour Brittanie Mountz is not only flitting about town in true flapper style (and who knows -- if she's in fact under 21, she might be drinking some

Odds and Ends

Next up: Bush Ter Down! As promised, those wacky World Can't Wait kids tied up traffic on Market Street protesting the war. As our waggish commenters noted, it did indeed rain -- but

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And We Can See Those Fighter Planes

Of course, this means there'll be the attendant complaints about noise and from the leftier side of the political spectrum, cries of glorification of the military and this is San Francisco and wasted

Playoffs, Baby, Playoffs!!!!!!

=Oakland finally snapped out of it and beat the Mariners 12-3 just as word filtered down the Angels lost 5-2. Your Magic Number? 0. As in "clinched." As in "playoffs!" Who the A's

Stuck At Two

After losing two in a row to the Angels, the A's had to be thinking that a three-game road swing through Seattle would cure their clinching blues. After all, they've won fifteen in

What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Football Today

Not that we watched a lot of football yesterday, but we saw that red haired woman in the Nissan commercial enough times to make us feel like we need to introduce her to

What's the Score, Boys? What Did Bugs Bunny Do? What's With the Carrot League Baseball Today?

Cardinals 34- Niners 27: Sometimes a loss can be a victory and this is one of those losses that looks like a victory. Except in the win column where it really counts. The

Who Reads Yesterdays Sports Papers?

First, onto baseball: The Giants are now on a three-game roll after taking two from the Cubbies and beating the Reds in ten innings Monday. Your Black & Orange hero? Shea Hillenbrand who

Does Ken Macha Matter?

And yet, we utter his name among baseball denizens and they shrug their shoulders and continue imbibing a cold, frosty one. Macha does little to capture the imagination of A's fans in general.

The A's Will Win the West

Beane, like Brian Sabean of SF Giants hype, makes his bones when it counts most-- during the trade deadline. This year, the flutter of butterfly wings could be heard from the A's camp.