misc Thinking About Laundry With the Essefficist First things first: Hurray! John Ashcroft is stepping down. Second things second: Big ups to Jackson and Eve for coming up with the new Essefficist mascot over there on stage left. What says
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
SF News Warriors... Come Out to Play-ay! Remember when we told you we were going to see the Warriors on opening night? Well we did, and they lost, which wasn't that surprising, since, you know, it was the Warriors. Our
SF News Screw You Guys, We're Out of Here Ever since the election, there's been a lot of grumbling about our misfortune in being attached to the rest of the country. Finally, somebody did something about it: posted the Web site USoutofSF.
SF News Disenchantment in the Streets It wouldn't be San Francisco if people weren't deluded into thinking anyone cared what we say. Which is why protest events have been long planned in response to this election. As one coworker
Arts & Entertainment More Depressing News We could barely read the paper this morning, we were so depressed. So we thought, "Hey! Read Datebook instead! It's always quote unquote fun!" So what should our scarred soul see? Infighting over
Arts & Entertainment Sigh It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our
Arts & Entertainment Comedy that Puts the "Mock" in Democracy Based on Wonkette's early numbers, it looks like it could be party-time in the Bay Area. But things have a way of changing at the last minute, so who knows. Either way, you're
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Patrick Kavanagh An inhabitant of Oakland, Patrick displays some serious O-town pride. Make sure you check out his picks for spots to hit next time you cross the bay. They’re guaranteed to make your
SF News Let's Play BALCO! For a trial that's supposed to be leak proof, this whole BALCO mess is leaking all over the place. In response to charges of misconduct brought on by details of the investigation leaking,
SF News Total Eclipse of the Moon Today's weather predicts the norm of partly cloudy, which should make for eerie effects on the blood red moon. To find exact times of the eclipse near you, check out the Navy's Lunar
SF News Proposition It II - Election Boogaloo As Lionel Richie would say “Karamu, fiesta, forever/Come on and sing along." Proposition 63- Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax on Personal Incomes Above $1 Million. This measure basically calls for funding
SF News Temporary Reprive for Local Theaters Update and Clarifications: Thanks to Jerry Threet, legislative assistant to Supervisor McGoldrick, for his great follow-up! He noted that the primary sponsor of the ordinance to create a CU process (as described below)
SF News Yes, We Had No Banana Far be it from us to post stories making some spurious claim about some noted official and then disappear whenever they try to defend themselves. So when said noted official tries to defend
misc The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may
Arts & Entertainment FIGHT!!! One of the reasons we read the weeklies is because, thankfully, we live in a town big enough for two of them. They don't always see it that way, however - the relationship
SF News Kimberly Takes Manhattan How do you know our esteemed First Couple has it made it? First there was big story in the New Yorker and now this- they made the New York Post gossip column! We
SF News Interview: Lessley Anderson As part of this plot, we are pleased to bring you an interview with Lessley Anderson who writes for SF Weekly. Even if she didn't love the Musee Mechanique as much as SFist,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Way of the Woman Warrior Living in the city, SFist has had our fair share of unsettling encounters (the weird guy following us up the street, shouting obscenities; loud conflicts taking place right in the middle of the
Arts & Entertainment I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings John Donne? William Blake? Jewel? Nope, it's the words and wisdom of everyone's favorite Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfield. This Saturday night, the always rocking Noe Valley Ministry has a performance of "The Poetry
Arts & Entertainment B-boy Battle in the Blogosphere! Forget Mount St. Helens - there's been an eruption right here in the blogosphere! While checking out 1115.org's debate recap, we kept scrolling to a post on Nelly dissing political MCs (classy
SF News Gaming the System As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people
SF News East Bay Pro-Choice Doctor Targeted All of the doctor's neighbors within two or three blocks of the doctor's North Oakland home have been receiving letters accusing their neighbor of "perpetuating the American Holocaust" and "bringing the shame of
SF News Interview:Oliver Wang SFist recently went back to school for a Ph.D. (don’t worry, you’ve got at least 4-5 years before we demand to be known as Dr. SFist). As we stare down
SF News These Folks Should Partner with Evite The cards include a drop-box menu of eight disease options (chlamydia, molluscum contagiosum, and non-gonorrheal urethritis being three), but do not include HIV. ("the designers feared that spammers might use that attribute to
