SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Weird Letter Writers As we were dozing off our hangover this morning after the wild party we threw when we found out we were named the Guardian readers' "best local blog" (did you
SF News It's Not Over til the Grand Jury Sings The case against Bonds stems from the initial Grand Jury on BALCO. Barry got up there and told everyone he never used steroids except by accident when he got duped into taking the
SF News Now, Submitting to Government Monitoring of Your Transit Choices is Easier Than Ever! Recently-introduced website upgrades allow you to check your balance online, which is nice -- though an SMS-based system would be useful, too, since not all of us have gotten around to buying
misc Charter School Scandal Uprep was intended to serve disadvantaged students and put them on a college preparatory path, but the school has been hit hard by cheating scandals as of late -- earlier in the month, teachers
SF News July Muni Payout: $58,437.75 But can we just say -- what is up with the law offices of Aspelin and Brigman? Not only does their initial complaint , but it contains weird run-on sentences and grammatical gems such
Arts & Entertainment Final Harry Potter Book Tranforms Noe Valley Into Diagon Alley We hate lines and we shy away from new things -- we're definitely a second- or third-generation adopter for tech, and a wait-for-the-paperback guy for books. But we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Blow-Up": DJ Jefrodisiac and Emily Betty’s "indie-pop-disco-noir" (noir?) monthly dance club brings out hipsters of every ilk. But that doesn’t mean that you
Arts & Entertainment This is the End, My Muggle Friends, the End In case you haven't heard, tonight, at precisely 12:01, THE VERY FINAL HARRY POTTER BOOK WILL BE RELEASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! And by final,
SF News Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana Again? Now, you know, one of the things we hate about all this Barry hullabaloo is that it allows other people to grab a big brush and paint us Giants fans in an unflattering
SF News 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Responds To Critics With A 'Call To Arms' SFist recieved two missives from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview
SF News Behold! (A Very Young) Gavin in Uniform The Chron's Beth Spotswood lands a most delicious photo: a pre-Mayoral Gavin Newsom poured into a baseball uniform. Oh my. Well, then. (Not sure if this has been around, but
SF News Thirtysomething Strassner thinks that if we just implemented the BRT plan in Chinatown, the 30 Stockton will move much faster and thus alleviate all the complaints that have been fueling the calls for the
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a
SF News SF Almost the Best Place for Yuppies Coming in at a respectable number two, Forbes Magazine named San Francisco the second best spot to park your yuppie ass. As if you didn’t already know that. (Although we’re puzzled
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Cubs 3 Giants 2- The Enchanter enchanted but whatever fireballs he threw weren't enough to win the game as once again, the Giants offense failed to show up and the bullpen
misc Canine-On-Canine Crime in Golden Gate Park And for God’s sake, if you live near the park, keep your cat(s) indoors. They don't need to be outdoors as much as us human beings do, so keep
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Dodgers 5, Giants 3- You have to wonder about what Bruce Bochy has to be thinking now. Last year, he was managing a good up and coming team that had just come off
SF News <i>The Economist</i> On Our City's Economy It's always interesting to take an "outside-in" look at our fine city, like when the L.A. Times wrote about the Haight a couple months back. This time,
Arts & Entertainment Love You Long Time? As part of the fifth annual San Francisco Sex Worker Festival, curator Gennifer Hirano and artists Sarah Mac, Mariko Passion, Reagan Louie, Tracy Quan, Annie Chen, Surgeon Scofflaw, The Girls of Banteay Srei
SF News Phoebe Halliwell Back In SF As we mentioned, Alyssa was all over this town for All-Star week: promoting her Touch 'Em All fashion line, hosting the celebrity All-Star game, attending All-Star parties where she
SF News Git-R-Done, Barry We kid, we kid, cause there's one super gigantic big thing out there and we all know what it is-- Barry's chase to 756. At the start of the
SF News San Francisco Homicide Rates Up 20% This Year It's time for the San Francisco crime mid-year report card, and we're not doing so great -- homicide rates are up 20% from last year. The SFPD reports that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes To Harry Potter at the Metreon OK, we didn't actually attend the premier last night. But we were at the Metreon to check out the travesty of The Transformers, and we were right next to the line
Arts & Entertainment Sing-a-long With Dick and Condi As we told you last week, the San Francisco Mime Troupe performed in Dolores Park for the public on the 4th and last weekend. It was the premiere of the group's
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Another <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Team We told you a few weeks ago about Platinum Studios' "American Idol"-style contest for comic creators, through which the winners will get a "multimedia development and publishing deal&
