SF News Nancy Pelosi Re-Elected to Lead House Democrats It was predicted she would take it with a large majority, and it's true: House Democrats just voted to elect Nancy Pelosi as minority leader in a closed-door vote of 150-43. Steny Hoyer
SF News Tahoe Ski Season Will Get Much Shorter In Coming Years, Says UC Davis Study A new and alarming study out of U.C. Davis projects that snowfall in Tahoe will decrease by a third in the next forty years, and by two thirds by the end of
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Juggler Detained, Street Closed, After He Was Juggling Fake Grenade One of the many street performers angling for tourists' quarters at Fisherman's Wharf was detained Saturday evening after trying to get some extra attention for his juggling act. The man was juggling what
SF News Gary Scott Holland Was Probably Violating His Parole While Staying at North Beach Residence Hotel Accused killer Gary Scott Holland, who plead not guilty Friday to the brutal murder of Kathleen Horan in her Russian Hill apartment, had been calling the Castro Hotel on Vallejo Street home since
SF News DiFi Gets Student's Deportation Delayed The protest to keep 20-year-old Steve Li in the country on Friday was outside Barbara Boxer's SF offices, but it was Senator Dianne Feinstein who stepped in Sunday to ask immigration officials to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Dark and Stormy Martini from Level III TGIF, everyone. Time to drink. While we might quibble with the use of the word "martini" in the name of this drink, we can't argue with its tastiness. The concoction is by Level
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Maru, the Cat Who Loves Tiny Boxes Cat lovers beware. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll plotz. [via OMG]
SF News Gather Outside Barbara Boxer's Office at Noon to Protest This Kid's Deportation All over the news the past day or so has been the story of 20-year-old Steve Li, the would-be nursing student who was arrested at his San Francisco home in September for being
SF News Facebook to Launch Its Gmail Killer; Apple Incorporates Twitter Into Ping Today in techie news: Facebook's secret product, known as Project Titan and blogged about since February, is launching Monday with a big special event at the St. Regis. There were hints that came
SF News Concessions Issued in Supervisor Races, Wiener and Kim Claim Victory Even though the SF Department of Elections refuses to go beyond the *preliminary* stages of ranked choice vote tallying, Debra Walker and Rafael Mandelman put us out of our misery yesterday by issuing
SF News State Receives Bids for Huge Death Row Complex at San Quentin Despite pending legal action from Marin County trying to block the project, the Department of Corrections went forward to begin reviewing nine bids they received from contractors for Phase 1 of a $356
SF News Jean Quan Is Oakland's First Female (and Asian American) Mayor It's official: City Councilwoman Jean Quan has won the Oakland mayor's race, beating out Don Perata in the ranked-choice voting tally by a margin of 51% to 49% (a little more than 2,
SF News We Read the Weeklies It's Wednesday, and we at SFist are going to revive a long-ago feature in which we tirelessly read, and summarize, the stories of note in this week's alt-weeklies. We like to be service-y
SF News Leland Yee to Announce His Candidacy for Mayor Via SF Weekly's blog this a.m. we see that former supervisor and assemblyman Leland Yee may be looking to become S.F.'s first Asian mayor -- that is unless David Chiu
SF News Uh, Did You Guys Hear About This Missile? So, somebody launched a missile on Monday night, pretty damn close to Los Angeles, and neither the Defense Department or the Pentagon is saying what the hell it was about. The Navy and
SF News Preliminary Supervisor Election Results, Post-Ranked-Choice Runoffs: Kim, Wiener Still On Top, District 10 Still Damn Close 55% of you went out to vote last Tuesday, and they're still trying to figure out who won the Board of Supervisors races (good luck sweatin' this out, District 10!). The first preliminary
SF News Rapper/Actor Ludacris Drops in on San Francisco High School Ludacris talks to the kids of Thurgood Marshall High from Get Schooled on Vimeo. As part of MTV's Get Schooled Challenge in which Sway and Big Von and some guest celebrities have been
SF News Recent Spate of Muni Delays Not Your Imagination After enduring a number of painful delays on the Muni underground himself, SFMTA board member Malcolm Heinicke called a meeting last week to discuss the "unusually" high number of delays in recent months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Little Ava at 25 Lusk The newest, and coolest, restaurant and bar in SoMa is Twenty-Five Lusk, on an alley between 3rd and 4th off of Townsend (parallel to Ritch). Architects Cass Calder Smith designed the space, and
SF News Watch KRON 4's Live Coverage of the Mehserle Sentencing News of the Johannes Mehserle verdict will be covered live on KRON4, and via UStream, we've got it here for you. A jury convicted Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year. The former
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "If You Were Gay" from Avenue Q Didja hear? Avenue Q is coming back to town! The Tony Award-winning Best Musical will be playing the Orpheum from February 15 to February 27. Get tickets here. With that, here's a clip
SF News SFist Blotter: Union Square Stabbing, East Oakland Fatal Crash Union Square / Stabbing: A man was stabbed and seriously wounded by a 20-year-old Hispanic assailant on Stockton Street yesterday, following the jubilations of the city after the Giants' victory parade. The incident happened
misc Photo du Jour 730 We're calling this one "Dead Can iPhone." From last night's Dia de los Muertos parade in the Mission. By Luxomedia on Flickr.
SF News VIDEO: Brian Wilson Says 'The Beard's Here for Life' ABC 7 grabbed a few seconds with a mohawked and still bearded Brian Wilson as he walked in the victory parade today. He says, "This is the best moment of my life. Fact.
SF News An Elegy for Nancy "At 70 years old, her political career is likely over. Congress is a funny, insular place. Mastering it the way Pelosi did is an art that is much more a liability than an
