SF News Crosses to Stay So here's what they did: they just created a new code making it so the crosses can stay, but this will be it for long-drawn out political protests. Earlier there were tight codes
SF News Free Plastic Bags! The vote passed by a 10-1 margin with only cranky old Ed Jew providing the nay vote. We would assume that the vote would draw usual cries of "oh no they didn't" but
Arts & Entertainment Fake Question Time III- the Photos To paraphrase an old joke about hockey, we went to a Town Hall meeting last night and a protest broke out. Case in point, the above photo of an attendee making a calm
SF News Cracking Down on Parking Scofflaws First up, cracking down on handicap placards. Turns out those handicap placards are all the rage these days, as they seem to be everywhere. According to statistics, the amount of those handy-dandy blue
Arts & Entertainment Never Let them See You Sweat Yes, that was SFist on CBS 5 last night, hobnobbing with Phil Matier and thanks to SFist Rain, we finally have the clip of it. Watch SFist Jon pretend to be an expert
SF News Gavin Wants To Hear From You We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our
SF News San Francisco Steps Up and Gives 110% San Francisco unveiled some shiny new plan to win back the affections of the Niners yesterday. The plan includes a redevelopment of Candlestick Point and Hunters Point and features a new stadium for
SF News The Cry of the Fishmonger: The San Jose Sharks Season in Review It's near the end of March Madness, which means casual sports fans across the North America, and in the Bay Area in particular, start caring about the National Hockey League. Well, maybe "caring"
SF News A-Rod a Giant? Sure, Why Not? Essentially, this is all happening because Rodriguez has an opt-out clause in his contract. That means that even though he still has years left in his ten-year contract, he's allowed to say sayonara
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Pollan Cares About the Farm Bill (And You Should Too) No longer a little-known piece of farm legislation that would dictate agriculture funding and policy while no one was paying attention. This year, food and farm advocates are pushing hard to publicize the
Arts & Entertainment Compromise Can Be Healthy Too The battle over Healthy Saturdays was sort of at a stalemate until a study was released saying that attendance to the museums were up on Sundays when John F. Kennedy Drive was closed.
SF News Breaking News from the SFist News Desk An Alaska airlines plane has been evacuated at the Oakland Airport for suspicion of an explosive device on board. It's probably nothing as it's usually nothing but it's still kind of exciting. As
SF News BART To Join 21st Century We love when public transportation officials have a light bulb go off over their heads. The first thing they want to do is to train the train operators to make their announcements more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Sunny Weekend: Thai Brunch in Berkeley (Yet Another Reason to Visit the East Bay) It can get pretty crowded in the cafeteria-style seating area, but on warm weekends it’s nicer to sit outside on the lawn outside of the temple anyway. While the lines to get
SF News No Booze, No Justice Due to complaints about all the drunken mayhem often associated with the fair, fair organizers had hoped to make the neighbors happy by installing beer gardens where drinking would be allowed. It didn't
SF News No Soup For You According to Executive Director Kevin Westlye, the members of the association are thinking about closing for one day to make a point. And it won't be on a late sunday too, it'll be
Arts & Entertainment A Day After the First Day of Spring Yesterday was the first day of spring so we decided to celebrate a day late with a YouTube clip of Tchaikovsky's Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" from Disney's Fantasia. Then we realized that's
SF News It Takes Two To Make a Thing Go Right The one Gavin wants to setup is an actual sort of a mini-court in which there's a DA, prosecutor, and judge and is designed to have a verdict rendered within 24 hours. The
misc Pooh-Poohing Pooh The reason for the suspension is because the girl, Toni Kay (now an 8th grader) apparently ran afoul of the school's pretty strict dress code. The code says that thou shall only wear
Arts & Entertainment SFIAFF: <em>Air Guitar Nation</em> Long-time readers of SFist will know that we love (love!) all things Air Guitar, both for its obvious silliness and its devotion to the rawk. So when we heard that Air Guitar Nation
SF News Pedestrian Killed on Valencia Street by Asshole Driver From what we understand, the Quentin Tarantino portion of his Grindhouse movie is about a stunt driver who goes a little crazy and starts running over people. Which sounds kind of dumb and
misc Contest Reminder: An Evening of a Thousand Scowls The show will be Saturday, March 31st at the Nob Hill Masonic Center and we have a pair of tickets to give away to the event. We'll select a winner this Friday.
misc What's In a Name The reason why they are even debating this is because an ex-student, Mike Harold, said he got no props in job interviews when he said he went to SJSU. Hey Mike, maybe it's
Arts & Entertainment Dan Noyes vs. Matier & Ross Somehow, Andy Ross got his hands on Dan's e-mails to Benefits Magazine head honcho Tim Gaskin and then contacted Dan to get a comment. Which Dan did and then to show he's got
