SF News R.O.T.C in the U.S.A First up, the School Board, as a member of the Board, Mark Sanchez, has introduced a measure that will ban JROTC (Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps) programs. Apparently, every school child in the
SF News The Battle of the Bay Begins This weekend, inter-league play rears its ugly head as the Giants travel cross the Bay Bridge to take on the A's in Oakland. Shouldn't Gavin and Jerry be making bets on these things,
SF News Dancing with Mr. Brown Phew. The benefit of having Mr. Brown is that he is well acknowledged as some sort of basketball genius, well praised as having invented the game, the first person to ever do a
SF News California Catches Impeachment Fever Anyways, the bill has made it through the California Assembly Rules Committee which voted to approve the bill so they can consider it later. Huh? Actually, the vote was to amend a previous
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Diameter of a Bomb</i> And then, about three quarters of the way into the movie, we started to understand what the movie is about. In one sense, yes, it's about how awful terrorism is, but there's more
SF News Tanking in the Shark Tank We sort of knew this was going to happen, but here it is: after officially jumping on the Sharks bandwagon last week, they have now lost three in a row to the Edmonton
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Air Guitar Championship Last Thursday night we went to go check out the San Francisco Regional of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship. And it was awesome. The competition worked like this-- the first round consisted
SF News Mo' Pelosi Well, our little congresswoman made a stirring come-from-behind comeback victory yesterday and overtook Cynthia McKinney in Wonkette's "Congressional Catfight." We hope it was our valued readers who helped take the prize for ole'
SF News Bay Area Representatives Representin' In the first round, Pelosi is up against a tough challenger, #1 seeded Cynthia McKinney. McKinney is the Tupac quoting, police beating congresswoman from Georgia who is, for all intents and purposes, bat
SF News Bikes 1, Cars 0 The "Healthy Park's Initiative" (that title polled much better than "Traffic Congestion Saturday!") now goes before Gavin who gave this definitive response: "There's a chance of a veto. There's a chance I support
SF News One More To the Babe Considering Barry's love of drama and his love of hitting most of his momentous home runs here at Whatever-the-hell-it's-Named-Park, it'll be a good bet that he’d hit both 715 and 716 this
SF News Meanwhile, in San Jose... We're going to talk about something we rarely talk about-- hockey. Why? Because the San Jose Sharks are now up 2-0 against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the playoffs, after
SF News Hate is Such a Strong Word Now that our long, national nightmare is over and Brett Favre has announced that he's both playing this season and maybe next season, it's time to check in with our Bay Area teams
SF News Palms, Palms, Palms for the Poor We were reading the Chron this morning and read up on their story about the planting of palm trees throughout the city. Let's just say right off we like palm trees. And let's
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
SF News Not Too Late to Catch Olympic Fever "We are honored to have been selected as a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games. San Francisco embodies the Olympic ideals of peace, friendship, universality and tolerance. This is a testament to the
SF News Down Goes Barry, Down Goes Barry It looks like Bud Selig's Barry Bonds voodoo doll is working as last night, before the Giants 2-0 victory over the Brewers, Barry was bonked on the head by a foul ball in
misc SFist Rants: We Want Our 7th Inning Back And yes, we do hate America, why do you ask? The main reason we don't like it? Hello, overkill. Seriously, we already play the National Anthem. Do we really need to hear two
SF News Waiting for Tagliabue: The 2006 NFL Draft As much as we said we were going to avoid the NFL Draft, we found ourselves on a lazy Saturday morning tuning in and getting hooked. In its way, its got that same
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Warfield We wish we had seen them earlier. Not that they didn't put on a good show or the music wasn't great, it's just that what we saw wasn't the raucous, fevered band we
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
SF News The Mandatory NFL Draft Posting Being part of the Award Winning SFist news desk, we suppose we should say something about the NFL draft tomorrow. So we started up with the researching and decided we were so sick
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
SF News Saturdays In the Park Yesterday, the Board of Supes approved by a 7-4 vote a measure to close off part of Kennedy Drive on Saturdays just as it is on Sundays. Well, for a "six-month" trial run
SF News Loving Barry The simple answer is as it always is-- as somebody once said (the Sports Guy? Seinfield? Kafka?) sports fans root for the jersey. Why? Because when the home team wins, the hometown fans
