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Fighting Premature Evictulation

The first measure called for those selling the condo to alert those possibly buying the condo that disabled and/or elderly people were evicted. The theory is that potential buyers would get with

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Double Double, Toil And Trouble

We think we speak for everyone when we shout out at the top of our lungs "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Last Thursday, Board Member and V.P., Richard Boyd filed a lawsuit contending that 23-year-old heir

Arnie in Accident

On Sunday, the Governator was rushed to the hospital after a motorcycle accident in Brentwood. Everyone involved is okay, but the Governor now has himself a big, fat lip and fifteen stitches. What

So Long Rusty

Just wondering, but how long will it be before we start seeing a "Rehab Rusty" movement? Also changing at Whatever The Hell It's Named Now Park is that Splash Landing will no longer

American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2006, 'You're In The Saddle Now'

Tampa Bay's hella young Head Coach JonGruden (late of our Oakland Raiders) prefers to run a complex offense with veteran players he can count on, while his Defensive Coordinator Monte Kiffin runs their

SchwarzenWatcher Watches the State of the State Speech

If the Governator's State of the State speech was one of his movies, it would be Terminator III. Why? Because, if you remember back to those halcyon days when the Governor was an

Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport

It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the

SFist Rants: A Modest Public Transportation Proposal

While having to go through all the rigmarole of hopping on Caltrains and being at the least fifteen minutes late kind of sucks, what really chaps our hide is that we have a

American Football Spectacular: We've Been Used.

Our 49ers won over the Houston Texans. Yet we write this with a sneer, for the fix was in. Houston had but to lose this game to garner the top pick in the

Goodbye Marvelous Norv Turner

SFist wasn't around when Marvelous Norv Turner was hired, but if we were, we would have said he was an uninspired pick that pretty much summed up the word "retread." Which turned out

Those Moneyball 49ers

What makes Marathe the center of the debate is because he is a big rectangular box in the Niners organizational flow-chart and he is most definitely not a football guy. What he is

American Football Spectacular: Bowl-tastic

LIBERTY BOWL Fresno St vs. Tulsa Saturday, December 31, 2005 Fresno has been all slumpy since nearly upsetting USC in a monstrous toe-to-toe battle. Tulsa used to be in the same conference with

Don’t You Know the BART Fare is Going Up, Up, Up, Up, Up?

A lot of things are changing come this new year. Like our sobriety. And our slack attempts at losing weight. But perhaps the biggest change that will affect us is that starting Sunday,

The Year In Sports

That's the thing about this Internet. In a way, it makes it easier to listen to new music but it's also easier to just pull yourself into some sort of musical bubble in

SchwarzenWatcher Goes Back to School

Now, yes, the fees wouldn't have to be increased if it wasn't due to some agreement with the UC system to raise fees or else lose funding. And Arnie could have given that

How To Get Bush

Face it, Niners fans, you were torn last weekend. On the one hand, they had a pretty solid win over the Lambs and Alex Smith finally showed he's got a bit of game.

American Football Spectacular: There Are Wins, And Then There Are Wins That Don't Help.

This is the bear time of American Football, where the NFL's regular season gasps its last, college teams compete through the institutional irregularities of the bowl games, and high schoolers are home for

American Football Spectacular: Desperation And Reckoning

San Diego Chargers at the Kansas City Chiefs, Saturday, 12/24/2005, 10:00 AM PST Wild Card playoff football is nothing compared to the atmosphere for two teams clawing for that last

American Football Spectacular: To A Frontier Town... There Came A Bowl Game.

As pointed out by American Football Spectacular's religious consultant Ms. No, Mormons aren't supposed to gamble. Further, according to the BBC's write-up on Mormon ethical practices, "Gambling in any form is condemned as

Arts & Entertainment

The Lonely Jew at Christmas

Unlike most years, Hanukah falls after Christmas. Actually, the first candle lighting will take place the day of. What does this mean? Besides the fact that Jews might be able to save Christmas,

SchwartzenWatcher Goes Back to Austria

Later, Arnie went on to express disappointment in his fellow countrymen and said that he considered them friends and as friends, he expected them to stand by him when he makes a difficult

It's Fonzie For Finley

This isn't to say that the trade for Finley ranks up there with his trade for Schmidt or Rob Nenn. It's not. Finley is 40 years old and had a hooorible year last

The 'Fisties: Favorite Athlete

Truth be told, it's not that easy to choose our favorite Bay Area athlete these days. We don't think it's a stretch to say that twenty years from now, some barfly isn't going

Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom

In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is

Boxer Drops the "I" Word

Boxer says she got the idea after speaking with John Dean at a public discussion. Dean, of course, knows a whole lot about illegally eavesdropping on people and lying to cover it up.