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Tony Hall's Looking for Work

His old job, of course, was District 7 Supervisor, a job he held before Gavin's now infamous "Triple Play" political move. There's only one problem with that idea-- the job is currently being

Arts & Entertainment

The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party

This Saturday night is the 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party: An Evening of Political Comedy. The first one was held about this time last year in an attempt to raise money

Schwarzenwatcher Watches That 70s Show

Why the 70s? Because all of the propositions are in the 70s. Get it? Get it? According to the site, all you need for a far out 70s party is to go to

Who Reads Yesterday's Papers

-Worried about mercury levels in fish? So is the Board of Supervisors! This week they approved an ordinance that will call for restaurants to post warnings, in English, Chinese and Spanish, about mercury

Moss' Marijuana Blues

Shockingly, the world still kept on spinning. The NFL, however, was not amused. They are, in fact, supposedly trying to get Randy to go into the NFL’s drug program. According to reports,

Schwarzenwatcher Plays With Numbers

The big story concerning Herr Governator is that according to a new poll, his ballot initiatives are actually winning right now. Is it due to all those super-expensive Hollywood style campaign stops he's

Your San Francisco Giants Put a Fork In It

And with that, we bid adieu to the Giants' season as baseball has moved to the playoffs and everyone's favorite drama, Waiting For the Sox/Yanks. Which means it's time for Your San

Meet Dick. He's a Local Congressman

Dick, you see, as head of the House Resource Committee, is in charge of the committee overseeing the care of our environment. Things like poor endangered Fairy Shrimp or some of our national

Your Commute: BART Makes a Boo-Boo

So, to make up for it, they've decided to add service and add the numbers of trains put on each run. It won't be back like it was before and people not going

Your San Francisco Giants Are All About the Love

We admit it, we have a love/hate thing with Barry Bonds. On one hand, we have an inate love of all things Orange & Black. On the other hand, we have a

SchwarzenWatcher Watches Arnie & George

When we last saw our favorite Republican bigwigs, Arnie and George, they were having a bit of a problem getting together. Twice, during the President's extended and ill-fated vacation, he visited our fair

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Reviews: <i>The Overcoat</i>

Nope. It's all done by with dance-like movements, set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The result is that it's kind of like a silent film, kind of mime-y, and kind of a

Sean Penn: Hero For the Day

Instead, the dude saw what was going on with the flood, flew out with a bunch of people (including a photographer), got himself on a boat and rescued a bunch of people. Gave

New Orleans Saints to Play The Raiders Tonight

With all the tragic events going on in the South, it's way too tempting to look for an angle and try to find a way to make it about ourselves. But we do

We've Got a Feeling We're in Kansas

Religious organizations filed suit in a Los Angeles federal court last week claiming that the UC system discriminates against religion for not allowing classes taught in Christian schools to count in regards to

Schwartzenwatcher Checks Out the Competition

Right now, the two main contenders to try and take the governship, Steve Westly and Phil Angelides, have been drawing nothing but the big yawn from the collected mass of California voters. And

What Goes Up, Sometimes Doesn't Come Down

Of course, you could always not pay. To protest the fare increases, local activists have been calling for a fare strike. For the past several months, they've been handing out flyers, posting posters,

SchwarzenWatcher Goes to the Stones Concert

So you get a bunch of free Stones tickets and a luxury box to see them opening night at Fenway handed over to you by some company out of the kindness of their

SFist Rants: Burning Man

Look, we have nothing against the idea of Burning Man. We like the idea of going to some desolate place, getting all decked out in costume, and partying. We've done our fair share

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Reviews: Dinosaur Jr.

Oh, it was loud. Righteously so. Loud enough to make you feel like your body was getting sand blasted to the back of the Fillmore. Which is how we like it. We pretty

SchwarzenWatcher: The Feature

Because there's so much going on with Herr Governator, we thought we'd need to turn it into a weekly feature. Yay? First last week's big story about the mistress and payment and the

Is San Francisco Going Red State?

The study was done by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research who based their results on voting patterns. A flak for the study said that race was usually the determining factor as

So Long, Woody

Today, we come to praise Kirk "Woody" Rueter, not to bury him. For yesterday, the Giants gave the long-time Giants pitcher and winningest left-handed pitcher in franchise history his walking papers. We knew

Another Victim of Globalization

Krueger's comments may not have been intentional and he could be the the kind of person who loves cute puppies, but it still doesn't change the fact that what he said was, in

Not Quite Ready for Some Football

Let the record show that we have serious issues with anything related to exhibition pre-season football. We hate how hyped they are, hate how seriously they're taken, and we especially hate how they