Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
SF News Barry & BALCO- Where Do We Go From Here? Now that all the dirty secrets of the BALCO trial have been leaked and suspicions confirmed, those of us who bleed orange & black are in the midst of some of the darkest
SF News Say It Ain't So Barry And the next shoe dropped. After yesterday’s big scoop revealing Jason Giambi’s Grand Jury testimony, the Chronicle, which has been all Woodward and Bernstein about the BALCO trial, got an even
SF News We Feel Your Pain At the beginning of the year, our earnest Boy Wonder of a Mayor said that in the spirit of sharing the pain of the inevitable budget cuts, he would cut his own salary
SF News As the BALCO Turns Hold onto your hats, sports fans, as Victor Conte, the mad scientist in charge of the BALCO labs is all set to go on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 this week and name
Arts & Entertainment These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty- This Week in DVDs So yeah, there's a bunch of movies out this week, but like last week's This Week in DVDs, the movies aren't really the important thing. Sure, we love Harry Potter, but this is
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
Arts & Entertainment From Beneath You, It Devours- This Week in DVDs Although most people think of DVDs in terms of movies, this week in This Week in DVDs we're primarily going to feature TV shows. And it's not necessarily because this week features only
Arts & Entertainment An Update on Our NaNoWriMo Writer When we last met Friend of SFist and NaNoWriMo participant, Brenda, she was about to begin her month-long sojourn into writer-hood and wondering whether she keeps on agreeing to do NaNoWriMo because she
SF News The Presidentator? One good thing about the election being over is that we no longer have to be submitted to political ads. Oops. Strike that. Two weeks after the election, a "grass-roots" organization (meaning a
SF News Hurrah and Huzzah for Chronicle Watch! We may kid the Chronicle every once in awhile, for, oh, laying people off, getting rid of good columnists, and shoddy editorial standards, but sometimes you gotta give credit where credit is due.
SF News Another One Bites The Dust While we may not be big fans of golf, we are, however, big fans of the Chronicle's golf columnist Brian Murphy. Well, more like big fans of his Weekend Water Cooler column that
Arts & Entertainment "Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn"- This Week in DVDs So in light of this week's being another crappy week in DVD releases (wait til next week! We're talking Buffy, Spike, Will Ferrell and David Brent -- could it BE any better?). We'd
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready to Write If you're seeing some writerly types walking around looking a bit more haggard, worn out and overly caffienated than usual it's only because November is NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. For the
SF News Screw You Guys, We're Out of Here Ever since the election, there's been a lot of grumbling about our misfortune in being attached to the rest of the country. Finally, somebody did something about it: posted the Web site USoutofSF.
Arts & Entertainment This Week in DVDs Here's a look at some of the things that are being released this week: Shrek 2- Unlike a lot of sequels, we were thoroughly entertained and blown away by how good it was.
SF News Let's Play BALCO! For a trial that's supposed to be leak proof, this whole BALCO mess is leaking all over the place. In response to charges of misconduct brought on by details of the investigation leaking,
SF News SFist Interview: David Pascal We haven't read the bios of every candidate for the Board of Supervisors (hell, there are twenty-two of them in District Five alone and we have a lot of other things to do
SF News Proposition It- San Francisco Style II But we digress. In yesterday's edition of Proposition It, we took a look at a lot of bond issues and lots of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. Today, we move onto bigger and better things-
SF News Proposition It San Francisco Style After exploring the whacky world of state-wide propositions, we now turn to San Francisco City & County Propositions where we find matters to vote upon both great (housing initiatives and tax issues) and
SF News Proposition It II - Election Boogaloo As Lionel Richie would say “Karamu, fiesta, forever/Come on and sing along." Proposition 63- Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax on Personal Incomes Above $1 Million. This measure basically calls for funding
SF News Proposition It Seriously, reading through all the ballot initiatives is one, big-huge time suck. While we were waiting in line at a store over the weekend, we heard one guy behind us talking to a
SF News Yes, We Had No Banana Far be it from us to post stories making some spurious claim about some noted official and then disappear whenever they try to defend themselves. So when said noted official tries to defend
SF News Kimberly Takes Manhattan How do you know our esteemed First Couple has it made it? First there was big story in the New Yorker and now this- they made the New York Post gossip column! We
SF News Barry's Bad Week After this weekend, it's going to get harder for us Giants' fans to try and live in our shiny, happy denial land in regards to Barry Bonds and this whole BALCO mess. While
