Arts & Entertainment Wait, Wait -- Well, this sounds like fun! A reader who went to yesterday's live taping of the NPR news game show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" writes in to report that the game show's "special
SF News The Twisted History Of The Mission Armory The Armory's got an only-in-San-Francisco history: It was built in 1912, after the original armory burned down in the 1906 earthquake, for the National Guard. In 1976, when the National Guard moved to
SF News Wonks Win A reader passed along a picture from today's press conference with City Treasurer José Cisneros and City Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting, where they bragged about how they collected $24 million more than expected in
SF News The Stuff They've Got In The Oven (Local Politics News, Non-Newsom) --The Board of Supes held hearings yesterday about whether to accept the Google/Earthlink citywide wifi plans. We must confess we're still very vague on the pros and cons of the proposal (all
SF News Gavin News Fatigue We've got it just as bad as you! Nevertheless, here's the three items we found in our listless online trolling today that still managed to catch our eye. --GavinWatch tries to shake off
SF News Had A Bad Day Okay, to start things off, that's a YouTube clip of Daniel Powter's Had A Bad Day. Play it as you read this post! Gavin Newsom started off the first day of the rest
SF News Today, On <i>As The Gav Turns</i>... First off. Alcoholism is a serious problem and we hope Gavin Newsom (.pdf) gets help and support. Second of all. Blue tie alert! (see picture from this afternoon at right.) We're tag-teaming in
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
SF News SFiS By The Numbers SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf
Arts & Entertainment Assessor-Recorder Swearing In SFist Jim stopped by the swearing-in for San Francisco assessor-recorder (and buzzed-about mayoral possibility?) Phil Ting last night and snapped these pictures for us. Yes, that is a subdued-looking Gavin Newsom, hiding in
SF News TourkGate: So What Happens Next? Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but
SF News Meet John Nelson Hey everyone, in the midst of all this Ruby Rippey-Tourk madness, guess who showed up for a photo session and interview with the Chron? That's right -- Peter Ragone's best friend and your
SF News SFistGate Online So please pardon us if we've become a little obsessed in following the online coverage of SFist Jon's exposé and evening news report -- but look what we've found! --Stalwart video hounds GavinWatch
SF News Swells By The Numbers More balletomania! We've read so much coverage of the 74th SF ballet opening night gala, we're starting to expect to see ourselves in these pictures! Number of people pictured in this week's Swells
SF News Smush Bush At the anti-war protest this afternoon, we heard three young girls gleefully chanting "Smush Bush! Smush Bush!" and figured that was as good of a title for a post about today's activities as
SF News Virtually Gavin Hey, Dan Noyes, here's a gotcha technique to consider -- cyberspace! Gavin took a break from Davos to do a virtual interview with the Second Life news center. Alas, there are no chicken
SF News Naomi Campbell's In Town Drew Altizer generously passed along some pictures he took of Naomi Campbell, who was in town yesterday (maybe also today, we can't find any information about her itinerary online). Man, Gavin is kicking
SF News SF Ballet Gala By The Numbers Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured:
Arts & Entertainment At The Ballet The evening started out at a gala Spanish-themed reception at City Hall and the Chron breathlessly reports that "[t]his was the most dressed-up Ballet gala in history. If the ladies pulled out
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
SF News How'd Question Time Go? Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very
SF News Your First Question Time Tomorrow! Well, it's hard to think what could top the chickens last weekend -- so it seems a little anticlimactic to announce that the Board of Supervisors will be hosting its very first Question
SF News Who's Attacking Newsom Now! So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin
SF News Gavin Defends Screw Tops The article isn't online, but it's a piece called "All You Really Need To Know About WINE" and Gavin's on page 138, as "Plumpjack Winery Founder and Mayor of San Francisco." It's accompanied
SF News Progressive On Progressive Violence So how entertaining for us to find out we were in fact part of a huge juggernaut of people supporting people who support Mark Leno in a proxy fight between him and Carole
