Arts & Entertainment Return To The Caffe Cino The SF Public Library, in conjunction with its James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, is sponsoring a free event tomorrow (Sunday Jan. 21) from 2-4 p.m., to promote an anthology called
Arts & Entertainment Bodypainting At The Westfield Mall Cool, in a Demi Moore/silver guy in Fisherman's Wharf kind of way! Thanks for sending these on to us, Drew! More pictures after the jump (and even more at Drew's website.)
SF News I Saw Gavin Newsom It seems like the trick for getting something into this column is to hang out at Tosca's -- check out the following story we got passed along. Thanks, gentle reader! Last night our
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes Catholic Those of you who've been vociferously participating in our ongoing debates about Falun Gong, Mormonism, and Scientology will be pleased to hear that we spent tonight steeped in Mozart's Catholic Mass in C
Arts & Entertainment Blue Tie Alert! SFist Jim snapped this picture of Gavin Newsom swearing in the latest batch of city commissioners this afternoon. SFMike has his usual tart lowdown on the actual event -- along with more pictures
SF News Chicken Is As Chicken Does Angela Alioto got the biggest applause line of the morning at the Gavin Newsom Fake Question Time townhall meeting last Saturday when she roared out, "Instead of sitting around in chicken outfits, what
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
SF News <strike>Swells</strike> Fake Question Time By The Numbers There's no Swells society column today! Sad! So we're doing a Fake Question Time By The Numbers instead. Number of people in attendance: 200. Number of chickens: 6. Number of times Angela Alioto
SF News Political Junkie: Gav Gets Mad As we've mentioned, better watch this clip (or upload it to YouTube) before ABC 7 takes it down -- media hound Dan Noyes from the "I Team" (we think the I stands for
SF News The Fake Question Time Drinking Game! And you know who's really gonna want to play this drinking game? The star of the event! See you guys there -- we'll bring the booze. If Gavin.... You.... Wears his lucky blue
SF News Koo-Koo-Ka-Cha! At the request of our august editor, in honor of this Saturday's townhall meeting and Gavin Newsom chicken-out from Question Time, we're running the YouTube clip of the Chicken Dance from Arrested Development.
misc Norman Yee On The Mend Turns out Norman Yee is an avid salsa dancer, and was crossing Bryant and 4th that Tuesday with the light in his favor to get to a local club (maybe the Glas Kat?
SF News Other Things That Happened Today Sorry, we've become so obsessed with the upcoming Fake Question Time and those Yalie a capella singers that got beaten up that we totally didn't cover any of the other city news from
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Sculpture Competition SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course,
SF News SFist Blotter (Wednesday Edition) So many crime stories of note today that we're running an off-cycle SFist Blotter! A casual carpool driver from Hercules was carjacked this morning. She picked up the usual crew of city-bound commuters
SF News Fake Question Time RSVP You can email MONS and let them know you're planning on attending, or call 415-554-6110. The word on the street is that they may close the room off if it's full. (We hope
SF News Only Three More Days Until Fake Question Time! Gavin buck-buck-buck'ed a testy response to this latest coop challenge, saying only, "Been there, done that. I've talked about it for one month." But not yet answered any questions from supervisors! And finally
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
SF News They Do Chicken Right Don't forget -- your insufficient substitute for Question Time will take place at 10 a.m. this Saturday at the Richmond Recreation Center at 281 18th Avenue, between Geary and Clement. We can't
Arts & Entertainment The Falun Gong Show: SFist Goes To The NTDTV Chinese New Year But a computer-animated backdrop showing a angel flying down to Earth to rescue a dancer portraying a Falun Gong meditator being beaten senseless by Communist goons, together with a song proclaiming, "The Falun
misc Well Wishes To Norman Yee San Francisco school board president Norman Yee remains in intensive care after being hit by a car on 4th and Bryant the day after Christmas. However, he's in stable condition after undergoing two
Arts & Entertainment Check Out SFist MattyMatt! As we promised earlier, SFist MattyMatt was indeed on! NBC 11 News this evening -- in the sweet spot right before the weather! -- talking about his 33 MUNI bus video clip with
Arts & Entertainment The SF Assassination Attempt on Gerald Ford With the death of Gerald Ford has come renewed interest in the various events in his life, including (for SFist's purposes, anyways) Sara Jane Moore's attempt to assassinate him in San Francisco on
