SF News Your Commute: Steal That Car! Let the ambulance-chasing jokes begin! A Stanford law student has pled no contest to charges that she stole an ambulance and drunk-drove it around town last October. Julia Powell, through her lawyer, claims
SF News Second Time's The Charm Ah, the most agonizing time of the year for a certain group of local lawyers is upon us -- the annual releasing of the results from the February California state bar exam. The
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music Fest: Night Of Electronica They should really have more shows in art galleries -- as we walked into the Lab on Sunday night for the Mission Creek Music Fest ambient noise show Sunday night show, we saw
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Interview We're continuing our series of interviews of the Anyone But Chris Daly hopefuls in the upcoming District 6 election! Today's guest: Matt Drake. Hi, Matt! Check out Matt's campaign blog too. Matt emailed
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election Interview So we've moved up a notch on the news scale -- instead of just reading anti-Chris Daly position papers on the internet, we actually reached out to the candidates we could find with
SF News The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) The third sign of the apocalypse is upon us (the first being the TomKitten and the second being, um.... the closing down of all the local independent bookstores), as the weather reports grimly
SF News CSI Plumpjack -- Cancelled The Chron's Leah Garchik gets all the good dirt -- she breaks the news in Friday's The In Crowd that Gavin Newsom has parted ways with Scientologist/actress Sofia Milos. Your gossip hounds
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Future of Pinball</i>/<i>Buffet</i> Our usual movie companion loves pinball with a burning passion. A burning passion! So all week, it's been like, "When do we get to see the pinball movie? When do we get to
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Pizza! The Movie</i> Whatever you do, don't go see hungry. Boy were we glad we'd had that burrito (but we must admit, that didn't prevent us from stopping off for a slice after the film). Even
SF News Your Daily Gavin What?? More pictures of Gavin Newsom??? Keep sending them in and we'll keep running 'em. This one's from The Party Cow's Flickr Study of Gavin's facial expressions -- well worth checking out. After
SF News Two Wheels Are Better Than Four Today's Bike To Work Day, and Gavin Newsom, poised on his bike at the Ferry Building, good-naturedly joked to KCBS that "I'm a pathetic politician that only does this once a year. . . . I
SF News Ketchup Girl We'll be straight with you -- we're having a hard time following the whole "is Annemarie Conroy qualified" debacle that's been afoot for the past few days -- something about a report being
SF News Our Afternoon Web Surfing Those of you who read this site regularly probably think you have a good sense of what this particular correspondent is interested in -- traffic, Chris Daly, heartwarming tales about animals, general schadenfreunde.
SF News Your Commute: Road Slowdowns Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? Our press-loving governor thought it'd be a fun stunt to sign a bill to reduce congestion at the always-jammed Caldecott Tunnel. Isn't it ironic, then, that as
SF News Fun Pictures Of Gavin What do we at the 'Fist do on slow news days? That's right, run fun pictures of Gavin Newsom! These are the pictures we didn't think were quite good enough for a caption
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Punk Like Me</i> This is such a brilliant idea. So the 36-year-old star (and writer) of this documentary, Rich Wilkes, had the genius idea to sneak his band onto a major national rock tour -- by
SF News Craigslist Encounters: One Actual Connection. Please? Sad as it may seem, a great deal of joy comes into of our lives by browsing missed connections. While we like to say that it is simply good clean fun to see
SF News Today In The Law The Susan Polk trial was in recess today, but it was still a pretty busy day for the local courts, which decided: *that kids who failed the state high school exit exam can
SF News The Guilfency! A very enthusiastic "HER MOTHER AND I DO!" of support to the genius tipster who passed along the Exclusive Details about the impending Kimberly Guilfoyle-Eric Villency (hereinafter, "the Guilfency") Memorial Day nuptials in
SF News Press Brutality You guys remember that groundbreaking "The Use of Force" series that the Chronicle ran a few months ago? Do you guys remember the unfortunate incident involving the Chron running a picture of some
Arts & Entertainment There He Is, Mr. Hyphen Magazine We are totally fascinated by the phenomenon of the Asian-American fashion show. In college, the various Asian-American student groups would always throw some kind of runway-themed benefit, featuring the clothing of Armani Exchange,
SF News Cody's No More Was it something we said? First there was the dispiriting news about Clean Well-Lighted's sale, and now the Chron reports that the flagship Cody's Books on Telegraph is closing, after 43 years. NO!
SF News Your Commute: AC Transit No. 1 Well, now we feel guilty for taking BART to get to Oakland: the good drivers of the AC Transit won first place at the American Public Transportation Association "Bus Roadeo" event. AC Transit
SF News Ferry Accident People enjoying the nice weather on Saturday at Fisherman's Wharf got a nasty surprise as a Baylink ferry boat from Vallejo lost control of its steering and slammed into Pier 43. Nine people