misc Niners Apologize Long-time readers of this site may remember a certain, um, "so-best fixation" we had on a certain picture of our mayor and his then-wife, in happier times. Well, it looks like Niners PR
Arts & Entertainment The Faibishes Versus The Media Okay, in the Sam Hill is going on here? Nicholas Faibish's mother, crazed from the constant media attention, announced in the Sunday Chron that welllllll, she might have known there was a problem
SF News Bye, Janice! Well, now that fourteen moderates in the Senate managed to resolve the fili-bunker-buster impasse of the last two years, Bush looks like he's gotten his way, at least with conservative ladies. (Conservative office
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: SFist Unscripted (the Drinking Game) Those of you who read SFist Watches have probably deduced that your Junkie's TV viewing habits consist solely of KRON 4 News at 11 and Animal Cops SF. (It's not true -- sometimes
SF News Yeeeeeeeaaaaargh! Whatever you might have thought about Howard Dean when he was running for president, you gotta admit that he's been hi-LA-rious!!! as the chair of the Democratic National Committee! Saying Republicans have never
misc SFist Blotter/Animal Roundup Nick Faibish's mauling continues to send shock waves across the city -- Gavin Newsom's announced that he's starting a panel to look into possible restrictions on pit bull ownership in San Francisco. Gavin
Arts & Entertainment Prog Rock's Not Just For Boys Anymore We'll confess -- every now and then, we listen to 107.7 The Bone, (usually when Live 105 goes through one of its fifteen minutes of Sublime programming jaunts) -- where, save for
misc Dog Tragedy Oh no -- not again. Nicholas Faibish, a 12 year old boy who lived in the Inner Sunset, was mauled to death today by his family's two pit bulls. The police killed one
misc SFist Raves: Ding! Every year it rules -- the Scripps Howard spelling bee. Is it that whiff of old world middle school mores? Is it the adorable freaked out word-geek kids, too young and frightened to
SF News A Bump in the Road "" by the Doobie Brothers played in the background as the governor confidently strode into a residential San Jose neighborhood to pave a pothole and attempt to get some positive press for his plans
SF News Your Commute: Up, BART, Up After two hours of debate, BART voted to raise its fares again, starting in January 2006, upping the minimum fare from $1.25 to $1.40. South Bay fares are going up an
SF News Political Junkie: He Ain't No Hollaback Supe This really is bananas! Just like Gwen Stefani, Supervisor Chris Daly stuck it to the student teachers (stomp stomp), getting ev'rybody riled up (stomp stomp). He ain't no hollaback supe -- he ain't
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>ScaredSacred</i> The line snaked down to Albion Street for the teensy Little Roxie theater's screening of Canadian film ScaredSacred for DocFest, filled with an odd mix of earnest well-scrubbed management consultants with expensive handbags,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Shake your Dufty Well, we still don't know what he's listening to on his portable music player, but ouuu-ouuu-ouuu-OUUUUUUUU!! Supervisor Bevan Dufty's modeling in his skivvies for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel! The ALRP's holding its
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Call It Democracy</i> This was our first time at the Li'l Roxie, and we hope it won't be our last! (Please, please, say the rumors aren't true!) We squeezed past the teeny-tiny hallway and into a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Farmer and the Merchant Should Be Friends You'll have to go that much longer without accessible fresh fruits and vegetables in the Marina, now that the merchants of Scott Street have successfully blocked a Tuesdays' farmers market from setting up
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Pop-aganda</i> All the culture jammers said hey (haaaa-yeeee) on Friday night at the Women's Building, for the first SF DocFest screening of by Pedro Carvajal, and the film short Fridge by Brian Perkins and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Have a Finger! Breaking news! Breaking news! OMG, breaking news!! They figured out whose finger was in the Wendy's chili!! The San Jose cops announced that they've positively identified the finger that Anna Ayala "found" as
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Mana: Beyond Belief</i> It was the usual scene outside the Roxie during a film fest -- odd groups of people clumped in odd places on the sidewalk, frantic-looking pedestrians just trying to get into Truly Med,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: the iRoss It's never too late to let us know what you're listening to, local politicos! You may remember that we posted just last week something gently mocking our mayor's middle-of-the-road musical tastes, and that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Sweet, Nothing You're out with your best buds at a hip brasserie, savoring that contented feeling of good friends and good eats. The conversation's buzzing and the mood's high -- but you also notice, out
SF News Tourist-Baiting The Examiner's in the middle of a week-long article series about San Francisco's tourism industry, where Examiner reporters try out various tourist services. Yesterday's Nellie Blys took cabs from various locations around the
Arts & Entertainment <i>I'd Kill For A Parking Place</i> Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Go Ask Alice So Coldplay tickets apparently sold out in less than one minute on Sunday, huh? And there was tons of borderline-illicit craigslist bartering for wristbands, right? But -- come on, Gavin Newsom calling into
misc Animal Roundup 'Cause everyone loves news about animals! Unsafe sex kills, people -- 12 penguins at the SF Zoo have died of chlamydia. We don't even want to know what's going on in that penguin
