Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Gav Says/He's Done With Sergio The irrepressible Mr. P.J. Corkery asks the question on everyone's mind -- what's on Gavin Newsom's iPod? Well, after some hemming and hawing ("I don't have time to download 99 cent tunes,
Arts & Entertainment Webby Award Winners Even though the Webbies award ceremony is moving to the East Coast this year, Bay Area-based websites cleaned house in the actual awards. A big liver-flavored rawhide with a ribbon on it to
SF News Your Commute: Back That Thing Up Bummer to be driving down to the South Bay today -- a fire truck jackknifed on the San Mateo Bridge and completely blocked all eastbound traffic. The fire truck was on the way
SF News Badlands's Bad The San Francisco Human Rights Commission has finished its investigation into the Castro bar Badlands, and concludes that yup, Badlands really was discriminating against African-Americans (.pdf) at the door. The HRC found that
Arts & Entertainment Letters to the Editor We always there was something disingenuous about the conservative letters they publish in the Chron! The Contra Costa Times discovered that an enterprising Republican named Kyle Vallone had written at least 200 fake
Arts & Entertainment 81 Albums of Jessica Simpson On The Wall You probably remember that brouhaha about the CD price-fixing antitrust case, where that judge was going to give everyone who'd ever bought a CD from 1995 to 2002 around $14.99 if they
SF News Your Commute: A Tale of Two Transits Maybe it's just because snazzy bullet trains are cooler than wheezy buses and screeching light-rails, but Caltrain rides on so much better goodwill than poor beleaguered MUNI. Both agencies are facing massive budget
SF News C Plus! Everyone is about San Francisco! The results of the San Francisco residents' poll about San Francisco are in, and the city scored a C+. Not quite at "SEE ME" levels, but you ain't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Staff of Life Pass the basket, please! The San Francisco-based US Bread Baking Guild competitive team won this year's Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, described as "the World Cup of bread baking." The team coach
SF News California Recall: Where Are They Now? So whatever happened to those 135 people who ran for governor in the 2003 recall election? Well, a bunch are in the Bay Area news today! Cue up the end-of-the-movie montage music! Arnold
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Mad Libs Hey kids! Are you looking for a quick and easy entry into San Francisco District 6 civic participation? Do you long to get an angry email response from Chris Daly like this lady
misc Re-Assessed Breaking news: Mabel Teng has resigned as the San Francisco assessor. After a sunny start as the face of gay marriage, Teng was facing increasing scrutiny over her, um, unorthodox hiring procedures in
Arts & Entertainment Glossy-ing It Up Hey, congratulations to local magazine (on contemporary design and architecture) for winning the National Magazine Association's prestigious "Ellie" award, for best magazine with circulation from 100,000 to 250,000! Dwell beat out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pull My Finger Things just keep getting worse and worse for Ms. Anna Ayala, the woman who purportedly bit into a fingertip in her Wendy's chili last month. So not only was her house raided, it
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Drew Nasty You know the organizing principle at team SFist is always: what about the children? So yeah, bummer for Julie Lee about getting indicted for grand theft over the tattered remains of Kevin Shelley's
Arts & Entertainment Oh For The Gossip Of It All Our New Yorker finally made the arduous trek from the Conde Nast building and across the high Sierra mountains to our little hinterlands mailbox, exhausted. We opened it up, and to our shock,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Why No Top 40? You know.... why we have a top 40 radio station?? Ever since the death of the beloved Z 95.7 (for a classic rock format, which was then later changed to country), there's
Arts & Entertainment Where's Laurel Wellman? Is it too early for San Francisco 1999 nostalgia? The NASDAQ was peaking, IPs were O-ing, and those dark blue button-down shirts were so in? Remember when they said the only way you
Arts & Entertainment Congratulations, Chron! Sure, we mock the Chronicle all the time -- but we mock because we love! So let us extend a hearty back-slap of congratulations to our main bastion of the Mainstream Media out
SF News Political Junkie: Fareskipper SFist Jon's got a new companion in city graft, as Supervisor Chris Daly gets busted by Matier and Ross for sneaking on a MUNI train without paying. Chris, was it not enough to
Arts & Entertainment Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005 The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years
SF News Making It Oak-ficial We're a little late on this, but mazel tov to newly-affianced Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland and his girlfriend of 15 years, Gap executive Anne Gust! (We apologize for using the picture of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drop The Fajita This just in -- a Sacramento jury has found Alex Fagan Jr. not guilty in the Fajitagate trial. The jury found him innocent of two felony assault charges and hung on the misdemeanor
Arts & Entertainment PG & no E We knew that bag of 100 IKEA tea lights would come in handy one of these days! Yet another fire at that same PG&E substation that keeps bursting into flames blacked
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Thursday Thursday Thursday!!!! The grudge match! In the "Bloggers Are Such Bitches" SFist.com t-shirt, the dodgin' and weavin' Big Bad Chris "The Left Hook" Daly! And in the "Michael Bolton Is My
