SF News Anchor Steamed Sophie Maxwell is working on legislation to put zoning protection for businesses in place. Meanwhile, SFist really isn't sure what to think on this one -- SFist's usual liberal guilt/privilege position supporting
SF News You're So Money, Baby SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in America. Much like those US News
SF News Political Junkie Those of you who page through the Bay Area section of the Chron on your way to the funnies may have noticed the words "nepotism" and "cronyism" buzzing around the name "Mabel Teng.
SF News I Want My GOTV Those of you who look down when you walk may have seen the sidewalk graffiti for www.indyvoter.org. Indyvoter.org is encouraging younger people who previously haven't voted to actually get to
Arts & Entertainment Putomayo, Eat Your Heart Out For those of you who like your ethnomusicology less with the pan flutes and more with the non-Western modalities, the San Francisco World Music Festival is presenting a number of innovative programs for
Arts & Entertainment Rabbit Food Now, SFist is an omnivore, and proud of it (we baa quietly under our breath when we eat lamb). But walking down Valencia Street, we noticed that the venue that formerly housed "the
SF News Giants Fan Killed In all the (justified) glory for Barry Bonds hitting the big seven-oh-oh, there's some sad stories as well. A Giants fan was killed after the Giants beat the Padres on Friday night, in
Arts & Entertainment Moondoggie How was your weekend? SFist didn't run off and get married to a skanky backup dancer or anything, but we had some fun. Photoblogger Lackadaisical went to the Chinatown Moon Festival festivities and
misc Housing Bubbles: The Real Estate Column In what we're forced to accept as celebrity gold in this two-bit horse town, a B-list actress who no longer lives here and is no longer married to the local newspaper's editor in
SF News Cuckoo for Locoweed Now, we're not knocking public schools in the slightest by relating this story. A student at San Jose's Overfelt High was sent to the principal's this Monday for her strange behavior. In the
Arts & Entertainment Sing Like an Egyptian So what are you doing this weekend? SFist is going to catch the Oakland Opera's performance of "Akhnaten" with The Standing Room. Philip Glass writes the minimalist music that drove you crazy in
Arts & Entertainment Manic Moon Day For those of you not fasting next weekend, you , can 20% of the population in San Francisco suggest Zhong Qiu Jie instead? Those of you who don't feel the Mandarin Chinese (or who
Arts & Entertainment Pimp My Ride Those of you longing to start airbrushing flames on or supergluing action figures to the side of your car, it's your weekend! Starting today through Sunday, it's Art Car Fest 2004! Intended to
SF News Heeyyy Batta Batta The story of the heckler out of Oakland Coliseum just keeps getting better and better. Today, Craig and Jennifer Bueno gave a press conference to announce that they would be pursuing both civil
SF News Poison in the Post The Los Gatos post office was evacuated yesterday after 14 postal workers and one customer became mysteriously ill. People reported an odd odor and a weird metallic taste, and a few people broke
SF News Matchbox Nineteen Well, it's about time! Assuaging his secret girlie-man worries that he's not a governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger finally got his personalized booby-trapped letter. With Schwarzenegger, now 19 governors have received letters addressed from the
SF News Help Us Help You We here at SFist are working really hard to bring you the best damn city blog you can find here in the Bay Area. But we can't always maintain the critical distance we
Arts & Entertainment Dancehall Dustup Reggae in the Park! A fun event sponsored by Global Exchange, where college kids can wear multicolored hats, bob their heads arrhythmically to the beat, and support their favorite anti-gay artists! Well, maybe
SF News Postpartum Depression Wow, here's an extremely sad story with which to start your week. A new mother in West Oakland, apparently suffering from postpartum psychosis, went into a bedroom with her 3-month-old, sealed off the
SF News Garden Hose The City Attorney's months-long investigation into election coercion has confirmed that the now-defunct city organization SLUG (the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners) illegally coerced its workers to campaign and vote for Gavin
SF News My Milkshake Brings All the Boys to the Yard A 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the South Bay today. The epicenter was in Saratoga, around 9 miles from San Jose City Hall (presumably the old one, not the new one with its
Arts & Entertainment Academy Fight Song The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 on the back of an envelope as he saw with pride that the American flag still flew over Baltimore's
SF News Don't Go Into the Water Stinson Beach reopened today, after the sighting of a great white shark forced a beach closing for swimmers. (Click here for shots from the Stinson Beach shark cam.) The beach had just reopened
SF News Spare the Air On the down side, it's still hot and, eeeegh, it looks really gross out. On the up side -- free BART! As part of the Spare the Air program, BART is working with
misc Housing Bubbles Is it just us, or is it just sort of hilarious that a two-bed one-bath condo on 18th Street is being offered at $737,000 and a single-family house in Pacific Heights is
