SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
misc How Green is Your Valley? Nancy Pelosi maybe the second most powerful Dem in the country, but that doesn't mean she's getting any love from us hometown folks. For some, it's because if it wasn't for the fact
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising One hundred years ago this month, San Francisco survived an earthquake. You may have heard of it. Well, despite the odds (and the sky-high earthquake insurance rates), people keep moving here, and San
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Almost Everyone at Theatre Rhinoceros Touted by Theatre Rhinoceros as "the real Transamerica," diva Veronica Klaus was named Best Chanteuse in 2004 by the Bay Guardian and has been a regular fixture on the cabaret
SF News Watch Out Bush/Cheney, Here Comes the Board of Supes The measure brought out the snark from Gavin, of all people, who said in response: "I imagine, immediately, Congress will probably convene into session and begin impeachment proceedings.'' Hey, that's our line.
SF News Spies On Us The ACLU is trying to find out why the student's groups were targeted and when, as well as what else is out there. Seriously, if Quakers are targeted, who will be next? The
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
SF News Did the SF Weekly Scapegoat Harmon Leon? Well, L'affaire Leon at the Weekly certainly didn't come to a conclusion we expected. We crawled out of bed this morning only to read that he'll no longer be appearing in their pages.
SF News Bedbug Army Attacks San Francisco After the New York Times recently published an article on bedbugs (Boo, TimesSelect), their media profile has certainly risen. Our old friend Sam Dodge at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, who have been dealing
SF News Oh Really, O'Reilly? As you might imagine, Bill O'Reilly's comments about our fair city deserving a terrorist attack managed to raise a few hackles, including Chris Daly's, who was so angered by Bill's hot-headed comments that
SF News Haggling With Comcast The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay
SF News Is San Francisco Going Red State? The study was done by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research who based their results on voting patterns. A flak for the study said that race was usually the determining factor as
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Steve Jones Snark aside, Steve has kindly submitted himself to the SFist interview process. Despite the fact that we’re thrilled that Steve was kind enough to answer some real questions, we promise that his
SF News And So it Begins... Hey, did you think that local authorities wouldn't cooperate with federal agents who are out to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries? Think again! Impassioned opinion pieces by Kamala Harris and Board of Supervisor
SF News More More News than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know --Arnie kicked off the special election campaign with the traditional scaring of the old folks. The claim this time? If the three resolutions he's backing don't pass, Prop. 13 will have to be
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival 2005 Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz has been in they Bay Area since 1987, when she was an undergrad at UC Berkeley. She stayed on and did a Ph.D. at Berkeley, where she edited a book
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: An Interview With Dan Leone. Before we talk with Dan, let's wrap up the Yucatan definitely-not-yuck-a-thon: since last week we had the opportunity to sample City Blend Cafe's cochinita pibil. City Blend is a coffee shop on 16th,
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
SF News Nancy Pelosi: San Francisco Liberal? DCist forwarded us an article from Roll Call (paid subscription required) entitled "Q: Where Is Nancy Pelosi Not a San Francisco Liberal? A: San Francisco." We love it when DC politics realizes that,
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF News SFist Interview: David Pascal We haven't read the bios of every candidate for the Board of Supervisors (hell, there are twenty-two of them in District Five alone and we have a lot of other things to do
Arts & Entertainment Psych! What better way to celebrate the original date of Britney Spears's nuptials than at feminist pop culture zine Bitch Magazine's release party for its latest issue, on the theme of Fake? The party
Arts & Entertainment The Other Mag SFist admits to having something of a nerd crush on Annalee Newitz. We've been reading her Techsploitation column in the Bay Guardian (also found on Alternet.org and in the San Jose Metro)
