SF News The President Has Some Balls Hey, looks like it runs in the administration! Sister-site DCist is at ground zero for the inauguration festivities. Take a moment to peruse their special inauguration coverage -- including a bit that a
SF News Boxer Lambasts Rice Nothing like senate confirmation hearings to get the partisan juices flowing. Kos reports that Senator Barbara Boxer would speak her mind [link via 1115] as part of Dr. Condoleeza Rice's confirmation as Secretary
SF News Macworld Rumors Abound on Internets Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing -- the trademark white earbuds of the iPod sprouting from the head of our President. All the better to block out the sound of Iyad
SF News If at first you don't succeed.... Now what, you might be asking, is the difference between his last attempt, which made it all the way to the Supreme Court before being dismissed, and this one? This time, he's got
SF News Doing More Shortly after the terrible tsunami in the Indian Ocean, SFist Mary-Lynn put together a great SFist Cares feature. But as the extent of suffering has begun to become fully apparent, we felt that
SF News Remembering Robert Matsui Walking dejectedly back to the first day of work in 2005, we noticed that the flags in town are flying at half-mast in honor of Sacramento's Democratic congressman Robert Matsui. Matsui, who had
misc SFist Watches: As TV Looks Back In other news, this week TV offers up the inevitable "Year in Review" programming. Perhaps the best bet is VH-1's The Best Year Ever. If you're a fan of The Best Week Ever,
SF News Fox Jocks to Rock De Anza Sean Hannity brings his Fox News ventriloquism act (look, Hannity's lips hardly move when Alan Colmes is talking!) to De Anza College's Flint Center for the Performing Arts tonight. Topic: Why godless liberals
SF News The Bell-Ringer Brouhaha of Ought-Four Could there be more to the story of Salvation Army's bell ringers being asked to leave the grounds of Target stores than what the Chronicle is reporting? Founded over 120 years ago in
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
SF News Thank you! So many people to thank! If we forget you, rest assured that a warm, fuzzy thanks is in our hearts. First, we'd like to thank our contributors, without whom this site would be
SF News WWJD? Okay, so SFist isn't always as impartial as we'd like to be. We're bloggers - our prejudices are bound to shine through from time to time (well, okay, always). With all this talk
Arts & Entertainment Bush Street Nervous Breakdown Who knew there was so much money in tribute bands? Local Mick Jagger impersonator Rudy Columbini (he does kind of look like Mick, doesn't he?) has announced that he hopes to buy out
SF News Don't Other Countries Already Hate Us Enough? We spent yesterday practising our acting skills by feigning surprise at Colin Powell's resignation as Secretary of State. Today we got to pretend we're happy that Condoleezza "Condi" (that's so makes her seem
SF News The Masses: Consider Them Risen Up You know, it's getting so that we can't leave the house these days without running into an angry mob. This evening, during our nightly constitutional through downtown San Francisco, we were startled to
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
Arts & Entertainment Silver Lining Well, on the bright side, at least someone around here won . The only good thing about the Bush victory is that our adorable editor SFist Jackson won 1115.org's electoral map contest! SFist
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
SF News O Canada! Election results got you down? Considering bolting like those kids in Red Dawn did after their high school was taken over by the Russians? Stop looking at guide books for Switzerland and Sweden!
SF News Bush to Bay Area: "F**k you!" Why does the Bay Area hate George Bush so much? Is it really about partisan machine politics or an innate culture of dissent? SFist thinks it's more a matter of self-preservation. The fact
SF News Think Global, Act Local In all the hubbub about Bush's "mandate," new dark allegations about possible voter fraud in Florida and Ohio, and general wailing about the death of the Democratic party, it's easy to forget the
SF News Disenchantment in the Streets It wouldn't be San Francisco if people weren't deluded into thinking anyone cared what we say. Which is why protest events have been long planned in response to this election. As one coworker
Arts & Entertainment Comedy that Puts the "Mock" in Democracy Based on Wonkette's early numbers, it looks like it could be party-time in the Bay Area. But things have a way of changing at the last minute, so who knows. Either way, you're
SF News Last Minute Activism What are you up to in the next five days? If you've got some spare time and you're itching to do something worthwhile, maybe you should get yourself hooked up with Driving Votes.
SF News Political Road Rage It's no secret that people tend to display their political leanings on their car bumpers, and it's also no secret that emotions are running high. SFist will also confess that when we see
