SF News The Legal Battle for Same-Sex Marriage in California Pushes Forward SFist wishes the plaintiffs great success at tearing down one of the most noxious legal forms of discrimination that are still on the books. For more information about the battle, go to Marriage
misc We Only Work When We Need the Money! The roll out of the new Fair Labor Standards Act seems to have everyone confused. All that seems clear now is that no one really knows how many people will be impacted by
SF News Watching and Learning We do love our protests here in the Bay Area. We love them so much that we follow protests in other cities like some folks follow football. Except it's always the same two
SF News Viva Hate SFist knew there was a reason we moved here! Recent polls show the Bay Area to be the most negative region of California, with 59% of people saying they think the state is
SF News Senate Leadership Stays by the Bay Yesterday the Democratic Caucus of the California State Senate voted to replace termed-out senator John Burton [D-San Francisco] with Don Perata [D-Oakland] as the new President Pro-tempore of the senate. Considered the 'second
misc Coyote Ugly South Bay residents are seeing significantly larger numbers of coyotes moving into their residential areas. So far, 12 cats and 2 dogs have been killed in one Los Gatos neighborhood, and neighbors report
SF News Sudden Oak Death Hits the Bay Area Last week, sudden oak death, was confirmed to have infected two oak trees at the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Sudden oak death, also known as the pathogen , has been disasterous in the west
SF News Funny Money Fallout Kevin Shelley still has his job do you have yours? Its time for a SunsetGate update! In the week since SFists hard-hitting book report about the strange fundraising transactions between Shelley
Arts & Entertainment Bed Down with the Bard Tonight So apparently this is the deal: for $28 per member ($35 nonmembers), you get dinner, stargazing, camping out, breakfast the next morning, and a guided nature walk after breakfast. Tickets for the actual
SF News Big Brother Will Let You Know That He's Watching You SFist is intrigued by SB 1841, which was passed yesterday by the California State Assembly with a vote of 41-29. This bill would require employers to inform employees if job site e-mail and
SF News Absentee-Minded Printer in the East Bay Our SFist Emeryville correspondent received, unsolicited, an Alameda County permanent absentee voter application in the mail yesterday and noticed that it was addressed in a bizarre order: middle-first-last. His fiancee's was addressed the
SF News SFist Feature: Funny Money [] So whats up with our Secretary of State Kevin Shelley? Shelley, who was recently most well-known for making up the new alphabetical order for listing all those candidates for governor on the
SF News West De-Nile Now that the West Nile virus has been found in dead birds in San Mateo County and Santa Clara, officials are bracing themselves for the first human infections in the Northern California region.
SF News The Supremes: Everybody Does Not Have the Right to Love The California Supreme court just issued their decision in the case regarding Gavin Newsom's move to let the city issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples. And it's not good for our newlyweds -
SF News Love and Human Remains Many of SFist's friends - and some of us at SFist ourselves, have been known to complain about the paucity of eligible straight men in the Bay Area. So we're sad to say
Arts & Entertainment Getting Wilde with the Young and the (Relatively) Cashless SFist loves live theater (or "theatre" if you're getting all highbrow on us). We think everyone should take in a play here and there instead of a movie -- it's more intimate and
SF News Kings of the Forest The forests of Northern California are some of the most beautiful in the world. SFist has been simultaneously awed and humbled by trips up north to visit our millenia-old friends the redwoods. So
SF News MUNI-ficence One of the best things about living in San Francisco is that you don't really need a car for everyday life. Certainly, MUNI or BART aren't perfect, and the Caltrain is still a
SF News San Francisco's Three Ring Circus For those of you who thought the lamp posts, telephone poles, and coffee shop windows in town look too empty, fret no more! It's almost time for Supervisor elections! The big news is,
SF News Pumping Up...The State Deficit SFist is a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, at least a few of them. We're not necessarily so pleased with his latest project. In fact, not a single Bay Area county voted
