SF News Second Fake Question Time As you can see, the pouring rain was wreaking havoc on Gavin Newsom's carefully-styled coif this morning at the Second Fake Question Time townhall meeting in District 10's Bayview district. We arrived at
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Gavin Newsom: Hell-Bent for Re-election Mayor Newsom toured part of the UCSF Children’s Hospital this morning during the California State Assembly’s Town Hall event hosted by Speaker Núñez. With girlfriend Jennifer at his side, he discussed
SF News Naomi Campbell's In Town Drew Altizer generously passed along some pictures he took of Naomi Campbell, who was in town yesterday (maybe also today, we can't find any information about her itinerary online). Man, Gavin is kicking
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News News Roundup Also, the grandmother of two children whose mother was killed when the tire of a cab came loose and struck the mother filed suit with the cab company, Luxor Cab. The lawsuit claims
SF News LaShuan Harris Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity "The court finds that the defendant, LaShuan Harris, has been proven by the preponderance of evidence to have been incapable of knowing the nature and quality of her acts.'' We certainly think
SF News The Yale Choral Group Story At Yale First the good news. In the grand tradition of show biz, the show went on and the choir group was able to continue on in their West Coast tour. That's why they were
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
SF News Day Around the (Late) Bay -Gavin wants to put the foot patrol issue on the ballot. We have a bad feeling about this.. -Meet the new owners of the armory. -Budget analyst is not a big fan of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Oliver Chin What's your favorite thing about them? Collaborating with fantastic illustrators and artists to give people worthy alternatives to the cookie-cutter commercial widgets that permeate our culture. What's on your holiday wish list? Please
misc It's a Hard Knock Life in California To determine all this stuff, the people behind the study, the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (got that?), factored in things like level of income, types of families, language and education.
SF News Can Someone Explain The Significance Of This To Us? Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family." Okay, an announcement made at
Arts & Entertainment Freedom of Speech? Basically, what the story is about is this guy who is hanging a figure that looks like an arab (he says it's not an arab but a "terrorist" for which we are all
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Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
Arts & Entertainment The Way We Were What the newsreel footage is about, actually, is public transportation. Mainly how great ours is and how well it services both San Francisco and the East Bay. Which, of course, is laden with
SF News Mayoral Race Poll Now that Gavin has stopped playing coy and moved ahead with his re-election plans, the question is who will step up to run against Mr. 80% Approval Ratings? It's the parlor game anyone
misc I Could Do With A Spot of Jolliness That is why you must ABSOLUTELY NOT participate in this year's Santarchy, which departs from Pier 39 at 11:30 tomorrow morning. Do not, under any circumstances, follow these instructions, which will allow
misc I Could Do With A Spot Of Brains San Francisco's a lovely city, but it would be even nicer if someone did something about this damn zombie issue. Seriously, it's getting to be a real problem. We have no problem with
misc San Jose to Clean Up Libraries Yep, San Jose wants their libraries to be Spank Free. Or at least by decree of San Jose's mayor-elect, Chuck Reed. Reed was shown a clip of the story KGO ran on all
SF News Libraries-- Cesspool of Sex & Violence Why do we bring this story up? Because KGO, Channel 7, sent their very own I-Team out to investigate our libraries and discovered that, well, bad things happen there. And you know what?
SF News Beyond Chron Declares War on MUNI's War Against Transit-Dependent Populations The war continues on and I miss you terribly. It's been many months since General Ford launched his war of MUNI aggression on us and I fear it might go on for ever
Arts & Entertainment Fedorov + Ventriloquism = Our Idea of Heaven And now, here's where you folks come in: After you've bought your ticket, let us know in the comments which of the entertainers you'd like us to interview. We can't absolutely guarantee that
SF News Where Do The Children Play (MarioKart)? We can't read about Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity without getting all misty-eyed. Back in 2004, the gaming website (spurred by the misconception that videogamers are violence-addicted jerks) created a big awesome geeky
SF News This Month In God Beyond that, there's not much news in this month's issue; some blah-blah-blah about cloning, something about the Freemasons trying to destroy everything, and two locals are suing the city for violating the Establishment
