misc James Kim Memorial Whether you knew him or were just moved by the Kim family tragedy this past December, the Kim family invites you to celebrate his life this Saturday in Golden Gate Park. The gathering
misc Now Tell Us Something We Don't Know First, there's a new study out saying that, yes, marijuana does help ease pain. It is also pretty good for "Lost" and listening to Tool but we don'
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
