Arts & Entertainment Octavia Blvd. protest, support for injured cyclist This morning a crowd of over 100 protested against the dangerous intersection at Octavia and Market Street. The injured cyclist is still hospitalized after being struck by a large pickup truck making an
SF News SF Ballet Gala By The Numbers Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured:
SF News RIIIIIII-COLA!!!! And it's not necessarily because he's missing Question Time. No, he's also missing out on the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a less exciting but probably more relevant meeting featuring a Special Guest
SF News Progressive On Progressive Violence So how entertaining for us to find out we were in fact part of a huge juggernaut of people supporting people who support Mark Leno in a proxy fight between him and Carole
SF News I'm Elected Electric Spy, I'm Protected Electric Eye By a 5-0 vote, the Police Commission last night voted to install twenty five of those anti-crime cameras throughout the Mission, SoMa, and the Tenderloin. As expected, last night's hearing was pretty heated
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
Arts & Entertainment It's Back to School Day for the Board of Supervisors Today was opening day for the Board of Supervisors as it were as today was the first day of work for 2007. First up? The voting in of a new President who happens
SF News I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates Ahhh....roller rinks. If they play "Waiting For a Girl Like You" and all the girls wear leg warmers, it'll be like 7th grade again. The idea behind all of this is David
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Skyscraper A bunch of developers have gotten together and proposed building some really fracking huge towers in the SOMA district at 1st and Mission We're talking taller than any other building in the city
SF News Who Wants To Run For Mayor? We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief
SF News Political Junkie: Daly Stache Sighted! Don't worry, folks, we have word that . This picture is going to haunt our nightmares tonight. Thanks to Luke Thomas from the Fog City Journal for passing it along! he's shaving it off
SF News Political Junkie: Chris Daly Mustached We went to our very first Ross Mirkarimi Third Friday art show yesterday, and had a very nice time -- loved the eggnog! We also picked up the following piece of gossip: Chris
SF News I'm Sorry, Did You Have A Question? Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Wow, Gavin doesn't want to take your questions -- he won't even take live questions on this morning's Energy 92.7 commute-time show. (We tried listening to the .mp3s
SF News Putting the Treasure In Treasure Island Yesterday, the Board of Supes approved the new Treasure Island development plan by a 10-1 vote. The one holdout was the new guy, Ed Jew, and you gotta admire the dude for going
SF News W Magazine By The Numbers The number of ramekins Ann Getty is filling with souffle batter for San Francisco's newest social institution, Super Supper Sunday: 40. The length of time Ann Getty's BFF Jo Schuman Silver has lived
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
SF News MUNI Goes Where Gavin Fears To Tread The first meeting was held yesterday, but if you want to attend, the next slate of meetings will also be held Monday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium from 4:30 to 7:
SF News Update on Josh Wolf Oh wait, where were we. The event will start 7:30pm at the Balazo Gallery on 2183 Mission Street. Speaking will be Assemblyman Mark Leno, SF Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann, (attention SFist
SF News ...And A Protest In A Pear Tree Hark! The herald angels at Left in SF heeded our plea and forwarded along some pictures of last night's singalong Christmas carol protest of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's holiday party. As you
SF News Where's Gavin? 8:00am The President's mansion to pick up a pair of Imelda Marcos' shoes for Jennifer. 8:35am A sit-down interview with notorious gay blogger Bryanboy about same-sex marriage. 10:00am US Naval
SF News Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! We don't know about you, but we were when Proposition I won at the polls -- with 56.03% of the vote -- like how we were totally shocked that Jeffrey won Project
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election RESULTS District 6 -- DALY WINS. Check here. Congratulations, Chris! And in other RCV news -- Ed Jew wins. And in obsessive refresh ability -- SFIST WINS!! We got our post up first over
