SF News Amy Lee Gets Her Revenge On San Francisco Well, Lee filed a suit with the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing for having to go through all that nastiness. She eventually got her position after another raucous hearing but felt
SF News Now That Didn't Go Well Here's the thing about Opening Day-- it's like Christmas Day for baseball fans. You wake up and get to unwrap the shiny new pitcher, shiny new manager, and shiny new lineup. And this
misc Of Course, You Know, This Means War City spokesman Brad Rovanpera said that nobody seemed to notice anything until news trucks started showing up in the Creek to report on all this. The reason, of course, is that now we
SF News And Here's a Sad Story Michael Keenan, a 43 year old artist is in critical condition after rushing into a fire to save a dog. The dog isn't doing much better. What makes the story particularly intriguing is
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork talks to Marie Kare of the Sampler We saw our first Sampler two years ago while interning at the ReadyMade offices in Oakland. We looked on eagerly as a big thick envelope arrived stuffed with handmade goodies that included buttons,
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Salivates on the Opera's Next Season. Gockley had made changes, some good like moving the subtitles back to the top; some great like the live videocast on the civic center plaza; some so-so, like the redesign of the visual
SF News Treasure Hunt: A Touch of Huitzilopochtli What were we thinking? With Martin Luther King day approaching, it dawned on us that we missed our big chance, that blessed time between Christmas and New Year when we can actually take
misc Norman Yee On The Mend Turns out Norman Yee is an avid salsa dancer, and was crossing Bryant and 4th that Tuesday with the light in his favor to get to a local club (maybe the Glas Kat?
SF News And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire The fire rings would be designated places where bonfires could happen. There would be signs letting everyone know what the deal is with the hope that people would only build bon fires in
misc Well Wishes To Norman Yee San Francisco school board president Norman Yee remains in intensive care after being hit by a car on 4th and Bryant the day after Christmas. However, he's in stable condition after undergoing two
SF News Recycling Your Christmas Tree Well, you're in luck! The godlessness of the town of San Francisco is offset by its environmental zeal -- so if you've got a tree you need to get rid of, drag it
Arts & Entertainment Lake Tahoe: Open for Business Olympic Valley, home of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, showing a dusting of snow. After getting off to a slow start, it seems the ski season at the Lake Tahoe area is finally
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Becomes BustamanteWatcher for the Day If things felt a little different today here in the Golden State, it was only because due to California rules, Lt. Gov Cruz Bustamante took over as Governor for the two hours or
misc Bay Area Wanderer: Colors Of The Season * Bay Area Wanderer: Freitas and Las Pavadas, Terra Linda The colors of Christmas to me have always been green and red and grey. Here at Hillview Park, the air is crisp and and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Friday night may have kicked off the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy soiree, but it was our first. Though we're clearly members of the target audience for a December night of comedy
Arts & Entertainment We Are So Doing This See, the way we see it is it'll be cold, the stores will be mayhem, we've already seen "A Christmas Story" over twenty times, and we have no life. What could be better
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Yule Love Darlene Love performing the best Christmas song ever, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on Letterman tonight? Check. Twenty-four hours of on TBS starting on Christmas Eve? Check. It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Wishes You a Happy Holidays So it's kind of traditional that every politician send out Christmas, err Holiday, cards to their campaign donors supporters. Now while most politicians have pictures of their happy smiling family (and, as Wonkette
Arts & Entertainment Happy Week Before Christmas You know what? There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time.
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do In San Francisco When Your Shvitzing Over the Holidays Okay, so the family is coming for the holidays and you don't know what to do other than the Wharf and any place that doesn't involve getting solicited for spare change every ten
Arts & Entertainment Christmas at Cow Palace is as Fun as the Dickens We ventured out to Cow Palace with 6-year-old Julian in tow, where we proceeded to do a full circle around the entire building before finding the fair. A motorcycle swap was going on
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Use Those Hands We fully intended to make some snow globes and document the process here, but we got a little caught up in other activities this week. We even spent a good amount of money
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies Up first is the movie that's the talk of everything, Apocalypto. You know, we actually kind of want to see this movie. And yeah, we are fully aware of the fact Mel has
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes To The Movies: Hilary Hahn Plays Symphony Hall It was a night of romantic movie themes and orchestral folk music (and one modern piece described in the program as "an aircraft revving for takeoff"), with violinist Hilary Hahn the main star.
SF News Who's Got Questions? As you know, this correspondent is unabashedly in favor of this election season's Proposition I Question Time -- because we're in favor of anything that makes local politics entertaining! (We can discuss offline
