SF News Gwen Araujo Murder Trial Update Last we'd heard, in June of last year, the jury ended in a deadlock on all three defendants, resulting in a mistrial. Though a number of subsequent developments were reported in the Chron
SF News Smoke 'Em If You Golf 'Em Funny little thing about this law, though- it actually calls for the banning of smoking in every city park except one, the public golf course. Turns out that a high percentage of golfers-
SF News The Giants Pitch in For Tsunami Relief While it's kind of tempting to snark on some of this- The Insider's big story today was what the stars were doing to help out, including an interview with Clay Aiken on the
misc Out (the Window) with the Old Year Well, we did a little better than the Chron on this one, but only slightly, since we got pictures. But we have to concur that the annual tradition of throwing calendar pages out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: New Movies This Weekend In other words, if you haven't seen "House of the Flying Daggers" yet, go see it. Now. Happy New Year!
SF News Craigslist -- Newspaper Killer We’ve often thought of Craiglist as being many things- place to buy furniture, place to look for apartments, and a place to try and find casual sex, but there’s one thing
misc Goodnight, Night Cabbie The Chronicle today said goodbye to yet another columnist, this time not out of economic hardship on part of the Chron, but on economic hardship on part of the columnist. Citing the need
Arts & Entertainment Turmoil at the Castro SFist was dismayed when we heard rumors surrounding the controversial firing of the Castro Theater's long-time programming director, Anita Monga. We first heard these rumors when we read the Chron story detailing the
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
SF News Fox Jocks to Rock De Anza Sean Hannity brings his Fox News ventriloquism act (look, Hannity's lips hardly move when Alan Colmes is talking!) to De Anza College's Flint Center for the Performing Arts tonight. Topic: Why godless liberals
Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: One Scoop Or Two? Okay, we have to confess that we haven't really been paying much attention to the plans about developing the Hunters' Point shipyard (though we did note through our usual sporting interest in housing
SF News Clear Blue Water Act You know how there's some comic strips you love (Boondocks, For Better Or For Worse), some comics you hate (we've never liked Rex Morgan, M.D.), and some comics you hate but accidentally
misc Ugly Buildings The Chron today does a feature on the biggest architectural eyesores in San Francisco. The writer of the article focuses his ire on the Marriott Hotel across the street from the Metreon, saying
SF News Alta Bates to Disgruntled Employees: Take Your One-Day Strike and Shove It The Chron quoted Alta Bates Summit's vice president for medical affairs, Dr. John Gentile, as suggesting the sympathy strike is meant to unify the unions so that they can bargain collectively for a
SF News The Giants Add a Good Strong Armando First thing is, you gotta understand that at least one SFist writer obsesses over the Giants to a damned near unhealthy point and scours the internet on a fairly regular (constant?) basis looking
SF News Infamous Eastern Span to be Named after Infamous Western Man? And here we thought "Emperor Norton" was just a decent indie music label...SF-based cartoonist Phil Frank (perhaps best known for his Farley series in the Chron) is spearheading a campaign to name
SF News Political Junkie: Anger Management Well, he wasn't wearing a t-shirt to promote his new rap album, but, like Ron Artest, Chris Daly ain't sorry. Well, that's not entirely fair. At yesterday's unprecedented censure motion hearings before the
SF News Summit Faces Uphill Battle Alta Bates Summit's director of public relations, Carolyn Kemp, was quoted as acknowledging that the results of the audit "were not in our favor" but also downplayed the significance of the specific complaints.
SF News Hurrah and Huzzah for Chronicle Watch! We may kid the Chronicle every once in awhile, for, oh, laying people off, getting rid of good columnists, and shoddy editorial standards, but sometimes you gotta give credit where credit is due.
SF News Yes, We Had No Banana Far be it from us to post stories making some spurious claim about some noted official and then disappear whenever they try to defend themselves. So when said noted official tries to defend
Arts & Entertainment Chaos at the Chron SFist has been sitting on some insider dope regarding shakeups at the San Francisco Chronicle. It's a delicate situation, because we don't want to compromise our sources, but we want to inform you
SF News And They're Out of the Fajitagate! If you've been living under a rock for the last year, then you'll have no idea what we're talking about. But then we had enough trouble getting DSL in our home, so it
SF News Barry's Bad Week After this weekend, it's going to get harder for us Giants' fans to try and live in our shiny, happy denial land in regards to Barry Bonds and this whole BALCO mess. While
