SF News The Chronicle Looks at the Gavin Years With Gavin's re-election "campaign" about to get under way, the Chron took a look at four years of the Gavster. Since Sunday was beautiful and the sports on TV plentiful, we'll give you
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero: Smelly, Dirty, Dangerous, and We Liked it That Way Ah, beautiful Diviz. Is there no boulevard more perfect, more blissful? When we think "nice places to take an afternoon constitutional," we are drawn instantly to its divine charm. It is, simply put,
Arts & Entertainment Stuff to Do On Halloween Night Let's remember that Halloween also exists outside of the Castro. (It's not all about you, Castro denizens.) No, it's true. If you don't believe us, check out the many, many scary events going
Arts & Entertainment And You Thought the Shooting Was Bad Apparently you can't have a port-o-let unless the street's officially closed, and the DPW wasn't willing to recognize that anything remarkable could happen in the Castro on Halloween. The citizens will be appealing
SF News Michael Savage Gets Official Frowny Face From SF Supes With Ed Jew out of the picture for now, the SF Board of Supes wasted little time in unanimously approving a resolution tsk-tsking The Savage Nation host Michael Savage for his "[l]et
SF News What Hath Halloween Wrought? According to the BAR, there now exists a need for "the creation of an Office of Special Events" at City Hall, a "'dedicated and separately funded' office to oversee annual events like Halloween.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: An SUV for San Francisco Sidewalks How would you pilot six kids down Russian Hill? One foot on the brake, the other hopping like a kangaroo trying to keep up? Sounds like fun.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a
SF News Gavin Newsom To Clean House Video suggests Gavin Newsom is preparing to clean house in San Francisco. Whoa. Guess it's time to get rid of the bad blood at City Hall. Beginning last Friday, Mayor Newsom asked for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Wing: With album titles like Wing Sings Elvis, Wing Sings AC/DC, Dancing Queen by Wing, and Beatles Classics by Wing, it's easy to see why she shot to cult-icon status and
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Not Guilty Plea This might be the perfect time for City Hall's favorite cabaret star to hone up on his Kander and Ebb. (Some "Cell Block Tango," maybe?) SF supervisor and mysterious resident Ed Jew entered
SF News Tsk Tsk: Sex. Drugs, And Good Attendance With Chris Daly It's the latest in the Tsk Tsk Supervisorial codes of conduct battle front! You've got sex, you've got drugs, all you need now is some rock and roll: Supervisor Chris Daly went and
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond asks why's everything got to be a public/private thing around here. Also, they hate the new Don Fisher museum. A poignant letter about the failures
SF News Golf Dorks March In all the marches in of the cities in all the world, a march to City Hall is taking place today for one of the most noble causes in San Francisco to date.
SF News SFist Blotter Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: An Orange Afterglow for Barry Bonds? Update: Upon further review, it appears these special lights are actually red to honor the launch of Virgin America Airlines. Boy is our face...red.
misc SF Halloween...Over? Now that there will be no city sanctioned Halloween debauchery in the Castro, Civic Center, or anywhere else, it'll be exciting to see the police state that's sure to erupt come 10/31.
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: What? MORE letters about Rainbow? Matt Smith threatens to derail Newsom's gubernatorial campaign if he doesn't do something about parking. Rape awareness campaigns in the Castro. Cover
misc Starbucks -- Bringing People Together Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. Many
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Our Changing Skyline, Old vs. New In the other corner, wearing blue-green, we have the "slender" tower, (do these candy stripes make me look thinner?) One Rincon along with some other blue-ish building, the "Las Vegasy" Intercontinental San Francisco
SF News Talking Barry Tomorrow, ESPN will take a break determining whether Tom Brady is more Now than LeBron is and feature a town hall type thingy in San Francisco on the issue of Barry Bonds and
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week You guys know what this is about by now: our readers' commentary is the sheen on the apple that is SFist, and we like to recognize those whose input has amused, educated, or
