Arts & Entertainment Cherry Blossom Parade Anime Costume Contest Hey, it's time once again for the Cherry Blossom Festival pre-parade anime costume contest at City Hall in San Francisco. The weather turned out great. Let's meet some of the contestants, after the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: All Aboard the Scol Bus Our Chevy-based photo trilogy ends thusly: a Hummer H2 making a stop near City Hall. Hail to the bus driver.
SF News What Would Mike Brady Think? The types of buildings were listed in five categories: religious, residential, commercial, historic, and civic. To decide the winners, the AIA had a secret meeting in a dark tomb somewhere and drew lots
misc Connect With a Good Deed If you want to help out, head on over the site and choose a project you'd like to work on. Among other things, you can do street outreach, give legal help, serve food,
SF News Supes Making Moves on Healthy Saturdays in Golden Gate Park(ing Lot) In two weeks, Healthy Saturday comes on a Monday! April 9, City Hall, 1pm: those party animals on the Land Use and Economic Development Committee will be throwing a sure-to-be-fun public hearing about
Arts & Entertainment Please Send Us Obama Rally Pictures! We missed the Barack Obama rally in Oakland because we were at the movies, but it sounded amazing -- 10,000 people in front of City Hall, and the unofficial word from the
SF News March Muni Payout: $57,762.63 Muni is not without defense in the Food Bank fiasco: in their answer to the complaint, Muni claimed that the Food Bank knowingly placed itself at risk, so they refused to pay for
Arts & Entertainment Pop That Collar, Bro Orange Photography just posted these pictures of Gavin putting on a green tie for the Irish National Day Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall. We love how he goes back to his preppy,
SF News RagoneWatch (A Day Late) Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of John Nelson), Peter
SF News WiFi Is NoFi At this PointFi The question seems to be a matter of who should run the WiFi-- should a company control it or should the city run it they. The key hitch to having it built and
Arts & Entertainment I Want 2 B Your Plover - Dogs vs. Birds in S.F. You've read about tomorrow's big City Hall showdown over the issue of unleashed dogs on Golden Gate National Recreation Area land. Part of this issue has to do with the 2 Western Snowy
SF News Newsom to Speak We're a little late on this, but Gavin is going to have a press conference today at 11:30 to go over the allegations at City Hall today. And props to Gavin to
SF News Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving
SF News Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute Complaints were made because the increased street cleaning would mean increased amounts of time people had to go out and move their cars. It might also affect business in the area as it
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:
Arts & Entertainment At The Ballet The evening started out at a gala Spanish-themed reception at City Hall and the Chron breathlessly reports that "[t]his was the most dressed-up Ballet gala in history. If the ladies pulled out
SF News Who's Attacking Newsom Now! So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin
SF News Treasure Hunt: Hot Tongue Action Nothing gets our treasure hunting heart pounding as fast as a crowded taco truck tucked away on a parking lot. Unfortunately the delicious meal we wolf down sometimes makes our stomach heave just
SF News A Peek Into the Secret, Exciting Life of the MTA Board The excitement begins with a call to order! Then a roll call, an announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices, approval of minutes, and then, at long last, "communications." Communications with whom? We're
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Sculpture Competition SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course,
SF News You Had To Be There The problem was that before there was no way of tracking who was attending and who wasn't. Besides the fact nobody really saw the records as they sat in the commission offices, the
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
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Values A visitor from the Midwest expressed surprise about the "holiday tree" sprouting up in San Francisco's Civic Center. The tourist mentioned to us that he had heard a lot this year about San
Arts & Entertainment Is Green A Verb? As we discussed earlier today, PG&E and ReadyMade magazine are co-sponsoring "Let's Green This City," which is aiming to raise environmental consciousness by putting sofas covered with grass around the city.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: District 8 Candidate Alix Rosenthal Alix is an attorney and civil servant, known for her love of burning man, her advocacy for SF's handgun ban, and for being of a generally lefty-artsy disposition. And with BeyondChron pointing out
