SF News Surprise! Yesterday was the big 39 for the head executive officer of the city and county of San Francisco -- so what better way to celebrate than with a surprise party in City Hall,
SF News Gavin's Adventures In Babysitting We can't wait to read the transcripts of Gavin's text messages to the city hall high school interns next. "Do I make you horny? Also -- why don't we have solar powered parking
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Amandeep Jawa, Flashdance Boss Dust off your dancing shoes, San Francisco! You DO have dancing shoes, don't you? No, your galoshes don't count. Wait, have you been wearing those since Folsom? Eww. Aaaaaaaaanyway, this Saturday, at 8pm
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anatomy of a Burrito(phile) Dan Johnson of Burritophile wants to meet up at Taqueria El Castillito, on Golden Gate Avenue, just a stone's throw away from City Hall. This SFist knows this to be a good thing,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Posturing Poobahs of Positivism We say suburban, because it seems to be the beachhead for second venues of out-of-town restaurants. We've had Patxis opening there from Palo Alto, and a few weeks later, next to Patxis, Cafe
Arts & Entertainment City Hall Welcomes Back Harvey Milk Contrary to what you might be thinking, Mirkarimi has not discovered a rift in the space-time continuum; instead he's continuing his monthly art exhibitions in his office. Up now through mid-July is, “Let’
misc Awesome New Feature! Just LOOK at how happy those lesbians outside City Hall are! (Despite the one on the right having what looks like a dislocated elbow.) They're celebrating SFist's brand new super fantastic orgasmotronic commenting
SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
misc SFist Cares ... About Winning Volunteers This week, rock dwellers, is National Volunteer Week and to help celebrate it, and encourage people to keep or start volunteering The Volunteer Center is holding a contest. The winner of this content
SF News Fight For Your Right To Party Party One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising One hundred years ago this month, San Francisco survived an earthquake. You may have heard of it. Well, despite the odds (and the sky-high earthquake insurance rates), people keep moving here, and San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Norooz Mobarak The Iranian New Year is traditionally celebrated on the vernal equinox, which was this Monday. San Francisco, though, always fashionably late, is throwing its Norooz party tonight at City Hall. Iranian-American Ross Mirkarimi
Arts & Entertainment Green Apple Books at Tosca Tomorrow Night That's right, Wednedsay at 7:30 it's Green Apple Books at Tosca (242 Columbus Avenue, as if you didn't know), with Harmon and Bucky celebrating the publication of Leon's book . Knowing these guys,
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 1 of 2) Gavin Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we're breaking it down into two posts! Newsflash one: The Chron reports that various city supervisors are annoyed that Gavin makes no effort to communicate with
misc San Jose's Pale Male San Jose City Hall took a break from corruption scandals for love -- two peregrine falcons are nesting on the roof of the city's newest architectural landmark, and possibly mating as well. Mayor
SF News Political Junkie: A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Mayor Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got
Arts & Entertainment Classic Cars In The Rain So we're out on our lunch break, with no umbrella, trying to cross Market Street. , we grumble to ourselves. We look up, and -- hey, wow! A parade of classic cars coming down
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Crashing Daly's Party Everybody may or may not hate Chris Daly, but we all agree -- everybody looooooves little Jack! Your Junkie's Best Celebrity of 2005, resplendent in his orange Che Guevara onesie, graciously received guests
Arts & Entertainment Daly's Art And Policy Supervisor Chris Daly takes a break from smashing the state to continue the Matt Gonzalez tradition of Smashing The State through art, as he hosts what looks like his first City Hall art
misc School Credit Give Gavin Newsom a shiny red apple! In an interview with this month's San Francisco Magazine (in blatant disregard of another interview with the Gavman in 7x7, which was optimistically labeled "exclusive"), the
SF News And What is Tit Play? Chopped Liver? Okay, folks. Here's what we're facing: in the December issue of "Faith: The Bay Area Catholic Newsletter," the editor writes that "if it should be the case that homosexual desires are related to
SF News City Releases TechConnect RFP Kimo Crossman over at Webnetic tipped us to the release of the new, final request for proposals from The City on the citywide wireless initiative. Strangely, just last week the Local Agency Formation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFisting: Shake that Fruitcake, Don't Break It Feeling a bit nervous about squeezing into that rubber catsuit for any City Hall Getty-esque holiday fund-raising affairs we're to be invited to this weekend, we're so ready for a little bump and
SF News Hatin' On The Sentinel What's everyone got against the San Francisco Sentinel these days, anyways? It's got beautiful photography, keeps an ear firmly planted on the ground of City Hall, and runs a fairly-entertaining gossip column to
SF News TechConnect Public Hearing Sasha at Left In SF did liveblog the event, which you can watch on SFGTV here [RealPlayer]. We have to commend kicking it off with a good old, single-source, un-verifiable rumor:Google proposed
