Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathalie Roland Gallery you'd most like to show in? There are so many interesting galleries in the city that I enjoy visiting like Tinhorn Press, Low Gallery, Receiver and pretty much any one
SF News Ain't No Sunshine When She...Signs a Confidentiality Agreement Ah, yes, the City of Berkeley. You might have thought back room dealing and hiding documents and meetings from public review was just a San Francisco thing, but Berkeley has its share of
SF News Rally for Sandoval Our super-secret SFist sources have notified us that Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, repping the eleven for the Excelsior, is holding a rally today at noon, on the steps of City Hall. , you ask.
SF News I Want to Ride My Bicycle The Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 to allow the sponsors of the San Francisco Grand Prix Bicycle Race, otherwise known as the T-Mobile International, to have around $200,000 in costs
SF News Sophie Maxwell Pisses Off The Blogosphere Well, when we suggested that Sophie start a blog to help counter some of the diatribes by critics in her constituency, we were only partly joking. Sure, we were jealous that our friends
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Thursday Thursday Thursday!!!! The grudge match! In the "Bloggers Are Such Bitches" SFist.com t-shirt, the dodgin' and weavin' Big Bad Chris "The Left Hook" Daly!
SF News Iraq War Anniversary Protest The rain held out just long enough for the march from Dolores Park to arrive and the speakers and performers to get through the rally. Thousands upon thousands were there, though it seemed
SF News The Great Flag Fight With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the SF Board of Supervisors (once again delving into foreign policy) unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag
Arts & Entertainment What? There Are SF Supes <i>Besides</i> Daly? It's no Smash The State, but friend of SFist Windy Chien (isn't that the best name ever?) tipped us off that our boy Matty G (and before you ask,
Arts & Entertainment This Octavia House Duboce Street's loss is Hayes Valley's gain, as the City and Caltrans laboriously rebuild the Central Expressway offramp one block over from where they laboriously tore it down, but
SF News Ah, The Muniserable SFist was having trouble getting to sleep last night, and we figured that short of the narcotics available down the street, actually reading the MTA's recently approved Fiscal Year 2006 budget
SF News SFist Goes To City Hall -- What's Up With SFPD Press Passes? We were originally tipped to the meeting of the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee by a friend at the SF Call, a local alternative news source that you can find online.
SF News Irony Thy Name Is City Hall Since we hear that the SFPD is issuing passes on the basis of how "breaking" the news is that is covered by the respective organizations, we'd like to remind
Arts & Entertainment "Hi, this is Gavin. Leave a message." We know that you're recently single. And okay, we can accept that the hot, SF-appropriate love affair we were hoping for between you and Matty G just isn't
misc Problems at the Oakland Animal Shelter With all the positive hubbub about San Francisco's Animal Care and Control officers and its Dog Court (oh, you bet your sweet bippy we're discussing this in "We
SF News Fair Fares Part Deux The protests against the fare hike opened with the traditional forming of the slightly-over-the-type-named organization with the slightly-over-the-top political agenda, the Coalition for Transit Justice. On
Arts & Entertainment We've Got Big Balls The gala begins at the Opera House where there will be cocktail receptions, seated dinners, and a gala performance of among other things “Romeo and Juliet.” For the celebration, the Opera House will
SF News We'll Always Have So Best You might not have been able to tell but we here at SFist have some mixed feelings about the Newsom breakup. On the one hand, there's been an increase in single
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An SFist Christmas Well, we just heard Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on the radio the other day (the kickoff song for the season), so it's
SF News Fight the Power? San Francisco’s hep cat of a Board of Supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, made perhaps his final statement as outgoing President of the Board with his latest piece of artwork installed in his office-
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
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us,
SF News Ranked Choice Voting, Ctrl-Alt-Delete A fatal exception has occurred down at City Hall -- the results of the instant runoff races have been delayed because of a software crash in the computers tallying the votes, which probably won&