SF News Ed Lee's Name Floated As Potential Ambassador To China Mayor Ed Lee is now rumored to be a possible candidate to replace outgoing U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke, who just announced his resignation. Locke's resignation was apparently unexpected, and just
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: David Finally Gets Hitched Occasional SFist photographer David Lytle and his man got hitched this week. The happy couple and their son celebrated by horsing around outside San Francisco City Hall. Congratulations to all!
SF News Ed Lee's Daughter Will Get Married At City Hall Next Weekend, During Dew Tour at Civic Center Well, this should be interesting. The Mayor's daughter is getting married in the City Hall rotunda next Saturday right in the middle of the skateboard/BMX showcase known as the Dew Tour, which
SF News San Francisco Sues Nevada For Being A Horrible Neighbor After news broke earlier this year that a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas was loading mental patients on Greyhound buses and shipping them out of the state to San Francisco and L.A.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Russian Vodka Spilled At SF City Hall As we mentioned yesterday, there was a protest today at noon in front of City Hall in which some LGBT activists were calling on the mayor to support the boycott of Russian vodka
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Porc De Triomphe: Bacon Bacon To Reopen Back in May, noted pork purveyor Bacon Bacon was forced to close the doors of its Upper Haight/Cole Valley outpost due in part to neighbor's complaints about the "obnoxious" and "acrid" smell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacon Bacon Urges Customers To Attend City Hall Hearing Bacon Bacon fights back against bacon-aroma haters in the hood with this revamped window at their Cole Valley location. Eater notes: "Bacon Bacon's day of reckoning with the Planning Commission is coming up
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Kiss Photo of Friday's gay marriage ceremony at San Francisco City Hall by Romel Jacinto.
SF News Photos: California's First Gay Marriage In Over Four Years After a too-long wait, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, the lead plaintiffs in the Prop. 8 case, didn't waste any more time and finally tied the knot in San Francisco City Hall Friday
SF News Get Hitched This Weekend: S.F. Clerk's Office Will Be Open During Pride After the announcement this afternoon that same sex marriages would begin immediately in California, the city will open the clerk's office in city hall until 8 p.m. Friday night and from 9
Arts & Entertainment Time Lapse: Watch Rainbow Colors Light Up S.F. City Hall You've seen the image of San Francisco City Hall lit up rainbow bright in honor of Pride week. Now watch the as said lights gently unfurl in David Yu's excellent 20-second time lapse.
Arts & Entertainment Sick Lights: S.F. City Hall Lit Up Rainbow Bright San Francisco City Hall steals the spotlight with this dazzling rainbow attire in honor of Pride week. Delightful! Photo snapped by zoxcleb.
SF News S.F. City Hall Prepares For Prop 8 SCOTUS Ruling After years of debate, protest, rulings, rambling and handwringing, today the Supreme Court of the United States makes their decision on Proposition 8, California's voter-approves same-sex marriage ban, and DOMA. Those for and
SF News Prop 8 And DOMA Decisions To Come Down Wednesday; Castro, City Hall Events Planned We thought it might be Thursday, but SCOTUS is in fact planning to close up shop a day early for their summer recess, and the final big decisions of the term are to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tragedy: Tamale Lady Can No Longer Sell At Zeitgeist [Updated] It's a sad day in eating-while-drinking news: popular outdoor drinking spot Zeitgeist has announced this morning that Virginia Ramos, aka The Tamale Lady, will no longer be allowed to peddle her delicious wares
SF News Teens 'Beat Crap' Out Of Couple At Muni Stop Muni Diaries has word about an alleged attack that happened at the Van Ness Muni bus stop by a gaggle of deplorable teens. "Erin" writes to the local transportation-themed site with her chilling
Arts & Entertainment Stephen Curry Receives Key To San Francisco For Making A Bunch Of Three-Pointers In Oakland As part of the City's ongoing pro-Warriors Arena campaign, Mayor Ed Lee presented star three-point shooter Stephen Curry with a key to the city earlier today. A sort of consolation prize for not
SF News S.F. Investigating Nevada Hospital For 'Dumping' Mental Patients Prerequisite lede: by differing standards, there are lots of mental cases in S.F. But San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office has opened a formal investigation into allegations that Nevada health officials
SF News Supe Laughs At Homeless Man's Cell Phone Use On Thursday, the state Public Utilities Commission expanded Lifeline, a landline phone service that donates free landlines to the poor, with cell phones. This is a good thing for many reasons -- e.
Arts & Entertainment Oops: Mayor Ed Lee Refers To World Series Trophies As 'Twin Towers' During the annual San Francisco Chamber CityBeat Breakfast at the Marriott, kicky and acclaimed SFGate scribe Beth Spotswood sat in the audience while Mayor Ed Lee made a minor gaffe onstage. Lucky you.
SF News Clueless Groom Tells Same-Sex Marriage Supporters To 'Have Some Respect' While He Gets Married Yesterday gay couples and same-sex marriage supporters organized by Marriage Equality USA gathered in San Francisco's City Hall to apply for marriage licenses and protest California's ban on gay marriage. The event is
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard to the
SF News Women To Dance, Demand End To Violence On V-Day At City Hall, Dolores Park Eve Ensler, the playwright who brought us The Vagina Monologues, has for over a decade headed up an organization called V-Day with the aim of ending violence against women worldwide. This year, for
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: The Tens Photo Opening At Jane Kim's Office The Tens, one of our favorite chroniclers of the weird and world-weary San Francisco streets is having an opening reception for his photo show Cash for Gold. Held this evening from 4:30
SF News Carmen Chu Appointed Assessor; D4 Supervisor Replacement TBA Mayor Ed Lee named District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu as the city’s assessor-recorder, effectively replacing onetime mayoral candidate Phil Ting. Chu, who would often correct Supervisor Jane Kim's math during Board of
