SF News Haggling With Comcast The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
SF News Live Blogging The Gavster: Municipal Wifi Gavin is set to announce his plans for Municipal Wifi today at 2pm. Rumors are a-swirlin' already as to who's going to be responsible for deploying it. Google has been making apparent moves
SF News Always a Few Years Behind You know how all those 'hott trends' seem to start in New York, and float out here fanned by the butterfly wings of fashion and lifestyle magazines? Well, this summer, the 'buzz' isn't
SF News Is That a Suspicious Package, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? And if you tinfoil hat-wearers think it's more than a coincidence, since last time we were at City Hall there was a bomb scare, none of us were anywhere near City Hall today.
SF News Political Junkie: Hottest Supe Elections! Oooooh, your Junkie to vote. We vote for everything: national elections, state elections, local elections, CNN QuickPolls, the SFGate Question, BizRate surveys about our Priceline experiences, those "How'd We Do?" cards where you
misc SFist Rants: Where Have all the Riders Gone? Of course, we could point out that maybe more people would ride it if, say, they fixed the routing problems at the airport so there wouldn't be fifteen minute delays just outside the
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 on this
SF News Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth Err, no. This is San Francisco after all. During a vote on whether or not to accept it, possible soon-to-be City Assessor Geraldo Sandoval kicked it out to the Rules Committee because, we
SF News Every Single One of You Owes Us a Beer Now, surprisingly, we're not sure that from the start we even knew we'd last this long. But after so long, we're finding the idea of doing anything else kind of hard to fathom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vote Early, Vote Often Okay, so we got an email from Gridskipper asking us to nominate some of the World's Sexiest Cities in different categories, but the catch was, we couldn't nominate our own. Since Gridskipper has
SF News <b>BREAKING: SANDOVAL FOR CITY ASSESSOR</b> Sandoval is alerting people to the fact that he's running for Assessor. The election will be in November; if there's an incumbent, it will be an appointed incumbent, as Mabel Teng has resigned.
SF News We're Counting to Ten -- the City Attorney and the Mayor's Office are pointing (counting) fingers at each other about a screwup over the number of days Mayor Newsom has to exercise his veto power. So on
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick's In the Pool Everyone seems to describe spoken word artist and writer/poet Beth Lisick as "fizzy" -- but she really is! City Lights was packed to the gills with Missionistas who walked up Columbus from
SF News I Make This Look Good Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to
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 Last Call... We were a little slow to pick up on this sad note. Seems that Betsy Culp has decided to turn out the lights over the San Francisco Call. The call has existed in
Arts & Entertainment A Gay Cable Channel in SF? That's Crazy Talk! We wrote about the City's crappy cable TV service a few weeks ago, so this news comes as no surprise. LOGO, which is owned and operated by MTV networks, will be available to
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. Is
Arts & Entertainment Todd Barry at the Purple Onion One of Gothamist's favorite comedians, Todd Barry, will be performing six shows starting tonight at eight at the Purple Onion and running through Sunday. Who is Todd Barry? Well, find out for yourself
Arts & Entertainment Wayans World According to the plans, the brothers want to build an amusement park adjacent to the studio. The park will be like "Universal Studios in Los Angeles but with a hip, urban atmosphere reflected
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival 2005 Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check
misc SFist Raves: La Mission We're pretty inclusive when we say "The Mission." To us, it's anything from 16th to 24th, Dolores to Potrero. The Mission is one of the few places where we really feel like we're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: C'est quoi, Koi? Ooops, maybe the Outback people did not know that the week-end dim sum crowds park in their lot. Maybe they look back and forth at the dining room and the lot and think,
Arts & Entertainment I Can't Believe It's Not New York And for those friends visiting via Google, let us add: Rosario Dawson naked!...Maybe. We couldn't spot that in the trailer either, but we've got our fingers crossed.
