Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park, 5 signs,
Arts & Entertainment Bill Clinton, Prop 87, And Civic Center Mike Yay, Civic Center Mike's back from Palm Springs! And what should he stumble upon while wheeling his suitcases out of the BART station but Bill Clinton's Yes on 87
SF News Bush Ter Down! This is part of an international 190-city protest against the Iraq War (with 70 of the cities are in states that voted for Bush in 2004). They've been organizing on
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to See AFI Did you know that the band AFI has its roots in Ukiah, California? They've come a long way in the last 15 years, winning a Video Music Award last week for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Civic Center Eats: The Jury Goes to Lunch Jury duty makes us hungry. All that acute listening and analyzing, served up with long stretches of waiting causes the most diligent Legal Eagle to experience serious hunger pangs. Thankfully, there are scores
Arts & Entertainment Castro Halloween Cancellation Update! We've been closely following this strange attempt by Bevan & Friends to put a stop to Halloween parties in the Castro -- including private house parties. Check out the coverage of Bevan&
Arts & Entertainment JK And The Rowlings Okay, let's get the premise of this band over quickly, and with a minimum of references to Hufflepuff badgers and flying Bludger balls -- the band Harry and the Potters is made
Arts & Entertainment Good Show, Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Striped shirt Marina guy: "It's like, we hold these truths to be self-evident. What movie is that from again?" -- From
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455
SF News Set Your Alarm For 5:12 A.M. We're just trying to spare you some panic tomorrow morning, folks -- if you hear bells and sirens at 5:12 a.m., no need to wonder about the cosmic coincidence of
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
SF News Your Commute: And You Thought Your Job Was Bad Man, whose job do we not want this week? BART spokesman Linton Johnson's. Poor Linton had to do yet another round of ritual apologies after a massive computer failure crashed BART
SF News SFist Goes To The 75th San Francisco Golden Gloves Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the
SF News Your Commute: Fire On The Bart , we thought, as we stared blankly out of our downtown office window this morning. That's an awful lot of cop cars speeding down the street. Then we got an email from
SF News ChronicleWatch Watch -- Day 1000! In Roman numerals, it's the letter M -- ChronWatch hits its very first one-oh-oh-oh of civic inaction, as the Berkeley fountain it first began pestering back in June 2003
SF News Fun with BART BART is a far less colorful subject, but that doesn't make it any less of an object of obsession for some. Two BART-related treats have come across our desk lately,
Arts & Entertainment Blame Canada: When Performance Art Goes Bad Last Friday, a performance art piece got ugly -- and we don't just mean because it failed to critically explore the (mis)/dissemination of the capitalist hegemony: Novato performance artist Joe Canada
Arts & Entertainment Santana Row On the bright side, at least matchbox 20's Rob Thomas won't be here: Gavin Newsom took some time out from romancing to regretfully announce that a planned free Santana
misc Good one, Judy. A trainload of subway riders was startled and a little starstruck Saturday afternoon when Assemblymember Mark Leno stepped on board at Civic Center heading toward Embarcadero. "Look who it is!" yelled
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings, this Time with Feeling Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl 1: "Wow, I've never been up this high!" Girl 2: "I've never even been in this building
misc The 'Fisties: Best Burrito Rita: Let the burrito debates begin! Lincoln/Douglas rules! (I have absolutely no idea what that actually means, but doesn't that sound all high-school debate-team-y?) RESOLVED: that Papalote
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Volti ....Oh, hello! We were just warming up our voice over here. After we posted about local choral group Volti's world premiere of No More To Hide, a choral work in tribute
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Should See A Doctor Crusty Bum #1 pointing at leg of Crusty Bum #2: "That's not crabs that does that. Lice don't do that neither." -- From Marty / Outside Civic Center Library
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Find Success Elusive Guy on cell: "I lost forty pounds in the last 20 weeks! I want to look great in that courtroom." -- On the 21 @ Diviz On the Muni excalators at Civic Center,
