misc World Still a Potentially Scary Place What's the price of a free society? Lunatics running around loose: online threats have lead UC Hastings to shut down, just for today. What are the threats? Who's responsible? We don't know. What
SF News You Down With CCA? The idea is to contract out a company to implement renewable energy so that by 2017, 51% of the city will be powered by renewable energy. The money to get this going would
SF News Here Comes Da Judge For those who don't know how these things work, essentially if someone gets a citation for any number of "quality of life" type issues, they'd be sent immediately to a community court. At
SF News Sending Out an S.O.S. Estrella, however, refuses to take anything down, claiming first amendment rights and all that stuff. In a letter to the commission, she wrote that all of this is happening because she "discovered that
Arts & Entertainment MLK Day in S.F.: A Day On, Not A Day Off Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows off her new gavel at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast in San Francisco this morning. This was Pelosi's first time back in her home district after
SF News MUNI Goes Where Gavin Fears To Tread The first meeting was held yesterday, but if you want to attend, the next slate of meetings will also be held Monday at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium from 4:30 to 7:
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Shearer It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A
SF News Random Political Odds And Ends We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from
Arts & Entertainment Take The Greats You Greedy Rakes, But Please Leave Your Mistakes at SwapSF on Saturday While gone, we were remiss in properly pimping an haute fashion event put on by Friends of SFist Jason and Monica. But with a method to our madness, knowing from experience that you
SF News So Fresh and So Clean San Francisco just received a grant of $1.8 million dollars that will go to helping clean up the streets in certain neighborhoods. The program, called the Community Corridor program, is already being
SF News Downtown Business Interests vs. the Progressives: SFist Breaks It Down If you have any understanding of San Francisco politics, or San Francisco at all, you have to have noticed that basically everything in this city breaks down to a battle between the "Downtown
misc Craigslist Encounters: Empty Boards Just like other network effect services, a new Craigslist sites takes time to develop as people in the far-off reaches (say... Centre County, Pennsylvania) don't just wake up and start using Craigslist. But
SF News Let's Buy Us A Damn Webby! Waaay back in January, we got an email from the Webby folks: I am delighted to let you know that members of the Int'l Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS), the judging
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
misc SFist Cares: Salute Your Volunteers! While we celebrate volunteers all year 'round, National Volunteer Week is officially April 23-29th. As part of this, The Volunteer Center will host its annual awards event "Hat's Off: A Celebration of Community
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 concert at the Civic
Arts & Entertainment As Open Night As A Three Dollar Bill The Three Dollar Bill Cafe is such an excellent name for the restaurant inside the SF LGBT Community Center. If you've got the time and inclination, stop by the cafe and check out
SF News Sunset Residents Contine to Bury Head in (Smoking) Sand It seems like just yesterday that we were sniggering over Sunset residents' concerns about illegal bonfires, but it was actually a few weeks ago. Since then, we've attended a (legal -- we were
Arts & Entertainment SFist Hangs out In Clarion Alley On our way to work a few weeks ago, we noticed a group of punk kids painting in the alleyway around the corner from Community Thrift on Valencia Street. They were painting bunnies
misc SFist Raves: Thrift Town SFist has not one, not two, but weddings to go to this summer, and we needed a snazzy suit. Something dark, not too heavy, and cheapcheapcheap. So we went to Thrift Town at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Dan Leone, Part II Any changes to the Top 5 places from the list you gave for the 10th anniversary last year? Dan Leone: Um, I’ve since discovered a soul food place called Your Neighborhood Restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Webby Award Winners Even though the Webbies award ceremony is moving to the East Coast this year, Bay Area-based websites cleaned house in the actual awards. A big liver-flavored rawhide with a ribbon on it to
Arts & Entertainment Tom Dolby Reads On Tuesday Tom also says that he may well be reading new material (scroll down) from his second novel, tentatively titled , for the first time in public -- which would be a special treat for
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
Arts & Entertainment Everyone Loves a Parade Part Deux Of course, this being San Francisco, you can't have a group of people getting together in silly costumes without their being some sort of socio-political ramification to it all and, fret not, there
