SF News Seersucker Sashay Chante Our own Dianne Feinstein continues to put her own stamp on Congress' annual "Seersucker Thursday" tribute to Southern style. Not since the last "Jeans Day" at their local Catholic High School has this
SF News What's Green and Bangs the Drums? Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
misc How Green is Your Valley? Nancy Pelosi maybe the second most powerful Dem in the country, but that doesn't mean she's getting any love from us hometown folks. For some, it's because if it wasn't for the fact
SF News Watch Out Bush/Cheney, Here Comes the Board of Supes The measure brought out the snark from Gavin, of all people, who said in response: "I imagine, immediately, Congress will probably convene into session and begin impeachment proceedings.'' Hey, that's our line.
Arts & Entertainment Shake, Rattle, and Browse You may want to metaphorically brace yourself under a solid table (and not in a doorjamb, for crying out loud!) -- 2006 is not only the year of the Congressional midterm elections, but
SF News "The Daily Show" Takes on the Perils of Pelosi Yes, our beautiful city and it's congressional representative once again made the "Daily Show." Yay! And could we be more provincial? Anyways, the bit was on latest political meme being that despite all
SF News Boxer Drops the "I" Word Boxer says she got the idea after speaking with John Dean at a public discussion. Dean, of course, knows a whole lot about illegally eavesdropping on people and lying to cover it up.
SF News Fallin' Back We don't know about you, but far prefer falling back to springing forward. It has been killing us to drag ourselves out of bed and walk the dog in the dark. It just
Arts & Entertainment One City, One Book Maybe this is just stemming from a misplaced nostalgia for our fourth grade class, where everyone was required to buy the exact same edition of The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, but we
SF News Wave That flag, Wave it Wide and High With the inmates running the asylum known as the 109th Congress, it's always great to know that we here in California, the Blue-ish of the Blue states, have representatives to act as a
misc Get Ur Geek On Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn
SF News The Schiavo Bill: How'd Our Senators Vote? And Why Didn't Any Bay Area Congressmembers Vote? It occurred to us that we don't pay that much attention to the individual voting records of our representatives. When elections come around, we pay some lip service to candidates' voting records, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eatin' in Austin Well, okay, so this may not be so helpful to residents of The City, but considering how many people we've run into from home and folks around these parts who've spent time in
SF News Enter Congress Now some of you might be wondering why congress would want to get involved in such a matter. After all, they haven't been able to figure out yet what happened to those WMDs,
SF News Barbara Boxer Cowboys Up about all of this, but it appears as though those rallies and e-mails to Sen. Barbara Boxer worked. Today, during a joint session of congress to certify the electoral vote count, Boxer, along
SF News Remembering Robert Matsui Walking dejectedly back to the first day of work in 2005, we noticed that the flags in town are flying at half-mast in honor of Sacramento's Democratic congressman Robert Matsui. Matsui, who had
SF News The Presidentator? One good thing about the election being over is that we no longer have to be submitted to political ads. Oops. Strike that. Two weeks after the election, a "grass-roots" organization (meaning a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Jennifer DePalma [] San Francisco has a well-deserved reputation for tolerance. But SFist's friends on the other side of the aisle have pointed out that while latex fetishists, Macintosh users and conspiracy theorists can feel free
SF News Gaming the System As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people
