SF News Are Americans Just Too Dumb For Democracy? We'll admit we've often asked ourselves this same question ... but now some actual scientists have gone ahead and put the scientific stamp of authority on the notion that if a person is kind
Arts & Entertainment Finally, Some Prop 8 Leaders Who Aren't Afraid of a Little Fight Back in October, the Yes on 8 "people" challenged California's Superintendent of Schools, Jack O'Connell, to a debate about gay marriage. According to Yes, even the remotest possibility of learning anything about gay
SF News Insert Clever Feature Title Here Needless to say, we do have some Pelosi & Pals news today as the Washington Post has a big feature on some anti-lobbying bill she's been working on for awhile that could see
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: SF For Democracy Remember those heady days of 2004, when the Democrats thought they might have had a chance to take back the White House with Howard Dean? Well, we all know how that turned out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: For Whom the Onion Rings* Indeed, a young lady was reading one night, and we had to admit: with its mostly white walls, blonde hardwood floor and table tops, Cha-Ya is a clean, well-lighted place. The high organically
Arts & Entertainment It's Gonna Bring You Down.... Huh! Given lead singer W. Axl Rose's notorious, errr, let's call it "unreliability," when it comes to concert appearances, though, make sure you save your receipt. The site we found this info on cautions
Arts & Entertainment The Warriors: Mr. Foyle Goes to Washington (We Wish) Sure, Lamb is a real sour apple who desperately needs a pie in the face, and C-SPAN is, well, C-SPAN, but his guest was none other than Adonal Foyle, Golden State's serviceable NBA
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Call It Democracy</i> This was our first time at the Li'l Roxie, and we hope it won't be our last! (Please, please, say the rumors aren't true!) We squeezed past the teeny-tiny hallway and into a
SF News Sophie Maxwell Pisses Off The Blogosphere Well, when we suggested that Sophie start a blog to help counter some of the diatribes by critics in her constituency, we were only partly joking. Sure, we were jealous that our friends
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
SF News Political Junkie: Number Crunching Now, SFist and your Political Junkie are not really statisticians, but the preliminary data coming in from the RCV reports compiled by the Center for Voting and Democracy yield some pretty interesting results,
SF News What's My Name? Here at SFist we've been getting it from all sides as to what we should call ourselves. SFist? SFist? Friscoist? Bayist? Fogist? First off, you can use any of these to get to
SF News San Francisco's Three Ring Circus For those of you who thought the lamp posts, telephone poles, and coffee shop windows in town look too empty, fret no more! It's almost time for Supervisor elections! The big news is,
