Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: SFist Unscripted (the Drinking Game) Those of you who read SFist Watches have probably deduced that your Junkie's TV viewing habits consist solely of KRON 4 News at 11 and Animal Cops SF. (It's not true -- sometimes
SF News Araujo Retrial Under Way As we predicted in our earlier post, the defense is indeed switching strategies in the retrial. When we spoke with Bill DuBois, defendant Jose Merel's new attorney, back in January, he hinted that
SF News Your Commute: Up, BART, Up After two hours of debate, BART voted to raise its fares again, starting in January 2006, upping the minimum fare from $1.25 to $1.40. South Bay fares are going up an
SF News Fight to Rename Berkeley's Jefferson Elementary The issue was brought to the school's attention by parents and community activists. In an uncredited editorial in the Daily Californian, it's pointed out that the city is named after George Berkeley, who
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: the iRoss It's never too late to let us know what you're listening to, local politicos! You may remember that we posted just last week something gently mocking our mayor's middle-of-the-road musical tastes, and that
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
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Mad Libs Hey kids! Are you looking for a quick and easy entry into San Francisco District 6 civic participation? Do you long to get an angry email response from Chris Daly like this lady
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Borf'd Amongst the graffitos, San Francisco has a reputation for being uber-tolerant of their guerilla art. Which is why folks from as far away as Washington, D.C. drop by on occassion to throw
SF News Wah-huh? Now SFist is all about consensus and compromise and bi-partisan politics, but unless the cake was chock-full of laxatives, we don't see how getting friendly with a man who Ted Kennedy accused of
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 Political Junkie: Fareskipper SFist Jon's got a new companion in city graft, as Supervisor Chris Daly gets busted by Matier and Ross for sneaking on a MUNI train without paying. Chris, was it not enough to
Arts & Entertainment First Third Friday At Ross's Office The refreshements? Uh, free. SFist would like to suggest that if you want to score the wine and snacks, show up early -- they were all gone in a little over an hour.
misc They Voted Today? There were elections yesterday? We had no idea! Well, we don't live in Marin, Contra Costa, Sonoma, or San Mateo County, but apparently pretty much everyone loves to Save The Music. (That ad
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco A to Zed SFist had to overcome it's own self-acknowledged, inverted form of snobbery to make a reservation at widely applauded Marina District restaurant A16. We accidentally left our passport to Chestnut Street - the fake
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Patpong Out in the Sunset, you can't swing a cat without hitting a pretty decent Thai restaurant. We're reminded of the line in Six Degrees of Separation, where dining in New York is described
misc SFist Cares ... About Cleaning You know, Kermit was right about it not being easy being green. Though, we have to say, SFist looks fab in a light sage green. It brings out our eyes. They offer a
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Prettying Up Valencia Ah, Valencia Street. Who hasn't nearly been run over by a car, a bus, a biker, or frantic pedestrians running to make their reservations at Luna Park, on the Mission District's own Fifth
SF News Your Commute: Open Your Golden Wallets, San Francisco Okay, this is really getting ridiculous. First, they told us the Bay Bridge is going to be ugly and expensive. Then they said they'd raise bus fares. Then they said they'd raise parking
SF News Nancy Pelosi: San Francisco Liberal? DCist forwarded us an article from Roll Call (paid subscription required) entitled "Q: Where Is Nancy Pelosi Not a San Francisco Liberal? A: San Francisco." We love it when DC politics realizes that,
SF News Sutter Students to be Chipped and Tracked We just received a press release from the Northern California chapter of the ACLU via our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seems Brittan School District of Sutter, California (about an hour north
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF News Your Commute: Casual Day The East Bay's Casual Commute just got a little more codified with today's Chron cover story about the cheapest way to get across the Bay Bridge. We've never been able to find a
SF News When I Grow Up, I Wanna Be a Stripper Ahh, career day. There's nothing quite as inspirational as inspirational speakers coming into school to tell you how if you work hard, you too could become a lawyer or a doctor or a
