SF News Butt-wielding Buttheads at the Chron This just slipped into our inbox from a mole at the Chron. It was forwarded to the all-staff mailing list by none other than Sharon Stone's former paramour and glurgy TV shill Phil
SF News Political Junkie: Across the Bay Your intrepid junkie takes the lower deck of the Emperor Norton to report on some news from the Oakland City Council: city councilman Danny Wan, who represents Oakland's District 3 (Grand Lake and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week Now that we've finally gotten that good time over with and those pesky Holidays are at last behind us, we can get back to the things that are really important. Like watching the
SF News Castro Update However, litigation seems to be afoot from a number of sides, so no one we contacted was willing to comment. In any case, we were at Saturday's protest organized by Audiences in Action
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Black Box is Beautiful Don't get us wrong, we love elaborate theater sets and admire the craftwork and imagination that go into creating them -- there's something oddly sweet about an intricately built space that will be
misc Bad Santas If you happen to see a bunch of drunken Santa's running wild through the streets of the city this Sunday, rest assured it's not a Bad Santa fan convention. Nor is it Happy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Viva La Trimethyldioxypurist Holy crap, man -- pass the sweetener! Straight up, before anything else is mentioned about Cafe Macondo, it must be known that this is a super dark, wickedly bitter cup of coffee. This
misc Housing Bubbles: Monkey Knife Fight Oh, boo frickin' hoo. The Examiner today profiles an angry yuppie living across from the ballpark who says that a piece of graffiti is ruining his "million-dollar view." The disgruntled homeowner paid $850,
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
SF News Hurrah and Huzzah for Chronicle Watch! We may kid the Chronicle every once in awhile, for, oh, laying people off, getting rid of good columnists, and shoddy editorial standards, but sometimes you gotta give credit where credit is due.
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,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
SF News Political Junkie: RCV results (background music of tapping telegraphs).... this just in -- the RCV results, with computer glitches fixed, for the contested districts. Mirkarimi wins Dist 5 with 50.3% of the vote, with Haaland in
SF News Ranked Choice Voting, Ctrl-Alt-Delete A fatal exception has occurred down at City Hall -- the results of the instant runoff races have been delayed because of a software crash in the computers tallying the votes, which probably
SF News Think Global, Act Local In all the hubbub about Bush's "mandate," new dark allegations about possible voter fraud in Florida and Ohio, and general wailing about the death of the Democratic party, it's easy to forget the
SF News SFist Interview: David Pascal We haven't read the bios of every candidate for the Board of Supervisors (hell, there are twenty-two of them in District Five alone and we have a lot of other things to do
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Jane Kim The next time you complain about how busy you are, take a look at Jane Kim's packed schedule. Between her job as youth program director at the Chinatown Community Development Center, her position
Arts & Entertainment SFist interview: Michael O'Connor There's a whole lot of competition in Michael's race -- 21 other candidates, to be exact. No doubt many candidates were spurred on by the new ranked choice voting, which will allow people
SF News You Kiss Your Mother With That Mouth? San Francisco rejects Cheney's politics but continues to embrace his sunny demeanor in the face of conflict, with the school board issuing a reprimand at its meeting tonight over the pottymouth outburst at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Renee Saucedo If you live in District 9, then you've probably witnessed one of Renee Saucedo's bike tours as she's ridden around town with friends drumming up support for her campaign for Supervisor. SFist loves
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 Going Cheney at the School Board The SF school board, never known for its collegial atmosphere, reached new Dick Cheney levels of incivility at last Wednesday's meeting (.pdf agenda), where school board member Heather Hiles (at left) dropped the
SF News Shhhhhhhh You might want to express your support for our city's striking laborers with just the big smile and the thumbs-up for the next few days: the police have started fining people who honk
SF News Like New Yorkers Give a Damn About Us SFist is a little miffed. We were forwarded a tip by the beautiful Jessica Coen, currently busy being paid to blog for Gawker, to a rather funny local Craigslist post. We're miffed because,
SF News DOJ Cries Uncle - Oracle To Purchase Half Their Competitors In breaking news, the Justice Department has given up trying to block the hostile takeover of Pleasanton's PeopleSoft by Oracle, clearing the way for Oracle to begin negotiations with PeopleSoft over the share
