SF News Go To The Third Fake Question Time For Us! Man, we can't believe Team Newsom scheduled Third Fake Question Time at the last minute like that -- your Political Junkie is out on vacation so we can't make it to the Cesar
Arts & Entertainment Living Legend Lets Loose At Laurel Lounge No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books,
SF News News Of The Gavin: Late, Delayed, and Cancelled Late word: What? Gavin Newsom lied to us! At the last Fake Question Time, Gavin clearly told us that the next "town hall meeting" would be in April and address the issue of
SF News From the Editor's In Box "I had the most satisfying experience the other night...a huge-ass SUV with an over-sensitive car alarm that had been tormenting us for hours...GOT TOWED!! I'd never seen that before...so immensely
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
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Cats Of Mirikitani</i> What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo street artist and cat-lover Jimmy Mirikitani turned into a quest to save a man from his present and from his past
Arts & Entertainment Supermodels Attack SF One of our spies spotted model Gemma Ward hopping into a downtown Walgreens yesterday. Gemma was in SF for Fashion Week Live last night at Fort Mason. Their description of Gemma was priceless:
Arts & Entertainment We Love The Pretty Maps The map to your right (from this analysis) is the percentage of people ranking more than one choice in the supervisorial races in November -- but we just think it's awfully pretty. We
Arts & Entertainment Kamala Harris addresses Immigrant Resources Fair San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris spoke before a crowd assembled at the Centro Del Pueblo auditorium in the Mission today. Her primary message to the community was that people should not
SF News Carrying To Term Dufty says the reason why he's doing this is because a more experienced Supervisor means a better Supervisor. He's also proposing it to keep people from constantly scheming about what other position they
Arts & Entertainment Haight Ashbury Free Clinics’ Integrated Care Center Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Inc.CEO John Eckstrom, Board Chair Eric Flowers, and Barbara Garcia of the S.F. Department of Public Health all addressed the crowd of over 100 on Mission Street
Arts & Entertainment New And Improving Thomas Adding to the SFist thrills, we've also profiled the man who shot the cover of the book, named Merkley. Here's Merkley's flickr shots of Hayes's book cover (the rest of Merkley's pictures are
SF News MUNI By the Numbers Anyways, the Chron did a story and discovered that MUNI has a lot of problems right now, mainly that it's on time only 70% of the time. That's 15% lower than mandated by
SF News Gavin Newsom's Next Trip Gavin's trip is occasioned by the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's sister city relationship with Osaka, and he's going with a delegation of 45 people, including Jeff Adachi and Ross Mirkarimi (we know,
SF News Second Fake Question Time As you can see, the pouring rain was wreaking havoc on Gavin Newsom's carefully-styled coif this morning at the Second Fake Question Time townhall meeting in District 10's Bayview district. We arrived at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Aim Low Kid Since we happen to be engaged to lead singer Daniel Phifer, we get asked what Aim Low Kid sounds like quite a lot. We usually get frustrated because their sound is pretty hard
misc What they do "There" You didn't think that our recent distractions would prevent us from forgetting about our NIMBY neighbors down by the armory, would you? In case you had forgotten, kink.com has valiantly attempted to
misc Mmm...Junk Food.... We kind of imagine this thing being like what happens when you go on Haight Street but instead of people going up to you and saying "buds...doses" you hear "Doritos...cokes...." The
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
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Andrew from Trainwreck Riders Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Too many great remember-able shows to pick, but the last GREAT show was this past New Year's Eve at Balazo gallery here in
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
Arts & Entertainment It's Back to School Day for the Board of Supervisors Today was opening day for the Board of Supervisors as it were as today was the first day of work for 2007. First up? The voting in of a new President who happens
Arts & Entertainment Guess This Is What They Mean By San Francisco Values You can check out all the action in those Flickr photostream (including a picture of a really old and somewhat scary looking picture of Bob Weir) but the big news didn't concern who
misc Well Wishes To Norman Yee San Francisco school board president Norman Yee remains in intensive care after being hit by a car on 4th and Bryant the day after Christmas. However, he's in stable condition after undergoing two
SF News State Senate Shenanigans Well, the latest rumor (from the Bay Area Reporter) is that folks have heard tell that Aaron Peskin is now thinking about running for the State Senate seat as well. Whaaaaa? The tea-leaf
