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 Interview: DJ Neta DJ Neta is a Bay Area native who is actually happy to provide guidance on how a non-native might pass as a native. After reading her interview below you'll understand that if we
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ross Hogg Super-hero-DJ creating speculation aside, we know you're dying to know all about these two. This interview, is all about Ross, however (DJ Neta's is forthcoming). Ross Hogg spins hip-hop, reggae, dub, dancehall, soul,
SF News New SFist Contributor: Jon Shurkin Even though Jon comes to us from the tony climes of Philadelphia's Main Line, he has lived in San Francisco long enough to remember a time when the then-embarrassing photo of the Mayor
SF News Jeremy on '04 GOOD STUFF Sports: Swimming star Michael Phelps. He could have entered fewer races to help ensure better results in his best events, but he didn't -- he participated in every event in which
SF News SFist Mary-Lynn Remembers 2004 Hot (Hiltonian "That's Hot", not climatologically. Because... you know...) Country: Canada. I hope it remains hot in 2005 because that passport about the only cred I've got these days. Political Hanger-on/deadweight: Michael
SF News Krissy's year end list 10 things that 2004 brought into my life, in random order Rhythm & Motion Dance Center: Their dance workout program is both fun and exhausting, and they don't laugh at you when you
Arts & Entertainment New SFist Contributor: Mary-Lynn Bragg Mary-Lynn comes to the west coast via Canada and New York. Assessment continues on whether the move from Manhattan to Menlo Park has done permanent damage. When she's not engaged in random acts
SF News SFist Emily Remembers 2004 Everyone seems to have their own form of "year in review" type articles. I have a hard time rank ordering anything, mainly because the thought of having to defend why I rated one
Arts & Entertainment New SFist Contributor: Matt Baume First up is Mr. Matt Baume. Although one reason he cites for moving to SF is an "urgent" need to leave LA, its becoming clear that he loves the Bay Area for its
SF News SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004 Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of
SF News SFist Gift Guide: East Bay Cool Andrew Krucoff, who used to be Mr. Intervista at Gothamist, apparently has a fetish for Berkeley punk. Hence he's gone and provided the innerweb with free downloads of this sweet compilation tape [Thanks,
SF News SFist Gift Guide: 24th Street, East Mission We walk past Galeria de la Raza every day. It's on the other side of the street from Villa, Kahlo, El Campesino, Zapata, Chavez, Rivera y El Gordo y el Flaco, interspersed with
SF News Political Junkie: You're A Mean One Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting his
SF News We Heart BART As if fast, friendly, and efficient service isn't enough love, BART is now offering even more reasons to love it. Five hundred dollars worth of reasons. The “BART #1 Transit System in America”
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Zak Nelson Zak works for Heyday Books which specializes in books about California. For any of you scrambling to buy last minute Christmas presents, Heyday titles might be the ticket. Zak's given SFist so many
SF News SFist Gift Guide: Packard Jennings We read BoingBoing, even though they give us no love in response. So we saw this great collection of international-style illustrations done by Michael Durham, aka Packard Jennings (we're not totally sure which
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 Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a
SF News Interview: Rebecca Gholdston When she isn't being interviewed on NPR or moonlighting as a model for Ready Made, Rebecca can be found winking at the workers at El Castillito. She claims you get more Guacamole that
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Bing Ji Ling Bing Ji Ling is a San francisco musician with the best pedigree we've come across: His dad was a musician who met and married his mother here in the '60's. ahhhhhh. This may
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Come for Dinner, Stay for the Hell We know, you've got a lot of pulls on your time these days, what with company holiday parties and SFist's first Bay Blotto tonight, but you really should know about a couple of
SF News Political Junkie: Movie Casting Okay, we're stealing this link from Usual Suspects, who found it first. (but if we give them credit, it's all okay!) PlanetOut.com, in connection with their voting Newsom the person of the
