SF Politics Defeated Ron DeSantis Still Campaigning on ‘Don’t Allow Florida to Become San Francisco’ Kick Fresh off having his clock cleaned by Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is still seeking attention with his new “Don’t Allow Florida to Become San Francisco” campaign.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis Wage Taunting War as Florida Governor Calls SF a ‘Dumpster Fire’ Florida man Ron DeSantis, perhaps unaware of his own state’s punchline status in oddball news stories, calls San Francisco a “dumpster fire” in his ongoing spat with Gavin Newsom.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Florida Now Courting In-N-Out Because Ron DeSantis Loves a Vaccine Fight Apparently In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson — the evangelical Christian heir to the company founded by her grandparents — had a phone call with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis because In-N-Out has become a hero of the anti-vaxx right.
SF News Accused Of Embezzlement, Founder Of Tony Marin School Tracked Down In Florida Two years after the founder of an elite private school allegedly absconded with over a million bucks from the Marin County institution, authorities have tracked the suspect down at her Florida home and
SF News 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick Involved In 'Suspicious Incident' [Update] TMZ reports that lauded San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is under investigation for sexual assault. The alleged incident occurred at the Viceroy Hotel in Miami earlier this month.* [Update: TMZ's report was
SF News Justice For Trayvon: Rallies In S.F. And Oakland To Protest Zimmerman Verdict After George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, several rallies sparked up shortly after the not-guilty verdict was read. In San Francisco, authorities temporarily shut down
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Prancercise The Book, And The Remixes Joanna Rohrbach of Prancercise LLC is winning the internet this week, obviously, though we were a bit concerned that as she achieved web-wide viral fame in the last 48 hours, she was not
SF News Human-Animal Sex No Longer Legal in Florida Tonight at the stroke of midnight, Florida State Senator Nan Rich's anti-bestiality bill goes in to effect in that dangling, backwards state. It took Senator Rich three attempts to get the bill passed
SF News Floridians, Too Lazy for High Speed Rail, Donate Their Funds to California While California looks for additional funding to cover the $43 billion price tag on our high-speed rail project, Florida Governor Rock Scott recently turned down $2.4 billion in federal dollars for a
SF News Another Far-Right Christian Leader Caught Being Gay George Alan Rekers is your average far-right Christian leader. Some of his notable achievements include testifying as a state's witness in favor of Florida's gay adoption ban, co-founding the Family Research Council, ("a
SF News Another Reason To Make Gay Marriage Legal Now This story comes out of Florida, not San Francisco, but it's pretty compelling. See, a few years ago, a hospital refused to let a lesbian, Janice Langbehn, see her dying partner, Lisa Pond,
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SF News RIP: A's Pitcher Joe Kennedy Former A's pitcher Joe Kennedy, 28, died at his home in Florida this morning. At this time the cause of death is officially unknown, but it was "sudden" and a brain aneurysm is
SF News Bernal Heights Burrowing Owl In Danger? We got word today from an anonymous source that two residents of Bernal Heights -- including a former President of Golden Gate Audubon Society -- spotted a burrowing owl a block from their
SF News Wikipedia Makes Move to SF Currently with six full-time employees on staff (whoa), according to the Chronicle, Wikipedia wants to expand its talent base while increasing its presence in developing countries (i.e., Asia), so it's making the
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>New Urban Cowboy</i> The Mission's an interesting place to screen a movie about gentrification, filmed from the eyes of the gentrifier -- so there was certainly no shortage of things to think about at last night's
Arts & Entertainment Take Note, Jan Wahl You can watch the on-air personality -- an exhausting and worrisome job title if ever we've heard one -- here, or catch it after the jump. (Note: Sorry about the commercial before the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars: This winner of the SF Fringe Festival has famous writers visiting a playwright on the precipice of completing his final work. Film starts at 7
SF News SFist Blotter Dang! A huge fight on Durant Avenue by Telegraph in Berkeley Sunday night -- around 50 people were involved and they had to close off the area for an hour. A 14-year-old was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today To celebrate 07/07/07, local modern Japanese theater troupe Theater of Yugen is presenting The Cycle Plays, an all-day festival of pieces influenced by Japanese Noh theater traditions. The performances use Noh
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Mets 4 Giants 2- The big news yesterday wasn't the Giants loss, but the loss of Armando Benitez who somehow got traded to the Florida Marlins for Randy Messenger. Messenger is pretty non-descript
SF News Dog Maul Case Back In The News We are deeply, deeply regretful that the cityblog format had not been launched back in 2001 and 2002, when we were totally obsessed with the Diane Whipple dog mauling case. For those of
SF News College Basketball: You Again? That's what the Ohio State University and the entire sporting world, with the exception of diehard Gator lovers and their recently embarked bandwagon brethren across the land, are thinking after the University of
SF News College Basketball: How Was Your Weekend? The first weekend of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments is in the books -- are you still alive in your office pool? Not if you took the Road to the Final
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Ballad of Greenwich Village</i> and <i>Mischief at 16th and Florida</i> The two SF Indie Fest films we watched on Friday night at the Victoria Theatre made for a very thought-provoking juxtaposition. The short film Mischief at 16th and Florida captured the rich history
