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
SF News Cold Case: San Francisco Two people were arrested this morning in San Francisco, and others were arrested in Los Angeles, Florida, and New York. Two more are already in prison and a ninth is wanted but has
SF News College Football: Gator Burn Speed kills. It's an old football saw, but it still cuts right to the heart of the matter in sorting out the detritus of last night's BCS National Championship Game: faster is better.
SF News Happy Paper Trails Now, all of this would be easy to fix if there was a paper trail but, alas, those whacky machines don't have a paper trial. Nothing, Nada, Zilch. Which means there's no way
SF News College Football: The Argument Against a Rematch or How the BCS Got It Right So the final pre-bowl Bowl Championship Series (BCS) poll is out, and guess what? Everybody's pissed about something, except for Ohio State and Florida, the two teams that received Golden Tickets to the
misc Save the World From Bomb-Wielding Grandmas But because we all have to go through the rigmarole, we all have experienced the silliness of it. In our trip back east, we saw perhaps the silliest thing we have ever seen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Strawberries (Maybe A Little Too) Wild Only about 50 cases went out, and they all shipped to southern California, Arizona, and Nevada from November 25-Dec. 1 -- that's less than 3% of all the smoothies made in that region.
SF News The Warriors: Now we're cooking with gas! Memo to David Stern: Start the playoffs right now, baby, the Warriors are ready to make a run! What is it with this team? Just when Warrior nation was about to write them
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Matt Costa What’s the best show you’ve ever played and what made it great? My favorite my favorite was the first show I ever did which was at a party when I was
SF News Hugo Chavez in the Voting Machine Our story begins last year when Sequoia was bought by a small software company, Smartmatic Corporation, a Venezuelan company. Of concern are some shady maneuverings involving the company and the Venezuelan government. The
SF News Google: Okay, Now Maybe Doing A Little Evil To help them, they've hired as lobbyists two ex-Republican Senators, Dan Coats of Indiana and Connie Mack of Florida. And on Wednesday, Google will take part in their first political fundraiser, for Republican
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Ivy League Hotelier and The Match-up Solution" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The Heady Snapper" * Picked
SF News Runoff? You know this correspondent doesn't know much about Oakland city politics, but we're trying to get up to speed so we can fully relish the exciting Florida-like state of affairs over there in
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
SF News Election Woes Well, it's not quite Bush stealing Florida or anything, but due to circumstances out of our control, the previous Gavin-Sofia couple name election has hit some woes -- it looks like the polling
SF News Springtime In February A large portion of Western literature doesn't make sense to California kids. Specifically, we don't get all those poems about springtime, because it just doesn't feel like that big a deal. This is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Million-Dollar Bake-Off We love those Food Network cookoff challenges! Make a birthday cake for Elvis! Decorate the best gingerbread house! Who can make the tallest ice/pastry sculpture? So we can't wait for Food Network's
SF News Help Spider Davila Spider was on his bike at the corner of 20th and Florida in the Mission at about 12:30 p.m. a.m. on December 17, making a cell phone call, when a
Arts & Entertainment Mekka-Lekka Hi, Mekka-Heine-Ho Have a grey suit? How about some cake make up? A red bow tie? If you do, then we recommend you turn out for tomorrow's Paul Reubens Day celebrations. That's right, fourteen years
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Chris Edmundson We do recommend that you (and the preggo Britney Spears) check out Gama-Go’s shirts (and other wares). Let’s just say that once Brit’s abs aren’t absolutely fantabulous, and are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Springy TV This Week What? Did we hear someone say "Boo! Bad segue!"? Fine. How's this? On Sunday on CBS at 9 p.m. you can catch the awesomely titled made-for-TV movie Spring Break Shark Attack. We
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: World Mayor Pretend He's (almost) Miss World, can't look us in the eye -- Hizzoner Newsom announced that he was nominated but did not win in the online World Mayor 2004 contest. (That Giacometti-like figure to