Arts & Entertainment Farewell, 12 Galaxies It is done. 12 Galaxies, the Mission club named after mentally unfit local color Frank Chu and that sign he carries, came to end this past weekend. Local indie rock outfits StitchCraft and
misc Dore Alley Fair Photos -- Uhh, Yeah... They're, Like, COMPLETELY Safe For Work digg_url = 'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Photos_Dore_Alley_Fair_San_Francisco_s_Leather_Sex_Fair'; (By Joe Kukura) Yesterday's Up Your Alley Fair is what the Folsom Street Fair used to
SF News Frank Chu Lands Movie Deal Well, sort of. Method actor and mentally-challenged San Francisco icon Frank Chu will appear in the upcoming flick -- brought to you by Gabriel Diamond, who brought you such household-name classics as Start
misc A Very Special Photo du Jour 146 Unless he's dying--God forbid--starting today, we declare a three-month moratorium on any Frank Chu-related news items, gossip, and/or images. SFist management sincerely apologizes for the inconvenience, but really, you have no one
misc Frank Chu's Wikipedia Page Uncovers His Dark Side Frank Chu, 48, the Bay Ara;s favoritest pathological resident, has a Wikipedia page, naturally. It goes into much detail about his media whoring, numerous protest signs, and "performance art." It also mentions
SF News Hundreds of Alameda Students Walk Out in Protest Students at Encinal High School walked out of their classrooms today in response to proposed budget cuts. Last night the school board held a tense meeting that went well into the wee hours
misc Who Is "No Unlawful Sex" Guy? As mother used to tell us, "the smaller the font, the crazier the loon." And how. Frank Chu seems downright lucid compared to this gentleman, who over the years has called us every
SF News Calling All Flamers You have, well, two entire days to fill out and return your application to become a torchbearer for the San Francisco leg of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. The San Francisco relay
SF News Newsom Calls Chu "Naïve" -- Well, Sort Of No, not Frank Chu -- although a Gav versus a crazy would be most fascinating, indeed -- Carmen Chu. Let's back up a bit here: In her first hickory-bold move since taking over
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Today is Yelp Day. How did you celebrate? Yeah, same here. (With all due respect to Yelp, Newsom will declare anything _____ Day these days, won't he?) [Eater SF] -- Ooooh! Those apartments
Arts & Entertainment Barack Obama to Perform at Bill Graham Sure. We'd love to see Hilary Clinton win just for the darling Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton pattern that's coming along nicely, but we're also curious about this Barack Obama fella. He seems to be some guy
SF News Rights Are Wrong? Writing in SFGate yesterday, CW Nevius tells us that the "Rights of Mentally Ill Street People Thwart Efforts to Prevent Harm." Those pesky rights! What happened was that the "Sign Guy" of Justin
misc Ikeabots: Röbots in Disguise Speaking of ILM, their Halloween party boasted one of the best costume ideas we've seen in eons. Behold, Ikeabots! So, for those of you who still think it's nifty to dress up as
Arts & Entertainment Frank Chu At The Giants Game: Greatest Tip Ever It seems the guy behind a photo blog called "whatimseeing.com" left us a tip in the contribute section that he treated Frank Chu to an extra baseball ticket he had yesterday. (Please
Arts & Entertainment Smile, Baby: Protesting Child Protesters Looking over everyone's favorite site to get all Cathy over, Zombietime, in order to find shots of last week's not-so savage anti-Savage protest, we came across something disturbing: adolescent protesters. Sure, children are
Arts & Entertainment Where'd Those 73 Other Galaxies Come From? Look what we found in the SFist Flickr stream! Reader IMPEACH sends along this picture, confirming the reports we've gotten from a couple of other readers -- there's now 85 Galaxies on Frank
Arts & Entertainment Photoshop Frank Chu's Sign! The entries are coming in fast and furious on the Photoshop Frank Chu's Sign challenge! Here's our top two so far -- send yours in too! And while we have you here, we
Arts & Entertainment Spot The Fake Frank Chu Line! Here's some hints. Original picture by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid, and the link in the picture itself goes back to Laughing Squid for letting us use the picture in the first place! --
SF News Do It, Lumpy: The Progressive Convention Afterwards, a fellow blogger irritatedly reported that he had stopped by Gavin Newsom's -same-timed rally up the street a little earlier, where Sean Elsbernd had told a snickering crowd, "I gotta leave soon,
Arts & Entertainment Frank Chu Likes Beer Jim Woods, the man behind Mateveza, had a great time at Beer Fest this past Saturday. He was even able to get a certain Mr. Frank Chu in on the action. Nakrofenikal indeed.
SF News Smush Bush At the anti-war protest this afternoon, we heard three young girls gleefully chanting "Smush Bush! Smush Bush!" and figured that was as good of a title for a post about today's activities as
SF News Get Your Puppets Ready We don't know what the protest will include, but we're guessing lots of chanting in rhymes, big-ass puppets, a few Free-Mumia signs and Frank Chu. Can't forget Frank Chu. Actually, some of the
Arts & Entertainment There's Going To Be Some Protesting Tonight Downtown is looking a little shut down today as those wacky Trotskyites broadly-arrayed leftists at A.N.S.W.E.R. are giving their answer to the Bush Surge (hey, that sounds like
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election So much negative information these days! Does Rob Black really hate unions? Does Chris Daly take dirty money? Does Matt Drake shamelessly pander to baby-lovers? (Congratulations on your new nephew, Matt!) It's just
