SF News Outsiders Blamed for (Alleged) SF Crime Wave Once again, lots of sticky, viscous blood bathed the streets of San Francisco. Let's see, we had a 19-year-old man shot while strolling along 23rd Street and Treat, two people shot inside a
SF News The Convicted Illegal Immigrant Song The issue of how the city handles illegal immigrants accused of crimes has become a hot potato lately when it was revealed that instead of doing what Federal law states -- handing them
SF News Noted Psychic Reveals Nothing About Newsom and Siebel's Future Phillip and Andrew kick things off this morning with a little bit of sorcery. One-time Silicon Valley ad executive and current psychic spiritual healer and "intuitive consultant" Simone (nee Carol Simone), the lady
SF News Carless Sunday to be Carless Market Street? Also, as you all know, driving down Market Street is kinda impossible, so why not? Lining up against the idea, natch, are merchants along Market Street who fear that the closure's will hurt
SF News Mayor Newsom Scores Password Codes from Gushing Terry Childs With a whole lot of charm and little bit of pluck, Mayor Gavin Newsom managed to get the much-needed passwords from former IT nerd Terry Childs during a jailhouse visit last night. If
SF News Carless Sundays Not Complaintless Complaints to commence in 3...2...1.... The main people howling against the idea is the business community at Fisherman's Wharf who are concerned that they'd lose money because people would be unable
misc Mayor Gavin Newsom: "Poopfinger" Crazy sidewalk artist quips: Gavin "Poopfinger" Knew-Some for Governor A gallon of Dipity-Do and an assortment of powerful psych meds Well... yeah, we really don't have anything else to add.
SF News Update On Heart Attack Victim at Yesterday's Gay Marriage Melee We briefly touched on this yesterday, that someone at City Hall had a heart attack during the celebration cum protest. According to SF Weekly, local AIDS activist Michael Petrelis saw what went down.
SF News Chapel Opens In the Castro Just in time for the legalization of homosexual marriage, and for those of you who don't feel like getting married anywhere near the grimy Civic Center, Heart of the Castro Wedding Chapel opened
SF News Reason Why the Homeless Totally Rule We like the homeless, and we loathe talking too much shit about folks without homes because (arguably) it's like kicking a dog while it's down. Homeless people not only fill out the other
SF News Photos: Gay Marriage Begins at SF City Hall, June 16 Exciting stuff, folks. Here are some images recently taken late this afternoon at and around San Francisco City Hall as Mayor Gavin Newsom officiates Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin's marriage just inside. (Congratulations,
SF News Newsom to Become Radio Star SF Weekly's Andy Wright has word that Gavin Newsom's radio show, cleverly titled "The Gavin Newsom Show," will break its hymen this coming Saturday at high noon. Eeeee! And it all goes down
misc Gavin Newsom to Attend to Muni's Greatest Challenge: Banging Two Pieces of Metal Together Here at SFist, we are not impressed with percussive instruments. Calling a drum circle "music" is like calling crosswalk stripes "a painting." But there's something sort of impressive about an experienced cable car
SF News Newsom Eliminates 301 Positions -- Without Firing Employees No, this isn't a miracle of all miracles: what's happening is that unoccupied city government positions will just be permanently unfilled. Of those whose positions actually were occupied, these workers would be "absorbed"
SF News Gavin Newsom "Takes Back the Tap" So, in the name of San Francisco's tap water being among the healthiest in the nation, Newsom spoke to the masses reporters about how safe SF tap water is while everyone the press
SF News Breaking News: Mayor Newsom Snubs Olympic Torch Naysayers The battle to keep the Olympic torch from hitting the streets of San Francisco is looking grim. Yesterday outside City Hall, around 40 people rallying for a free Tibet/damning the Olympic flame
SF News Newsom Must Still Must Attend <del>Detention</del> Board of Supervisor Meetings Much to our surprise, the motion that almost allowed our fair Mayor Gavin Newsom to eschew his monthly cameos Board of Supervisor meeting was tabled. That is to say, it was killed. Dead.
SF News Newsom's Attendance No Longer Required at Board of Supervisor Meetings? You know how Mayor Gavin Newsom is supposed to make a special guest appearance at the Board of Supervisors meeting? At least once a month? To listen to their complaints, demonstrate that he's
misc Close Reading of Yelp We enjoy the following review -- although we're only using part of it for it devolves into anti-Hillary rhetoric, San Francisco's latest form of socially-acceptable sexism -- because a) it turns out that
SF News Governor Gavin Newsom? It looks like Mayor Gavin Newsom will take a stab at running for Governor of California in 2010. In addition to the gaggle of Democratic hopefuls looking to succeed Gov. Schwarzenegger after his
SF News Layoffs Greet San Francisco School Teachers Today 535 San Francisco Unified School District teachers will receive layoff notices this morning due to state cuts in education funding. Today's pink slip handouts stem from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget '09, which will
SF News Money is What Muni Wants Due to budget problems, the Muni Powers That Be have decided on a possible solution, that being raising the Muni Fast Pass from $45 to $60 bucks. Suck on it, Muni riders. Muni's
SF News In His Own Words: Gavin Newsom On Same-Sex Marriage Separate Is Not Equal by Gavin Newsom Four years ago, when Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon and more than 4,000 other couples said "I Do" this country took an irrevocable step toward securing
SF News This Is the Trash That's Going to Win? Check out the anti-gay truck motoring around town today. Isn't it adorable? Fortunately for it, it lacks any "anti-oak tree" or "pro-Marine recruitment" signage, which would've really pissed off locals Bay Area do-gooders.
SF News Muni to Roll With the Changes After months of studies, surveys, and community meetings, Gavin and Muni honchos finally unveiled new plans to solve everyone's issues with Muni. The proposed changes? Adding service to popular lines, decreasing service in
