misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Crashing Daly's Party Everybody may or may not hate Chris Daly, but we all agree -- everybody looooooves little Jack! Your Junkie's Best Celebrity of 2005, resplendent in his orange Che Guevara onesie, graciously received guests
SF News The Chron Calls Out The Cops We're taking a break from our usual SF Chronicle mockery for this irony-free moment: Well done! The Chron splashes the results of its years-long investigation into claims of police brutality in the SFPD
SF News Gavin Expresses Muni Thoughts, Our Eyes Roll So, Gavin's been pretty chatty about Muni lately, hasn't he? First up, he's alleging that some cable car operators are stealing fares, "because on three occasions he rode the cable cars and handed
misc School Credit Give Gavin Newsom a shiny red apple! In an interview with this month's San Francisco Magazine (in blatant disregard of another interview with the Gavman in 7x7, which was optimistically labeled "exclusive"), the
Arts & Entertainment Family Day! Childless curmudgeons, gnash your teeth in anger over another way in which society prefers folks with kids over you! Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families are sponsoring
misc Housing Bubbles: <strike>Bush</strike> Mission v. Gore Well, if those gloomy housing forecasts weren't enough, it's now official, folks -- the San Francisco real estate bubble has burst. "Kiss of Death" Al Gore has bought a house here. Al and
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Saved! -- the New College Roxie Film Center! Ending years of nail-biting and speculation, the Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia has been saved from shuttering by its neighbors the New College. The New
misc SFist Mary-Lynn Remembers 2005 Politics - Voters rejecting the Governor was awesome but I'm still waiting for something, anything, to take down Bush. What the hell will it take?! Federal Government Department - We know more about
SF News Hatin' On The Sentinel What's everyone got against the San Francisco Sentinel these days, anyways? It's got beautiful photography, keeps an ear firmly planted on the ground of City Hall, and runs a fairly-entertaining gossip column to
SF News Care Not Cash Results Well, we suppose he has every right to crow about it -- Gavin Newsom announced to a cheering crowd of social service providers and homeless people that the number of homeless people on
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
SF News No-Host Bar If this were an Evite, a bunch of people in San Francisco would be frantically changing their responses from "yes" to "unfortunately, something's come up," for Memphis, TN Democratic representative Harold Ford Jr.
SF News Follow-Ups We know you're probably just dying to know what's been happening on all those fascinating news items we've been telling you about. Well, fret no more! Your prayers have been answered! Supervisor Gerardo
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Oscar Bluth? We're not sure ourselves, but it sure is something to ponder and think about as we reminiscence about all the good times we had with the Bluth family. And while we heard that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Volti ....Oh, hello! We were just warming up our voice over here. After we posted about local choral group Volti's world premiere of No More To Hide, a choral work in tribute to same-sex
SF News End Bagism Cheer up, San Franciscans; all of the cities problems have been solved! Yesterday, Gavin Newsom announced that he had made a deal with major supermarket chains to cut down on those plastic grocery
SF News SFist Blotter Special Edition We usually run the blotter crime roundup on Tuesdays and Fridays, but we're sorry to say that there's been enough breaking news in the area that we're running a special edition today. Everyone's
Arts & Entertainment Please, Sir, Can We Have Some More Production Companies? Remember three years ago, when all your media-employed friends had to suddenly go from pulling down a dot-com salary to working retail and collecting unemployment? We spoke to a manager at a North
Arts & Entertainment Bye, Ken Garcia Okay, we confess, Ken Garcia the dentist isn't the same Ken Garcia who just took early retirement from the Chronicle. For one thing, Ken Garcia the dentist also plays in a jammin' Latin/
SF News A STERN Rebuke, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA So ... hmm. Could it be, political games still plague MUNI? No, surely not! That the MTA's board is appointed, rather than just voted on, was supposed to finally put an end to political
SF News Before the Apres-Ski The hydrants don't hook up to the hoses, there's fighting over Treasure Island, there's corruption in the Housing Authority -- and what are we all still talking about? This afternoon's Cow Hollow ski
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Indecision 2005 Duelling gossips in today's San Francisco media! On the one side, we have the Chron and Leah Garchik's TIC column, reporting that the Newsom and the Guilfoyle are now officially kaput as of
Arts & Entertainment Every Day's a Holiday in San Francisco No word yet on if they'll be suspending mail delivery or if we don't have to go to work tomorrow, but July 14, 2005 has been declared "Embarcadero Center Cinema" Day in San
