Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Go Ask Alice So Coldplay tickets apparently sold out in less than one minute on Sunday, huh? And there was tons of borderline-illicit craigslist bartering for wristbands, right? But -- come on, Gavin Newsom calling into
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Gav Says/He's Done With Sergio The irrepressible Mr. P.J. Corkery asks the question on everyone's mind -- what's on Gavin Newsom's iPod? Well, after some hemming and hawing ("I don't have time to download 99 cent tunes,
SF News Interview: Pamela Cianci When she isn’t exploring other people’s property, Pamela Cianci stays out of trouble running a consulting business, baking company, and writing for the Examiner, oh and occasionally advising Gavin Newsom. How
SF News I Want to Ride My Bicycle The Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 to allow the sponsors of the San Francisco Grand Prix Bicycle Race, otherwise known as the T-Mobile International, to have around $200,000 in costs waived by
SF News Just Say No For Now Today, Gavin Newsom put a lid on places that sell lids and called for a moratorium on marijuana clubs. And we bet we're the only one's in the -ist family who'll ever have
SF News The Great Flag Fight With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the SF Board of Supervisors (once again delving into foreign policy) unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at
Arts & Entertainment SFist To Rock Austin That's right, SFist is getting on a plane early tomorrow and will be flying deep into the heart of Texas in order to bring you wall-to-wall reporting of the internerd/hipster fest that
SF News Gavin Goes on the Offensive After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Plays Matchmaker For The Broken Hearted We here at SFist don't want to get ourselves in the middle of anything (ha!), but we can't help but think of our favorite recently single public figure, The Mayor Himself (we love
SF News Link Love from the Gavster! Somebody who has a bigger crush on Gavin than we do (how else to explain them visiting Gavin Newsom's campaign page) pointed out that if you drop by his homepage at, where else,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Merkley??? Finally! An interview subject who provides both a use for left over super nachos AND a recipe for tortilla soup. Even after the exhaustive interview process, SFist was left wondering what Merkley has
Arts & Entertainment The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why? why? Dear Lord, why? Frankly, we
Arts & Entertainment Winter of Love Doc Trailer Online , a documentary about our Winter of Love, has footage of the Mayor's meetings in the days leading up to the Valentine's happening, as well as footage of the ensuing exchanges of heartfelt vows
SF News SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004 Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of
Arts & Entertainment Sigh It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our
SF News Sold on Solar Fossil fuels are sooo twentieth century. Crude oil is way over fifty bucks a barrel, a gallon of gas is nearly three dollars, there's a war raging in a country with the second
SF News No Choice But to Use Their Voice Every morning on our way to work, we raise a fist in support of the locked out hotel workers. Today we were looking forward to the last day of the strike, when picketers
SF News Just Tell Your Friends Back Home You're Experiencing "The Real San Francisco" The noisy unrest outside many of San Francisco's hotels continued over the weekend as ten other hotel members of the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group (which we'd link to if they had a web
SF News Garden Hose The City Attorney's months-long investigation into election coercion has confirmed that the now-defunct city organization SLUG (the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners) illegally coerced its workers to campaign and vote for Gavin
misc Housing Bubbles Is it just us, or is it just sort of hilarious that a two-bed one-bath condo on 18th Street is being offered at $737,000 and a single-family house in Pacific Heights is
SF News The Supremes: Everybody Does Not Have the Right to Love The California Supreme court just issued their decision in the case regarding Gavin Newsom's move to let the city issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples. And it's not good for our newlyweds -
SF News Rank and File Raise your hand if you feel like we're always voting around here. Thats in part because of our Citys requirements that people running for office win by a majority of votes
SF News Classy While Dems accross the country swoon for the handsome Barack Obama and John Edwards, San Franciscans had a lot to be proud of - being the bluest town in the bluest state in
