misc Political Junkie: New Hairstyles, New Races Well, we're pleased as punch to say that someone has risen to our challenge! Look how more regressive Matt looks! You can practically see him chasing the homeless out of San Francisco now,
misc Week In SFist: Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair! "Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love.
SF News Political Junkie: Hair Of The Mayor That Bit You Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back to the swept-back, visible-comb-lines-through-the-front (scroll down), crunchy-gelled 'do you all
misc Political Junkie: Gel Free We're not going to steal the Sentinel's pictures of the new do, but let's just say it looks awfully ....Gonzalezy. Well, either Gonzalez-y or like Nick and Aaron Carter -- we haven't really
Arts & Entertainment Up With Peoples' There'll be speakers, lunch, live jazz, and breakout discussion groups on anti-gentrification, violence prevention, and elections/campaigns. Look how much fun they had last year! $7 if you buy tickets in advance, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Contest: Win Tickets To The Bitch Magazine Auction! As part of its ongoing 10th anniversary celebration, local nonprofit indie publication Bitch Magazine is throwing a benefit silent auction this Friday, Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. at the Women's Building (18th
SF News Former SF Supervisor Dies Bierman was 82 years old; she was first elected into office in 1992 at the age of 68. She had just been appointed by Newsom to the Port Commission two weeks ago. She
SF News I Don't FEEL Tardy or The Dog Ate My Hearing Notice It's been over a year since high-profile law firm Gonzalez and Leigh filed suit over former SFUSD chief Arlene Ackerman's "platinum parachute" termination package. They lost the case in August, but appealed the
SF News Catch A Wave and You're Sitting On Top of the World How this thing would work is that the turbine put near Ocean Beach would convert the energy given off by waves into electricity. The other one would go somewhere under the Bay Bridge
SF News What's Green and Bangs the Drums? Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she
SF News Our Afternoon Web Surfing Those of you who read this site regularly probably think you have a good sense of what this particular correspondent is interested in -- traffic, Chris Daly, heartwarming tales about animals, general schadenfreunde.
misc How Green is Your Valley? Nancy Pelosi maybe the second most powerful Dem in the country, but that doesn't mean she's getting any love from us hometown folks. For some, it's because if it wasn't for the fact
SF News Just So You Don't Think.... ....that we only post the hilarious pictures that we find of Gavin Newsom, we've got your equal-opportunity hilarious Flickr pictures from all over the San Francisco political spectrum! Unfortunately, we can't find any
SF News Political Junkie: Itchy and Scratchy Is Daly Itchy or is Newsom? You guys pick! The eternal conflict between the cat and the mouse flared up again today as Newsom called up the Chronicle editorial board all special, just
SF News ChronicleWatch Watch -- Day 1000! In Roman numerals, it's the letter M -- ChronWatch hits its very first one-oh-oh-oh of civic inaction, as the Berkeley fountain it first began pestering back in June 2003 remains in the exact
SF News Model Plaintiffs It's not just Kimberly Guilfoyle's male model making the news today -- today's installment of This Week In Police Brutality features a piece about two models and their sister, who were allegedly beaten
Arts & Entertainment Daly's Art And Policy Supervisor Chris Daly takes a break from smashing the state to continue the Matt Gonzalez tradition of Smashing The State through art, as he hosts what looks like his first City Hall art
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
misc Yes, We're Kind After months of debate, San Francisco finally can legally go to pot (only with doctor’s approval, of course)-- we have our first ever codified marijuana dispensaries laws. Yay!!! Yesterday, the Board
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: Wellstone! KQED listeners and Howard Deaniacs patiently lined up in the on-again off-again drizzly evening outside the Roxie, reading complimentary copies of Mother Jones and blocking the entrance to Dalva, as a sodden and
SF News "Now that Gavin Newsom is single, who are you going to set him up with?" We had to go to the Television Without Pity recaps of The Bachelor to figure out which one new Niner Jesse Palmer was. Oh, yeah, that guy. We thought he was kinda hot
Arts & Entertainment The Art of Advertising Once, a long time ago, we worked at a film production office in New York City. The crappy part was labelling tapes, getting coffee for people and waking up at 5am to assist
Arts & Entertainment Don't Worry.....Don't panic Assuming you aren't going to the SF Weekly Music awards tonight, and that you have "$30, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford", and you feel like drinkin', you should head out to
SF News Political Junkie: In Da (Getty) Club Well, maybe a little too much Bacardi was sipped at Gavin's 38th birthday bash last week, held (where else?) at the Gettys' -- Matier and Ross are reporting that wife-on-hold Kimberly Guilfoyle had
SF News Police Commissioner Peter Keane Quits Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking
