SF News Fake Question Time RSVP You can email MONS and let them know you're planning on attending, or call 415-554-6110. The word on the street is that they may close the room off if it's full. (We hope
SF News IDs, You Don't Need Our Stinking IDs But no, that's not the fun part, the fun part is that Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a millionaire thanks to being in early at Sun Microsystems,
SF News Macworld SF 2007: Steve Jobs Is A Mother----ing <i>Gangsta</i>. Look, the long-desired iPhone. How does Steve Jobs choose to showcase the new phone's music technology? By playing The Beatles' "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." That's so . Why? This staged moment is Steve's announcement/
SF News Rod! Todd! This is God! The women in question, Estrella Benavides, says she doesn't actually hear the voice of God telling her to do something, but instead just gets a feeling of what He wants her to say.
SF News Caltrain Wants To Go Green The agency wants to use Electric Multiple Unit (or EMU) trains. The trains work by having each car generate it's own power. Besides the above-mentioned benefits, these trains are easier to maintain and
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
SF News American Football Spectacular: Drink An <i>Art Shell</i> For Art Shell It was announced today that Art Shell would not return as the Raiders head coach in 2007. Fired? Resigned? Stepped down? Stepped aside? Stripped of his title? Canned? Whatever, it was Al's decision.
SF News Au revoir, Annemarie Conroy's always been an interesting story. She was Frank Jordan’s goddaughter and for whatever reason just seemed to go from job to job in city government year after year without any explanation
SF News Oakland's New Last-Minute Mayor Yeah, we don't remember any dramatic hand-on-the-Bible or inaugural speechifying either -- it turns out they threw together a somewhat slapdash inauguration when someone realized that the Oakland city charter required Dellums to
SF News Catching up With Tech News A few interesting tech stories have come out recently. Hey, we can't do Gavin all day. The Washington Post is reporting today that the State Department has come up with a new, super
SF News Tonight's The Night We actually owe the federal government thanks for bringing us "spare the night" nights as it appears in a fit of insanity in which they actually did something to help the environment, they
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Watches What's Up For the New Year Slowly and surely, our Governator is letting loose with his plans for the upcoming year, most of which came in an interview on "Meet Tim Russert." And let's just say Schwarzenegger is feeling
SF News You're My Blue Sky, You're My Sunny Day See, according to Global Change Research Act of 1990, the Government is supposed to produce a report on Global Warming every four years. The last one was due in November 2004 meaning that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Gun Show Yes, we went to the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Cow Palace this weekend. Why? Aren't we supposed to be virulently anti-gun? Shouldn't we hate not just guns but people
SF News Up the Judicial Branch The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is where the hearing will be held to determine if Walker was right in deciding what he decided. Another hearing is to be scheduled this
SF News Hugo Chavez in the Voting Machine Our story begins last year when Sequoia was bought by a small software company, Smartmatic Corporation, a Venezuelan company. Of concern are some shady maneuverings involving the company and the Venezuelan government. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: District 8 Candidate Alix Rosenthal Alix is an attorney and civil servant, known for her love of burning man, her advocacy for SF's handgun ban, and for being of a generally lefty-artsy disposition. And with BeyondChron pointing out
SF News Bill O'Reilly Spreads the Love Last week, San Francisco's #1 fan, Bill O'Reilly finally told his elderly and half-senile audience just what "San Francisco Values" are. And what are they? Well, let's go to the transcript, shall we?
SF News Caltrain Tries Brings the Safety Also on Caltrains' list of things to do is to add fencing to places deemed needing a fence. They are doing this by doing the usual studies and also asking local communities to
SF News BART Comes Up With a Great Idea Why do we like this idea? Because usually when a transit system or government says they need to find new ways for funding, they form a committe and hire a bunch of consultants
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>9/11: Press for Truth</em> We all know the anger of extremist Muslim fundamentalists, but what we don't know and what the White House keeps conveniently hidden from the American public is how we let them get so
SF News Indictments in H.P. Case "using of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes." Each charge is a
SF News Marijuana Clubs Busted A medicinal marijuana club at 14th & Mission was raided by the D.E.A yesterday as well as eight other places throughout San Francisco and Oakland. In total, fifteen people were arrested
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Goes Green Yesterday, on Treasure Island, the Governator pretty much gave an example of just why he's crushing Phil Angelides in the polls. With San Francisco in the background, Gavin Newsom and Speaker of the
SF News Who Really is Rob Black? See, Rob joined the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and traveled to several third world countries to try and bring democracy to them. It didn't go so well. Or, at least, a
