SF News Mayoral Race Poll Now that Gavin has stopped playing coy and moved ahead with his re-election plans, the question is who will step up to run against Mr. 80% Approval Ratings? It's the parlor game anyone
SF News Handing in Guns to See the Guns Now you can already see the problems with this, can't you? First up, GnR ain't really big in the hood. The second thing is that they're not that big with anyone anymore. Oh,
Arts & Entertainment Taking the News Out of Local News The main problem, other than being tacky, cheesy, and a complete discrediting of the news, is that the stations never let people know that they were video releases. KGO got caught for running
SF News Punked We jumped. About ten feet it felt like, bug eyed and scared. If we were a cartoon character, our hair would be drawn straight up and our eyes would be shooting out of
Arts & Entertainment It Was A Dark & Stormy Bite: <i>Pet Noir</i>'s Shannon O'Leary We first met Shannon O'Leary at the last Alternative Press Expo, where she was showing the floppy versions of her books and Fortune's Bitch. Now, she's about to publish a hardbound, 120+ page
Arts & Entertainment Take The Greats You Greedy Rakes, But Please Leave Your Mistakes at SwapSF on Saturday While gone, we were remiss in properly pimping an haute fashion event put on by Friends of SFist Jason and Monica. But with a method to our madness, knowing from experience that you
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Lying + Cheating=Lychee-ting? We'll still tune in tonight to on Bravo -- but last week's episode was pretty annoying as far as we were concerned. Is the sheen off the apple, or was this crappy episode
SF News Your Commute: Down on the Upside First up is MUNI which is now using the 1 California to test out a new system to ensure busses are on time. Why the 1 California? Because Gavin got in a tiff
SF News State Of The City Address The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City.
Arts & Entertainment Where's Leslie? Sometime a few weeks ago, Dennis Richmond's co-anchor stopped being Dennis Richmond's co-anchor and was nowhere to be found. For weeks, the word from KTVU had been only that she was taking a
SF News The Warriors: Lighten up Francis Easy, Nellie, easy baby. It's early yet. Tuesday night, the Warriors came from behind in the Oracle to beat the Portland Trailblazers relatively easily, 108-96. But in the post-game news conference coach Don
SF News Whither Gavin Matier & Ross today has an interview with Gavin about the upcoming Mayoral election and his future in politics that's getting a lot of play. So what does the future hold for Mayor
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Nick Ross Luckily, you’ve probably noticed that Nick has been gracious enough to spend some of his precious craigslist trolling time to write for SFist. Read up! Nick’s finds and tips on craigslist
SF News Surprise! Yesterday was the big 39 for the head executive officer of the city and county of San Francisco -- so what better way to celebrate than with a surprise party in City Hall,
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 Brittanie Bobs Her Hair This month's Zelda Fitzgerald, mayoral paramour Brittanie Mountz is not only flitting about town in true flapper style (and who knows -- if she's in fact under 21, she might be drinking some
SF News Hairwatch (Brittanie Mountz) We're looking around for pictures of the new do for you to check out (check back to see if a link has magically appeared here in the next few hours!), but meanwhile, the
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
SF News The Littlest Guilfency Ronan shares a birthday with: Charlton Heston, Stuttering John from the Howard Stern show, Susan Sarandon, Alicia Silverstone, and Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal's dad. Also, the Crimean War started today in 1853, and
Arts & Entertainment The Kooky Adventures of the Superfisters Even as Dr. DeBunko exhorts us to subscribe to Skeptic Magazine, we can't help but feel that there are some missed opportunities here to ponder some real mysteries -- namely, how otherwise intelligent
SF News There's No Such Thing as a Stupid Question No, we're just joking about that. To get everyone started, here's a few questions we'd like asked: - What's up with all the hair on Suri Cruise? - Both of you accuse the
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Operates in the Park. --Friday was the Opera opening night at the opera house, and I was one of the penguins there, in that March of the Penguins. --I read in the paper there was a report
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume