SF News Dirty Golden Gate Park Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's come out swinging at the lackadaisical response from Mayor Gavin Newsom on the state of Golden Gate Park, after public outcry that the city was more concerned about two dogs
SF News Seeing Stars at the All-Star Game We love seeing these games on TV for reasons already spelled out, mainly because it's a great way to show off the city and our little jewel of a park. And while watching
SF News Ted Nugent Helps Us Remember The 1960s The Wall Street Journal ran this piece by Ted Nugent yesterday. If you're at all inclined to check it out, do so soon, because the password protection will kick in at some point.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair. --A
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For A Graphic Novelist Yesterday, we posted a contest in which we're giving away a copy of Matt Silady's "The Homeless Channel," a new graphic novel. Matt, a Berkeley resident, was both the writer and artist of
Arts & Entertainment Win 'The Homeless Channel', A New Graphic Novel A few months ago, when we talked to Larry Young, the frontman of San Francisco-based comic book publisher AIT/Planet Lar, he pointed to Matt Silady's then-pending book, "The Homeless Channel," as one
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Arson You know, maybe Tapioca Ed wouldn't have problems with fire if he had running water. Bobagate heats up -- literally! Matier and Ross report today on some issues regarding yet another house that
Arts & Entertainment Caption Action --> Ashley Olsen: "Victoria, your bangs are amaze." Victoria Traina: "Huh?" Ashley Olsen: "You know, an abbreved version of 'amazing.'" Victoria Traina: "Whatev, I don't abbrev words that end in -ing." Dude
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Can you still remember how to roller skate backwards? How about shoot the duck? For $2 skate rentals, you can give it your best shot at Mighty to the tune of really bad
Arts & Entertainment The Stranger Thinks That We Are Awesome We complain a lot about San Francisco -- MUNI is a disaster, the homeless guy down the street left his post-digested lunch on our doorstep again, our bicyclists are psychopaths, our supervisors accept
SF News Day Around The Bay --There were more bikes than cars on Market Street today for Bike To Work Day. Soon we will realize our dream where every car driver is assigned an individual biker to yell at
SF News What's Up With Your Board Of Supes? Look at that fresh new picture of your 2007 San Francisco Board of Supervisors! Chris Daly even showed up this time! So what's the gang up to these days? (Besides Chris Daly; he's
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Tom DiCillo’s <i>Delirious</i> " The Centerpiece film at the San Francisco International Film Festival was the satirical romantic comedy Delirious. Steve Buscemi is a down on his luck paparazzo who takes in a homeless wannabe actor played
SF News Happy Birthday, Care Not Cash In honor of the anniversary, Team Gavin has launched a full court press showing that despite appearances, things have improved. Question: what is the proof? Answer: according to Trent Roher, about 1,800
misc Connect With a Good Deed If you want to help out, head on over the site and choose a project you'd like to work on. Among other things, you can do street outreach, give legal help, serve food,
SF News Where Everybody Knows Your Name Oh wait, that's "Battlestar Galactica." Where were we? Oh yeah, so the question everyone is wondering is what's with all the homeless people who came here from elsewhere? Why do they keep on
SF News Number of Homeless People Up. No Down Yes, the numbers are up 2% from the last time the city did the census in 2005 (6,377 now compared with 6,248 then) but that's 28% lower than 2003 when that
SF News Here Comes Da Judge For those who don't know how these things work, essentially if someone gets a citation for any number of "quality of life" type issues, they'd be sent immediately to a community court. At
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Cats Of Mirikitani</i> What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo street artist and cat-lover Jimmy Mirikitani turned into a quest to save a man from his present and from his past
Arts & Entertainment Supermodels Attack SF One of our spies spotted model Gemma Ward hopping into a downtown Walgreens yesterday. Gemma was in SF for Fashion Week Live last night at Fort Mason. Their description of Gemma was priceless:
SF News Nobody Walks in L.A., but Everyone Walks in San Francisco The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Silly Walks and based their findings on such things as "air quality, the percentage of people who walk to work, access to parks, number of
SF News Don't Rip Up Your Muni Passes Just Yet But wait. The Examiner, a local advertising flier, quotes Gavin thusly: "It's so much more complex than that." Oh. And when we spoke to Muni to get their side, they just directed us
Arts & Entertainment Picking up Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
SF News Irony Alert Way back when, in days of yore, Alex Tourk and Gavin Newsom were friends and worked on projects together, like San Francisco Connect. And so they decided to that in order to get
SF News You Knew It Had To Happen A search for other Gavin stuff got us entries for "I Had an Affair With Gavin Newsom" ("I thought we shared something special, but apparently you just used me, Mr. Playboy") as well
