SF News Gavin Gets Dirty For Project Homeless Connect Yes, that's our fair mayor washing the feet of a constituent at yesterday's Project Homeless Connect outreach event. Hundreds of volunteers and the homeless they aim to help were on hand to provide
SF News CCA To Feed The Homeless In a press release from the California Culinary Academy we received today, the executive chefs and students at the CCA will be serving 1,000 lunches to the local homeless at the Bill
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Mad Libs Hey kids! Are you looking for a quick and easy entry into San Francisco District 6 civic participation? Do you long to get an angry email response from Chris Daly like this lady
SF News Gavin Gettin' Jiggy With It When the Guardian did their piece on the "New Bay," as coined by the EA-Ski-produced Frontline, maybe they didn't quite get it right. Does "New Bay" refer to a resurgence in local hip-hoppers
SF News Good News on the Homeless Front. Maybe. The best news and the most controversial news was the report claiming that there are 2000 fewer homeless people living on the streets of the city compared to 2002. The census was undertaken
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Kids Expressing Themselves Of course, we could do this and imagine these things from the comfort of our Crayola-laden, early-70s cozy bungalow. The foundation for these dreams was already in place. Drawbridge, based in San Rafael,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Judith Zissman When Judith isn't inciting interview revolution, she may well be found inciting the bison of Golden Gate park. If you've ever thought that they seemed suspiciously docile, you're right-- and Judith is their
SF News City Stops Slacking Sowers The news story that got the ball rolling was an investigation into the state of various local parks. There was the usual interviews with upset neighbors at the lack of any sort of
misc Apologies from the Essefficist Surely your lonely life has been just a little bit more hollow the past couple of weeks, what with the holidays and the poor weather and the Essefficist not really writing at all.
SF News SFist Cares: Special Edition - Tsunami SFist Cares tries to focus on local issues and local charities. But when there are more than 44,000 people dead, thousands more missing, and millions homeless that's something that affects us not
misc Purl-oined We usually save these things for the blotter, but this one can't wait until Friday. Six students and a knitting instructor at the Knitting Basket in the Montclair Village in Oakland were held
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: One Scoop Or Two? Okay, we have to confess that we haven't really been paying much attention to the plans about developing the Hunters' Point shipyard (though we did note through our usual sporting interest in housing
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
SF News So Best Sort of relating to an earlier post today, our boy Gavin's definitely not having the best week. His tax increases lost (so MUNI fares may go up to $1.50, 300 city jobs
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Alexander Tonisson More importantly you, like us, will have to reexamine your ideas about what it means to be an altruist and if your desk job really does have meaning. In addition to being a
SF News Like New Yorkers Give a Damn About Us SFist is a little miffed. We were forwarded a tip by the beautiful Jessica Coen, currently busy being paid to blog for Gawker, to a rather funny local Craigslist post. We're miffed because,
SF News Gettin Jiggy With It While drinking some beer and reading some of our favorite blogs, we stumbled across this Reuters item linked to from The Wit and Wisdom of Martin Van Buren, who generally has the ability
misc The Essefficist Surely you're just dying to know something, right? So what is it? Where to get glass cut? What to do about that ex who keeps stalking you? Why the Sutro Tower is red
SF News I Guess I Can't Wear Those Red Pants Anymore Making your world a little more paranoid, the reports that gang wars are back in the Mission. The (red-wearing) Norteno gang considers the South Mission their turf, while the upstart (blue-wearing) Sureno gang
misc Send In the Clones Ever since SFist saw The 6th Day, we've been obsessed with the idea of cloning our pets (for those of you out there who haven't seen this cinematic masterwork, in The 6th Day,
SF News Pumping Up...The State Deficit SFist is a big fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, at least a few of them. We're not necessarily so pleased with his latest project. In fact, not a single Bay Area county voted
Arts & Entertainment Bad Dogs, Bad Dogs, Whatcha Gonna Do? Awright! The Chronicle breaks the story that the next season of Animal Planet's Animal Cops will be filming in the great city by the Bay! The show, for those of you without Animal
