misc More Police Walking the Streets. Currently, four projects have patrols set up. Those are ones in Sunnydale (in Visitacion Valley, not the Hell Mouth), Potrero, Hunters Point and Alice Griffith. Since putting in the foot patrols, crime is
SF News It's Saturday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is? What's going on is that he whole development thing is sort of a chicken vs. the egg conundrum- do you develop first and bring the Niners with you or do you wait for
SF News Update on Josh Wolf Oh wait, where were we. The event will start 7:30pm at the Balazo Gallery on 2183 Mission Street. Speaking will be Assemblyman Mark Leno, SF Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann, (attention SFist
Arts & Entertainment Old School, New School: The SFist School Board Interviews Introduce yourself, and tell us what you currently do. For the last seven years, I have been an independent contractor with the City and County of San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department. My title
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
misc SFist Cares ... About the NABE The Potrero Hill Neighborhood House (known as the NABE to community members) is a multi-purpose, multi-generational community center in continuous operation for nearly a century. It's mission is to serve those in need
SF News Verizon CEO Craps On The Gavster Hey, you know that municipal wireless system that fair Gavin plans to build here in EssEff? Of course it makes our AirPort Express card drool to think about city-wide connectivity, for free (or
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
Arts & Entertainment <i>Straight Outta Hunters Point</i> DVD Release Party SFist literally stumbled (we were a bit tipsy) into Artist Television Access Studios last Friday night. We were looking for an entirely different event, but once we got inside, we stuck around. Why?
Arts & Entertainment The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why? why? Dear Lord, why? Frankly, we
SF News Political Junkie: Matrix GavinGetty Yes, yes, we saw that Sunday Chron magazine profile about the Gav -- "Newsom In Four Acts," Eye-Rolling In Three. As we all know, "Everyone in San Francisco knows a small black child
SF News Sold on Solar Fossil fuels are sooo twentieth century. Crude oil is way over fifty bucks a barrel, a gallon of gas is nearly three dollars, there's a war raging in a country with the second
SF News Sophie's World The drive to recall Supervisor Sophie Maxwell has failed, with over half of the almost 6000 signatures gathered invalidated for one reason or another. Of those rejected signatures, 973 were thrown out because