SF News Breaking: City Workers Banned from Traveling to Arizona Oh dear. Here we go. City workers are banned from traveling to Arizona for official work. SF Gate reports: "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today a moratorium on official city travel
SF News Boycotting Arizona, A Bad Idea We had a pleasant tête-à-tête yesterday in the comments of SFist's "SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera Calls for Arizona Boycott" post. The quest to be right on
SF News SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera Calls for Arizona Boycott San Francisco’s City Attorney Dennis Herrera has called for a boycott of Arizona over the state's new (and frightening) immigration law (SB 1070) which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer
SF News Obama Declares Today 'Angel Island Day' Honoring the 100-year anniversary of the Angel Island Immigration Station, the California State Parks, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services threw a party in San
SF News Civil Rights Groups Ask Ninth Circuit to Reconsider Denial of Asylum to Gay Guatemalan After allegedly being beaten, sexually assaulted, threatened by a Guatemalan congressman, and chronically harassed by Guatemalan police, gay Bay Area resident Saul Martinez fled to the United States in 1992. Now, after years
SF News Edwin Ramos Pleads Not Guilty In Murder of Father, Sons Alleged member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang Edwin Ramos, 21, pleaded not guilty in the noontime shooting deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16.
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle
SF News ID, Please? San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved municipal ID cards to SF inhabitants yesterday. These (hopefully adorable) new cards can be used by anyone here, it seems -- U.S. resident or not. Tommy Ammiano
SF News Michael Savage Gets Official Frowny Face From SF Supes With Ed Jew out of the picture for now, the SF Board of Supes wasted little time in unanimously approving a resolution tsk-tsking The Savage Nation host Michael Savage for his "
Arts & Entertainment Bring The Musicologist Back! Ghuman is a British citizen born in India, and an Oxford and Berkeley graduate who's working on a book about the influence of India on English music. She was coming back
SF News IDs for Immigrants? Gavin says he's on board with the proposal and will get his administration on it. He also says that he's prepared for the criticism to come his way and
misc Week Around the -ists With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-
misc Week Around the -ists Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval
Arts & Entertainment What Immigration Means To Us: KQED Documentary Examines Impact On Bay Area Economy With all the recent hoopla regarding national immigration legistlation, now might be a great time to get a perspective on immigration here close to home. We're not sure how many SFist
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Well, you could either go to Carnaval this weekend -- or you could go to the State Green Party Convention. Ross Mirkarimi (seen here going into the dunk tank) is giving the keynote address,
SF News Airport Satisfaction Study Reveals SFO At Bottom Of The Big Boys J.D. Power and Associates, the well-regarded surveyor of customer satisfaction rankings and similar, has conducted its 2007 North American Airport Satisfaction Index Study. Guess which U.S. airport ranked the lowest
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: All The <i>Rage</i> The film that followed Capelito, though, turned out to be one of the most disturbing, provocative films we’ve seen at this year’s festival thus far. , a made-for-television German thriller/
SF News Davis College Republicans Experimenting with Totally Faggy Performance Art Oh, what's become of our good old-fashioned hard-hearted conservative Republicans? What's next, long hair? Berets? Drapes and doilies? Irish cuisine? The Davis College Republicans are sponsoring some
SF News She Sells Sanctuary A recent wave of immigration sweeps (or, as Indy Bay calls it "Gestapo Immigration Raiders") is creating a bit of a fuss not only in San Francisco but throughout the Peninsula
Arts & Entertainment Kamala Harris addresses Immigrant Resources Fair San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris spoke before a crowd assembled at the Centro Del Pueblo auditorium in the Mission today. Her primary message to the community was that people should not
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Gets Caught on Tape Anyways, there's some somewhat juicy stuff in there, mainly Mr. Positive saying not so very nice things about Democratic legislators. You know, the guys he's all buddy buddy with.
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Big Mouth Strikes Again Now why would somebody running for office say something so dumb? After all, rule #1 of running for an election is to try and not piss off people whose vote you want. Well,
Arts & Entertainment Not Our Usual Type Of Bar Last week we attended the premiere of Lunafest, a festival of films “by, for, about women” at the Herbst Theater. Lunafest proceeds went to the Breast Cancer Fund. The nine shorts were a
