SF News Formerly Jailed Journalist Josh Wolf On Jailed Journalists Concerned that today's sentencing will land, if all goes horribly wrong, Current TV journos Laura Ling and Euna Lee 12 years of hard labor inside a North Korean jail, we asked formerly-jailed journalist
SF News Oh No Ed Jew!: Another Arrest No, not Ed. That's been done. Homeless SF mayoral candidate Grasshopper Kaplan was booked "on suspicion of stalking and use of a vehicle for habitation" -- is that really illegal? using your ride
Arts & Entertainment Permit to Engage in Expressive Activity, SFShenanigans! Checking out Laughing Squid, we came across yucksters SFShenanigans' Christmas-In-August calendar item. (Similar to last month's reverse trick-or-treat, which we hear was spooktacular.) Fun! But in the comments section of the Laughing Squid
SF News Chicken v. Wolf v. Audience Last night's innovative Chicken John/Josh Wolf Mayoral debate brought in "a dozen or so citizens," artists, and political fetishists. Even though it was on a Sunday night, anyone who cares about politics,
SF News San Francisco's Mayoral Pick Via the Old Gray Lady Here we have le Gav looking lover-ly while kicking it with some tired Ethel Merman tranny (excuse me, fabulous "Ethel Merman impersonator") in Jesse McKinley's stellar New York Times article about our personality-littered
Arts & Entertainment Josh Wolf At Noe Valley Farmers' Market Recently announced mayoral candidate, activist Josh Wolf, began his quest for enough signatures to get on the ballot fee at the Noe Valley Farmers' Market on Saturday. It wasn't a great day for
SF News And We're Off (Sheehan Runs Against Pelosi) Let the vanity runs for offices begin: Tenacious Texas trespasser and brilliant anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan just promised to maybe, possibly, perhaps make a run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if our current
misc Week Around The -ists LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of
misc Josh Wolf's 10-Point Plan For The City The rumblings from a week ago have been confirmed: Josh Wolf, on his blog, has declared his intent to run for mayor. [Thank you to the reader that posted this in the Tips
SF News Who's Running For Mayor: The Chicken And The Wolf Okay, okay, okay, okay -- we hear you about Laughing Squid's scoop that Chicken John running for mayor, folks! We were totally slammed at work today, that's why we're getting this up late.
SF News Day Around The Bay --A source passes along these pictures of Gavin Newsom and Carole Migden at a Pride event some time back. We saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus! --Steve Jobs speaks at the Apple Conference today.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Another shooting in District 5. And a man robbed at gunpoint in the Sunset. --Jerry McNerny, the man who unseated Pombo, is having a fun time in Congress. --Yikes! A guy took a
Arts & Entertainment Progressive Convention: The Pictures Check out how awesome SFist Jim's pictures of today's Frog Prog Con are, without all of our tedious snark getting in the way of your enjoyment! After the jump: More of SFist Jim's
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
SF News Chron Reporters Not Going Up the River It looks like the Chronicle's two BALCO reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, will not be joining Josh Wolf in prison as they're no longer on the hook. The main reason being the
Arts & Entertainment Josh Wolf Breaks a Record If you want more background to the story, click here and here but long story, short-- Wolf videotaped a bunch of anarchists get with the anarchy, a cop was hurt, Wolf showed it
SF News Wait, Isn't He Supposed To Be In Jail? So we're reading this morning in the Chronicle about the "Frozen Bun Run" on Bethel Island in Contra Costa County, where fun-loving polar bears go water-skiing on the Sacramento River every New Year's
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 They Walk Amongt Us Who are these people? Posters on SFWall.net Why are these people so dangerous? Because some of them might be moderate or even....Republican. Luckily, thanks to H Brown, these people might actually
SF News What's Eve Up To Today? --9:30 a.m. Wander on into work. Remember to wear real clothes and not blogger pajamas. --10:00 a.m. Tour of the office Komodo dragon cage with Phil Bronstein. --10:47
SF News That's All There is? We were psyched yesterday because we though a decision would be reached about Chronicle Reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams and their refusal to name who leaked to them the Grand Jury testimony
SF News Wolf Appeal Denied "Wolf does not claim that he filmed anything confidential nor that he promised anyone anonymity or confidentiality. Therefore, this case does not raise the usual concerns in cases involving journalists." Wolf, however, disagreed
Arts & Entertainment Josh Wolf Receives Bail The 'Gate is reporting that Josh has been granted bail by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, to wit:In a brief order, two judges of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of
SF News The Chron Behind Bars If life were a Monopoly game, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada just rounded the Free Parking corner -- the next roll might put them in jail. Do not pass go, do not collect
Arts & Entertainment Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning
