Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Well-Connected Woman on cell phone: "If you ever get nominated for the Grammies, you are SO taking me as your guest." -- From Edward/Montgomery Street Station Dude: "WHOOOO! I cant wait for Jason's
SF News Safe Havens What with the news today about the dead baby found in a dumpster in Redwood City, we'll copy KTVU and pass along some information about the Safe Haven (or Safely Surrendered Baby) law.
misc SFist Raves: Chinatown Sidewalks The days of being bopped on the shins by little old Chinese ladies carrying pink and white striped plastic bags and suspiciously poking the flesh of fresh fish may be numbered, as DPW
SF News No-Host Bar If this were an Evite, a bunch of people in San Francisco would be frantically changing their responses from "yes" to "unfortunately, something's come up," for Memphis, TN Democratic representative Harold Ford Jr.
misc School District Employees to Strike This Week Last Thursday, teachers representing the United Educators of San Francisco met to hear from the SEIU as they consider plans to strike in solidarity with the custodians, cafeteria workers and secretaries. The teacher's
SF News He Told You So Chris Daly's being remarkably unsmug about the way the whole SF Grand Prix bike thing went down, isn't he? You may remember a few months ago, Daly staged a mock bike race to
SF News eNRAged Good ol' Chris Daly -- in an interview with the NY Times about Proposition H (reduces swelling), he said about the anti-H forces, "I'm crazy, but they're crazier." (Special bonus quote from the
SF News Finally, We Got Us Some Class Action In our email this morning, we saw a disturbing subject line: "Notice of Class Action Settlement. Please Read." "oh, s**t, who's suing us now?" we wondered. But the joke's on us --
misc SFist Cares ... About Sharing That's why we're big fans of Creative Commons. They've taken the complex legal nightmare known as the current copyright law and provided an easy way for us to say that we're hip to
SF News SFist Blotter Special Edition We usually run the blotter crime roundup on Tuesdays and Fridays, but we're sorry to say that there's been enough breaking news in the area that we're running a special edition today. Everyone's
SF News Sunset Residents Contine to Bury Head in (Smoking) Sand It seems like just yesterday that we were sniggering over Sunset residents' concerns about illegal bonfires, but it was actually a few weeks ago. Since then, we've attended a (legal -- we were
Arts & Entertainment Interview: The Primitive Screwheads Oh, how we adore the Primitive Screwheads. Our first experience with them was at the final (sob) performance of their most glorious Evil Dead: Live, in which the guerilla (to wit: they rehearse
SF News Police Commissioner Peter Keane Quits Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking
SF News Courtyard Marriott Employees Paid Less than Minimum Wage Last Wednesday, word got out about a class-action suit being brought by Gonzalez & Leigh on behalf of employees at the Courtyard Marriott in San Francisco Superior Court. Originally filed September 23rd, the
SF News Something's Fishy So, yesterday the a Board of Supervisors committee approved a proposed ordinance Monday that would require seafood restaurants to post English, Spanish, and Chinese signs warning of the dangers of mercury contaminated fish.
misc At Least He's Consistent Today Arnold officially added homos to his list of vulnerable minorities to push around when he vetoed AB 849, which passed the state legislature and would have granted marriage equality to gay couples.
SF News Supervisor Shouting (Not Daly) We suppose the subject matter trumps the supervisor, as even a Daly-free meeting about condo conversions descended into shouting and gavel-pounding yesterday. Supervisor Bevan Dufty (pictured at right) had proposed that we give
SF News Political Junkie: The Daily Daly Show This is going to be a great day. First Tom DeLay gets indicted, and now this! The Examiner reports that Tom Ammiano and Chris Daly !!!!! OMG! OMFG!!! OMFG!! You know in those segments
SF News The EFF Takes Another Bite Out Of Apple We'd be remiss in our loyalty to vacationing SFist Jackson if we didn't celebrate the EFF's recent victory in the Apple v. Does case. As you might recall, the issue at stake is
misc Arnold Screws Fags The really big news, though, is that He Who Must Not Be Named decided that he would be vetoing AB 849, the gay marriage bill. After being approved by both the Assembly and
SF News We've Got a Feeling We're in Kansas Religious organizations filed suit in a Los Angeles federal court last week claiming that the UC system discriminates against religion for not allowing classes taught in Christian schools to count in regards to
SF News Second Day of School So class, how was your first day of school? Kindergarten class went fine, and the SF school district's wildcat strike wasn't as effective as it might have been -- but as we all
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: <i>Arahan</i> You can tell we were excited to see the SFAFF movie Arahan Friday night, because we crossed the Tordesillas Line of Market Street and actually ventured up to the (gasp!) Marina -- where
SF News Mobility Device for Disabled Cats, or Hoax? Yesterday, browings the internerd, we were intrigued by a little video linked from BoingBoing of a cat in a box tooling around a workshop on a set of wheels. The video [QT] purportedly
Arts & Entertainment Know your rights all three of them Are you kidding? Of course we were at the BayFF on Bloggers' Rights. We'd like to say that we were there because we were dying to hear the roundtable discussion on legal issues
