SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
SF News Other Things That Happened Today Sorry, we've become so obsessed with the upcoming Fake Question Time and those Yalie a capella singers that got beaten up that we totally didn't cover any of the other city news from
SF News IDs, You Don't Need Our Stinking IDs But no, that's not the fun part, the fun part is that Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a millionaire thanks to being in early at Sun Microsystems,
SF News Macworld SF 2007: Steve Jobs Is A Mother----ing <i>Gangsta</i>. Look, the long-desired iPhone. How does Steve Jobs choose to showcase the new phone's music technology? By playing The Beatles' "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." That's so . Why? This staged moment is Steve's announcement/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your TV! Also, I'm really, really lazy. So, much like I did last year, I will instead offer readers a glimpse at the top ten shows currently on my TiVo Season Pass list. Please feel
SF News Surf's Almost Up Anyways, this Saturday there will be the official opening cermony even if it's not surf time yet. Attending will be all the surfers who hope to take part in the surf contest whenever
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
misc State Supreme Court to Hear Gay Marriage Case How did we get here? Let's go take the Way Back Machine and see. We start in 2004 when Gavin (gaw-- that was one wife and at least three girlfriends ago) decided to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies Up first is the movie that's the talk of everything, Apocalypto. You know, we actually kind of want to see this movie. And yeah, we are fully aware of the fact Mel has
SF News Crime in Potrero Hill? The muggings all occurred between 7:30 and 9:30 between Kansas Street, Harrison and Pennsylvania Streets and the description of the assailant were similar. The assailant had a sawed-off shotgun or a
SF News James Kim Found Dead Law enforcement officials have confirmed that James Kim has died. Friends of the family have set up an unofficial PayPal donation page, though they warn you that they haven't talked to the Kim
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SF News Today in the Board of Supervisors And to help fend off the Board, Police Commissioner Heather Fong, with the POA and Precinct Captains along for the ride, issued a plan to supersede the Board-- put even more cops on
Arts & Entertainment Bassists For Measure O The event's at the law offices of Gonzalez & Leigh, at 2 Shaw Alley, 3rd Floor (off Mission between 1st and 2nd), and Ross Mirkarimi's expected to be there too. We don't know
SF News Sandra Day "Jay Z" O'Connor O'Connor's doing a tour of the country -- she also recently sat on the 2nd Circuit (based in New York), and is planning on visiting the 8th Circuit (based in St. Louis). She's
SF News We Said, Now We've Got Our Magic Bus The main component of the plan is to have a bus-only lane for the buses. Obviously, the thinking is that one of the main things that holds up buses is traffic and evil
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting
SF News Indictments in H.P. Case "using of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes." Each charge is a
SF News Marijuana Clubs Busted A medicinal marijuana club at 14th & Mission was raided by the D.E.A yesterday as well as eight other places throughout San Francisco and Oakland. In total, fifteen people were arrested
SF News SFist Editorial: Edward Champion on Muni But this Wednesday morning was a different routine with a different set of rules. I should note from the onset that I've found most MUNI drivers to be kind and helpful. Even when
SF News I'm Your Turbine Lover What was announced was the usual first steps in any sort of big thing-- doing a study and forming a committee. So Leal announced that money is being set aside for a study
SF News Everybody Must Get Stoned Actually, it's not calling for decriminalizing but something almost along the lines-- declaring it "the lowest law enforcement priority." This would put it on the same level as other non-enforced crimes such public
SF News Gavin Gets Tough on Crime The measures will cost $3.7 million which means the Board of Supervisors have to weigh in on it. This is where the fun begins because the Board have been pretty cranky about
SF News East Bay Blotter It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the
SF News Across The -ist Network Breaking the law, breaking the law We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a
