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
SF News Hey, We Can Finally Go To The Doctor! In 2007. As SFist Jon detailed for us, the 200 million dollar/year plan will cover uninsured (but employed at a level that disqualifies them from MediCal) San Francisco residents for care they recieve inside
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "The Ivy League Hotelier and The Match-up Solution" * Picked round 7, pick 47; 455 overall / Kevin McMahan / WR / Maine / 6'2" / 196 / "Mr. Irrelevant" * Picked round 7, pick 6; 214 overall / Chris Morris / C / Michigan State / 6'4" / 305 / "The Heady Snapper" * Picked
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
SF News The Travails of Tristan Of note is the resignation of the interim Taxi Commissioner and BFF of Heidi, Tristan Bettencourt. Tristan resigned after stories of past transgressions with the law were made public. In fact, Tristan seems
SF News SFist Blind Item: Tricho-Madness! Dig if you will this picture: it's the Holiday Party for the staff at this major local publication, and our hero -- let's call him Trichophilia Pinkerton -- has tied a few on.
misc SFist Barks and Whines: Smiley’s Schooner Salon and Hotel Online dog resources are hardly new to the Bay Area. For years we’ve had the San Francisco Dog Owners Group and a canine focused page at citysearch.com. We have two problems
SF News I Don't FEEL Tardy or The Dog Ate My Hearing Notice It's been over a year since high-profile law firm Gonzalez and Leigh filed suit over former SFUSD chief Arlene Ackerman's "platinum parachute" termination package. They lost the case in August, but appealed the
Arts & Entertainment The Legal Reader Takes A Bite Out Of Crime Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>George Michael: A Different Story</i> In messaging that seems very tightly controlled by the Michael machine, GM and the filmmakers lead us through his initial success with Wham!, his solo career (which emerged nearly concurrently with his realization
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
SF News Free Lance Williams And Mark Fainaru-Wada Don't know what to do with that formerly-trendy FREE WINONA t-shirt? Just cross out her name and write in "LANCE WILLIAMS AND MARK FAINARU-WADA" in sparkle-pen instead -- the Chronicle's getting ready to
Arts & Entertainment Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0 This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Confirm our Suspicions Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Cocktail waitress to guy at bar: "Hey, did you ever end up taking that pill you found?" Guy at bar: "Um
SF News Your Commute: Steal That Car! Let the ambulance-chasing jokes begin! A Stanford law student has pled no contest to charges that she stole an ambulance and drunk-drove it around town last October. Julia Powell, through her lawyer, claims
SF News Sue You, Sue Me, Sue It Together, Naturally Well, the business types are saying that so far, no economic impact report has been reported and that the Board is still doing what it does so well, proposing this and proposing that
SF News Second Time's The Charm Ah, the most agonizing time of the year for a certain group of local lawyers is upon us -- the annual releasing of the results from the February California state bar exam. The
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part One Nathaniel Ford: Thanks for coming in. Eve Batey: Oh, thank you for having me. NF: By all means. I guess this will be an opportunity for you to get to know me and
SF News Political JunkiEE If you think the Ma v. Ja race is content-free, you should try the State Senate District 8 race between Leland Yee and Mike Nevin. Yawn, unless you like trying to figure out
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Le Petit Lieutenant</i> We woke up again today with a strange kink in our neck, which we immediately recognized as the curse of our height challenge. Ahhhh . . . . It must be those darned subtitles we were straining
SF News Really, We're Just Posting This So We Have An Excuse To Use This Picture Again Look how happy Gavin was when San Francisco was awarded the stem cell research center last May! Hope he's got his knuckles ready and another lackey around this afternoon, because Alameda Superior Court
SF News This Week in Barry: Here Comes the Judge Yesterday CNN reported that a federal grand jury is looking into whether Barry should be indicted for saying in the BALCO trial that he didn't knowingly and purposely do steroids when it's looking
SF News Congratulations, Michela Alioto-Pier! Now Get Back To Work. Michela Alioto-Pier and her family are proud to announce that the supervisor for District 2 gave birth to their third child, a healthy baby girl, last night. They don't have a name picked
misc SFist Answers: Things To Make You Cry A friend of SFist writes: "Someone in my office was just arrested for possession of child pornography. The case has been relatively high-profile in the area. The suspect seemed like a nice guy,
