SF News Asian-American Embarrassment: An Update Okay, first up -- what's the latest with Gavin Newsom's stalker, Mr. Purple Gloves? Well, persistent reporters at the Chronicle managed to get Han Shin on the phone last night, where they had
SF News Today, On <i>As The Gav Turns</i>... First off. Alcoholism is a serious problem and we hope Gavin Newsom (.pdf) gets help and support. Second of all. Blue tie alert! (see picture from this afternoon at right.) We're tag-teaming in
SF News Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving
SF News SFistGate Online So please pardon us if we've become a little obsessed in following the online coverage of SFist Jon's exposé and evening news report -- but look what we've found! --Stalwart video hounds GavinWatch
misc San Jose to Clean Up Libraries Yep, San Jose wants their libraries to be Spank Free. Or at least by decree of San Jose's mayor-elect, Chuck Reed. Reed was shown a clip of the story KGO ran on all
SF News Libraries-- Cesspool of Sex & Violence Why do we bring this story up? Because KGO, Channel 7, sent their very own I-Team out to investigate our libraries and discovered that, well, bad things happen there. And you know what?
Arts & Entertainment Taking the News Out of Local News The main problem, other than being tacky, cheesy, and a complete discrediting of the news, is that the stations never let people know that they were video releases. KGO got caught for running
SF News Halloween 2006 Online Discussions Other blogs discussing the situation were the Chron's NWSCHIK blog (does that stand for "Newschick?") and SF MetBlogs. MetBlogs also sent us to the LGBT blog Pam's House Blend. Some other folks making
SF News Seven Shot At Halloween In The Castro Update: 11/1, 11:45 a.m. Alix Rosenthal is holding a press conference at 2:00 p.m. today at Harvey Milk Plaza (the main entrance of the MUNI stop at Market
Arts & Entertainment Where's Leslie? Sometime a few weeks ago, Dennis Richmond's co-anchor stopped being Dennis Richmond's co-anchor and was nowhere to be found. For weeks, the word from KTVU had been only that she was taking a
SF News But It's the Haight Man..... The urchins in Haight Street sure are in the news a lot these days. First there was the super-excellent story in this week's SF Weekly. But of even more significance is that Gavin,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Get Your Own Network, This One Is MINE Since the WB and UPN have merged to create the CW (all country and western music, all the time!) many former affiliate stations are adopting Fox's new network, MyNetworkTV. (Why KRON 4, which
SF News News Items Too Long To Be Summarized For Day Around The Bay We try to keep our new feature Day Around The Bay pretty short -- so these three longer items we found in our relentless scouring of local news sources have been relegated to
SF News Your Commute Update So MUNI claims that your morning commute from the Sunset should be okay today, after yesterday's debacle in the Twin Peaks tunnel. Turns out there was indeed a derailment (of an L train,
SF News Shaking All Over Okay, so we over-reacted a bit and unfortunately, our back is still smarting from the attempt at diving underneath the coffee table, but there was an Earthquake tonight. A 4.4 one in
SF News Life Of Reilly Interestingly, the only local news source that seems to be covering the story about Clint Reilly's attempt to stop McClatchy Co. from buying the Mercury News are the McClatchy Co-affiliated papers (which include
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
SF News Weird News Of The Day You know, some days you log onto SFGate.com and you think, wow, there's a lot of weird local news today. *A man carjacked, kidnapped, and raped a nun in the Mission, and
Arts & Entertainment April 18, 2006 As promised, we completely slept through the 5:14 a.m. bells and sirens commemorating the 100th anniversary of the big quake -- but some of you more diligent San Franciscans didn't, to
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,
Arts & Entertainment KRON Needs Cash Money Note to local spas or Australia tourism board-- if you want SFist to do a special investigate pieces, feel free to drop us a line. We've always wanted to go to Australia and
SF News Rock and Roll Even the rich aren't immune from the laws of gravity -- the folks living in those multimillion dollar homes perched precariously on the edge of Telegraph Hill are all a little on edge
Arts & Entertainment Deadly Juice Squeeze Things got a little ugly on Fifth and Mission yesterday, as the World Can't Wait protestors struck a blow against George Bush by tossing Molotov cocktails at the right-wing bastion of the San
SF News SFist Book Report: Tony Hall This Week If you read the Chron the way we do (i.e., looking for airline deals in the national section, scanning the Bay Area section in hopes of pictures of an angry Daly, only
SF News Vote for Nguyen San Jose voters will be putting the first Vietnamese-American woman into a city council in California today -- who will be named Nguyen. You're either reading a column by the Great Karnak --