SF News Fat Tuesday Topline: San Mateo County Sheriff Faces Her Fate in Special Election Vote Today Voting is underway today on the measure to remove the San Mateo County Sheriff; SF is towing RVs that refused to leave a Bayview RV dwelling site; and the Bay Area has several Mardi Gras celebrations on tap for Fat Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment From Protests to Parades: SF’s Brass Bands Keep the Spirit Alive Fat Tuesday is next week with a free all-ages Mardi Gras festival in the Fillmore and performances by Mission Delirium and New Orleans' Rebirth Brass Band in the Mission. SFist takes a closer look at a few local brass bands that have influenced the scene through the years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Ring In Mardi Gras In SF If you have friends in New Orleans right now you're probably feeling a little bit jealous of the fun they're having, because that city obviously owns Mardi Gras. But nonetheless, it is also
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: A Hayes Valley Mardis Gras San Francisco may have failed to bring the party to New Orleans last week, but at least one neighborhood is going all out for tonight's Fat Tuesday celebrations. Well, "all out" in San
SF News Police Gear up for Mardi Gras Celebrants Known as the pre-Lenten celebration where you play "Mike Tyson's Punch Out" until midnight when the Catholic kid in your neighborhood had to give up Nintendo until Easter, tonight is Mardi Gras. And
SF News Sydney Romp: Bevan Dufty Explains It All Yesterday we mentioned the delightful work trip/vacation San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros took to Australia for Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. Trannyshack founder Heklina was there, too. And
SF News Cisneros and Dufty Party With Gay/Civic Pride In Australia Somehow we overlooked this last week, but local porn-ish blog, the Sword, captured images of San Francisco's openly bent politicos Supervisor/personality Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros kicking it together at
SF News The Warriors: Exposed Oh good grief, Warriors. Spurs 126, Warriors 89. And it wasn't nearly that close. Coming off Sunday night's agonizing loss to their nemesis, the Lakers, the Warriors needed a strong showing. But last
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
Arts & Entertainment Workin' for the Weekend Friday, March 2, 2007 Earlybird Special: Fukwerk Fridays @ 111 Minna Roll up your sleeves and loosen your tie with loungy beats and discounted booze -- and hey, check out the art of Brazilian
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misc SFist Whines & Dines: The 540 Club So what is this ‘pet-friendly’ group hiding from the dog blogging community? Having seen photos of earlier Bark and Whine Balls, we can only assume it is the unbridled humiliation of dogs in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Case You Missed It: King Cakes That said, there are things about Mardi Gras that do appeal to us -- those metallic purple, gold, and green beads, for example. We got our annual fill of those from our brother-in-law,
SF News SFist Loves a Protest Okay, San Francisco. Admit it. Protests are big old parties. There's people smoking pot, hooking up, screaming, cheering, dancing, drumming and maybe even breaking stuff. It's nothing to be ashamed of. The fact
