misc Josh Wolf's 10-Point Plan For The City The rumblings from a week ago have been confirmed: Josh Wolf, on his blog, has declared his intent to run for mayor. [Thank you to the reader that posted this in the Tips
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits --So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea
SF News What's Up With Your Board Of Supes? Look at that fresh new picture of your 2007 San Francisco Board of Supervisors! Chris Daly even showed up this time! So what's the gang up to these days? (Besides Chris Daly; he's
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco World News - Tonight! In other local TV news items that have managed to make their way into our In Box, this Saturday, NBC 11 is airing a documentary called "Dreams to Dust: Americans Interned," which follows
SF News Baby Bull Busted The Baby Bull and the man who gave us AT&T Park's ChaCha Bowl has had drug problems throughout his career, even spending some time in the slammer in 1975 for trafficking
SF News Mark Leno Kicks Things Off Today, at the Yerba Buena Gardens, officially Mark Leno kicked off his "Stick it to Carole Migden" campaign. In attendance were such notables as Phil Ting, Kamala Harris, and the Ma-ster. Leno is
misc Now Tell Us Something We Don't Know First, there's a new study out saying that, yes, marijuana does help ease pain. It is also pretty good for "Lost" and listening to Tool but we don't think the study measured that.
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
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 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 Wharf Rat While the owner, Kevin Reed, promises everything will be on the up-and-up and that he's learned his lessons from his previous club, neighbors aren't so sure. Among other things, there's the whole fact
misc Win A Ticket To The High Times Comedy Festival! There are going to be some exceptionally funny comedians playing these shows... the scathing, biting humor of Tom Rhodes, who has been seen on Comedy Central and his own NBC sitcom. Doug Benson
SF News SchwartzenWatcher's Got Nothing So, this week we're going to operate on the principle of giving people what they want. And what do they want? Skeletons from Arnie's prodigious closet. Like this video of him in a
SF News Breaking: Federales Raid Another Pot Club In addition to marijuana plants, agents confiscated growing equipment, bulbs, utility bills, tax documents, financial records and photographs from the Smiths' home, the couple said. Steve Smith said he suspected the agents had
misc SFist Answers Pities The Fool THIS WEEK: Fools, border crossings, weed vs. your heart, bikes on BART, and an easy way for SFist Answers to make millions. We took our title this week from Yueben Duped from Los
misc Yes, We're Kind After months of debate, San Francisco finally can legally go to pot (only with doctor’s approval, of course)-- we have our first ever codified marijuana dispensaries laws. Yay!!! Yesterday, the Board
SF News All You Need Is Just a Little Patience After a long, raucous day of debate that lasted even longer than last night's ball game, the Board of Supervisors stared straight into the eyes of several controversial, contentious issues and decided to
SF News Moss' Marijuana Blues Shockingly, the world still kept on spinning. The NFL, however, was not amused. They are, in fact, supposedly trying to get Randy to go into the NFL’s drug program. According to reports,
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Jerry This is the third year of the event and is celebrated in honor of Jerry's birthday, which was August 1st. Why the party in the Excelsior is because it's where Jerry grew up
SF News And So it Begins... Hey, did you think that local authorities wouldn't cooperate with federal agents who are out to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries? Think again! Impassioned opinion pieces by Kamala Harris and Board of Supervisor
SF News Patriot Act Author Questions Supreme Court, Bush Adminstration We'll admit it, one of our favorite political blogs is written by a Republican. That's right, we said it. Hey, it's all about 'balance' here at SFist, if not moderation. Shades of gray,
SF News Is the IT Guy Stoned or Something? Berkeley may have a reputation for cannabis tolerance, but that hasn't penetrated to the city's public education establishment. A few days ago, Cal NORML received a call from a Berkeley High School student
SF News The Supreme Court Bogarts That Joint By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court voted today to overturn a decision by a San Francisco federal appeals court that allowed the use of medicinal marijuana. The court ruled that in cases
SF News The Huffington Roast Okay, we're going to go ahead and put our two cents in on this, while scrupulously avoiding actually linking to it -- we will, however, link to the LA Weekly's Nikki Finke's thoughts
SF News Just Say No For Now Today, Gavin Newsom put a lid on places that sell lids and called for a moratorium on marijuana clubs. And we bet we're the only one's in the -ist family who'll ever have