SF News Upgrading To Dot-Bomb 2.0? That's right, with all the crazy purchases, consolidation and boost in VC capital in the tech sector, a lot of folks are wondering if the boom is back. Of course, at SFist, this
SF News Making It Oak-ficial We're a little late on this, but mazel tov to newly-affianced Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland and his girlfriend of 15 years, Gap executive Anne Gust! (We apologize for using the picture of
SF News Gavin Gettin' Jiggy With It When the Guardian did their piece on the "New Bay," as coined by the EA-Ski-produced Frontline, maybe they didn't quite get it right. Does "New Bay" refer to a resurgence in local hip-hoppers
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
Arts & Entertainment Kimberly Guilfoyle Bolton? So as it rains so hard, we stare out the window and we wonder, with a little sigh in the heart -- what is our plucky broken-hearted former first lady Kimberly Guilfoyle doing
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
SF News The Great Flag Fight With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the SF Board of Supervisors (once again delving into foreign policy) unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
Arts & Entertainment Springfield's Winter of Love Well, add "inspiration for an episode of the Simpsons" to the Gavster's resume. Apparently "Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage." Thanks to Bart pranking a Matt Lauer-esque perky morning show host, who
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Fire Drive With Me This news item combines all our favorite things: commuter news, SUVs, cigarette regulation, the mayor's quality of life plans, and a generous espresso shot of schadenfreude to boot! Hooray! Did anyone see a
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
SF News Gavin Goes on the Offensive After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Plays Matchmaker For The Broken Hearted We here at SFist don't want to get ourselves in the middle of anything (ha!), but we can't help but think of our favorite recently single public figure, The Mayor Himself (we love
Arts & Entertainment Winter of Love Doc Trailer Online , a documentary about our Winter of Love, has footage of the Mayor's meetings in the days leading up to the Valentine's happening, as well as footage of the ensuing exchanges of heartfelt vows
Arts & Entertainment A Little bit of Paris In San Francisco For some reason, we don’t know how or why this hasn’t spread throughout our fair city and what Uncle Grambo calls the Internerd, but last night, we were graced by the
SF News Bagging It -- A Less-Than-Inspired Response to a Real Problem The San Francisco Commission on the Environment -- a group that meets bimonthly and serves to advise the Mayor on matters of the environment -- is recommending that the city impose a charge
SF News A Million for Tsunami Relief? By a 2-1 margin, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Finance Committee Ok-a-lee-do-keed a proposal to give one million dollars out of the San Francisco General Fund for tsunami relief. The two supervisors
SF News We'll Always Have So Best You might not have been able to tell but we here at SFist have some mixed feelings about the Newsom breakup. On the one hand, there's been an increase in single female staff
SF News New SFist Contributor: Jon Shurkin Even though Jon comes to us from the tony climes of Philadelphia's Main Line, he has lived in San Francisco long enough to remember a time when the then-embarrassing photo of the Mayor
SF News SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004 Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
SF News Mazel Tov, Gavin It’s been quite a year for the Gavster. Elected by a slim majority, Gavin let a few gay people get married and the next thing you know, he’s blown up across
SF News Political Junkie: You're A Mean One Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An SFist Christmas Well, we just heard Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on the radio the other day (the kickoff song for the season), so it's official -- Santa Claus be coming
SF News Fight the Power? San Francisco’s hep cat of a Board of Supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, made perhaps his final statement as outgoing President of the Board with his latest piece of artwork installed in his office-
