SF News Political Junkie: World Mayor Pretend He's (almost) Miss World, can't look us in the eye -- Hizzoner Newsom announced that he was nominated but did not win in the online World Mayor 2004 contest. (That Giacometti-like figure to
SF News We Feel Your Pain At the beginning of the year, our earnest Boy Wonder of a Mayor said that in the spirit of sharing the pain of the inevitable budget cuts, he would cut his own salary
SF News Thank you! So many people to thank! If we forget you, rest assured that a warm, fuzzy thanks is in our hearts. First, we'd like to thank our contributors, without whom this site would be
SF News "Rent" Not Paying Rent? From what we understand of the deal, the San Francisco Film Commission is paying $12,000 rent each month to the Treasure Island Development Authortiy, but is subtracting the cost of the work
SF News Sold on Solar Fossil fuels are sooo twentieth century. Crude oil is way over fifty bucks a barrel, a gallon of gas is nearly three dollars, there's a war raging in a country with the second
SF News Kimberly Takes Manhattan How do you know our esteemed First Couple has it made it? First there was big story in the New Yorker and now this- they made the New York Post gossip column! We
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Brings It But that's really not where the action is. Not even close. Sean Penn, in fact, just might have set off one humdinger of a Celebrity Spat as it also involves Matt Stone &
SF News Oakland Panda-ring to China Chang has just returned from a trip to Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he traveled with representatives from architecture firm Y.H. Lee Associates - who were there to examine the local panda research
SF News Just Tell Your Friends Back Home You're Experiencing "The Real San Francisco" The noisy unrest outside many of San Francisco's hotels continued over the weekend as ten other hotel members of the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group (which we'd link to if they had a web
SF News Monster Park Update @ 11:35: We managed to get our grubby little hands on the press release about an hour before the conference - and it was sent out only an hour before we put
SF News Me Love You Long NY Times The article has that arch tone of "oh those wacky Californians," but SFist would like to point out that those hotbeds of New Age, Granola-crunching, Yoga-posing Hippiedom, Nevada and Germany, have decriminalized prostitution
SF News Funny Money Fallout Kevin Shelley still has his job do you have yours? Its time for a SunsetGate update! In the week since SFists hard-hitting book report about the strange fundraising transactions between Shelley
SF News Conventional Wisdom As Boston takes stock after the shock of the recent Democratic National Convention and New York braces for impact in preparation for the soon-to-hit RNC, SFist recalls that twenty years ago it was
SF News The Supremes: Everybody Does Not Have the Right to Love The California Supreme court just issued their decision in the case regarding Gavin Newsom's move to let the city issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples. And it's not good for our newlyweds -
SF News Oil Money "The New Kennedys?" I hope this means Da Mayor won't be gunned down or implicated in a rape or murder. Or marry Arnold Schwarzenegger (although, if Gavin had his way, they could). Still,
SF News Classy While Dems accross the country swoon for the handsome Barack Obama and John Edwards, San Franciscans had a lot to be proud of - being the bluest town in the bluest state in