SF News Why, the Academy of Art Has Lots of Black Friends! During the execution of the Academy of Art University's real-estate master plan for San Francisco, they came across a bit of controversy after purchasing the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. It seems that they hate
SF News Where Have All the Good Budget Times Gone? It's kinda like on the "the Wire" when the outgoing Mayor decided to get revenge on the guy who beat him in the Mayoral Race by not telling anyone that the educational system
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle of life.
SF News More SF Cabs: Nothing Could Be Finer Than Doing a 69er Earlier, the cab commission did a study and discovered that -- get this -- it's really hard to find a cab in the city. Really. Who knew? In fact, the study showed that
SF News Smash-and-Grabs Slowed Perhaps in an effort to appease the masses for screwing them over on insane parking ticket allocations, the San Francisco Police Department, the Mayor's Office, and city prosecutors are working together to stop
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Memorial Concert & Candlelight March Even though we're too vile to appear on screen in a film about his life, legacy, and popper sniffing -- no, we will not let it go, but thank you for asking --
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Built in 1911, the Tower Theater is up for sale. Again. [Curbed SF] -- Fatal Bayview fire still under investigation. [SF Examiner] -- Jew's attorney asks, "More time, please?" Look, the only
SF News The Gays Take It In the End This afternoon, Cloutier gave his first (though unofficial) victory speech as well as his first public mea culpa. He called his Palm Spring bout of being blotto a "foolish mistake." (Also, he's kind
SF News Vallejo Mayor Candidate -- Hic! -- Arrested for Public Intoxication Vallejo's too-close-to-call mayoral race -- endlessly touted as the gay man vs. black man showdown of the century -- has gotten a little more interesting. And a little drunk. Actually, a lot drunk.
misc Week Around the -Ists SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Mint Plaza Now Open for Business Is our new plaza an oasis? Some people think so. Check out the action (179 photos! Blonde real estate cookies!), after the jump.
SF News Newsom Has the Unmitigated Gall to Defend Hawaiian Vacation! Mayor Gavin Newsom had the gall -- the gall! -- to defend his Hawaiian sojourn , saying "I was gone Friday and Saturday...and one of the most remarkable things that’s happened in
SF News Horrors: Newsom's Hawaiian Weekend Getaway “I was shocked,” said Board of Supervisors Prez Aaron Peskin after being asked about Gavin Newsom's whereabouts this past weekend. Same here. Word is that Gavin was in Hawaii this past weekend, kicking
SF News Your Oil Spill Weekend Roundup So...ugh. Birds died, gastronomic seasons were delayed. What's more, it hasn't even been a week, and already some of your favorite local and national politicos are personalizing the spill, more than ready
misc Week Around the -Ists Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of
SF News Prop D: Take a Look, It's In A Book! We're leery of blank-check bonds and the proposition's license to borrow in a kind of indefinite manner, but how many other things on the ballot have the support of the Mayor and the
SF News Chicken John Debates Gavin Newsom In a final tip of the hat that sums up this year's (disappointing) election, Gavin Watch has celebrity candidate Chicken John's surprise Saturday night debate with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Not the
SF News Bernal Heights Burrowing Owl In Danger? We got word today from an anonymous source that two residents of Bernal Heights -- including a former President of Golden Gate Audubon Society -- spotted a burrowing owl a block from their
SF News Now, Where Did We Put Our Blacklight? When he's not busy keeping it real or putting in a couple of loads at the laundromat -- he looks like a Biz kind of guy, doesn't he? -- Gavin Newsom is out
SF News Buy the Numbers "Statistical tools and methods, like many other technologies, can be employed either for social good or for evil" (the American Statistical Association’s Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice). Unfortunately for us, we’ll
SF News Gavin Newsom's <del>Power Point Demonstration</del> SotC Address Did you see or hear about Gavin Newson's State of the City address? We did. For a few minutes. It seems the Gavin went on for over 100 minutes, as SFist Jim already
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Gavin Newsom's State of the City, Unfiltered What do you think was the most interesting part? Our mayor breaking the fourth wall by walking into the crowd? The litany of "audacious ideas"? The chart showing "Black on Black Gang Homicides"
misc Week Around the -Ists Londonist, celebrating their third birthday, watched as their city turned a little more American. The Miami Dolphins and New York Giants were in town, with some very big cheerleaders. US-style litigation hit the
SF News Friday Fun: Gavin's Wikipedia Page! Hey, remember the Wikipedia scanner that tells you who's edited what page on the ol' Wikepedia? Well, we decided to have a little fun with it and see who's been playing with the
