misc Ta-da: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk Recreating Harvey Milk's campaign poster for SF Supervisor, Penn is downright adorable. And surprisingly endearing. Aside from the obvious anal sex joke lingering above, your thoughts? Image credit: Tinobear
Arts & Entertainment More, More, More: <i>Milk</i>'s Castro in the '70s Seeing as how castroshopper's Ray F. has some choice shots of the Castro's conversion to 1978, we thought we'd thrill you with a few more recent images of the world's most flowery neighborhood.
SF News Ta-da: Your New <i>SF Chronicle</i> Editor, Ward E. Bushee! Former editor of The Arizona Republic, vice president of The Cincinnati Enquirer, and top editor for the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Bay Area's Ward E. Bushee was just named
SF News Phil Bronstein Named Editor-at-Large of Hearst Newspapers Division, SF Chronicle; New Editor TBA It was announced today that SF Chronicle's editor, Phil Bronstein, will be "shifting his role from running day-to-day operations in the newsroom to taking on broader strategic responsibilities at the paper and for
SF News Penn to Hit Castro Bars as <i>Milk</i> Shooting Starts Undergoing a procedure to erase 30 years from its face, the Castro neighborhood is going retro, circa 1978, for the filming of Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, which starts shooting this
SF News Bernie Ward Officially Fired Former Catholic priest and KGO 810 AM host Bernie Ward was finally fired, ending his working relationship with the station. This stems from last year's federal indictment of child pornography charges that befell
SF News Dennis Richmond and His Moustache Sail Off Into the Sunset To say Richmond has been a mainstay would be an understatement. We've lived here for years and we can't really remember a time when Richmond wasn't on TV. We also can't remember a
misc KTVU Doesn't Know Who Steve Jobs Is, Says TV Screen In addition to unveiling the MacBook Air, le Jobs also premiered a new look. Or not. Seamus over at Rangelife picked up on this minor broadcasting muddle over at KTVU. Dennis Richmond will
misc KRON 4 for Sale? Compelling television's loss is the bargain bin's gain. KRON 4 is up for sale. Again. Amid a "high level of interest," it seems, Young Broadcasting plans on possibly peddling the network to the
misc SFist Tonight Hoodies-N-Heels: Tonight's hip hop for the ivory white comes to you care of DJ VinSol. But he does more than just pump out hip hop staples. His electro, thrash, and slick soul sounds
misc Dennis Kucinich's Brother Found Dead Perry Kucinich, the brother of Democratic Prez candidate Dennis Kucinich, has been found dead according CBS 5. His other brother, Larry, found 52-year-old Perry at his Cleveland home at around 9 a.m.
SF News 7th and Mission Building Still Ablaze Although no longer in danger of collapsing, the Irish fraternal organization on San Francisco's Mission Street is still on fire, ten hours after it started. Yikes. Rita reported on this earlier today, but
SF News Gavin For Hillary, In Iowa Let's hope no oil tankers crash into the Bay Bridge this week -- Gavin's out of town again, this time bundled up for snow as he campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Iowa. Not
misc As Always: Cal Rules, Gets Nude [NSFW] Not to be outdone by their wicked step-sister, UCLA, who all too tastefully/boringly galloped about in their panties on the streets of LA, UC Berkeley also had its traditional end-of-semester streak last
Arts & Entertainment Aaron Axelsen's Top 10 Albums of 2007 Aaron Axelsen has been a major force in promoting local independent music with San Francisco's indie-dance party, Popscene and his Sunday night radio show on Live 105. (You can listen from 7-10pm. Check
Arts & Entertainment Unfettered Journalism, Homonyms, Print Mixing Yesterday, David Hazinski attempted to harness the awesome power of the world wide web with this colonel of wisdom about the currant state of journalism. In his op-ed peace for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra)
Arts & Entertainment Painting, Exercising, and Blending Drinks With a <del>Stripper</del> Burlesque Dancer And then things like this make us fall in like-like with Los Angeles all over again. This brings up a good point, what happened to intriguing public access shows in San Francisco? Although
SF News Barry Bonds: Not Guilty Stepping out of his black Chevy Tahoe SUV, smashingly dressed, and fully aware that the media would bombard him beforehand, former glory Barry Bonds acted like a punk today after arriving at the
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: the Color Guard Coach This is not pirates and cowboys, OK? It's music set to guns, flags, sabers, and color. Or something fantastically bombastic like that. Do check it out. If you're reading this via an RSS
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Testing Toys for Lead at Union Square Would the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission approve of today's event? Has this federal watchdog been co-opted by industry? Is the Center for Environmental Health a "bounty hunter" practicing "legal blackmail"? What
Arts & Entertainment Eat it, Portland! San Francisco Most "Walkable" City Everybody get and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas here in .pdf. But why are we talking about Portland? And what about
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Heidi walked on to the runway wearing Uhura's "Star Trek" uniform--seriously--and told the designers they weren't going to need their models for this week's challenge. Ru-roh! She then sent them all to 10
SF News Hostage Situation at Clinton Headquarters Update: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign office in Rochester and John Edwards' offices have also been evacuated. Our sister site, Bostonist is live-blogging the situation right now. Apparently, a man wants to "speak to
