SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It's a battle
SF News Kos the New Armstrong Williams? Not at all. Armstrong Williams was paid through taxpayer dollars to sell the Administration's terrible No Child Left Behind Act, possibly infringing upon all sorts of anti-propaganda laws and definitely kicking the mangled
SF News Drugs Are Bad, Mmmmkay Seems Dan Siegel, member of the lame-duck Oakland School Board and likely candidate for Jerry Brown's job, had "less than an ounce" of marijuana discovered in his checked luggage on his way out
SF News Yahoo In Fight with Dead Soldier's Family Way back in May, Slashdotter dacar asked "What Happens To Your Data When You Die?" Your computer, your web accounts, your password-locked digital devices would all be rendered useless to your surviving friends
SF News Political Junkie: The Gossip Passing along news about public figures in an attempt to distract ourselves from the pain of everyday existence: your Political Junkie gossip roundup for the day! Our soon-to-be-former first lady Kimberly made it
Arts & Entertainment Meet the Publisher Last week marked the first week on the job of the Chronicle's new publisher, Frank Vega. Now you may be wondering to yourself (or not) who is Frank Vega? A good question, actually,
SF News Gwen Araujo Murder Trial Update Last we'd heard, in June of last year, the jury ended in a deadlock on all three defendants, resulting in a mistrial. Though a number of subsequent developments were reported in the Chron
SF News Macworld Rumors Abound on Internets Yes, you're seeing what you think you're seeing -- the trademark white earbuds of the iPod sprouting from the head of our President. All the better to block out the sound of Iyad
Arts & Entertainment Hope On a chilly but still night on Ocean Beach, SFist and HiMY SYeD joined interested passerby in sending a message of hope to the victims of the Tsunami, assembling HiMY's message in luminaria
SF News SFist Gift Guide: East Bay Cool Andrew Krucoff, who used to be Mr. Intervista at Gothamist, apparently has a fetish for Berkeley punk. Hence he's gone and provided the innerweb with free downloads of this sweet compilation tape [Thanks,
Arts & Entertainment Get Drawn By An Ape Looking for a unique gift for your favorite music lover? Send a photo of them to local label Birdman Records to "Get Drawn By An Ape". If you're lucky enough to get chosen,
Arts & Entertainment Ride into the Danger Zone- This Week in DVDs Now, this is what we're talking about. This is the week in which truly something kick-ass is released, the DVD we've been dying to have for our collection since we plunked down the
Arts & Entertainment Oh, hello Mr. Soul While book signings themselves are not that big of an event in and of themselves, they can be depending on who is doing all the signing. Like ex-Presidents. Or skanky “celebrities.” And especially
Arts & Entertainment SFist Listens What are the folks at SFist listening to in anticipation of the BIG party? SFist Krissy has got the following on rotation: Jolie Holland - "escondida" (a.k.a. the recent Guardian covergirl)
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: One Scoop Or Two? Okay, we have to confess that we haven't really been paying much attention to the plans about developing the Hunters' Point shipyard (though we did note through our usual sporting interest in housing
SF News Clear Blue Water Act You know how there's some comic strips you love (Boondocks, For Better Or For Worse), some comics you hate (we've never liked Rex Morgan, M.D.), and some comics you hate but accidentally
Arts & Entertainment OMG We're so sorry this is, like, really late. We were really trying to represent while SFist Jon was abroad, but even digital things slip through cracks. Damn you spammers, creators of our need
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Thanksgiving TV This Week Television has become as a much of a Thanksgiving staple as turkey, cranberries, and drunken uncles. Let's face it: when you've just eaten a week's worth of calories, and you've got a house
Arts & Entertainment Elephant Four Local filmmaker Ryan Junell went to New York for the Republican National Convention back in August and filmed what he saw. is the result. See the Elephant is a documentary that runs on
Arts & Entertainment Season of Hate We're just blamelessly living our idyllic lives out here: blue skies, a Democratic mayor, a modern art museum that doesn't cost $20 to get into, a panda bear coming to Oakland..... when suddenly,
SF News Jury to Scott: Murderer! The verdict is in, and it doesn't look good for Scott Peterson. He probably should have left for Mexico while he still had a chance (granted, the cops had been tracking his car
Arts & Entertainment In the Eye of the Beholder Criticism is a funny thing. One person loves a piece of art and another hates it. Happens all the time. But today there's a particularly delicious example of this phenomenon to relish. Robert
Arts & Entertainment A Classy Move at the Chron Did you notice that article on the front page of the Food section of today's ? There's a big picture, showing a snazzy santoku hollow-edge knife on a green cutting board, illustrating an article
Arts & Entertainment Comic Relief Getting the Boot Annoyingly, Christmas seems to come earlier every year -- an egregious example of this being that new flick with Ben Affleck and Tony Soprano. However, we'd like to spread the word about an
Arts & Entertainment Sigh It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our
