SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Romney's No Hero A vegetation fire prompted evacuations in Belmont yesterday, Trump is still saying the coronavirus "affects virtually nobody," and Facebook is ready to lock down communication amid post-election violence and unrest.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Mitt Romney Gets Tacky At Tonga Room For McCain Wedding Republican politicians generally avoid San Francisco like the den of liberal iniquity it is, but the city played host to an unusual collection of Republican luminaries this weekend. The occasion? The nuptials of
SF News GOP Should Get Hip To Geeks, Says Nate Silver Statistical it-boy Nate Silver has done what he does best and turned his always on-point analysis on the Bay Area's tech industry. Over on his FiveThirtyEight blog today, Silver debriefs the Republican party
SF News Mr. Nuts, A Tuxedo Cat In Fremont, Makes Important Presidential Pick As statistician Nate Silver continues to stoke the fury of the right, a hairier and cuddlier election-night soothsayer has emerged: Mr. Nuts. According to a breaking NBC Bay Area report, Mr. Nuts, a
Arts & Entertainment Nail-Biting 2012 Election Night Parties Election night will have us all on the edge of our martini glasses—and this election is razor-thin close in some cases, so please vote for God's sake—so cool off and watch
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rupaul Calls Romney 'Unspookable' Logo and NewNowNext are airing an election special tonight (10:30 p.m., after Rupaul's Drag Race All-Stars: Untucked), hosted by out lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes, and featuring Ru him/herself. Listen as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Presidential Sourdough Rounds At Feel Good Bakery Alameda boulangerie Feel Good Bakery are featuring Presidential Sour Rounds boasting images of presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Each costs $20. If politics isn't the kind of thing you want emblazoned
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: What If Jim Lehrer Were a Badass Moderator? Not so many people watch debates anymore, and we're more likely, as voters, to be influenced by the internet, etc. So maybe some will be fooled into thinking this is how last week's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Young Woman Elaborates on Why She's Voting for Mitt Romney Meet Trisha Paytas. She describes herself as "a mix between Woody Allen and your local hooker," by which we think she means she fancies herself an intellectual, or maybe just a nebbishy hypochondriac,
SF News Obama's S.F. Standup Routine Included Imposter Romney, O.J. Simpson Jokes Last night at a campaign event at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, President Obama was met with a mixed, but ultimately positive reception. After opening act Michael Franti warmed up the crowd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: Big Bird, in Breakfast Cereal Last week's debate meme with Big Bird has already become this week's high art as San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier produces this fine mosaic portrait of the puppet using all sugary cereal. Mecier,
SF News Bay Area Reacts To Last Night's Debate [Update] As of this morning, this much we know: Romney won the debate by possibly fibbing, Obama sounded lazy and nervous, and had trouble maintaining any sort of eye contact (critical for the camera!
Arts & Entertainment Where To Watch Tonight's Presidential Debate Tonight President Barack "Landslide" Obama and Mitt "Mondale" Romney will face off in a battle of wits, tie colors, and foundation makeup to vie for the decidedly dim undecided voters' attention. And you
SF News Mitt Romney Once Stayed Up For Four Days To Protect The Stanford Axe Over at Mother Jones, the San Francisco-based magazine has a whip-smart listicle telling the complete history of Mitt Romney in 30 defining moments. Like the time in 1965 when young Mitt Romney took
SF News Romney Campaign Misspells Something Else Seriously? Again? Check out this new Facebook ad for the Mitt Romney campaign, encouraging supporters to text in a number to get a "sneak peak" of their new TV ad. We suppose that's
SF News Romney Holds Fundraiser at Peninsula Chateau, Site of Famed '80s Abduction and Murder Republican candidate and loyal Amercian Mitt Romney is having held a fundraiser last night at this insane historic chateau on the San Francisco Peninsula, and you better believe it's owned by Republicans! Also,
SF News Mitt Romney Campaign Misspells 'America' On New iPhone App Noted bully and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his campaign misspelled the oft-used word "America" on their new With Mitt iPhone app. The new app, which "allows users to take photographs and
SF News Santorum Is All Over The Romney Campaign After an hour-long, one-on-one meeting with the likely GOP presidential nominee Friday, Rick Santorum finally announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney. In his letter to supporters yesterday, Santorum explained he felt a "deep
SF News S.F. Wants To Remind Everyone There's An Election On June 5 Despite being the most populous state and one of the most diverse California's opinion doesn't matter a lick when it comes to picking this year's Republican Presidential candidate. But nonetheless there's a primary
SF News Romney's Gay Foreign Policy Advisor Ousted, Apparently Too Gay For Conservative Supporters Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney's openly gay foreign policy spokesman, resigned from his post today after taking fire from anti-gay conservatives. Grenell was hired to help focus the Romney camp's messaging on foreign affairs
SF News Mitt Romney Was A Major Financial Donor To California's Gay-Marriage Ban The Human Rights Campaign released financial documents today from the National Organization for Marriage (AKA NOM, the organization partially responsible for Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban) that show a staggering $10,000
SF News Secret Service Spares Mitt Romney From Repeat Glitter Bombing [Video] With every single potential GOP presidential candidate now targeted by glitter-bombing activists, the Secret Service has apparently had to step in to prevent further acts of craft store terrorism. Last night at a
SF News Mitt Romney Glitter Bombed By Gay Rights Activist An unidentified gay rights activist glitter bombed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today during a campaign rally in Eagan, Minnesota. As Mitt took the stage at a warehouse bash, the activist tossed a
SF News Portola Valley: As Close to S.F. as Mitt Romney Would Like to Be Noted teetotaler and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was in the Bay Area for what one of his volunteers called "a low key" fundraiser yesterday. But the strong-jawed former missionary didn't make it
misc Week Around the -ists The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on
