SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Speedy Trial Speedy trial? Say it fast: OhNoEdJew! At yesterday's hearing, residentially-challenged Supervisor Ed Jew's legal team went against conventional criminal defendant wisdom, and requested an early trial. The trial could go as early as
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Cubs 3 Giants 2- The Enchanter enchanted but whatever fireballs he threw weren't enough to win the game as once again, the Giants offense failed to show up and the bullpen burped up
Arts & Entertainment Media Critic Singles Out Chron For Most Likely To Go All-Electronic When we talked to Phil Bronstein, the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, a few weeks back, he told us that "the Chronicle will continue to be packed with talented journalists who will
SF News Airline Passengers' Rights Group Taking Off It's the middle of July, and many of us have summer travel ahead of us. It's a good time to check out the state of the airline industry. The Napa Valley-based Coalition for
SF News blah blah blah MUNI blah blah PESKIN blah MCGOLDRICK Here's a condensed version of what the amendment would do: give Muni more money (it's currently underfunded by millions and simply can't afford to meet its service requirements), make it easier to fire
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Victory Tomorrow's report (up live now, which is why this post is going up when it is) is that Gavin Newsom said that he's considering options for getting Ed Jew out of office. We
SF News And We're Off (Sheehan Runs Against Pelosi) Let the vanity runs for offices begin: Tenacious Texas trespasser and brilliant anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan just promised to maybe, possibly, perhaps make a run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if our current
SF News Marijuana Philanthropist Claims Trust Violated We don't actually know if anything on this poster, taped to a utility box at Fulton and Stanyan, is true, and we certainly don't want to entangle ourselves into the story by calling
SF News It's All Star Weekend The festivities surrounding the All Star Game, however, are a whole other matter. We're excited for the parties for which we are not invited, the FanFest and the Home Run Derby. Sadly, baseball's
Arts & Entertainment All Kwik-E-Mart Managers Must Be Skilled in the Deadly Arts Here's your chance -- we never thought it could happen, but the magic of the Kwik-E-Mart has landed, temporarily, in the real world. It's a place where you can buy KrustyO's, pink donuts,
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Anyways, back to the show. This week I’ve decided to go a little bit off the grid and throw some stuff out there that nobody asked for. Here’s my Things That
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV On "Pirate Master" Nessa continued her flirting with fellow pirates who were open to it. Sean and Jupiter were not, and deemed her conniving, vowing to have her cast adrift at the next.
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Donations It's been awhile since we had some Ed Jew news! Lying low, huh? So we stopped by edjew.net today to check out the reports about the District 4 supervisor's legal defense fund.
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 13 Dbacks 0- Yes, the Kid (the Franchise? The Enchanter?) pitched a shutout as the Giants offense exploded (somewhere, Matt Cain cried himself to sleep) but the big news is that Barry
SF News SFist Blotter Remember that couple we told you about that was stealing stuff from open houses? They got busted by the OnStar in their rental Hummer. Police won't reveal where they were, except to say
Arts & Entertainment Pirate Cat Radio Benefit Corporate radio still sucks! Strike a blow for independent community airwaves and stop by Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM's benefit concert this Friday at the Elbo Room. The beloved low-power radio station/
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After 1) A constant display of the Giants never-so-die attitude 2) A constant display of an inability to hold leads and drive in runs This game featured both. Barry Zito pitched a good game,
SF News SFist Blotter Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Craig Billmeier US Air Guitar Tour (tour bus and all) June 27 • San Jose CA • The Blank Club (21+) or June 28 • San Francisco CA • The Independent (21+) When did you first begin to air
SF News BART Peers Into a Crystal Ball -New transbay tube -More stations in SF and extensions in the East Bay and in the Peninsula -More trains with more doors and no drivers. Also with flat screen TVs showing news and
misc Get Your Piece Of The Sun Whoa! Check out the SF Solar Map! Using Googlemap tech, SF Environment and CH2MHill have teamed up to show you where the solar installations are throughout the city. And if you plug in
SF News June Muni Payout Part 2: $157,736.31 Some of the cases are pretty standard -- personal injury, property damage, etc etc etc. (We winced upon reading of one plaintiff who was whacked in the face when they grabbed for a
misc Week Around The -Ists Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. Due to some sad shootings in
SF News Day Around The Bay --Michael Moore loves Gavin Newsom. --SFMike reports back on yesterday's Newsom rally. So does Beyond Chron and the Examiner. --Grizzly bears get a new home at the zoo. --Meet the new SF school
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up? Oh, let's say the SF Weekly. Everyone loves Eliza Strickland! Matt Smith is enjoying blogging, we think. Ticketing bikes who run stop signs. Cover article: Summer movies (including Frameline and Sicko)