SF News Francis Scott Key Monument In Golden Gate Park Bears 'Star-Spangled Banner' Slave Lyric San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick's choice to sit or kneel during the national anthem in a protest of racial injustice has led some to reexamine the very origins of "The Star-Spangled Banner," our
Arts & Entertainment Aretha Franklin, Zooey Deschanel Among Those to Sing National Anthem at World Series Last night, American Idol winner Phillip Phillips sang the nation anthem during Game 1 of the World Series. Other noted singers (songstresses, if you will) will belt out the the "The Star-Spangled Banner"
SF News It's Got to be the Protest After The decision, however, did not come without much in the way of mayhem. Four protesters were arrested, one of them for allegedly bitch-slapping a pig cop, another for busting out a knife (which
misc SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads We found it difficult to tear ourselves away from the "Puppy Bowl" and turn the channel to the Superbowl, but since we were going to skip through all that boring game stuff and
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
Arts & Entertainment Impeach At The Game Former SFist contributor Ted R. passed along this picture he took of an IMPEACH sign spotted at Saturday's Giants game during the national anthem. (We've helpfully circled the IMPEACH for you.) Is this
SF News What's With These Homies Dissing My Girl? So Gavin is proposing setting up community courts to help do something about those "quality of life" things. The problem being is that nothing is really done about people pissing in the streets
SF News Cycling: Hometown Boy Makes Good, Again For most of the day it looked like a total Cinderella story for unknown Jason Donald, but when the very last rider of the 2007 Tour of California (TOC) prologue crossed the finish
SF News It's Back.... Hey, you might be wondering, whatever happened to those nice young boys from Yale who got pummeled by a few townies for singing the National Anthem all acapella style? Well, the answer would
SF News And Now...More Gleegate You can read the whole thing (it's pretty good), but there are several points to be had in the piece. -There was booze at the party but people brought it with them-- it
SF News Sean Hannity Is On The Case We actually watched this whole thing go down as we caught it while flipping through the channels. The whole thing was surreal. There was Hannity, one of the kids beaten up, his mother,
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
SF News Your SFist 2006 Sports Year In Review In fact, we tried to think about when we had a worse year and came up with maybe 1995 or 1996 when both baseball teams kind of sucked and the Raiders still in
SF News California Catches Impeachment Fever Anyways, the bill has made it through the California Assembly Rules Committee which voted to approve the bill so they can consider it later. Huh? Actually, the vote was to amend a previous
SF News Tanking in the Shark Tank We sort of knew this was going to happen, but here it is: after officially jumping on the Sharks bandwagon last week, they have now lost three in a row to the Edmonton
misc SFist Rants: We Want Our 7th Inning Back And yes, we do hate America, why do you ask? The main reason we don't like it? Hello, overkill. Seriously, we already play the National Anthem. Do we really need to hear two
SF News BAAAAAART!!! SFist has its hand over its heart as the BART flag is raised and its national anthem ("Dublin/Pleasanton train arriving, platform 2") is played BART was named the best public transportation system
