misc Protestors at UC Santa Cruz Kiss-In Hate Our Freedom In response, TC. Dixon Osburn, executive director of Service members Legal Defense Network (SLDN) said: "to suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is
SF News Boxer Drops the "I" Word Boxer says she got the idea after speaking with John Dean at a public discussion. Dean, of course, knows a whole lot about illegally eavesdropping on people and lying to cover it up.
SF News Care Not Cash Results Well, we suppose he has every right to crow about it -- Gavin Newsom announced to a cheering crowd of social service providers and homeless people that the number of homeless people on
Arts & Entertainment Big Changes at Tribe.net The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability.
SF News Farewell Joseph Owades Okay, one could argue that he didn't invent the computer or some new fangled gadget that changed the world. And he didn't come up with the cure for AIDS or polio or acid
SF News SFist Checks Out The 510: The Grinch Edition We've heard of evergreen news stories, but this an evergreen story about decorated evergreens: assorted East Bay neighborhoods inevitably have one or two streets where the decorating is absolutely over-the-top. We are dying
SF News Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It! According to the terrifyingly brief article, a mystery substance is spreading over the water between Angel Island and Aquatic Park, and is presently a mile and a half long and 100 yards wide.
SF News Breaking: Federales Raid Another Pot Club In addition to marijuana plants, agents confiscated growing equipment, bulbs, utility bills, tax documents, financial records and photographs from the Smiths' home, the couple said. Steve Smith said he suspected the agents had
misc Duck Update Remember the guy who ran over the ducks at a Campbell car wash earlier this year? Well, the cops still haven't made any arrests yet, but "by no means is the case closed,
SF News Changes at the Examiner The Philip Anschutz owned San Francisco Examiner announced yesterday that current Executive Editor Vivienne Sosnowski is replacing John Wilpers as editor-in-chief at the Washington Examiner. Malcolm Kirk, present editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald,
SF News Gothamist Rocks The Strike We'd like to interrupt our Bay Area coverage to direct y'all over to Gothamist, which is providing awesome coverage of the New York transit strike. Our brother, who lives in Spanish Harlem and
SF News There Is No Generic Tamiflu! Any other "Law and Order" fans reminded of the show's episode entitled Fluency upon reading about the fake Tamiflu seized at a South San Francisco post office? Tamiflu is one of the two
Arts & Entertainment Kimberly Guilfoyle Fox? Well, Eminem is back with his on-again off-again Kim, but SF's sporadic First Lady's now not only on the outs with Gavin but now also with her employer, Court TV. Matier and Ross
SF News Political Junkie: Four More Years! An anonymous tipster told us to tape this weekend's Comcast City Desk Newshour and to check out the second-half interview with Chris Daly. "You might find it interesting," we were told. We've never
SF News Another Muni Accident As with December 5th's fatal accident, the victim was crossing the street as the bus was turning, but was apparently unseen by the driver. The victim, a middle aged white man, was taken
SF News Wetter Than a [Fill In Tasteless Reference to Aroused Female Genitalia] SFist Rita (always looking out for the staff) was worried about flooding in North Beach earlier this week, and now we can report the corners of Powell and Columbus on Union are now
SF News Token Booklet Expiration Extended We're big Muni token fans, as our Muni use is pretty much limited to daily weekday morning rides on the N Judah. When Muni announced that a token shortage necessitated creation of Muni
Arts & Entertainment TypePad Down, Joins Growing Club But today, we got an IM from Om Malik letting us know that TypePad, SixApart's hosted blog service, has had 'an incident.' But we woke up late this morning, and figured it
SF News Rent-a-Tree Well, in San Francisco, it's definitely getting so it makes more sense to rent than it does to own -- so we're not entirely surprised to hear of a program where the Friends
SF News ChronicleWatch, Where Are You? Residents have been complaining for about a year, with scant help from city officials. SFPUC,which oversees the lights, blames the problems on "aging infrastructure and a complicated transmission system that must be
SF News Shake It A 3.4 magnitude earthquake hit the Hercules area of the East Bay around 10 a.m. this morning. But we didn't feel anything here in San Francisco, how about you? This report
SF News Merry Christmas! Here's Your Pink Slip We've had a soft spot for Macromedia since our days hanging out in Multimedia Gulch (you know, back when it was Multimedia Gulch and not just "that neighborhood around the stadium"). We know
SF News Houstonist to SFist -- Drop Dead (Soccer) Hey, do you remember way back to two weeks ago when the latest member of the -ist family came on board and SFist Eve said we couldn't think of a reason to hate
SF News All We Hear... Is Video Gaga ....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in
