SF News Cinema 21 Saved? Our friends over at SocketSite alerted us to a Sunday Examiner story regarding the fate of yet another of our besieged local movie theaters. The former Marina Theater (most recently known as Cinema
SF News Last Week in SFist Last week, on As The 'Fist Turns..." Rescued animals arrive in SF, and you can help. Beloved Menlo Park bookstore may be saved from disaster by outside investors. Watch what you're saying, because
SF News I'm Not Bronstein If we haven't given you enough ideas on what to do this weekend, how about hanging out at the Chronicle looking for famous people? From an email sent to Chronicle staff earlier this
SF News Regatta de Blanc Did you know that the Rolex Big Boat Series is going on right now in our very own Bay? For 41 years, now, the St. Francis Yacht Club has been holding this regatta,
SF News The EFF Takes Another Bite Out Of Apple We'd be remiss in our loyalty to vacationing SFist Jackson if we didn't celebrate the EFF's recent victory in the Apple v. Does case. As you might recall, the issue at stake is
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SF News Google's Next Stop: The World Word on the street (Fine, we actually just got an email from a friend. We can't lie -- our relationship with the street is a strained one, at best) is that Blogger parent
SF News American Football Spectacular: Hard Times Ahead or, Tackles Can Be Considered A Type Of Hug You sitting down? OK. Listen, we've gotta talk. Such is your Oakland Raiders' schedule in the forthcoming three weeks before their bye week, that when October 9 comes, OAK could be 0 -
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Posts So what happened with all those stories we've been telling you about all week? Fret no more! Here's your answers! *Madison Nguyen beat Linda Nguyen, 62% to 37%, for the District 7 San
SF News Protestor Watch Where's Frank Chu these days? Maybe at one of these protests: Over 800 hospital workers walked off the job at Cal Pacific this morning, to protest their lack of input on appropriate patient
SF News American Football Spectacular: Game On It was time. Your Oakland Raiders meant to contend with the two-time defending NFL Champion New England Patriots in the marquee 2005 NFL Kickoff game. No, let us begin again, the Raiders did
SF News A's Brand Baseball Keeps The Faith We know, we know: It's Barry Bonds Week in Bay Area baseball. That's very exciting, but there's also a pennant race going on just across the bay from 24 Willie Mays Plaza. After
SF News Men in Tights For the last seven years, bike racing has relied on Lance Armstrong's star power to draw new fans to the sport. And gauging by the size of the crowd yesterday at the Barclay's
SF News American Football Spectacular: Your Bay Area NFL Preview Welcome to American Football Spectacular, your guide to American football in the Bay Area, and all points beyond. From here on out, we will be covering anything for you involving oblong balls that
SF News Sean Penn: Hero For the Day Instead, the dude saw what was going on with the flood, flew out with a bunch of people (including a photographer), got himself on a boat and rescued a bunch of people. Gave
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Down The Stretch They Go In May, while the A's struggled along 8 1/2 games behind Los Los Angeles Angeles de Anaheim Anaheim in the American League West, A's Brand Baseball promised not to mention the division
SF News Muni Fare Strike: Day One We asked after Chris, an organizer with whom we'd traded emails. He was busy coordinating activity around the city on his cell phone. We watched as two people in fluorescent green "Muni Security"
SF News New Orleans Saints to Play The Raiders Tonight With all the tragic events going on in the South, it's way too tempting to look for an angle and try to find a way to make it about ourselves. But we do
SF News AB 849 Passes Senate! Well, we're one step closer to being ahead of the curve on yet another issue here in California thanks to the efforts of State Senator Mark Leno, D - San Francisco. The farm
SF News Kepler's Bookstore Closes This is really just awful. Kepler's, the Menlo Park independent bookstore and jewel of the South Bay, suddenly announced that it was closing today -- for good. Kepler's has apparently been having problems
SF News We've Got a Feeling We're in Kansas Religious organizations filed suit in a Los Angeles federal court last week claiming that the UC system discriminates against religion for not allowing classes taught in Christian schools to count in regards to
SF News Save Crescent City! Though New Orleans was spared the worst of Katrina, it doesn't mean that's it's all coming up roses for the Big Easy. A levee has broken, folks who evacuated may not be able
SF News Second Day of School So class, how was your first day of school? Kindergarten class went fine, and the SF school district's wildcat strike wasn't as effective as it might have been -- but as we all
SF News What Goes Up, Sometimes Doesn't Come Down Of course, you could always not pay. To protest the fare increases, local activists have been calling for a fare strike. For the past several months, they've been handing out flyers, posting posters,
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