SF News How the Mighty Have Fallen Spending a day watching crappy television, we caught their new 'Faithful' ad, which was apparently being developed . Basically, the ad is an older character actor (we can't place him for an IMDB link,
SF News How About "Queer Bitches on Bikes"? We'll admit to a bias (yes, only one, ha ha) and say that Dykes on Bikes is always our favorite part of the San Francisco Gay Pride parade. We can't help it, but
SF News A's Brand Baseball Midseason Report: Bye Bye Byrnesie The All-Star break, which ends when games start today, is a time for the players to give back to the fans (or some such nonsense). It's also a time for baseball writers to
SF News SFist Raves: Goodbye and Thanks Rand McNally Store Recently, we read in P.J. Corkery's always entertaining column that a few San Francisco stores are closing. They include the Disney Store (good riddance), Torrefazione Italia (yay! More Starbucks!) and the Rand
SF News AB 849 Clears Early Hurdle Funny, we didn't see this in the Examiner, Chron or Sacramento Bee. Yesterday, the state's Senate Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Bill 849, the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act," by a vote
SF News Hey, Navy: Leave Our Kids Alone The resolution, natch is non-binding and merely puts the city on record as opposing military recruitment. Schools merely have a choice on whether or not to follow it but as federal funds are
SF News <b>BREAKING: SANDOVAL FOR CITY ASSESSOR</b> Sandoval is alerting people to the fact that he's running for Assessor. The election will be in November; if there's an incumbent, it will be an appointed incumbent, as Mabel Teng has resigned.
SF News The Internet Archive Versus the DMCA Well, the fine folks over in the Presidio who run the Internet Archive are being sued, along with Philadelphia firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey. It seems that the firm used the Internet
SF News Tour de Lance: A Conspiracy? While our friends at Austinist will probably take offense that we're being too hard on Lance, and our new friends at Parisist might claim too easy, we'd like to float some sheer, unverifiable,
SF News We're Counting to Ten -- the City Attorney and the Mayor's Office are pointing (counting) fingers at each other about a screwup over the number of days Mayor Newsom has to exercise his veto power. So on
SF News The Crab Revolution Will be Televised But that's not the juicy bit of the story, oh no. Turns out, Fox Sports Bay Area wanted to cover the protest before the game but were told not to by Giants officials.
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Is CopyFighting So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's
SF News Ist'wonderful So say 'Ni hao' to Shanghaiist, 'Bonjour' to Parisist and 'Yo' to Phillyist. While the last two haven't 'officially' opened (in other words, our globe-trotting publisher didn't send us the email yet), thanks
SF News iTunes Prudery: The iTipper Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we
Arts & Entertainment Oh Fun, Tsunami Jokes The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that local hip-hop station Wild 94.9's hired a new radio producer for their morning show, Rick Delgado. Who's Delgado? Well, he's the guy who produced
SF News Fire on 16th Street Six people were injured, and around 64 people are homeless, after an early morning fire destroyed the apartment building across the street from Mission Dolores on 16th Street. The firefighters rescued two women
Arts & Entertainment We Gotta Get Out Of This Place You know, we love all the talk about secession because, well, it's fun. But let's face it, do we really want to secede? If we did, we'd have nothing to make us all
SF News All the Fans in Giants' Land Love that Crazy Crab Oh, woe is the Giant fan. This week we were taunted at by our resident A's scribe and all we could come up with as a retort was "at least we got a
SF News London Calling Yes, that's what we are doing after receiving word of the terror attacks on London's subway system. Our dear friends at Londonist are providing minute-by-minute coverage of the crisis, and we have to
SF News I Make This Look Good Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to
SF News A's Brand Baseball: 41 Losses Never Felt So Good The Giants and the Mariners are bad this year. Here at A's Brand Baseball, we take no special pleasure in writing that, nor do we do so in order to taunt the other
Arts & Entertainment Falling In the Gap Once a PD, always a PD -- Matt Gonzalez comes to the aid of fellow progressive (and former colleague at the public defender's office) Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, penning an editorial published on the
SF News Come On and Take a Free Ride While reading Wonkette yesterday, we found ourselves shocked -- shocked! -- to discover that Nancy Pelosi has accepted $8,580 dollars worth of trips paid for by lobbyists "outside sponsors." Expenses paid for
SF News Ain't No Sunshine When She...Signs a Confidentiality Agreement Ah, yes, the City of Berkeley. You might have thought back room dealing and hiding documents and meetings from public review was just a San Francisco thing, but Berkeley has its share of
SF News Gavin in Ought-Six? Well, Randy Shaw apparently got the news that the Gavster's strategists are looking into the possibility of running for the Democratic nomination for the gubenatorial race next year. He writes in Beyond Chron:
