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UN-invited

Oh no, after we got out the nice china and everything! President George Bush has sent his regrets that he will not be attending the party for the UN's 60th birthday that we're

Niners Apologize

Long-time readers of this site may remember a certain, um, "so-best fixation" we had on a certain picture of our mayor and his then-wife, in happier times. Well, it looks like Niners PR

Is This Why Health Insurance is so Expensive?

Thanks to Engadget, who reads CNet News, who read Matier and Ross (we've given up), we find out that Waldo, a medicine-delivering helper robot at the UCSF Medical Center went bonkers, zooming down

SchwarzenWatcher: Commencemental

Inside the stadium, the drone from hundreds of rowdy protesters threatened to drown out the governor's voice at times. Many in the crowd erupted in boos when a police officer pulled down a

SFist Blind Item: Black and White and Rude all Over

Up to this point, this story's unremarkable. After all, that's what one does in a social setting, right? You make pleasant conversation, have a drink, move on. However, as opposed to saying something

Your San Francisco Giants Throw in the Towel

Brian Sabean might not admit it, but when your team is eleven games under .500 and you suddenly announce that it's time for the kids to play, that's what they call in the

Arnie Presents a Very Special Election

What to expect over the next few months? Wall-to-wall TV ads, Arnie going across the country to suck up more corporate money, totally lame witticisms from political hacks, one side yelling "you are"

Arts & Entertainment

The Faibishes Versus The Media

Okay, in the Sam Hill is going on here? Nicholas Faibish's mother, crazed from the constant media attention, announced in the Sunday Chron that welllllll, she might have known there was a problem

More News than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know

-Investigations continue in the Lodi terrorism case, spreading to a religious mosque in East Palo Alto. Five people are currently being held in custody for charges unrelated to terrorism (lots of charges of

Abercrombie and Fitch: They're Not Nazis, They Just Like Blonde People Better

So for all of you who got on our case (comments from AdRants strangley deleted) for someone who expressed their distaste at the perceived culture of conformity at A&F, how does

New BART Head Goes Crazy

Before everyone gets all excited that doing all of this might halt the proposed fare increases, Luce writes that it won't prevent the increases from happening this time around, but that it will

Bye, Janice!

Well, now that fourteen moderates in the Senate managed to resolve the fili-bunker-buster impasse of the last two years, Bush looks like he's gotten his way, at least with conservative ladies. (Conservative office

Best. Picture. Evar.

We love you too, Gavvy-Gav! Stay funky! Photo by Matt Cohen of 1115.org -- and there's more Gavvy goodness on Flickr. And SFist totally reserves the right to use that title again.

Yeeeeeeeaaaaargh!

Whatever you might have thought about Howard Dean when he was running for president, you gotta admit that he's been hi-LA-rious!!! as the chair of the Democratic National Committee! Saying Republicans have never

Your San Francisco Giants: When Bad Things Happen to Bad Teams

The Giants lost every conceivable way possible-- bad hitting, bad pitching, and bad base running. To add insult to injury, they lost two games against the Phillies on bad calls. Oh, their shiny

A's Brand Baseball Goes to Washington

In which we review a homestand, and preview the first series of a road trip to the NL East: A's third baseman Eric Chavez was named American League Player of the Week for

The Supreme Court Bogarts That Joint

By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court voted today to overturn a decision by a San Francisco federal appeals court that allowed the use of medicinal marijuana. The court ruled that in cases

SchwarzenWatcher

Well, the Chronicle has their watch-thingie to pick on small, local bay area officials about semi-trivial issues like broken signs, graffitti and potholes. Since we're small and local, we'll turn it around and

Happy Birthday, Matt Gonzalez!

Pictured is, of course, local lightning rod Chris Daly and his wife Sarah who, appropriately enough, is wearing SFist's "Mrs. Chris Daly" tee (buy one today). We'd like to let Sarah know that

Wanted: New MUNI Boss

Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took

Dog Tragedy

Oh no -- not again. Nicholas Faibish, a 12 year old boy who lived in the Inner Sunset, was mauled to death today by his family's two pit bulls. The police killed one

SFist Goes South For The Abu Dhabi

This past weekend we made our way down to Long Beach for the Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Championships. A competition between the best submission wrestlers, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practioners, and Judo

Kimberly Guilfoyle Hemmer?

Court TV's Kimberly Guilfoyle — who moved here in January after filing for divorce from her workaholic husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom — recently met CNN anchor Bill Hemmer, sources say. The two have

The 49ers Gone Wild

Ace public relations director Kirk Reynolds, pictured in the photo still of the video, created it and stars in it. Surprisingly, he is now currently looking for a new job and for the

Your San Francisco Giants: Those Were the Days

Maybe it's because we're back to work after a long weekend, but SFist has taken to getting nostalgic for those glory days of yore- last week. Ahh, last week, what a week that