SF News Hell Hath No Wrath Like a Blogger Scorned And the award for serving the news needs of people in trapped in caves, living under rocks, or named Rip Van Winkle goes to the Chronicle today: "The rise of easy-to-use software to
SF News Pave Paradise, Put Up a Parking Garage Unlike previous campaigns, activists at the rally held last week stressed that they were not trying to oppose the parking garage (which would be hard to do since they're more than half-way done)
SF News Ballin' Bay Bloggers to be Beset with Bling The ghost of Malcolm Gladwell has come to haunt Silicon Valley tastemakers. You know those schwag-bags you're always hearing about on Defamer? It's all part of massaging the 'Connectors,' the folks of
SF News Barely Legal Coeds in the Buff to Help Tsunami Victims Patrick of the Cal Patriot blog points out a rather risque effort by freshmen residents of Stanford's Larkin residence hall to raise funds for Tsunami victims -- fan out around campus, get naked,
Arts & Entertainment It's Abortion Protest Saturday There will be, of course, an anti-anti-abortion counter rally to be held in response. In fact, some pro-choice organizers are responding with all the love of open-mindedness and civil discussion that makes this
SF News Berkeley Ballot Initiative Recount Challenged By EFF So while we want to play up the reefer angle on this -- the Bay Area being pothead heaven and all -- since we've been so politically inspired, we're going to have to
SF News SFist Loves a Protest Okay, San Francisco. Admit it. Protests are big old parties. There's people smoking pot, hooking up, screaming, cheering, dancing, drumming and maybe even breaking stuff. It's nothing to be ashamed of. The fact
SF News Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration Rafkin puts her money where her mouth is as Head Instructor at Studio Naga, which teaches the art of Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen. In addition, she oversees the Women's Self Defense and "Street Smarts"
SF News Britney Spears' Baby -- How Can We Help? In light of that big hullabaloo that's going down in D.C. tomorrow, something SFist is trying as hard as possible not to think about (we prefer the hand over the ears and
SF News The President Has Some Balls Hey, looks like it runs in the administration! Sister-site DCist is at ground zero for the inauguration festivities. Take a moment to peruse their special inauguration coverage -- including a bit that a
SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It's a battle
SF News A Million for Tsunami Relief? By a 2-1 margin, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Finance Committee Ok-a-lee-do-keed a proposal to give one million dollars out of the San Francisco General Fund for tsunami relief. The two supervisors
misc Out-Ward Bound Well, at least 2005 isn't going to be a total wasteland of thwarted progressive political dreams -- Ward Connerly's term on the UC Board of Regents is almost up! It's been a long
SF News Documentarian Secretly Films Suicides Okay, we try not to pull story ideas from the front page of the Chron too often. After all, you can scan the headlines above the fold in the box without actually having
SF News Boxer Lambasts Rice Nothing like senate confirmation hearings to get the partisan juices flowing. Kos reports that Senator Barbara Boxer would speak her mind [link via 1115] as part of Dr. Condoleeza Rice's confirmation as Secretary
SF News Remember When I Said I'd Kill You Last? I lied. Clemency has been denied in the pending excution of death-row inmate Donald Beardslee, and the first execution in California since January of 2002 should go on as scheduled tonight at 12:01am. The
SF News Back to the Boardroom Kimberly Guilfoyle formerly Newsom better make room for someone else on that carpet -- there's a new sassy San Francisco lawyer-correspondent making the rounds. The Post's Page Six reports that Apprentice runner-up Jennifer
SF News Cops Summit Kilimanjaro to Honor Officer Espinoza Slashdot today points out that Cops on Top, the organization that climbs peaks to memorialize fallen officers, has been keeping an audioblog from their ascent of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to honor SFPD officer
misc He Had A Dream We're on a lighter posting schedule today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. -- we hope you have the day off to spend at a number of Bay Area celebrations scheduled for
SF News Kos the New Armstrong Williams? Not at all. Armstrong Williams was paid through taxpayer dollars to sell the Administration's terrible No Child Left Behind Act, possibly infringing upon all sorts of anti-propaganda laws and definitely kicking the mangled
SF News Former Raider Pro-Bowler Shot The tale of former Raider's center Barrett Robbins just got a lot sadder yesterday, as he is currently in crtical condition after being shot in an apparent robbery attempt inside a Miami nightclub.
SF News And They're Off It's only been a week and a half into the new year, but the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is already off to a roaring start. So far, we've seen the farewell of
SF News Drugs Are Bad, Mmmmkay Seems Dan Siegel, member of the lame-duck Oakland School Board and likely candidate for Jerry Brown's job, had "less than an ounce" of marijuana discovered in his checked luggage on his way out