SF News Political Junkie: Ross Will Save The Day! Did you look up the other day and see that big Green R rotating slowly in the sky? That's the Mirkarimi-signal! To the Ross-cave! We'll take the Prius-mobile! Remember when District 5 supervisor
misc SFist Cares ... About Being Prepared September is supposed to be "National Preparedness Month". We've been out of school now for something like ten years but we still miss buying school supplies and figure this is a great place
misc SFist Rants: Emergency Kits Was anyone else a little unnerved to see that "major earthquake in San Francisco" is listed as the number 2 scenario for FEMA practice, right below "terrorist attack on New York" and right
Arts & Entertainment What? hey, listen up! Originally uploaded by bitterlysweet. Bonjour, superspies. You're our eyes and ears here at SFist (and occasionally other appendages, too, which we love), always vigilant and alerting us to what's up
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
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
Arts & Entertainment Trouble In Paradise: I'm No Angel Of I'm No Angel (1933), which screened Sunday at the Pacific Film Archive, film critics like to write that if star Mae West had spoken only one line in her career--"Beulah, peel
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 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 Patriot Act Author Questions Supreme Court, Bush Adminstration We'll admit it, one of our favorite political blogs is written by a Republican. That's right, we said it. Hey, it's all about 'balance' here at SFist, if not moderation. Shades of gray,
Arts & Entertainment Dowd! Friedman! It's Punditpalooza! According to Leah Garchik, the double-bill might never have happened. Dean Orville Schell got Dowd to appear and came up with the idea of adding Friedman to the bill. When he asked an
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Aqueduct Is being a rock star all it's cracked up to be? Am I a rock star? If you say so. What is your favorite Guns and Roses Song? Patience. But it's more of
SF News Tax Day Blues If you're in the mood to cheer, put on your best togs and get in touch with the Billionaires for Bush to laud the administration for making their lives so much easier at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Eggcellent TV This Week Ahhh...Puppetoons. Well, fear not egg hunters. Easter is not without its own share of spooky animated specials, and thanks to the folks at the Family Channel, you can catch two this Sunday!
Arts & Entertainment What? There Are SF Supes <i>Besides</i> Daly? It's no Smash The State, but friend of SFist Windy Chien (isn't that the best name ever?) tipped us off that our boy Matty G (and before you ask, we DO have a
SF News SFist Rants: We Want Our NBC We're fine, that is, until someone starts talking about, like, "Law and Order: Shoplifting Diversion Program" or something. For cable-free SFists do not receive NBC, since the local NBC affiliate switched from KRON
Arts & Entertainment Always Take A Transfer People, please! If we promise cross our heart to pick up hard copies of the Examiner, would it kill Mr. Anschutz to put up the articles just a little bit earlier? It cuts
Arts & Entertainment Damn, It Feels Good To Be An SFist! Special thanks to Noisepop for their ongoing support of SFist’s coverage of the festival. SFist has a hard time making it to opening bands. General tardiness, and memories of suffering through openers
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Antenna SFist wasn't quite sure what to expect when we went to last night's screening of , and our mind continues to reel almost 20 hours after experiencing the film. With undeniable references to Lynch
SF News Don't Other Countries Already Hate Us Enough? We spent yesterday practising our acting skills by feigning surprise at Colin Powell's resignation as Secretary of State. Today we got to pretend we're happy that Condoleezza "Condi" (that's so makes her seem
SF News I Want My GOTV Those of you who look down when you walk may have seen the sidewalk graffiti for www.indyvoter.org. Indyvoter.org is encouraging younger people who previously haven't voted to actually get to
SF News Matchbox Nineteen Well, it's about time! Assuaging his secret girlie-man worries that he's not a governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger finally got his personalized booby-trapped letter. With Schwarzenegger, now 19 governors have received letters addressed from the
Arts & Entertainment All Hail the Parkway Theater Beginning this Friday, August 6th, the Parkway Theater in Oakland will be presenting The Animation Show, a collection of animated shorts curated by Mike Judge, the creator of "King of the Hill" and
