misc Political Junkie: Gel Free We're not going to steal the Sentinel's pictures of the new do, but let's just say it looks awfully ....Gonzalezy. Well, either Gonzalez-y or like Nick and Aaron Carter -- we haven't really
SF News Gavin's Adventures In Babysitting We can't wait to read the transcripts of Gavin's text messages to the city hall high school interns next. "Do I make you horny? Also -- why don't we have solar powered parking
Arts & Entertainment Opening Day At The Mall We're thinking there is no one in the Chronicle offices this afternoon, as they all seem to have raced over to the grand opening of the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall. Check out
SF News Grampa Newsom's MUNI Plan So after all that buildup -- it turned out that Newsom didn't have any new ideas at all, and basically gave out a Grampa Simpson list of MUNI complaints instead. [all actual Newsom
SF News North Beach is Italian For Even Less Fun After cracking down on the North Beach Street Festival and the Jazz Fest, it looks like the Powers that Be are all set to crack down on North Beach itself. At issue is
SF News The Chron Behind Bars If life were a Monopoly game, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada just rounded the Free Parking corner -- the next roll might put them in jail. Do not pass go, do not collect
SF News Talking Trash In other garbage news, the City of Oakland is complaining about the trash accumulating in the DIY Bordertown Skatepark, built by skateboarders and legitimized by CalTrans last year. Bordertown is now faced with
SF News San Francisco Cabs In The News Again Presently, San Francisco Taxi rates are $2.85 to get in the door, plus 45 cents per 1/5 mile or minute of waiting or delay. The controller's office is recommending an increase
SF News Speed King So what are we to do about it? Well, there's creating more bus-only lines but that'll piss off businesses who are concerned about the loss of potential car-driving customers. See the fracas about
SF News Wharf Rat While the owner, Kevin Reed, promises everything will be on the up-and-up and that he's learned his lessons from his previous club, neighbors aren't so sure. Among other things, there's the whole fact
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Chris Johnson I wanted to be an SFist contributor because I needed the structure. Name The TruthMaker. My glass is always half empty, deal with it. Age and Occupation Youngish late thirties. Laborer. Home Town
Arts & Entertainment The Marginally Engaging Adventures of the Superfisters (While we were visiting our friends at Isotope Comics, we also picked up Issue 5 of the awesome -- God, we can't get enough of swashbuckling youngsters.) New this week: War-Fix, by David
SF News Two Wheels Are Better Than Four Today's Bike To Work Day, and Gavin Newsom, poised on his bike at the Ferry Building, good-naturedly joked to KCBS that "I'm a pathetic politician that only does this once a year. . . . I
Arts & Entertainment "Trading Spaces" Officially Runs Out Of Nice Neighborhoods, Takes Over The Sunset Neighborhood jankiness aside (and we must note that janky or not, we wouldn't trade our Sunset space for the world, we love it so), we were also surprised at the scope (or lack
SF News Bikes 1, Cars 0 The "Healthy Park's Initiative" (that title polled much better than "Traffic Congestion Saturday!") now goes before Gavin who gave this definitive response: "There's a chance of a veto. There's a chance I support
SF News The Cala Bell Tolls for Thee So we asked the cashier, as they rang up our Stoli and cardamom, OMFG WTF BBQ? Nobody knows for sure, but the Cala folks predicted that after the store closes for good on
SF News Not Too Late to Catch Olympic Fever "We are honored to have been selected as a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games. San Francisco embodies the Olympic ideals of peace, friendship, universality and tolerance. This is a testament to the
SF News Castro Car Fires Wow, this is pretty awful. Yesterday around 6:30 p.m., a guy running the red down the Castro hill across Market drifted into the northbound lane and slammed into a BMW turning
Arts & Entertainment The Sea Otter Does It Again The mud is barely dry on the bikes but already racers and spectators alike are looking forward to next year's Sea Otter Classic (April 12-15, 2007). The acknowledged kick-off to the road and
SF News SFist Goes To The 75th San Francisco Golden Gloves Though last week's Golden Gloves was not actually the "Golden Gloves" event sanctioned by boxing's governing body, USA Boxing, that information failed to dissuade some of the Bay Area's greatest fighters from appearing
misc SFist Whines & Dines: the 500 Club One of the great charms of dog-friendly San Francisco is the numerous places where dogs are allowed off-leash. Legally. The city lists two dozen parks around town. Sadly, there are many places remaining
SF News SXSW Update We were wondering why it was so easy to get a parking place in the Mission last night when we remembered that all the cool people are at SXSW. Cool people like SFist
SF News Holy Freaking Mother of Christ: More Fare Increases and Service Cuts Predicted for Muni Who, you may ask, is responsible for bumping the prices up and quality down? There's a bunch of names indicated by SPUR's report: there's the Geary Blvd Merchants' Association, helmed by David Heller;
SF News Guess What? Peeing in Public is ILLEGAL It's all rooted in the case of David McDonald, who was arrested and searched by Oakland police while urinating in a Berkeley parking lot. At the time, the office charged McDonald with littering
