Arts & Entertainment Martin Luther King Day Events There's a whole bunch of events going on today, most of which are either happening now or have already started. We would have gotten to this post earlier, but like a lot of
SF News <strike>Swells</strike> Fake Question Time By The Numbers There's no Swells society column today! Sad! So we're doing a Fake Question Time By The Numbers instead. Number of people in attendance: 200. Number of chickens: 6. Number of times Angela Alioto
SF News SFist Goes to Gavin's Townhall Meeting This morning, we dragged our flu-ridden butts all the way out to the Richmond hoping to see what had all the makings of a circus. We didn't get it. What we got, instead,
SF News Day Around the (Late) Bay -Gavin wants to put the foot patrol issue on the ballot. We have a bad feeling about this.. -Meet the new owners of the armory. -Budget analyst is not a big fan of
SF News TEPping Out With My Baby In order to get the buses to run on time, MUNI tried out all sorts of whacky things like having supervisors monitor the buses, have people work overtime to make up for absent
SF News There is Unrest in the Forest, There is Trouble With the Trees The cops are saying that the encampment had become a public safety concern. Protestors, however, said that they weren't camping out, they were just there 24 hours a day. Ever since UC Berkeley
Arts & Entertainment There's Going To Be Some Protesting Tonight Downtown is looking a little shut down today as those wacky Trotskyites broadly-arrayed leftists at A.N.S.W.E.R. are giving their answer to the Bush Surge (hey, that sounds like
misc Lafayette Crosses Go Neon The reasons for the new sign is because of last night's little speech that the President gave. Activists behind the crosses are calling it a "panic button" or "stop sign" and hope that
SF News Shooting on Polk Street This all happened around 10:30 this morning between Polk and Van Ness on Broadway. Witnesses say that a white Acura sedan and a black Honda Civic crashed into each other in the
SF News Barry's On Greenies You stay classy, Bary. Bonds was not punished but had to go to treatment and counseling, something Deadspin has a little fun with as they picture Barry in group counseling. That is part
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Liz Hickok Why Jello? It actually started because I had been photographing scale models that other people had made. I’ve been a photographer for a long time. I was in Havana shooting and came
SF News The Yale Choir Story, Again First up, the cops. After the fracas, they detained four of the assailants but let them go. As of right now, nobody has been arrested as police are saying they're still collecting evidence.
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Places we like on the Interwebs. Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art
SF News JetBlue Coming to SFO The main problem with JetBlue, though, is that they don't go to a lot of airports. Here, you could get them at Oakland but not at SFO. But not for any longer-- JetBlue
misc Craigslist Encounters: 267 Gays use Craigslist (more than 2,205 Straights) As reported (here among many other places) . Which would not really pique our interests, except that the survey also mentions Craigslist. So this morning we decided to dive right in and see what
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
Arts & Entertainment The Falun Gong Show: SFist Goes To The NTDTV Chinese New Year But a computer-animated backdrop showing a angel flying down to Earth to rescue a dancer portraying a Falun Gong meditator being beaten senseless by Communist goons, together with a song proclaiming, "The Falun
Arts & Entertainment Netroots Powers, Activate! Now that Netroots have slowed down on the Tauscher hating, they've moved onto another subject to which their ire is drawn, KSFO. One of the diarists on Daily Kos is telling the story
SF News And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire The fire rings would be designated places where bonfires could happen. There would be signs letting everyone know what the deal is with the hope that people would only build bon fires in
SF News Smile, You're on Candid Camera It looks like one of those security cameras is going to be set up at 16th & Mission as they have public notice signs posted everywhere. Personally, it'll be interesting to see just
SF News Wi-Fi Deal One and Done Here's the details: -Earthlink will build the infrastructure and Google will provide the service. So look for an influx of [email protected] accounts -The speed will be 300 kilobits. That's much faster
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Oliver Chin What's your favorite thing about them? Collaborating with fantastic illustrators and artists to give people worthy alternatives to the cookie-cutter commercial widgets that permeate our culture. What's on your holiday wish list? Please
misc Bay Area Wanderer: M_TINEE * Bay Area Wanderer: Market and Mason, San Francisco Headed down Market Street to Taqueria Can-Cun. Crazed people, drunk people, stoned people, business people. Scent of plywood wet with urine. An old moviehouse held
Arts & Entertainment Wanna Buy a House? What can you expect? Well floor plans and pictures and asking prices for the homes of such noted celebrities as Larry Ellison (his Japanese temple home is up for sale-- it's only $16
