SF News SFiS By The Numbers SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf
Arts & Entertainment Assessor-Recorder Swearing In SFist Jim stopped by the swearing-in for San Francisco assessor-recorder (and buzzed-about mayoral possibility?) Phil Ting last night and snapped these pictures for us. Yes, that is a subdued-looking Gavin Newsom, hiding in
SF News Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute Complaints were made because the increased street cleaning would mean increased amounts of time people had to go out and move their cars. It might also affect business in the area as it
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Soft It's been a productive year for us. Between knitting and cupcakes, we've been crafting up a storm. Our favorite new craft has absolutely no function other than looking cute. We're talking about softies,
Arts & Entertainment Up on High, In the Mix Feeling quite adventurous, a few weeks ago we decided to test our legs on Mix Canyon Road a bicycle ride located just on the western side of Vacaville. We've heard amazing things from
SF News Swells By The Numbers More balletomania! We've read so much coverage of the 74th SF ballet opening night gala, we're starting to expect to see ourselves in these pictures! Number of people pictured in this week's Swells
SF News Smush Bush At the anti-war protest this afternoon, we heard three young girls gleefully chanting "Smush Bush! Smush Bush!" and figured that was as good of a title for a post about today's activities as
SF News Naomi Campbell's In Town Drew Altizer generously passed along some pictures he took of Naomi Campbell, who was in town yesterday (maybe also today, we can't find any information about her itinerary online). Man, Gavin is kicking
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Plays in the Kitchen In case you don't think there's anything crafty about baking a batch of cupcakes, we've got the pictures to prove you wrong. And we've had so much sugar today, we doubt you would
SF News Hub This For those who've taken MUNI all the way down, a lot of buses (the 10, 30, 47 and 49) kind of end up there as it's a bus hub. It's one of those
SF News Who's Attacking Newsom Now! So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin
Arts & Entertainment Bodypainting At The Westfield Mall Cool, in a Demi Moore/silver guy in Fisherman's Wharf kind of way! Thanks for sending these on to us, Drew! More pictures after the jump (and even more at Drew's website.)
SF News I Saw Gavin Newsom It seems like the trick for getting something into this column is to hang out at Tosca's -- check out the following story we got passed along. Thanks, gentle reader! Last night our
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes Catholic Those of you who've been vociferously participating in our ongoing debates about Falun Gong, Mormonism, and Scientology will be pleased to hear that we spent tonight steeped in Mozart's Catholic Mass in C
Arts & Entertainment Blue Tie Alert! SFist Jim snapped this picture of Gavin Newsom swearing in the latest batch of city commissioners this afternoon. SFMike has his usual tart lowdown on the actual event -- along with more pictures
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
Arts & Entertainment MLK Day in S.F.: A Day On, Not A Day Off Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows off her new gavel at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast in San Francisco this morning. This was Pelosi's first time back in her home district after
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 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 Harvey Milk Sculpture Competition SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course,
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 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 Jerry Brown Caught Swearing There was more bible holding and swearing oaths today than a Pat Robertson "300 Club" revival as Jerry Brown also got sworn in today as the new Attorney General. Like the Board of
