SF News Police Commissioner Peter Keane Quits Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking
Arts & Entertainment The Role of a Lifetime. ...Deathtime. Whatever. Interested corpses may proceed relentlessly to Pier 48 and ask for "Boz," or call Elaine "Zelda" Krumlauf (whose fantastic name we will be endlessly singing over and over in our head) at 408-829-6545
SF News Political Junkie: We Have A Winner! The votes from Ohio are in! The hanging chads have been dimpled! The electoral college has matriculated! We're calling the SFist Hottest SF Supervisor race -- and the Marina's own Michela Alioto-Pier takes
Arts & Entertainment Downhill Fillmore Boy, have we got some bad Cow Hollow ideas for you! Have you guys been following the whole "turning Fillmore Street into a ski slope" thing? So Icer Event Management has decided to
SF News Sizzling Hot-Hot-Hot!! Love 'em for their policies? Love 'em for their sexy strut? Who cares! Clean out those cookies on your computer and stuff the ballot box for your hottie of choice! Super Hotties!Who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes in the View We'll make this one short and sweet -- at Red's Java House (Pier 30), what you see is what you get. On a nice day, you can't beat being bayside; you can't beat
SF News Supes Lurve Electronic Electioneering Bill So it looks like the Electronic Electioneering resolution has passed, with the unamended version winning in a nine-to-two vote, with Supervisors Elsbernd and Alioto-Pier voting no, meaning that the board has enough votes
SF News Supes Pass Electronic Electioneering Bill -- Twice So how did Sophie Maxwell's bill do? Well, due to an SFist power lunch, we weren't able to attend in person. We were able, however, to catch up via SFGTV -- scroll down
SF News Sophie Maxwell Pisses Off The Blogosphere Well, when we suggested that Sophie start a blog to help counter some of the diatribes by critics in her constituency, we were only partly joking. Sure, we were jealous that our friends
SF News Just Say No For Now Today, Gavin Newsom put a lid on places that sell lids and called for a moratorium on marijuana clubs. And we bet we're the only one's in the -ist family who'll ever have
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF News Smoke 'Em If You Golf 'Em Funny little thing about this law, though- it actually calls for the banning of smoking in every city park except one, the public golf course. Turns out that a high percentage of golfers-
Arts & Entertainment Always a Crowd-pleaser Alternately, you could spend the day at Pier 39, participating in a celebration marking the 15th anniversary of the sea lions' arrival at the docks. Fun! We look forward to encountering unpleasant, angry-looking
SF News Political Junkie: Say It With Flowers You didn't think we'd go a week without more postings on our favorite city supervisor, did you? Naw! The Body Politic reports that Chris Daly is the recipient of a lovely pot of
SF News Political Junkie: Anger Management Well, he wasn't wearing a t-shirt to promote his new rap album, but, like Ron Artest, Chris Daly ain't sorry. Well, that's not entirely fair. At yesterday's unprecedented censure motion hearings before the
SF News Political Junkie: Puttin' the F back in SF (We've been dying to use that title for weeks now!) All of you who make that trendy organic soap, sales should be skyrocketing through your thatched roofs with all the mouth-washing-out that's underway
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
SF News Think Global, Act Local In all the hubbub about Bush's "mandate," new dark allegations about possible voter fraud in Florida and Ohio, and general wailing about the death of the Democratic party, it's easy to forget the
Arts & Entertainment Sigh It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our
SF News SFist Interview: David Pascal We haven't read the bios of every candidate for the Board of Supervisors (hell, there are twenty-two of them in District Five alone and we have a lot of other things to do
misc Recycling Old Ideas With the Essefficist Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question
misc The Land Alone Would Cost A Million Everyone's favorite cube dweller and corporate critic Dilbert just moved into new digs - Dilbert's Ultimate House. Teaming up with Home and Garden Television, Danville's Scott Adams synthesized reader input from over three
Arts & Entertainment En-Chantey-d Evening How is that SFist has not heard of this event until now? The National Maritime Museum, at the Hyde Street Pier at the very end of Fishermans Wharf, hosts a chantey sing