SF News Day Around The Bay -- Chicken John gets slapped for raising campaign money via Pay Pal. Assumes he's "the first candidate who's raised funds this way...this is a situation that no candidate has ever been in
SF News San Francisco Taxicabs vs. Limos This time the crankypants are concerned about limousines and towncars that illegally -- illegally? oh please -- pick up passengers at hotels, bars, clubs, or wherever to grab extra cash. Makes sense on
SF News Gavin Continues His March To Victory: Tony Hall's Out Hall was the one unambiguously-serious mayoral candidate running against Gavin Newsom (and by "unambiguously-serious" we mean was a wedding singer but does not have an animal in his name and wears clothes, of
SF News SFist Blotter Remember the Jamba Juice hepatitis A scare? And remember how we said there were gymnasts competing in a national meet in San Jose a few weeks ago? Well -- you guessed it --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Code Pink vs. the S.F. Federal Building The whole affair was very mellow (surprisingly?) with no assaults from any pie man or woman. Of course the Speaker has the right to choose with whom she meets and the protesters have
Arts & Entertainment Smile, Baby: Protesting Child Protesters Looking over everyone's favorite site to get all Cathy over, Zombietime, in order to find shots of last week's not-so savage anti-Savage protest, we came across something disturbing: adolescent protesters. Sure, children are
Arts & Entertainment CA NOW Fed Up With Dick NOW is responding to Dick’s tirades against Jen from a few weeks ago. Dick showered a mélange of offensive words at Jen, including, but not limited to; bitch, cunt, whore, and crusty
Arts & Entertainment De-Union-ification At The Tribune Well, first the MediaNews conglomerate moves the Oakland Tribune from its iconic downtown Oakland tower (at left) and then they take away recognition of the Tribune's Newspaper Guild labor union. MediaNews claims they're
misc Starbucks -- Bringing People Together Hey, have you seen all those annoying "Let's meet at Starbucks" adverts? Quite irritating. Well, SBUX is indeed bringing folks together -- in a way they may not be too happy about. Many
SF News Baconator Hate: Wendy's Protested By Evil Redheads There aren't a hell of a lot of Wendy's left in SF. The one on 658 Market closed all too soon, and we're dying to sample the Baconator. (We really are.) Although we
SF News SFist Blotter Those activists living in the trees at UC Berkeley admitted that okay, maaaaaaybe they cut off the tops of the trees they were complaining about the university damaging. The leader of the tree-sitting
SF News SFist Blotter Campus tree residency news! At Cal, it turns out those people living in the trees to protest the UC's plan to cut them down themselves did significant damage to the trees in question
misc Week Around The -ists Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Knight Bus Comes to San Francisco A few more shots after the jump. All photos courtesy of Mugglewatch.uk
Arts & Entertainment Think This Way Celebrate independence by celebrating mind-control! Go check out the one-day-only "PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR" (it's capitalized in all of the PR materials, so you know it's legit). They've collected hundreds of political posters
SF News Day Around The Bay --Michael Moore loves Gavin Newsom. --SFMike reports back on yesterday's Newsom rally. So does Beyond Chron and the Examiner. --Grizzly bears get a new home at the zoo. --Meet the new SF school
SF News Coz Every Girl Crazy Bout a Sharp Dressed Man Nolan had wanted to wear a suit since becoming the Niners coach to honor his father but ran afoul of the NFL's licensing rules. You can't have people just wearing clothes all willy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Lotta stuff going on today, a lot of which we've mentioned before: Another Hole In The Head continues and the Black Film Festival gets started! Also, it's the Berkeley Edge Fest. Here's some
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
SF News Chimpanzees For Peace! We don't even know where to start with this news item -- we had to read the article like three times before we figured it out. Who has a pro-war protest in San
SF News Day Around The Bay --Our sources report that only like four non-media people showed up for the anti-Jerry Falwell protest (picture above, and two more pictures after the jump). --Chris Daly called Newsom campaign manager Eric Jaye
Arts & Entertainment Today's Anti-Daly WiFi Protest Thanks to multiple readers, who sent in the following pictures from today's anti-Chris Daly, pro-corporate wifi protest on the steps of City Hall! One reader described it as "Fake Protest Time" and reports
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>The Road To San Diego</i> The Road to San Diego, at the SFIFF, is the story of Tati, from Pozo Azul, a small town in the Northeast Argentinian Misiones province (between Paraguay and Brazil), who embarks on a
SF News Davis College Republicans Experimenting with Totally Faggy Performance Art Oh, what's become of our good old-fashioned hard-hearted conservative Republicans? What's next, long hair? Berets? Drapes and doilies? Irish cuisine? The Davis College Republicans are sponsoring some sort of symbolic art-game today (Tuesday)
