SF News All We Hear... Is Video Gaga ....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Counts Down From 7-3-0 With less than a week to go before the Very Special Election, it's time to ponder the state's relationship with the Governor. Cause it's looking like the magic has gone from the relationship.
SF News Tony Hall's Looking for Work His old job, of course, was District 7 Supervisor, a job he held before Gavin's now infamous "Triple Play" political move. There's only one problem with that idea-- the job is currently being
misc SFist Rants: The SF Bay Area Publicity Club Imagine how excited we were to hear this morning through the PR Newswire that your humble little -ist website had been nominated for a prestigious "Pubby" Award! A "Pubby"! For best Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Is CopyFighting So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's
SF News The Supreme Court Bogarts That Joint By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court voted today to overturn a decision by a San Francisco federal appeals court that allowed the use of medicinal marijuana. The court ruled that in cases
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Well, the Chronicle has their watch-thingie to pick on small, local bay area officials about semi-trivial issues like broken signs, graffitti and potholes. Since we're small and local, we'll turn it around and
SF News Survey Says: You're Awesome! Of course, we're sure there are those of you who saw our plea and said, "I'm busy. These things are lame. I'm not going to participate." Well, that's always an option, certainly. But
SF News Everybody Loves a Hagiography He also wants the paper to work more with its Web site as a "continuous" news source, but admits a lack of interest in blogs, claiming many are just "people writing about what
misc Get Ur Geek On Washington, D.C. Federal District Court says the FCC has no power to foist the broadcast flag upon our wonderful gadgets. The forces of evil Rightsholder lobbyists shall decend on Congress. Gigi Sohn
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Black Friday</i> And <i>Shape Of The Moon</i> Black Friday.Photo of Kay Kay playing Rakesh Maria from
SF News Bloggers Unite! We initially passed this press release from the Author's Guild along to Gothamist Jen so that she could get the scoop on Gawker and FishbowlNY. Why? Because it looks like the Author's Guild
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Sorceress of the New Piano The crowd at the Castro Sunday night, at the Asian-Am film fest's centerpiece presentation for Evans Chan's documentary was about one-third new music aficionados, one-third Asians who'd played piano in the past, and
Arts & Entertainment Deconstructing Leah: Paris Hilton at the SF Ballet Gala Since some of you may not be as thoroughly addicted to gossip as SFist is, we would like to present to you a primer on how to interpret Leah Garchik's column. You see,
SF News Say It Ain't So Barry And the next shoe dropped. After yesterday’s big scoop revealing Jason Giambi’s Grand Jury testimony, the Chronicle, which has been all Woodward and Bernstein about the BALCO trial, got an even
SF News As the BALCO Turns Hold onto your hats, sports fans, as Victor Conte, the mad scientist in charge of the BALCO labs is all set to go on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 this week and name
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Give Snark a Chance - Join SFist! Actually, we might pay, but you'll have to accept a postdated check for 2010 or so - kind of like having stock options. We do offer an engaged readership, a lax editorial policy,
