Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews- The W. Kamau Bell Gets a Haircut Show What we did see was several comedians, an impressionist, a magician, some slam poetry, cartoon projections, songs about the penis, and ladies knitting. Yes, ladies knitting, although they were part of the audience,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Thursday Thursday Thursday!!!! The grudge match! In the "Bloggers Are Such Bitches" SFist.com t-shirt, the dodgin' and weavin' Big Bad Chris "The Left Hook" Daly! And in the "Michael Bolton Is My
SF News Cal Faculty Board Faults National Merit Process In the ongoing debate between those who support a blanket meritocracy in school admissions versus a weighted approach that considers race, class and gender, the Faculty Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools
Arts & Entertainment Bob Wills Is Still the King "I just hope whoever put the halftime together, they're getting their resume ready. Hey, this is a hip-hop weekend. Y'all think this is a NASCAR race? This ain't no NASCAR race." Now, we
SF News "Ohpleasegodno." While "Run, Rob Reiner, Run" has a nice alliterative zing to it, the prospect of our wonderous and magical two party system leaving us no choice but to elect a Hollywood actor as
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
misc Out-Ward Bound Well, at least 2005 isn't going to be a total wasteland of thwarted progressive political dreams -- Ward Connerly's term on the UC Board of Regents is almost up! It's been a long
SF News Political Junkie: Gossip Talk Oh, what the heck, let's go so-best one more time! Tongues are a-waggin' in town (and not just like that, you sick pervs) over the Gavin-x-Kim news and we're here to give you
SF News Local Yachtsman Attempts Round-the-World Solo Cruise Tough day at the office, and no time to even read the sports section. So when we finally hopped the Muni home, we were happy to see on the bottom half of the
SF News Political Junkie: Number Crunching Now, SFist and your Political Junkie are not really statisticians, but the preliminary data coming in from the RCV reports compiled by the Center for Voting and Democracy yield some pretty interesting results,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
SF News Ranked Choice Voting, Ctrl-Alt-Delete A fatal exception has occurred down at City Hall -- the results of the instant runoff races have been delayed because of a software crash in the computers tallying the votes, which probably
Arts & Entertainment SFist interview: Michael O'Connor There's a whole lot of competition in Michael's race -- 21 other candidates, to be exact. No doubt many candidates were spurred on by the new ranked choice voting, which will allow people
SF News Oakland Panda-ring to China Chang has just returned from a trip to Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he traveled with representatives from architecture firm Y.H. Lee Associates - who were there to examine the local panda research
SF News Go Team! SFist brings you yesterday's baseball madness in a nutshell or two: with only three games left this weekend to finish the season, the Giants, Dodgers and Athletics all won, the Angels lost, and
SF News When Mohr is Less The Cubs and Dodgers both lost last night, but, in one of the most painful games of the year, so did the Giants. To make matters worse, the Astros won, thereby giving themselves
SF News One-for-Three is Okay in Hitting, But Not in Series It was a big weekend for Bay Area baseball but things didn't go as well as the local teams had hoped against their division rivals from the Southland. (Nor for SFist in the
SF News Local Man Looks on in Horror as Ninth Inning Collapse Costs Giants a Crucial Game in the Standings SFist had high hopes for a series sweep for the Giants throughout last night's game against the Astros, but the bullpen had different ideas. Taking a three-to-two lead into the ninth inning, the
SF News He Hits it High, He Hits it Deep, He Hits it Outta Here! Back in the halcyon days when SFist was launching and the Giants were getting their collective ass handed to them by the lowly Cincinnati Reds, it was looking pretty grim down at Third
SF News Get Some Balls [] The big news in San Francisco over the weekend was, of course, Barry hitting home run #700. Oh, and the Giants are still up by a half game in the pennant race, but
misc The Essefficist Needs Your Help We here at the Essefficist, SFist's weekly question-and-answer/advice column, have been striving to bring you honest answers to life's nagging questions for the past couple of weeks now. However, we're a little
SF News Bay Gold SFist loves us some women's beach volleyball. Sand, sun, world-class athletes and hot girl-on-girl action [Ed. Note: We really hope this doesn't get us filtered out of our own site at work.]. Our
SF News Funny Money Fallout Kevin Shelley still has his job do you have yours? Its time for a SunsetGate update! In the week since SFists hard-hitting book report about the strange fundraising transactions between Shelley
SF News This Week in Bay Area Olympians Time for a good, old-fashioned roundup of the week our locals had over there in Athens: Concord-born Cal swimming superstar Natalie Coughlin has had a fantastic week. SFist has had a fantastic week
SF News Barry Bonds Frappe Deux Longues Balles There aren't too many doubleheaders in baseball anymore, and most of them are split admission, so you gotta have two tickets, one for each game. Today, though, it's just like old times and
