Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Saturday.... in the park... wish it were the Fourth of July! (That's the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra performing the Chicago classic above). Here's your events for today: --Supervisor Dreamy, Ross Mirkarimi's picking up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't score tickets to the show, head over to Bottom of the Hill and check out NOMO, an Afro-beat band from Detroit for $10. 1233 17th St, SF. Calling all PSP
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Beck earned the fans love for two things in particular. In '93, in the midst of that dogfight of a pennant race, he went out day after day after day to save games
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: M&R Man, we're bummed the Chron still hasn't put back up the pictures of the Canton Flower Shop and their stymied attempts to inspect the legendary shower in the back -- but we do
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: LOLJEW What's the latest? Poor Tapioca Ed! His legislative aide Barbara Meskunas spoke to the media this afternoon to let them know that her boss took the day off work and was "explaining the
SF News Non Ed Jew SF Political News Of The Day --The SF Dept. of Elections tossed out the Recall Peskin papers for procedural defects. As we probably could have guessed after seeing the plethora of signs at their rally the other day, they
SF News Chris Daly Doesn't Back Down (Budget) You know we'd never say Chris Daly backed down from a fight, especially not in the title of a post! However, we did just get an email from the Gavin Newsom 2008 people
Arts & Entertainment Gorilla Suits Okay, we're lame, but we are deeply enjoying the description of the race in this Chron article: "I wanted to be Al Gore-illa, but the Al Gore mask didn't work over the gorilla
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Presidio Terrace, S.F.'s Gated Community The specific reason at the time was the prevention of members of the "Mongolian race", meaning people of Japanese or Chinese heritage for the most part, from "invading" the area. Racial covenants might
SF News Not Doing It, Lumpy: Chris Daly's Not Running Guess Lumpy's not doing it after all -- Pat Murphy, the guy who came up with the catch phrase "Do It, Lumpy" to goad local progressive ringleader and District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --The Stars and Garters Theater is throwing a fundraiser party, complete with trapeze artists, short films, the Robber Bridegroom band, burlesque performances, and a raffle, to raise money for its upcoming
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Don Giovanni Was it, as this Berkely Daily Planet op-ed conjectured, due to the new media suite, which will record every performance on high definition from this Don Giovanni on and thus will put some
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Laura Veirs Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Our last gig in Paris at La Maroquinerie in April 2007. The place was packed with 400 fans who knew all the words
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
SF News Help Find Nam Lee AlertSF just sent out a bulletin about a missing person. Please keep your eyes out for this gentleman (click on the picture to enlarge): Nam Lee has been missing since Wednesday the 30th.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Are you into those Iowa Futures Market invisible-hand-of-the-marketplace economic-based ways of predicting political races? Usual Suspects has started one for the SF mayoral race. Gavin Newsom is pegged to win at $36.78.
SF News We Have A Mayoral Candidate! Tony Hall's been famously irritated with Gavin Newsom ever since Newsom dumped him off at the Treasure Island Development Association to give his Supervisor's seat away to Sean Elsbernd and the Office of
SF News Our Kingdom For a Bus We stumbled out of the park around 2 in the afternoon, full of that dread that comes from being tired, sun fried, and a little drunk and knowing that there was no easy
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Photo: San Francisco Bay to Breakers results Yes, it's another Bay to Breakers. Pretty good weather and a good time for all. But, first of all kids, they've been lying to you all these years. Is the highest point of
SF News Bay to Breakers Approaching; Bring Your Rollerskates in Case You Can't Catch a Bus Remember how effed-up Muni was at last year's Bay to Breakers, with no signs and riders vomiting and drivers getting lost and nobody having any idea how to get anywhere? Yeah, it's probably
misc Week Around The -Ists The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview
SF News Day Around The Bay --Chihuahua race! --And speaking of a chihuahua race, Gavin Newsom refuses to sign Chris Daly's budget proposal. We're hoping for a fight! (Daly has enough votes to override a veto.) --Drug-resistant TB hits
Arts & Entertainment Gorilla Run! Ok, ok -- get this. We know $100 is a lot of dough. And running is a drag for most of us (especially since we turned 30 a few years ago). But come
SF News Your Commute: Lower Level Go It's the A-Race-Ing Maze! (and not related, but SFist Rain, how awesome that the finale of Amazing Race All-Stars was in SF?) As promised, Caltrans's work around the clock paid off handsomely, with
SF News Apocalypse Comes Full Circle There's probably some kind of remarkable statement to be made here, about how it's a carbon-neutral film about monsters frozen in ice by climate change millions of years ago. Discursive wheels within wheels!
