SF News Mr. Ford Assesses So let's start with the story in the Chron, the main gist of which is "happy days are here again." Or, as they call it "Transit chief upbeat on Muni." The story is
Arts & Entertainment Your Goofy Picture of Gavin For the Day Gavin appeared on the Alice Radio morning show last Friday and gave us this photo. We would come up with a funny caption for this, but we think the caption given is good
SF News Why all the Bill Romanowski Love? Now, here's the thing about Romanowski-- he might just be the biggest douche in football history. Among the incidents on his rap sheet: spitting on JJ Stokes, kicking a kicker in the head,
Arts & Entertainment Today's Hits From Hell. Sort Of We've said this before, but one of our favorite radio bits on local radio is KFOG's Hits From Hell which Dave Morey busts out every Friday the 13th. Hey, you can only hear
Arts & Entertainment Wind Bag Wants Your Plastic Bag What Beck wants to do is start up a campaign where his radio listeners and TV audience (all five of them) will send in their paperplastic bags and he'll then he'll get a
SF News Free Plastic Bags! The vote passed by a 10-1 margin with only cranky old Ed Jew providing the nay vote. We would assume that the vote would draw usual cries of "oh no they didn't" but
SF News Lost Highway This all started around 5:40 on Friday when police were called in on reports of a body found at Indiana and Cesar Chavez. The body has not been identified yet, but police
SF News Bad Day to Be Commuting While we were stuck in some really bad traffic this morning, we turned on the radio to get a traffic report and heard that we weren't the only ones having a rough commute.
misc Call Me One name that has already been bandied about is noted toe-sucker and Fox News suckup Dick Morris. Palfrey dropped his name but Morris denied it, even though he supposedly admitted to it in
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Happy Hour And hey, check this out! Looking for a light buzz before heading out for the evening's musical guests? Diesel and Fader Magazine++ are sponsoring a three-hour happy hour tonight, tomorrow, and Friday night
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Film Fest This year's Noise Pop Film Fest runs from Feb. 28 through March 4, and is featuring movies like: a documentary about 924 Gilman, a Sonic Youth concert video shot by concertgoers, a Roky
SF News Ralph Nader Pours on the Haterade --> Ralph Nader is in town this week to promote his new book, The Seventeen Traditions. He did an interview with KGO radio criticizing Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and 2008 Presidential Candidate
Arts & Entertainment Yes, We Know We're Going to Hell ...But we couldn't resist posting this excellent YouTube of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around (Comes Around)" set to the movie "Closer." When TourkGate 2007 broke out, we were at home listening to our
SF News Live Blogging the Gavin Press Conference 12:46 And, yes, folks-- he wore a blue tie. 11:38. Abbada abbadee, that's all folks. He basically apologized to everyone, said he's really sorry, will work to regain everyone's trust, wants
SF News Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving
SF News SFist on TV And the best part? Now that we've managed not to embarrass ourselves too much on the radio, you get to see if we can survive going on TV and not completely embarrass ourselves.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Buzz About 'Meth Coffee' Gets Your Trimethyldioxypurist Off His Ass Hey, folks. It's been a while. Accordingly, we should probably reprint our mission statement: Or something like that. Your Trimethyldioxypurist has been very happy with his coffee-related life; we're utilizing our good brewer,
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
Arts & Entertainment Review: Comedy Death-Ray at SketchFest SFist was excited to hit SketchFest’s Comedy Death-Ray act last night at Cobb’s. The line up (full of Mr. Show and I LOVE the ‘80’s alumns) looked promising. After the
Arts & Entertainment Bloggers 1, KSFO 0 It's looking like Spocko the Blogger's little stunt he pulled on KSFO is working. Both Bank of America and MasterCard pulled either all of their advertising or some of their advertising from KSFO.
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Godfather of Soul To pay tribute to James Brown, we spent a few minutes looking through YouTube this morning to find a video clip that would do him justice. It wasn't easy. Not only are there
SF News I'm Sorry, Did You Have A Question? Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Wow, Gavin doesn't want to take your questions -- he won't even take live questions on this morning's Energy 92.7 commute-time show. (We tried listening to the .mp3s
SF News Mayoral Race Poll Now that Gavin has stopped playing coy and moved ahead with his re-election plans, the question is who will step up to run against Mr. 80% Approval Ratings? It's the parlor game anyone
Arts & Entertainment SFist on the Radio Again The show we'll be on is Irene McGee Show on 106.9 FREE FM. Apparently we're supposed to help co-host and show off our expertise on all things media and San Francisco. As
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Shearer It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A
