SF News Robbers Go Nutty The ring has been in operation over the past year and a half and has stolen upwards of two million dollars of stolen nuts. If you think of just how much money it
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Watches What's Up For the New Year Slowly and surely, our Governator is letting loose with his plans for the upcoming year, most of which came in an interview on "Meet Tim Russert." And let's just say Schwarzenegger is feeling
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Ain't Gonna Play Sun City The accusations, which have been floating around for years, came from a quote in an unauthorized biography of the big lunk. Here's the quote that's stirring all this: "According to Rick Wayne, who
SF News Going to the World Cup With Fabian Núñez Hey, we just found out a way to go-- just give tons of money to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez? He's taking some of his biggest fund raisers to Germany to watch the Finals.
SF News Ma v. Ja: How Janet Reilly Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got A Health Care Plan We have been totally obsessed with Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan's woes. Every day, we would think, Bostonist is so lucky. Isn't there any connection here to the Bay Area? Well, now we have
SF News The Warriors: Get a Move on Already The War-bloons have basically been treading water for the last couple of months, and like a small-time sucker playing conservative bets at the $5 blackjack tables in Reno, the house odds are starting
SF News SFist Checks Out the 510: The Space-Faring Edition Out in Sacramento -- classified as "Bay Area" for KQED's fund-raising purposes, anyway -- the Discovery Museum will be holding a memorial for the astronauts, then turning the focus toward continued space exploration
SF News Did the SF Weekly Scapegoat Harmon Leon? Well, L'affaire Leon at the Weekly certainly didn't come to a conclusion we expected. We crawled out of bed this morning only to read that he'll no longer be appearing in their pages.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Magazine Caves We keep saying we're going to start a We Read The Glossies column to cover San Francisco Magazine and 7x7, but you know, we just can't do it. As a very wise co-editor
misc For Sale on eBay: Fake Island Seriously, at the current high bid of $222,322, this thing is a steal for any San Franciscan. When was the last time you saw anything in The City at that price? It
SF News Begone! Begone! Begone!...It's So Much Fun to Say Other highlights: in Sacramento, the church is selling a posh retirement community to pay off sex-abuse victims, and the retirees are miffed. Lots of propaganda for Prop 73, which would require parental notification
misc Animal Roundup: From NOLA to SF Well, maybe they're not sending human evacuees to the Bay Area anymore, but we're definitely taking the four-legged kind -- the first organized evacuation of pets from the devastated Gulf Coast arrived at
misc Arnold Screws Fags The really big news, though, is that He Who Must Not Be Named decided that he would be vetoing AB 849, the gay marriage bill. After being approved by both the Assembly and
SF News A Tale Of Two Fogs For the last month (besides last weekend) it feels like we've been living in dc city, as is dichotomy city. It's been a tale of two fogs. Either you're in the fog and
SF News Cruise in Ought-Six? Our vulgar friend to the south, Defamer, points out why: California needs a man of unshakeable faith, a man who’ll stand up to the drug companies, a man who will outfit those
SF News Stephen Robinson: Rockin' Rocketman Chris Lopez over at the Contra Costa Times pointed out that NASA Astronaut Stephen Robinson is from nearby Moraga, and is currently on the Discovery waiting for the weather to clear so that
SF News AB 849 Clears Early Hurdle Funny, we didn't see this in the Examiner, Chron or Sacramento Bee. Yesterday, the state's Senate Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Bill 849, the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act," by a vote
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The Boys of Summer? In May, when the A's were busy losing twenty of twenty-four games, and trotting out starting pitchers that even A's bloggers didn't know were affiliated with the organization, we here at A's Brand
SF News Sacto Weekly Asked For Retraction It seems that Harmon's piece, "My Dinner At Applebee's With White Supremacists" (linke to in We Read the Weeklies the following Thursday) was retooled for the Sacramento News and Review as "My dinner
SF News The Warriors Come Out To Play. No, Really How hot have the Warriors been? Since Baron Davis was acquired, they have: - Beaten Minnesota, Sacramento, Phoenix, the Knicks, and 76ers - Have the best record of any California basketball team since
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drop The Fajita This just in -- a Sacramento jury has found Alex Fagan Jr. not guilty in the Fajitagate trial. The jury found him innocent of two felony assault charges and hung on the misdemeanor
Arts & Entertainment Eyes Wide Open If you made it by Civic Center in the last few days, you probably noticed a very somber art installation occupying the plaza. Row upon row of boots and shoes stood at quiet
SF News Auntie Em, Auntie Em! There Was A Twister! What an uneventful week to start as SFist Weatherman. Last week had all the action. We love to make fun of folks that live in hurricane, tornado and blizzard regions (but it's okay
Arts & Entertainment S'Wonderful WonderCon has come! That's right, Northern California's answer to Comic-Con is coming to the Moscone Center this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This event is not just about comics, folks. It's about all the
SF News Sutter Students to be Chipped and Tracked We just received a press release from the Northern California chapter of the ACLU via our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seems Brittan School District of Sutter, California (about an hour north
