misc SFist Rants: Kids In Public Boy, do we feel like a grumpy old man writing this. According to a recent AP article, only 14.5% of the population in San Francisco are children under 18. This is the
SF News Yeeeeeeeaaaaargh! Whatever you might have thought about Howard Dean when he was running for president, you gotta admit that he's been hi-LA-rious!!! as the chair of the Democratic National Committee! Saying Republicans have never
misc SFist Blotter/Animal Roundup Nick Faibish's mauling continues to send shock waves across the city -- Gavin Newsom's announced that he's starting a panel to look into possible restrictions on pit bull ownership in San Francisco. Gavin
SF News Your San Francisco Giants: When Bad Things Happen to Bad Teams The Giants lost every conceivable way possible-- bad hitting, bad pitching, and bad base running. To add insult to injury, they lost two games against the Phillies on bad calls. Oh, their shiny
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 Happy Birthday, Matt Gonzalez! Pictured is, of course, local lightning rod Chris Daly and his wife Sarah who, appropriately enough, is wearing SFist's "Mrs. Chris Daly" tee (buy one today). We'd like to let Sarah know that
SF News Wanted: New MUNI Boss Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took
Arts & Entertainment I Can't Believe It's Not New York And for those friends visiting via Google, let us add: Rosario Dawson naked!...Maybe. We couldn't spot that in the trailer either, but we've got our fingers crossed.
misc Bay Blogger... Friday Jennifer over at Life Begins at Thirty spent last week blogging about food. Of course, lots of people do that, including SFist. But what made this exceptional is that it was as part
Arts & Entertainment Review: Los Hombres Calientes So did the seven piece band live up to its name? Well, consider this. It was a lovely San Francisco late spring day, in the low to mid 60s and seriously breezy. But
Arts & Entertainment Pop Parody: Ron English at Varnish Fine Art Known as the father of "agit-pop," English juxtaposes a highly critical political sensibility with modern advertising techniques, using his message to alter their meaning. Aided by an extended family of subverts, the artist
SF News SFist Goes South For The Abu Dhabi This past weekend we made our way down to Long Beach for the Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Wrestling World Championships. A competition between the best submission wrestlers, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practioners, and Judo
Arts & Entertainment The Sights and Sounds of Carnaval Listen to our little audioblog medley of the sounds of Carnaval (warning: may induce dancing) by downloading it via BitTorrent (you can get BitTorrent right here). After the jump, some of our photos
SF News Kimberly Guilfoyle Hemmer? Court TV's Kimberly Guilfoyle — who moved here in January after filing for divorce from her workaholic husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom — recently met CNN anchor Bill Hemmer, sources say. The two have
SF News The 49ers Gone Wild Ace public relations director Kirk Reynolds, pictured in the photo still of the video, created it and stars in it. Surprisingly, he is now currently looking for a new job and for the
SF News Ewwwwwwwww! Okay, SFist was already a little grossed out by the very idea of "The Universe Within" show at the Masonic auditorium. Leave it to some German dude to come up with a way
misc SFist Cares ... About the Long Weekend Memorial Day is also meant to honour those service men and women who have died in military service to the United States. Memorial Day services will be held at the Presidio, at the
SF News Sympathy From California Supremes? Three estranged lesbian couples presented their cases to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco yesterday, seeking legal clarification [via The Legal Reader] on their rights as parents. Two women are seeking custody
SF News Got Housing? First, there are several battles over the tearing down of old buildings to be replaced by condos. Among the buildings being fought over is an abandoned cottage, an old abandoned theater, and an
Arts & Entertainment High Varnish Meticulously crafted as it was, we were ready to dismiss the horse as yet another nod to art star Maurizio Cattelan’s use of taxidermy in contemporary art, when we learned that A.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz has been in they Bay Area since 1987, when she was an undergrad at UC Berkeley. She stayed on and did a Ph.D. at Berkeley, where she edited a book
Arts & Entertainment Asian Heritage Street Celebration In the email we received from the organizers, we're told "You'll enjoy...LIVE ENTERTAINMENT...FOOD...VENDORS...ARTS & CRAFTS...MARTIAL ARTS...ANIME...J CAR GATHERING AND MORE!" Hey, it's in all-caps so you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Literary Events We first heard of Tayari Jones when we read her novel , which details the coming-of-age experiences of three children under the shadow of the (recently reopened) Atlanta child murders. We've been reading reviews
