Arts & Entertainment Interview Redux: John Vanderslice Hopefully you've gotten your ticket to check out John Vanderslice at the Independent tonight as part of the Noise Pop festivities. If not.... get it now. To help remind you of why you
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Our Composite Picture! From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from
misc Bay Area Wanderer: This One's For You, Peter; No Matter Your Name Today * Bay Area Wanderer: Market and Church, San FranciscoPadding through the Castro a couple days back before the rain came to town, a familiar name turned our head. Was your inspiration, Peter Ragone? Or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The East-Bay Pizza Round-Up: Cheeseboard, Zachary’s and Gioia But as we continue to search for the perfect pizza true to our east coast roots (our hearts belong to New Haven, CT brick ovens), we are happy to report that what we’
Arts & Entertainment We Love The Pretty Maps The map to your right (from this analysis) is the percentage of people ranking more than one choice in the supervisorial races in November -- but we just think it's awfully pretty. We
SF News Toyota Craps up Your Neighborhood As we were taking the above picture, we spotted a municipal clean-up-crew guy sweeping some more mini-posters off of the street and into a trash bin. So, we hope you enjoyed this advertising
SF News A Hella Good Fight Over a Helipad First the details. In 2003, the San Francisco’s Health Commission approved a plan to build a helipad on SF General. The target date for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was 2005. It
Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
SF News She Sells Sanctuary A recent wave of immigration sweeps (or, as Indy Bay calls it "Gestapo Immigration Raiders") is creating a bit of a fuss not only in San Francisco but throughout the Peninsula and East
Arts & Entertainment Kamala Harris addresses Immigrant Resources Fair San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris spoke before a crowd assembled at the Centro Del Pueblo auditorium in the Mission today. Her primary message to the community was that people should not
SF News Carrying To Term Dufty says the reason why he's doing this is because a more experienced Supervisor means a better Supervisor. He's also proposing it to keep people from constantly scheming about what other position they
Arts & Entertainment Tim Goodman's On The Podwaves Consider this a favor, fans of television, from SFist to you: Tim Goodman, superb TV critic from the San Francisco Chronicle, has a podcast. He's calling it The TV Talk Machine. If you've
SF News Leno v. Migden: It's On! Gavin, Schmavin -- bored now. Call us when a shorn-headed Gavin goes bananas outside Kimberly Guilfoyle's house and starts whacking an SUV with a bright-green umbrella! (Maybe Britney was just looking a little
Arts & Entertainment A New Chef at B Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New
SF News Welcome to the Machines But before we sign anything, the city is asking Sequioa systems, the makers of the machines, two things. One is a paper trail, something that has been a large source of controversy because
SF News Gavin Speaks! The big money quote? Gavin channeling Popeye to say "I am who I am, imperfect and a work in progress." He also denied cocaine use, said he was going to Delancey Street almost
Arts & Entertainment Haight Ashbury Free Clinics’ Integrated Care Center Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Inc.CEO John Eckstrom, Board Chair Eric Flowers, and Barbara Garcia of the S.F. Department of Public Health all addressed the crowd of over 100 on Mission Street
SF News Papercut's Jason Quever Papercuts open for Grizzly Bear at GAMH tonight show starts at 8 pm. Best show you've ever played and what made it great? The Independent: really nice sound people. Best venue in the
SF News Irony Alert Way back when, in days of yore, Alex Tourk and Gavin Newsom were friends and worked on projects together, like San Francisco Connect. And so they decided to that in order to get
SF News Another Month, Another Muni Payout The other $15,000 gets split between Tokuko ($6,000) and State Farm ($8,917.83). Tokuko's claim relates to some personal injury and property damage done by a bus in 2005, and
SF News Best MUNI Line Poll Vote early, vote often and the winner will be announced on Friday. PS- the Ask a MUNI Driver feature will appear tomorrow. We're too hungover to post it today. Get Free Opinion Polls
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
misc Ist-travaganza! We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be
SF News Gavin Newsom's Next Trip Gavin's trip is occasioned by the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's sister city relationship with Osaka, and he's going with a delegation of 45 people, including Jeff Adachi and Ross Mirkarimi (we know,
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
