SF News The Day After the Day After So you're Alex Tourk. Everything is fine and honky dorky until your wife, out of the blue, admits to having a fling with not only your boss but one of your best buddies.
Arts & Entertainment Happy Friday Since this week has been so crazy, we thought we'd spread some good vibes out there. Remember, folks, if you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
SF News The Day After One day after Gavin's big My Bad moment, the big question is what does this all mean for him, the city, and his reelection bid. After all, as bad as this all sounds,
Arts & Entertainment Assessor-Recorder Swearing In SFist Jim stopped by the swearing-in for San Francisco assessor-recorder (and buzzed-about mayoral possibility?) Phil Ting last night and snapped these pictures for us. Yes, that is a subdued-looking Gavin Newsom, hiding in
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 Meet John Nelson Hey everyone, in the midst of all this Ruby Rippey-Tourk madness, guess who showed up for a photo session and interview with the Chron? That's right -- Peter Ragone's best friend and your
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 Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute Complaints were made because the increased street cleaning would mean increased amounts of time people had to go out and move their cars. It might also affect business in the area as it
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Teams Are? Let's just say relations between the 49ers and San Francisco could be a bit better right now. The legal claim is basically saying the city of San Francisco was your everyday basic slumlord
SF News ...And They Have a Plan In order to do this, we'll need to do things like go bike riding instead of driving, use car pool lanes, plant more trees and keep those trees that we have from dying,
misc Of Human Bondage in the Mission There's a hitch in all of this in that there's really nothing anyone can do about it. It was a private sale so no public hearing was needed and as Kink.com doesn't
SF News What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down So here's the numbers: in the three years that Gavin has been Mayor and Heather Fong the Police Commissioner, San Francisco has averaged 90 homicides and 23.5 homicide arrests a year. That's
misc Bay Area Wanderer: Diamond Strollin' * Bay Area Wanderer: Diamond near Bosworth, San FranciscoCafes, little music stores, and families out for a stroll.The late afternoon light cut the hillside into squares.More like a small town than a
SF News Your Commute: Onwards and Upwards to Phase II MOLRP is a two-year project to replace the overhead electrical lines in the subways. Phase I fixed the electrical lines in the underground from the Embarcadero to the Church Station and Phase 2
Arts & Entertainment LA to SF in Three Minutes Flat Thanks to our sister site LAist, we present this cool YouTube clip of a group of friends travelling from LA to San Francisco in three minutes through the magic of editing. It's kind
SF News Naomi Campbell's In Town Drew Altizer generously passed along some pictures he took of Naomi Campbell, who was in town yesterday (maybe also today, we can't find any information about her itinerary online). Man, Gavin is kicking
Arts & Entertainment Octavia Blvd: A dangerous illegal turn every 3 minutes. Yet another morning commuter makes an illegal right turn onto the new freeway onramp at Octavia this morning. Monday's serious accident at the intersection of Octavia and Market is focusing attention upon drivers
Arts & Entertainment A Veritable Cinema How DARE you suggest that independent movies are pretentious, self-satisfied, masturbatory, and heavy-handed? What an accusation. Just glance at the SF Indie Fest's puke-green website, which just struggled to life a few days
SF News Free Parking According to Budget Analyst Harvey Rose San Francisco's 23,000 meters or so average between $2.61 and $5.59 a day. That's about three hours of usage on the meters. Over the
Arts & Entertainment I'm From Rolling Stone We finally got around to watching MTV's "I'm From Rolling Stone", the Almost Famous-meets-The Hills-meets-The Apprentice reality show about six twenty somethings who get "the internship of a lifetime": a summer associate position
SF News Bikes on Octavia As a result, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is not happy. Not happy at all. They are demanding something to be done about that particular intersection at Octavia and Market Street and to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Ask Me, Don't Tell Me Boing Boing tips us off to this awesome short 1961 film about juvenile delinquency, and how gangs can help curb the trend towards teenage lawlessness. And by "gangs" we mean "clubs," as that's
SF News Cold Case: San Francisco Two people were arrested this morning in San Francisco, and others were arrested in Los Angeles, Florida, and New York. Two more are already in prison and a ninth is wanted but has
SF News Greening San Francisco Bring your own bag Paper bags are just as bad as plastic in their own way, so whenever possible, bring your own bag to the grocery store. Pretty much every grocery store carries
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Salivates on the Opera's Next Season. Gockley had made changes, some good like moving the subtitles back to the top; some great like the live videocast on the civic center plaza; some so-so, like the redesign of the visual
