misc Sunday Pictures You know, even the most hardened Political Junkies get a little bored with the upcoming election every now and then -- and it's such a beautiful day today! We're putting down the Voter
SF News American Football Spectacular: Weak Points And The Art Of Inertia Don't forget to wake up as early as you care to on November 1 to go grab cheap candy at the store! Here at American Football Spectacular we are big fans of cheap
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Bevan Dufty I guess the first question should be is what is your reaction to critics who say you don't vote progessive enough for a progessive district? Many people view the Board of Supervisors in
SF News State Of The City Address The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City.
SF News Take A Walk on the Polk Side To remedy the situation, officials are planning on adding historic street lamps (ooohhh) and planting more trees to pretty the place up. There is also a call for a moratorium on liquor stores
SF News Marina Progressives Stand Up! Alioto-Pier (our reigning champion in the SFist Hottest Supervisor contest) is basically running unopposed, with only one declared opponent, Vilma Guinto Peoro, whose interview with the Chron was tactfully described as "free-wheeling," and
Arts & Entertainment Where's Leslie? Sometime a few weeks ago, Dennis Richmond's co-anchor stopped being Dennis Richmond's co-anchor and was nowhere to be found. For weeks, the word from KTVU had been only that she was taking a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: District 8 Candidate Alix Rosenthal Alix is an attorney and civil servant, known for her love of burning man, her advocacy for SF's handgun ban, and for being of a generally lefty-artsy disposition. And with BeyondChron pointing out
SF News So Fresh and So Clean San Francisco just received a grant of $1.8 million dollars that will go to helping clean up the streets in certain neighborhoods. The program, called the Community Corridor program, is already being
SF News Don't Recycle Those Mailers! Since Greg doesn't live in an even-numbered district, he's asking in particular for any good Districts 4 and 6 mailers, or anything "freaky" from District 8 -- but will accept all your flyers
SF News SF Cable Cars: Not Climbing Halfway to the Stars Today Tourists looking for that oh so wonderul, oh so expensive cable car ride today were disappointed to discover that the Hyde Street and Mason Street cable cars were down this morning and still
SF News Debate the Power Special props go out to Berg who in giving his comments about there being no debate, compared the whole thing to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march from Selma to Birmingham. He then
SF News We Got an Earthquake Plan The 100 page plus plan includes details on staging areas using big, wide open spaces such as AT&T Park, Candlestick Park, Pier 48 and Crissy Field. Also listed are possible shelter
Arts & Entertainment Thibaudet/Bychkov at the Symphony Bychkov opened with Last Round, a two movement piece by Osvaldo Golijov, a 45yo Argentinian composer who now lives in Massachussetts, the first time this piece was played in San Francisco. The piece
SF News Your Commute: Oracle Open World, Oracle Closed Streets Also, all the crosswalk lights have been extended an extra 10 seconds in all directions. Who knew you could pay the city to do that? We're going to take up a collection and
SF News Sandra Day "Jay Z" O'Connor O'Connor's doing a tour of the country -- she also recently sat on the 2nd Circuit (based in New York), and is planning on visiting the 8th Circuit (based in St. Louis). She's
SF News We Said, Now We've Got Our Magic Bus The main component of the plan is to have a bus-only lane for the buses. Obviously, the thinking is that one of the main things that holds up buses is traffic and evil
SF News Bill O'Reilly Spreads the Love Last week, San Francisco's #1 fan, Bill O'Reilly finally told his elderly and half-senile audience just what "San Francisco Values" are. And what are they? Well, let's go to the transcript, shall we?
SF News Beautiful City, Ugly Buildings Rybczynski throws us a couple bones (he hypothesizes that part of the problem with architecture in SF may be that the city is already too pretty, and notes that also-gorgeous Rio has horrible
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SF News Big Ballot, Big Ballot, Talk About Bum Cakes, Out State's Got 'Em Let's look at the ballots we've gotten so far. The state ballot this year clocks in at 192 pages, same as the city of San Francisco ballot. Let's see, that's...eight...carry the
SF News The SFist Guide To The SF Propositions If you're looking for better-informed information than the cursory one-sentence summaries we're going to provide to you after the jump, check out the SF Dept. of Elections and the San Francisco League of
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Dunk Tank! The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming
SF News The SFist Guide To The State Propositions As always, post your thoughts, corrections, and challenges to our supposed neutrality in the comments. [As you may remember, we have a mandate of nonpartisanship from our publisher, which is why we're never
SF News American Football Spectacular: AFC West Beatings Ahoy! * San Diego at San Francisco Sunday, October 15, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 06 The Battle Of The Sans OK, after battling back against the Raiders and winning the Battle Of The
