SF News Political Junkie: Across the Bay Your intrepid junkie takes the lower deck of the Emperor Norton to report on some news from the Oakland City Council: city councilman Danny Wan, who represents Oakland's District 3 (Grand Lake and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Drives Thru Does the concept of a drive-thru window for your morning coffee sound odd? Not so odd in Beantown. It's an interesting juxtaposition. The Boston and San Francisco areas have many similarities -- they
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+Kim (you all breathe
SF News Craigslist -- Newspaper Killer We’ve often thought of Craiglist as being many things- place to buy furniture, place to look for apartments, and a place to try and find casual sex, but there’s one thing
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
SF News Mazel Tov, Gavin It’s been quite a year for the Gavster. Elected by a slim majority, Gavin let a few gay people get married and the next thing you know, he’s blown up across
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
Arts & Entertainment GTA: San Andreas Review - San Fierro Edition [Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] We loved the last Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. The eighties music and cars, the neon glow of faux deco, the
SF News Proposition It II - Election Boogaloo As Lionel Richie would say “Karamu, fiesta, forever/Come on and sing along." Proposition 63- Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax on Personal Incomes Above $1 Million. This measure basically calls for funding
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Give Snark a Chance - Join SFist! Actually, we might pay, but you'll have to accept a postdated check for 2010 or so - kind of like having stock options. We do offer an engaged readership, a lax editorial policy,
SF News Yes, We Had No Banana Far be it from us to post stories making some spurious claim about some noted official and then disappear whenever they try to defend themselves. So when said noted official tries to defend
misc Getting Hitched Those of you paying attention may have noticed the lack of a certain warm, witty, and meticulous voice of reason on theater, social issues, and graphic design on this site as of late
misc All Tied Up With the Essefficist You may recall from our post on Tuesday that the Essefficist is working on answering our colleague Rita's question as to how the Power Exchange works. While we still haven't heard back from
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Brings It But that's really not where the action is. Not even close. Sean Penn, in fact, just might have set off one humdinger of a Celebrity Spat as it also involves Matt Stone &
misc Tit for Tat with the Essefficist Tuesday is here again, and so is the Essefficist, but only to tease and titillate you, dear reader. Every once in a while it takes a little longer than we'd like to gather
SF News East Bay Pro-Choice Doctor Targeted All of the doctor's neighbors within two or three blocks of the doctor's North Oakland home have been receiving letters accusing their neighbor of "perpetuating the American Holocaust" and "bringing the shame of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist -- A Porn Star? SexSmarts consists of having players or teams answer questions having to do with all areas of sexual pleasure. The cards used fall into one of four categories -- Bodies, Dirty Talk, Carnal Culture,
SF News This Week in SFist Barry Bonds has done it! Steven Williams of Pacifica emerged from the scrum with the ball, which some have valued at two million bucks. SFist hopes that a least a little of that
SF News Gettin Jiggy With It While drinking some beer and reading some of our favorite blogs, we stumbled across this Reuters item linked to from The Wit and Wisdom of Martin Van Buren, who generally has the ability
SF News Me Love You Long NY Times The article has that arch tone of "oh those wacky Californians," but SFist would like to point out that those hotbeds of New Age, Granola-crunching, Yoga-posing Hippiedom, Nevada and Germany, have decriminalized prostitution
SF News The Legal Battle for Same-Sex Marriage in California Pushes Forward SFist wishes the plaintiffs great success at tearing down one of the most noxious legal forms of discrimination that are still on the books. For more information about the battle, go to Marriage
misc The Essefficist Needs Your Help We here at the Essefficist, SFist's weekly question-and-answer/advice column, have been striving to bring you honest answers to life's nagging questions for the past couple of weeks now. However, we're a little
SF News O Tannenbaum San Francisco has one less shady spot, as city workers stripped down a 100-foot pine tree in the Tenderloin. The pride and joy of city arborists, the tree was the only 'loin-area tree
