misc Meet The Kinks At issue is the fact that a building that's been abandoned since the early 70's and was usually a source of much controversy whenever somebody sniffed around to develop it could be sold
SF News The Yale Choral Group Story At Yale First the good news. In the grand tradition of show biz, the show went on and the choir group was able to continue on in their West Coast tour. That's why they were
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Andrew from Trainwreck Riders Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Too many great remember-able shows to pick, but the last GREAT show was this past New Year's Eve at Balazo gallery here in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Jennifer Koh. To drive the point home, SF Performances is inviting Jennifer Koh to perform this Saturday at Herbst theater. Jennifer Koh is an outstanding violinist who is totally committed to an exciting, modern, living
misc Norman Yee On The Mend Turns out Norman Yee is an avid salsa dancer, and was crossing Bryant and 4th that Tuesday with the light in his favor to get to a local club (maybe the Glas Kat?
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
misc New Year's Bash The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
SF News Your Fun MUNI Story of the Day We got this story from Friend of SFist, Ian about his MUNI adventure over the weekend. We were on a 43 bus last night that was hit by a drunk driver on Haight
SF News Not a Good Day to Be Leaving the Office Chen is stopping over in SF on his way to Nicarauga for an inauguration. Seven months ago, he was denied a request to enter the U.S. and was told he had to
SF News And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire The fire rings would be designated places where bonfires could happen. There would be signs letting everyone know what the deal is with the hope that people would only build bon fires in
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
Arts & Entertainment Wanna Buy a House? What can you expect? Well floor plans and pictures and asking prices for the homes of such noted celebrities as Larry Ellison (his Japanese temple home is up for sale-- it's only $16
SF News Breaking Up is the New Black (and Orange) With Gavin Newsom out of town, it's good to know the ladies of SF are this much closer to stalking Barry Zito. Unless he starts taking after his father, Joe Zito, anytime soon:
SF News The Best Little Whorehouse In Redwood City The two allegedy were running the whorehouse under the guise of one of those Asian massage parlors. To advertise, they ran ads on Craigslist and in print publications like the SF Weekly, the
SF News I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates Ahhh....roller rinks. If they play "Waiting For a Girl Like You" and all the girls wear leg warmers, it'll be like 7th grade again. The idea behind all of this is David
SF News There Ain't No Party Like a Pelosi Party If the sun is shining a bit brighter and the birds are chirping a bit chirpier it could only be because today is a big day-- as of this posting, our little Nancy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No Scones For You The ban is being done in half the country, including SF. By the end of the year, Starbucks hopes to be totally fat free around the country. Turns out, Starbucks has been working
Arts & Entertainment A Little San Francisco History On PBS Every now and then, we try to watch the national news so we'll get the jokes on the Daily Show the next day. So, even though Comedy Central's fake news outlets are on
SF News New Rules The biggest one is an increase in the minimum wage, from $6.75 an hour to $7.50. Next year, it'll go up to $8. In San Francisco, however, the minimum wage is
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
Arts & Entertainment What's Up For the New Year So with that in mind, what is there to do tomorrow night? Well, we don't know actually as it's looking like it'll be movie night, but for those of you looking to go
Arts & Entertainment The Funeral Procession SFist Jim Herd just got back from taking a couple of photos of the procession and funeral of slain police officer Bryan Tuvera. SFGate also has great photos of the funeral. Below is
