SF News Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She
Arts & Entertainment Don't Borrow Trouble SFist Jim is going to kill us, since he sent us these pictures on the promise that we'd write something up about the panel that Sen. Leland Yee (above) and Assessor Phil Ting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Anti-War Protest As previously reported, SFist Jim went to the anti-war rally and took these pictures. More after the jump
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the St. Patrick's Day Parade Before the mayhem began, SFist Jim checked out the St. Patrick's Day parade. After the jump, more photos including Carole Migden getting into it.
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Na Kamalei: The Men Of Hula</i> The moving and inspirational has the distinction of being the first movie to sell out in this year's San Francisco Int'l Asian-American Film Festival -- and the buzz only got better once the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to WonderCon SFist Jim took in the action at this week's WonderCon and took these photos. We'll have a report on WonderCon from Rain sometime tomorrow. More pictures after the jump
Arts & Entertainment Asianweek Fallout We've heard the self-proclaimed "Voice of Asian America," and it's apologizing profusely. SFist Jim stopped by yesterday's NAACP press conference with Amos Brown (.mp3 of his comments) and a shell-shocked Asianweek editor-at-large Ted
Arts & Entertainment Hail Fellow Well Met Check out the hailstone that SFist Jim captured on film at around 9:07 p.m. in the Haight! In his poetic phrasing, "bigger than a bb, smaller than a lemon drop." This
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
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
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 Blue Tie Alert! Not only a blue tie alert, but it sounds like maybe the SFWall got Gavin and Joanna Newsom mixed up in their reports earlier this week that our mayor was in Japan --
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
Arts & Entertainment The Boston Ad Prank People Speak Thanks to SFist Jim, we got this YouTube clip from today's press conference involving the people who dreamed up the Alqueda Teen Force thing from yesterday. Apparently, their lawyers told them not to
SF News Smush Bush At the anti-war protest this afternoon, we heard three young girls gleefully chanting "Smush Bush! Smush Bush!" and figured that was as good of a title for a post about today's activities as
Arts & Entertainment Blue Tie Alert! SFist Jim snapped this picture of Gavin Newsom swearing in the latest batch of city commissioners this afternoon. SFMike has his usual tart lowdown on the actual event -- along with more pictures
Arts & Entertainment MLK Day in S.F.: A Day On, Not A Day Off Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows off her new gavel at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast in San Francisco this morning. This was Pelosi's first time back in her home district after
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Sculpture Competition SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course,
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
Arts & Entertainment It's Back to School Day for the Board of Supervisors Today was opening day for the Board of Supervisors as it were as today was the first day of work for 2007. First up? The voting in of a new President who happens
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
Arts & Entertainment The First Storm Of the Season SFist Jim braved the weather to take these photos of yesterday's storm
SF News Who's Got Questions? As you know, this correspondent is unabashedly in favor of this election season's Proposition I Question Time -- because we're in favor of anything that makes local politics entertaining! (We can discuss offline
SF News Your Commute: Cars There was a huge accident on eastbound I-80 today, near Pinole -- a five-car pileup. It originally started when a Civic spun out in the fast lane and was hit by a Camry.
SF News Jerry Tang, One Year Later Tonight, his wife held a vigil in Golden Gate Park to remind people that Jerry is still missing and to encourage people to keep looking for him. Jerry Tang had suffered a stroke
