Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Toddler Who Bargains Like The Tea Party CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos Well, the Republicans maybe did not get to torpedo our credit rating and burn down Congress today, but they may yet still. Please enjoy this clever little bit of
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Meager Turnout At Tea Party Rally In San Francisco Grandparents from across the Bay Area gathered in Justin Herman Plaza on Saturday to protest the national debt, President Barack Obama, and fashion élan. Members danced to music, applauded vitriolic speeches, and waved
Arts & Entertainment Tea Party Rally At Justin Herman Plaza This Saturday On Saturday, the country's foremost group on anti-government paranoia will descend upon Justin Herman Plaza on to protest the national debt. (Pst, it's tax day on Sunday Tuesday, April 17.) Are we talking
SF News Michele Bachmann to Talk in S.F. on October 20th For those who've been looking for a chance to ask Republican Presidential Candidate and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann some questions about her enlightening views on HPV vaccinations and race without contributing their hard-earned
SF News SF Young Republicans Hosting Tea Party Rally? Huh. We're a bit surprised (and saddened) to see the SF Young Republicans are helping host a Tea Party Patriots rally tonight at Justin Herman Plaza. We didn't think SFYR supported anti-gay industry
SF News Comment of the Day: Tea Party Parody SFist commenter fizzandpop captures the mule-like tone of the entertaining Tea Party sect via the following comment on President Barack Obama's re-election bid. Behold: I think he's going to have a fight on
SF News Leland Yee Receives Racist, Faxed Death Threat Sen. Leland Yee received some sort of death threat today - a faxed death threat, no less - after performance artist Rush Limbaugh's humor-free tirade about the Chinese language. "The threats to the
SF News Crosshair Map Cover of The Stranger This Week, Created by Dan Savage and Aaron Huffman While no one in their right mind could accuse Sarah Palin of fostering an environment of violence that resulted in Saturday's Arizona shooting rampage - as SFist dutifully noted, accused shooter Jared Lee
SF News PG&E SmartMeters Threaten Your Freedom, Say the Tea Partiers Members of a local Tea Party group the North Bay Patriots have started gathering the necessary tin hat materials after deciding that PG&E's new SmartMeters are "a threat to public health,
misc Sarah Palin Event Banner at Castro Gas Station Oh gee, this is rich. It seems that the independent gas station at the Castro/Market intersection (opposite the Chevron station) put up this Sarah Palin sign today, one that advertises the Alaskan
SF News Crazed Right-Wing Shooter Targeted S.F. Tides Foundation, ACLU Oakland resident Tuolumne County man Byron Williams, 45, arrested for a shootout with CHP on Saturday, "was reportedly heading to San Francisco to target individuals at liberal nonprofit the Tides Foundation and the
SF News Shootout With Heavily Armed, Crazed Right-Winger Shuts Down I-580 for Most of Sunday A parolee hellbent on killing San Francisco, or something, began a shootout with CHP officers Saturday night in Oakland that shut down I-580 through most of Sunday. The freeway was shut down in
SF News Kiss-In at Harvey Milk Plaza on Monday Anything and everything but kissing on the lips, you say? We hear that. But, come next Monday, you might change your tune. SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi brings word that the Castro will play
SF News Morgan Hill: The New Breeding Ground for Racist Teen Tea Party-ers Five teenage boys showed up at school yesterday at Live Oaks High in Morgan Hill wearing American flag t-shirts in order to express their "patriotism" on Cinco de Mayo. The school principal called
SF News Just How Big Is the Tea Party in the East Bay? On April 15th, the various Tea Party factions of the East Bay organized an event at the Alameda County Fairgrounds that allegedly drew 10,000 people. Skeptical of what this meant, East Bay
SF News Leland Yee's Racist, Homophobic Messages from Sarah Palin Zealots Though touched upon in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, we thought we'd share it with you in a separate post since it's a peek inside the heart of the former VP candidate cum
SF News SF 'Tea Party' Protest Pics While not every rally in San Francisco is newsworthy, Thursday's 'tea day' tax filing day protest in Union Square was unique due to its heavy right-wing tint. (Other than anti-abortion rallies and lynchings,
SF News 'Tea Party' Tax Filing Day Protests In SF Tea party folks plan on protesting the blacks and the gays tax day today with two protests in San Francisco: one at Union Square (from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.) and
SF News NorCal Man Arrested for Threatening Nancy Pelosi A Northern California man was arrested in connection with making "threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform." Sparked by racist hate group The Tea Party (let's just say)
SF News Racist Street Art Found at Oakland Church The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension on Lincoln Avenue in Oakland was vandalized with hateful graffiti over the weekend. A giant swastika, dirty words and "other racial epithets" were, according to CBS
misc Week Around the -Ists Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. As LAist melts away in their
