SF News Homeless in the Park, I Think It Was the 4th of July Mayor McDreamy himself went to take a tour of the park and said the park was "looking good" and talked about how this is going to be an ongoing project. He also said
SF News Punked We jumped. About ten feet it felt like, bug eyed and scared. If we were a cartoon character, our hair would be drawn straight up and our eyes would be shooting out of
SF News Short Coattails Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with
SF News Your Commute: Look Out Below! The bus driver, driving towards the Castro, was tooling up the steep Noe Street hill between 29th and Valley when the electric bus was blocked by the offending garbage truck. The truck driver
SF News This Month In God Beyond that, there's not much news in this month's issue; some blah-blah-blah about cloning, something about the Freemasons trying to destroy everything, and two locals are suing the city for violating the Establishment
Arts & Entertainment Take The Greats You Greedy Rakes, But Please Leave Your Mistakes at SwapSF on Saturday While gone, we were remiss in properly pimping an haute fashion event put on by Friends of SFist Jason and Monica. But with a method to our madness, knowing from experience that you
Arts & Entertainment To Stay Or To Go Everyone goes through phases where they think: am I to think that I can afford to live in this city any longer? You spend so much for these teeny-weeny houses, the public schools
SF News Halloween 2006 Online Discussions Other blogs discussing the situation were the Chron's NWSCHIK blog (does that stand for "Newschick?") and SF MetBlogs. MetBlogs also sent us to the LGBT blog Pam's House Blend. Some other folks making
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: David Kiddoo Who are you, what do you do, and where do you live? My name is David Kiddoo, and I live in Laurel Heights. I currently work as a project manager for a nonprofit
SF News Oakland Not a Safe Place To Be California represents all over the study. The third most dangerous city is Compton and Richmond is eleventh. San Francisco, you know the city that's averaging almost a shooting every-other day came in at
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 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
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Hills Fire, 15 Years Later We weren't living in California at the time, but we remember the Cal student in our dorm the next semester telling us her harrowing stories of escaping with nothing more than her cat
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
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 Political Junkie: You're E-Vited! That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Takes a Look at 7 X 7's Hot 20 Under 40 So who are these hot people? Do we know any of them? How does one become hot? Are we hot? So we took a looksee and read through just who was hot. There
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
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
Arts & Entertainment Mahler Symphony No. 5 Mahler's 5th Symphony is one of his most famous works: the 4th movement, Adagietto, became super popular as the soundtrack of Visconti's Death in Venice, and the whole piece has an epic, cinematic
SF News Surprise! Yesterday was the big 39 for the head executive officer of the city and county of San Francisco -- so what better way to celebrate than with a surprise party in City Hall,
misc Let's Go See Some Art at SF Open Studios His first correctional glasses offered Mark a new view of the world, inspiring his obsession with imagery and illustrations. During his downtime on early tours with DEVO, he began illustrating on postcards to
SF News Political Junkie: Hair Of The Mayor That Bit You Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back to the swept-back, visible-comb-lines-through-the-front (scroll down), crunchy-gelled 'do you all
SF News Bush Ter Down! This is part of an international 190-city protest against the Iraq War (with 70 of the cities are in states that voted for Bush in 2004). They've been organizing on MySpace, and distributing
