SF News Newsom Calls Chu "Naïve" -- Well, Sort Of No, not Frank Chu -- although a Gav versus a crazy would be most fascinating, indeed -- Carmen Chu. Let's back up a bit here: In her first hickory-bold move since taking over
SF News Call Off Your Old Tired Eth-- Oh, For A Golden Shower I Charge $250, Baby The Mayor shot down the legislation. saying that "legalization of prostitution would be a terrible mistake," because of...bad stuff happening around security gates, or security cameras, or something like that. He does
Arts & Entertainment Bike Plan Injunction Injunction, What's Your Function? Where's the beef? See you after the jump.
misc Week Around the -ists The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 06 It's like two SFist Finds in one day, isn't it? Lucky you. And you all have been so clever and creative with the images you tag "SFist" as of late. Why, it almost
misc Week Around the -Ists The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times
SF News Muni's Guide to the Weekend: Fervent Believers Everyone's behaving a little bit funny this weekend, and it's throwing the city's transit into a tizzy. An absolute tizzy! We haven't been this tizzied in MONTHS. First, there's Critical Mass. Lots of
SF News Gavin Newsom: Chubby Chaser Gavin wants your fat. According to Renewable Energy Access, yesterday our dear Mayor implemented a new program that will collect fats, oil, and grease from the city restaurants free of charge.Why? So
SF News Where Have All the Good Budget Times Gone? It's kinda like on the "the Wire" when the outgoing Mayor decided to get revenge on the guy who beat him in the Mayoral Race by not telling anyone that the educational system
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle of life.
SF News SF Rapist/Kidnapper Nabbed at Transbay Terminal From November 16 to November 18, Denton Geiger, 42, a San Francisco resident, held his (ex)girlfriend captive in their former home, where beat and raped her. (Jesus.) According to the Examiner, "Geiger
SF News More SF Cabs: Nothing Could Be Finer Than Doing a 69er Earlier, the cab commission did a study and discovered that -- get this -- it's really hard to find a cab in the city. Really. Who knew? In fact, the study showed that
SF News What Becomes a Yoshi's Most? If you didn't know, San Francisco has the most cheery pockmark on its record: the "Negro removal" period. During this time historic buildings were torn down and black Western Addition residents were shooed
SF News Smash-and-Grabs Slowed Perhaps in an effort to appease the masses for screwing them over on insane parking ticket allocations, the San Francisco Police Department, the Mayor's Office, and city prosecutors are working together to stop
SF News The Gays Take It In the End This afternoon, Cloutier gave his first (though unofficial) victory speech as well as his first public mea culpa. He called his Palm Spring bout of being blotto a "foolish mistake." (Also, he's kind
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: Being Prepared for Not Being Prepared: Grocery Stores Open Late? Every year at Thanksgiving, you're bound to forget one or two critical items. A shallot, cooking twine, mushrooms, Ketel One -- something will slip your mind and you run the risk of having
SF News Paper Bag Coverage With stations like KTVU reporting live at the scene, don't be surprised to find Claudine Wong in your face as the checker bags your condoms, okra, and 2-for-1 enema packs. And if you
SF News "Oracle World Wasted My Ambien!" Who knew living in a city would be so noisy? We received a few messages this morning regarding mass sleeplessness due to last night's Oracle Open World finale. Even the enchanting Stevie Nick's
SF News A Tale of Two Quarterbacks If there's anybody in the city taking more heat than Mike Nolan, it's his quarterback, Alex Smith. Smith stands accused by the Faithful of not very being good. The evidence? Overthrowing Receivers. Underthrowing
SF News Pierre Valley: A Real Neighborhood After All It seems that there is enough evidence to support the neighborhood's existence. Despite its odd pronunciation, which is meant to rhyme with Noe Valley (which we question, since PV has seemingly seceded from
SF News MISO Confused On a recent cab ride to the airport, we picked up the November issue of TODO: Little Guide. Big Town. for kicks. After scanning the restaurant, bar, and shopping guides, we came across
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Nice package. -- Of Montreal: Someone was talking of this art-rock outfit the other night -- quite controversially, in fact -- and we thought that they were talking about the city in Canada.
SF News Payback's A Whiny Brat With Chris Daly focusing on the birth of his second child (congrats, Chris and Sarah!), SF Board of Supes prez Aaron Peskin has manfully taken over the essential city function of provoking District
misc Week Around the -Ists Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of
SF News Political Junkie: How's That Election Count Going? Sorry we've been gone from the scene for so long -- yes, we've been swamped at work, but honestly, we've been so dispirited with this particular election cycle lately, we figured we were
