SF News He Will Win, But He Wants To Win By More We want to turn out as many voters as possible on election day, so that Mayor Newsom can continue to make government more responsive, effective and accountable. But, we need your help. There
misc Week Around the -Ists Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant -
Arts & Entertainment VIDEO OVERLOAD: 9/11 Memorial At SF State Goes Awry Readers, sorry about the video overload today -- but suddenly there's a lot of interesting stuff out there! Here's a video posted on YouTube by the San Francisco State College Republicans. Boo, hiss,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Who Killed the Panhandle Bandshell? Well, as expected, the beautiful and beloved bandshell in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Panhandle has been scheduled for destruction this weekend. Anybody hoping for a dramatic Vegas-style implosion ala the Geneva Towers
Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
misc Don't Let Them Increase Your Property Tax Payments We know we're treading in slightly dangerous territory here -- while we're fairly sure a good chunk of our readership are homeowners (condo, single-family, multifamily, whatever), we know an even larger chunk are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Marga Gomez: Multiaward-wining lesbian/Latina comic makes her Plush Room debut with Joshua Raoul Broday on the ivories, and former Mornings on 2 personality and comedian, Mark Pitta. Show starts at 8
Arts & Entertainment We Came, We Saw, It Kicked Our A** We passed the LONG LINE of people waiting to pick up their Will Call tickets and grabbed our press passes from a separate window (lucky us) to enter what is probably the nearest
Arts & Entertainment Review: Band of Horses If you’re not familiar with Band of Horses, its time to check them out. We originally heard about them in an interview with Molly Sims (mock all you will, but InStyle occasionally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lunch of the Future! (Or: What I was handed coming off BART This Morning) When we were in elementary school, perhaps during the Reagan presidency (and the accompanying jellybean zeitgeist), we imagined that in the future, all food would be in pill form. Here we are in
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City "Scratch your name into the fabric of this world before you go." - Noisettes Let Noisettes show you the future tonight at 7pm for free when they perform at Amoeba. Singer Shingai Shoniwa's
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Phil Bronstein Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In no small part thanks to Eve Batey (our "Editrix Emeritus" and the Chron's current blogging and interactive editor), Mr. Bronstein agreed to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --At Intersection for the Arts, an evening of performances, readings, and conversations with formerly-incarcerated youth in The Prison Project, their year-long artistic exploration of the California penal system. $5-15, 7 p.m., 446
misc A Glimpse into the Future of SFist Commenting Come, let us gaze boldly into the amazing future together, where events such as these will affect you ... in the future. As you may or may not know, readers of SFist are permitted
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Laura Veirs Best show you've ever played and what made it great? Our last gig in Paris at La Maroquinerie in April 2007. The place was packed with 400 fans who knew all the words
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bikes, Cars, SFPD, Enforcement Actions As has been discussed recently, it's seems the S.F.P.D. has some stepped-up traffic safety enforcement actions going on these days. SFist Reader Kate told us about what she saw yesterday
SF News SFist Blotter There was a murder at Laguna and Eddy around 10:30 a.m. yesterday morning, ending three months of no homicides in District 5. There were also two shootings on Tuesday, one in
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Halou and Greenworld Part 1 of 2 of SFist Wendy's hard-partying midweek SFIFF musical adventures! At the SFIFF, we waited out the line on Wednesday to “go green” with local bands Halou (video above) and Tarentel
SF News Mystery Shelters Soon to be Glimpsed Muni's giving us the chance of a lifetime: come see the proposed new transit shelter designs! Y'see, we're going to be getting a revamp of our familiar domed-roof shelters, and Muni's in the
SF News Apocalypse Comes Full Circle There's probably some kind of remarkable statement to be made here, about how it's a carbon-neutral film about monsters frozen in ice by climate change millions of years ago. Discursive wheels within wheels!
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the
SF News Calif. Legislature Wants To Teach <i>Us</i> How To Save Bipartisan legislators introduced a bill in the California Senate Wednesday that would grant every child born within the state a $500 savings account, earmarked for higher education, a home downpayment, or retirement. The
Arts & Entertainment The Weird Coat Chronicles As reported, Jennifer Siebel sported a weird houndstooth coat at the Second Fake Question Time. At first glance, we figured that maybe the coat wasn't so bad. We love us some houndstooth. However,
misc Ist-travaganza! We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be
SF News The Warriors: 10 Things I Hate About You Warriors, baby, we need to talk. With Monday night's double kiss off -- a demoralizing loss to the Nuggets in Denver and the news that Baron Davis is going under the knife --
