misc Celebrity Everyman Spotted "Actor Brian Baumgartner of 'The Office' [the TV Show] was spotted by Tom Fuller at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa." - Leah Garchik, illustrating either: a) even the Chronicle has slow days,
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Lights Off As of noon today, the District 4 seat formerly occupied by Ed Jew is now empty, and the Sunset has no representation on the Board of Supervisors. Quick, everyone, now's the time to
misc Tiger Beat: Dennis Herrera vs. Mark Geragos -- It's On! What useful information could these cellies contain? Contact numbers and pictures, maybe? It seems like a fair idea that representatives from the office of Mark Geragos (a Fox News Loser of the Week!
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: December 10-16 David Bazan is traveling up the West Coast before he jumps over Europe to finish his tour. He'll be stopping in at the Bottom of the Hill, where he'll play his witty folk/
SF News It's Almost Christmas! Give The Gift Of A...MUNI Pass? We were trolling around on the Interweb the other day and caught notice of this banner ad, which immediately depressed us, given that: 1) Somebody at MUNI thought that monthly passes make an
SF News Hostage Situation at Clinton Headquarters Update: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign office in Rochester and John Edwards' offices have also been evacuated. Our sister site, Bostonist is live-blogging the situation right now. Apparently, a man wants to "speak to
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Film du Jour Bush Man Scares People - Watch more free videos Sure, he's old news, but his comedy is timeless. That's right, timeless. As much as we love The Office and 30 Rock, nothing pleases
SF News The Board Of Supervisors Date The Boss Monica Lewinsky's interest level in working for SF city government just went up a notch, as the SF Board of Supes overwhelmingly voted down Chris Daly's proposal to ban office affairs between supervisors
SF News Which SF Supe Is the Idiot -- Well, the Bigger Idiot We came across this wonderful blind item over at ValleyWag (via Overheard in the Office). It seems that someone on the Board of Supes doesn't know the difference between a placeholder name and
misc Blocker: 200 Front Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After -KTVU, the home of the Giants since Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue will no longer be the non-cable channel that shows Giants game. That duty now falls to KNTV, channel 11 (the
Arts & Entertainment In this Metaphor, the Mayor is Jafar, and the Proposed Events Office is the Lamp, and Halloween is Aladdin (and Bevan is Jasmine) And those answers are: Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, you're not surprised? Well excuuuuse us, Amazing Kreskin. Anyway, the report has a whole slew of very specific instructions (but they're barricaded behind a stupid
SF News It's a Motherf------ Column-Off dueling press conferences and memo-leakage, the Homeless issue is becoming the Issue du Jour, leading to a full-fledged reporter dogpile. First came CW Nevius who weighed in with yet another story on the
SF News Gavin Newsom To Clean House Video suggests Gavin Newsom is preparing to clean house in San Francisco. Whoa. Guess it's time to get rid of the bad blood at City Hall. Beginning last Friday, Mayor Newsom asked for
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SF News A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Ross Mirkarimi Sandwich Ross Mirkarimi, the supervisor for the Western Addition/Lower Haight's District 5, was out for a jog this morning around 9:45 a.m. (guess Ross doesn't get into the office early) when
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For ooma's Andrew Frame Andrew Frame was recently named by BusinessWeek as a "top entrepreneur under the age of 30"--one of the next generation's best and brightest in the tech world. He's aiming to fulfill that
SF News Hillary's SF HQ, Boobs We went over to take some photos of Hillary-whipped worker bees, but as of noontime today, the place seem closed -- or rather, the door was accidentally locked or no one came to
misc <em>Dreamgirls</em>' "Family" Via NBC's Family in the '80s Here are some of your favorite NBC stars from many, many years ago, singing one of the weaker ditties from Dreamgirls. Who knows? Maybe this will jumpstart cast members from The Office and
misc Josh Wolf's 10-Point Plan For The City The rumblings from a week ago have been confirmed: Josh Wolf, on his blog, has declared his intent to run for mayor. [Thank you to the reader that posted this in the Tips
SF News It's Nice Working With Friends, Ain't It? (Accountemps, a Robert Half Int'l company, is a temp firm specializing in finance/bookkeeping/accounting needs. You may know the company from its extremely annoying radio spots where the boss always pines for
SF News Ask a Muni Driver I have to start addressing the above questions by reminding everyone that I’m not at liberty to give out the kind of super-specific details that might make my identity obvious. So I
SF News We Have A Mayoral Candidate! Tony Hall's been famously irritated with Gavin Newsom ever since Newsom dumped him off at the Treasure Island Development Association to give his Supervisor's seat away to Sean Elsbernd and the Office of
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
SF News Cycling: Stage 4 Drags Down the Pace Snoo-zer. Aside from the final five seconds of the race, the most exciting part of Thursday's Stage 4 in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California was the scenery. Relatively undistinguished topography and the
