SF News Political Junkie: Have You Seen Me? Kevin? Kevin? Where are you, Secretary Shelley? Shelley declined to appear yesterday at a state legislature committee hearing investigating what exactly he did with all the federal get-out-the-vote money he was supposed to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Real TV This Week SFist is sure there are some important, good-for-you TV shows airing sometime this week. Probably on PBS. And we wish them and their viewers all the best. But we can't let a certain
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week Now that we've finally gotten that good time over with and those pesky Holidays are at last behind us, we can get back to the things that are really important. Like watching the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: New Movies This Weekend In other words, if you haven't seen "House of the Flying Daggers" yet, go see it. Now. Happy New Year!
misc SFist Watches: As TV Looks Back In other news, this week TV offers up the inevitable "Year in Review" programming. Perhaps the best bet is VH-1's The Best Year Ever. If you're a fan of The Best Week Ever,
misc Let the Grievances Begin Today is, of course, Festivus. And with Festivus comes the traditional airing of grievances. Not to mention acknowledgement that we stole the idea from the Daily Quickie column on ESPN.com’s Page
SF News Mazel Tov, Gavin It’s been quite a year for the Gavster. Elected by a slim majority, Gavin let a few gay people get married and the next thing you know, he’s blown up across
Arts & Entertainment Sweeeet!- This Week in DVDs Speaking of yule logs, did you know that you can order the Yule Log on DVD? Isn’t that all kinds of awesome? We would make jokes about all the extras that come
misc Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a
SF News 'Tis The Season -- For Sentencing People to Death Nothing the like Jesus' birthday around the corner to get juries in the hangin' mood, apparently. We understand that getting home to your family for the holidays after a long sequestration would be
Arts & Entertainment Get Drawn By An Ape Looking for a unique gift for your favorite music lover? Send a photo of them to local label Birdman Records to "Get Drawn By An Ape". If you're lucky enough to get chosen,
Arts & Entertainment Ride into the Danger Zone- This Week in DVDs Now, this is what we're talking about. This is the week in which truly something kick-ass is released, the DVD we've been dying to have for our collection since we plunked down the
Arts & Entertainment The Essefficist, Rabbi, Leaves, End. Huh? The Essefficist apologizes for the unexcused absence last week, but we don't recall getting any threatening letters (or any lonely ones, for that matter), so we're over it already. If you are. So
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Addendum: Author Events SFist enjoys going to literary events for a number of reasons, the least of which being that being at an actual book signing or reading makes us realize that these author are "Just
Arts & Entertainment Fell in Love With a Girl- This Week in DVDs Anyhoo, let's see what Santa just might be bringing you this holiday season: The Bourne Supremacy- Matt Damon stars in a sequel to the popular Bourne Identity. Long story short, Jason Bourne is
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's Not Who You Know To paraphrase Norm, it's not who you know, it's who know. With that, this week's live theater recommendations consist of shows featuring friends of ours. Pretty good deal, being SFist's friend, isn't it?
SF News As the BALCO Turns Hold onto your hats, sports fans, as Victor Conte, the mad scientist in charge of the BALCO labs is all set to go on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20 this week and name
Arts & Entertainment Nerds and Frat Guys Rejoice at the DVDs This Week So, let's see what the fuss is about this week: Spider-Man 2 was pretty popular, we hear. We had a good time when we saw it in the theater, and we like Alfred
Arts & Entertainment These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty- This Week in DVDs So yeah, there's a bunch of movies out this week, but like last week's This Week in DVDs, the movies aren't really the important thing. Sure, we love Harry Potter, but this is
misc One Fewer Car with the Essefficist I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! I'm checkin' e-mails, I'm checkin' e-mails, hey hey! Our question this week comes from Rita, a frequent contributor and fellow SFist staffer: I have a
misc The Essefficist: So Strong <i>and</i> So Bad? Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, gentle reader. Our first question this week comes from our main man Sam in Concord: Um... Shim-Sham Sam... I think you sent this to
Arts & Entertainment From Beneath You, It Devours- This Week in DVDs Although most people think of DVDs in terms of movies, this week in This Week in DVDs we're primarily going to feature TV shows. And it's not necessarily because this week features only
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Festival Edition If SFist answered to mammon instead of to you, our readers, we might bother to have a big budget pick this week. But look at what's out there! Dude, it's so not going
Arts & Entertainment New Release Tuesday Sure, there are new releases this week by Britney, Eminem and Shania, but what love have they ever shown to San Francisco? "Talkin' in the Mission / Over coffee, this is my utopia," sings
