SF News Make-Me-Governor Tour: Another Cigarette Ban Little ol' San Francisco made ink in USA Today as part of Mayor Gavin Newsom's clever plan to rule to the state of California. What pressing issue is he tackling this time? Tobacco
Arts & Entertainment At Long Last Glove Oh this is a smashing idea. Jennifer Gooch's site One Cold Hand reunites missing single gloves with their owners. Yay! Since her site opened in March of this year, her finds have spiked
SF News The Warriors: 2007-2008 Season Preview- Part One What a difference a year makes. Come opening night of 2006, most of Warrior Nation was just hoping that the newly unretired and rehired Don Nelson could somehow resuscitate the franchise from its
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Blur, "Transgender & Gender Variant" Support Group: Pretty much what it says right there; a good place to go for 18- to 25-year-olds looking for support or just to chat with other
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume
SF News Barry in '07? Just Say No While most of the speculation has it that Barry will be AL-bound, to some place where he can just DH and while away his time on the bench during the other team's ups,
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Drop and Give Me $2500! For the record, we've now got our shiny new MacBook Pro dual-booting into OS X and Windows XP, and the process worked without a hitch. Once we bought another copy of XP, that
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Old Friends (and Old News) Of course, it wouldn't be Apple without that sense of smug self-superiority, so we're glad to see the company got some digs in on the sidebar of its Boot Camp website: accusing Windows
SF News SFist Tech Labs: We've Got a Report Due On Space That scandal, plus a less intense scuffle over the history of podcasting and the influence of vee-jays thereon, prompted Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales this week to change the site's policy and accept new
Arts & Entertainment We Built This City On Rock n' Roll We personally think the whole "Top Whatever" lists thing to be totally overdone and usually laughably wrong. On the other hand, they are darn fun to ruminate over. Especially a particularly juicy one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Monsters This Week Seems the folks at MTV have granted PR exec and maniacal SUV-driving Lizzie Grubman her own show, called "PoweR Girls." ("PowerR"...PR. GEDDIT?) We guess mowing down nightclub goers in the Hamptons is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads You see, America? You see what you get when you complain about a little boob action? You get the most boring halftime show imaginable featuring a snooze-inducing performance by Paul McCartney, AKA The
SF News Boxer Lambasts Rice Nothing like senate confirmation hearings to get the partisan juices flowing. Kos reports that Senator Barbara Boxer would speak her mind [link via 1115] as part of Dr. Condoleeza Rice's confirmation as Secretary
SF News Oral Arguments End in Gay Marriage Court Case After last Thursday’s nice, legalistic hearing on the legality of gay marriage, Friday’s hearing, the last of the two-day hearing, took a turn to the not so nice as the two
SF News Let the Court Cases Begin Hearings began Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court on the legality of Same-Sex Marriage. On one side is the City of San Francisco, representing twelve plaintiffs who filed suitafter the California Supreme Court
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your 49ers' 2006 Draft Picks, "Fall In, Recruit!" * Picked round 7, pick 46; 254 overall / Vickiel Vaughn / S / Arkansas / 5'11" / 208 / "The Fallen Man" Story: Things've been tough for Vickiel Vaughn. While in high school, he was rated amongst the top
