Arts & Entertainment Skateboard Club Gets Artsy for a Good Cause (By Travis Jensen) The S.F. Skate Club, a youth skateboarding program dedicated to providing children with skateboarding lessons and mentoring, hosted an art show last Friday in Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s office
misc Public Park Closures Needed, Says the Gov Nature lovers will be peeved. Under the budget proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today - dear God, just how did we get here? starting off a sentence like that? - nine local state parks would
misc Tiger Attack Update: Unfurling the Red Tape Today Gavin Newsom announced that "a series of public hearings on the fatal Christmas Day tiger attack" that resulted in the killing of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. will start
misc Search Effort Turns Into Recovery Effort for Missing Boater Although he is "believed to be a good swimmer," 32-year-old Eric Wright's rescue search has now turned into a body recovery effort according to CBS 5. The
SF News Oil Spill Damage Is, Well, Damaging Oh man, are you kidding? This is terrible. Not to get all tugging-the-heart strings today, but this spill is much worse than initially reported yesterday. This oil covered bird above was
SF News Not Just Prestige... <i>Super</i> Prestige The best sports, we say, combine beauty and ridiculousness, and that’s why cycling is a favorite of ours. But, like many others in the Bay Area--too many, it turns out--we’
SF News Marines Banned From Filming Commercial On SF Streets We stuck it in Day Around The Bay already, but thought we would let you hash it out here in its own pad, readers. It seems that, according to the preciousness that is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Jennifer Granick and Annalee Newitz are co-hosting a Nerd Salon at 111 Minna (x Mission/2nd). There'll be a demonstration of GNU Radio and a challenging puzzle to
SF News Treasure Hunt- What the Jesuits Have Done for You Lately. The Koret has an Olympic indoor swimming pool, two batting cages, several racquetball courses and state-of-the-art weight and cardio rooms graced with natural daylight. More importantly, it is open for
SF News The Day After the Landslide It's the day after yesterday's big landslide and there's several developments, none of them really good. First is the fact that nobody really knows when those 120
Arts & Entertainment I Want 2 B Your Plover - Dogs vs. Birds in S.F. You've read about tomorrow's big City Hall showdown over the issue of unleashed dogs on Golden Gate National Recreation Area land. Part of this issue has to do with
SF News The Fake Question Time Drinking Game! And you know who's really gonna want to play this drinking game? The star of the event! See you guys there -- we'll bring the booze. If Gavin.... You.... Wears
SF News Only Three More Days Until Fake Question Time! Gavin buck-buck-buck'ed a testy response to this latest coop challenge, saying only, "Been there, done that. I've talked about it for one month." But not
SF News They Do Chicken Right Don't forget -- your insufficient substitute for Question Time will take place at 10 a.m. this Saturday at the Richmond Recreation Center at 281 18th Avenue, between Geary and Clement. We
SF News Question Time Will Not Be Denied The BoS Rules Committee has placed an item on the agenda (item 2) for next week's board meeting, for a motion to convene a special board meeting on.... Saturday January 13,
SF News Avoiding The Question (Time) Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Gavin Newsom sees your "immature" comment and raises, Board of Supervisors! Now the mayor's announced that his first non-Question Time "community
SF News Homeless in the Park, I Think It Was the 4th of July Mayor McDreamy himself went to take a tour of the park and said the park was "looking good" and talked about how this is going to be an ongoing project. He
SF News The Great Outdoors: Point Reyes Peninsula Less than an hour north of the City, a lonely wedge of land juts out into the teeth of the Pacific swell. Almost completely separated from the Marin mainland by the grinding force
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So
SF News Missing Person At Sutro Baths The police are still piecing together the story, but they know Attaie must have fallen in some time after 11 a.m., because his friend has a digital photo of Attaie from around
SF News A Call to Wheels Tonight at 7:00 PM, the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission is holding a special meeting that could affect the future of mountain biking in the Bay Area. The Commission is
misc The 'Fisties: Best Playground Bring your kid there, have them play on the state-of-the-art structures which look like they have been designed by Santa during a sabbatical at NASA**, have them network with the
SF News They Come From All Over To Party In The Sunset? Today's Examiner somewhat sensationally announces that "Sunset District neighbors say they are paying the price for out-of-control weekend bonfires at Ocean Beach, complaining that the rowdy parties have
Arts & Entertainment Theater Review: <I>When God Winked</I> at The Marsh Berkeley In fact, the real story here is that marks the inaugural production of The Marsh's newest space in Berkeley's Gaia Building. The Marsh has created quite a reputation as
misc SFist Cares ... About Gay Youth What it came down to is that we'd know someone who might still be with us if he'd had LYRIC available to him. So LYRIC it is. Tonight, as
