The fix is entry in style.css in joshua-nino folder.

#sidebar li { background-image: none; }

The sidebar was using the main content style.

Fixed the gap. Margin-bottom:= 0;
Still trying to figure out why the damn bullets show. And the calendar spacing looks off in IE.

Thanks. I'm using the Joshua-Nino 1.1 theme. I copied the .plainList class into the style.css in the JN template folder. Didn't seem to do anything. I'm thinking that something is overriding the setting. Just haven't found what it is. I've attached a screen print of the sidebar to show what it looks ...

Seems that the small square bullet is showing for list items (eg. Archives list) with class = "plainList". Is there a CSS fix for this? If so, which file and what's the code?

It just looks dumb to have these little boxes left of the list items - even when another image is being displayed.