BART Cop Smashes Drunk Dude's Head Through Glass
Truck Fire at 25th and Geary
The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 11/23 - 11/29
SFist Tonight
Video from Last Night's Vigil in the Castro for Jorge Mercado, Gay Teen Slain in Puerto Rico
Photo of Charlton Athletic FC and the Thames Barrier by Dean Nicholas.
- Londonist was treated to some fantastic views of the city, courtesy of the 'Star Over London' airship.
- Bostonist spent the week celebrating New England's quintessential summer meal, the lobster roll.
- Torontoist explored the dangerous lives of stickmen.
- Seattlest wondered if a suicide prevention net was really the best idea for stopping people from jumping off the Aurora bridge.
- Gothamist was grossed out when hearing a man found a serrated knife baked into his Subway sandwich's bread. Fresh-baked indeed!
- LAist explored Leimert Park, a South LA neighborhood, in extreme depth.
- DCist discussed shocking snobbery over delicious iced espressos.
- Phillyist picks a local person (or thing) to be the asshole of the week. This time the lucky winner was a young man who apparently got drunk and ran over some visiting sports fans, then essentially bragged about it on his MySpace page.
- SFist sparked a healthy and lengthy debate after discussing the City's latest bit of proposed anti-smoking legislation.
- Chicagoist says,"The Dark Knight is The Empire Strikes Back to Batman Begins' A New Hope, only with better pacing, stunts, and special effects."
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That cockpunching thread on DCist is the best evah
Those lobster rolls look so damn good. Why oh freakishly cold San Francisco, why must you deny me delicious lobster? I mean, indeed, the dungeness is truly one of the pinnacles of the sea (although maybe it's just from watching too much of the Wire, but I could sure go for a nice bucket of blue crabs), but why must we miss out on just about everything else? No buckets of steamer clams? No wonderful lobsters? No delicious mussels with a nice cone of pommes frites? Just an annual wintertime (though who'd know the difference) parade of crab and the occasional oyster.
And through all of this I find that most of the seafood I come across is roughly the same varieties, price, and frozen unpleasantness that I had access to in the Midwest. You'd think we'd have some good seafood out here even, if in a diminished capacity, at the grocery stores. Sure there are fish markets around town, but no nice big central fish market where I can get fresh seafood right off the boat? We need to demolish fisherman's wharf and put in a place where we can get good fish, not a place that we subconsciously excise from maps.
Sorry to fly off the handle here, but damn... those lobster rolls look great. If pretty damn pricey.
The Woodhouse on Market has some pretty tasty Lobster Rolls. Not quite as plentiful as the east coast variety but still delicious. They have steamer clams as well.