Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like that; Cameron Crowe's tale of teenage love and angst has John Cusack causing egregious noise pollution when he holds up a ghettoblaster pumping out a Peter Gabriel ballad; and the final film has a murderer in a small coal mining town killing......

By now the tale of Jameth and his croc is San Francisco lore. Happening upon the severed plastic head of the reptilian creature at Church & Market, Jameth took pity upon the thing and made it a part of his daily life, making the wee thing a star in the process. As SFist reported yesterday, the croc was set free in Dolores Park, presumably never to be heard from again. Many weeped, a few......

Hi, folks -- welcome to the latest edition of the Top 5. As SFist is community driven, we enjoy picking out some of the best comments that you folks contributed -- the ones that raised the discussion level, taught us something we didn't know, or made us laugh. This week, commentary on Ed Jew, Western Addition Shootings, the budget, and more made the Top 5. ...

That's it for the SFIFF this year! As SFist Wendy wraps up SFist's coverage with part 2 of her marathon week, congratulations to the San Francisco Film Society for two weeks of great cinema and we're already looking forward to the 51st! And on to Mezzanine Thursday night for the SFIFF closing night party -- with a surprise performer . . . . but before the final sendoff, we headed over to the Castro......

Ever since we read SFist Mihi's review of Great Happiness Space: Tales of an Osaka Love Thief (we'll abbreviate that GHS:TOLT) from last year's DocFest, we've totally wanted to see this documentary, about brilliantly-coiffed Japanese men who are paid to socialize with women in local bars, in a reverse of the infamous "hostess bars" of Japanese fame. Lucky for us it came back to town as part of the SF Int'l Asian-Am film fest! As......

Don't forget, everyone, tolls went up on all local bridges starting yesterday -- so it's now $4 to cross any of the seven bridges run by the state: The Bay Bridge, the San Mateo, the Dumbarton, the Carquinez, the Richmond, and the Antioch (we always forget the Antioch [and the Benicia! Sorry! See comments below.]. Since the Golden Gate Bridge is run by a separate entity, it'll stay the same at $5 (unless, of course,......

As we discussed earlier today, PG&E and ReadyMade magazine are co-sponsoring "Let's Green This City," which is aiming to raise environmental consciousness by putting sofas covered with grass around the city. Sure, why not? (Will Ross Mirkarimi be involved? And what's the Bay Guardian's public power-oriented stance on this?) As SFist Jim Herd saw, there's couches outside City Hall (and word is that Gavin Newsom braved grass stains on the back of his pants......

As SFist Reader Marivi did in the past, SFist Reader Tim has some suggestions for Caltrain. Caltrain riding readers, any thoughts? Subject: Intuitive CalTrain Signage And Caltrain wonders why it is so hard to get riders. Maybe it is because they make it so hard to use their system. I ride Caltrain every day from San Carlos to San Jose and back. You would think that after doing this for a year, I would be......

Man, we were all set to start up a new column about our new favorite reality show "Who Wants To Be A Superhero?" (which is tied as our new favorite show with our other new favorite reality show, HGTV Design Star. Project Runway and So You Think You Can Dance are our other favorite reality shows.) So the premise of Who Wants To Be A Superhero is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four......

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Bottom Feeder asks a good question, which is: why did Sports Illustrated run an excerpt of the Barry Bonds book and not the Chron? He doesn't say, but we're going to guess money. In a separate story, the value of Bonds baseball cards has dropped. Hey, EBX, shouldn't you be focusing on your own baseball team instead of SF's? Cover article: E (aka, "thizz") stops being a raver......

Who was it who said "never work with children or animals?" Well, whoever you are, Bevan Dufty's proving you wrong, as he proudly announces that he's united the two famously-warring factions in San Francisco politics and worked out a compromise about who gets to use Duboce Park. Duboce Park currently prohibits off-leash dogs -- though you'd never know it from watching the labrador and shepherd mixes gamboling bucolically on the grass there. (Full disclosure: as a devoted dog aunt, we have personally off-leashed one of the very best dogs in the world at Duboce -- maybe even just last week! Sorry, Supervisor Dufty!) Parents and dog owners have been arguing for years now about whether they could fence off an area of the open space so kids and dogs could play unimpeded by the other. After 40+ hours of meetings, all sides have agreed that there will be no fence, but the park will be informally divided into three zones: a playground with dog restrictions; an on-leash dog section, and an off-leash dog section. Now, maybe we're just being naive here, but was it really that hard to come up with that? (Apparently one small group of hardcore dog fans wanted the whole park to be off-leash, but ultimately came around to the compromise.) ...

As SFist Krissy pointed out, the New Pornographers (who, presumably, aren't all that pornographic) are doing a free in-store at Amoeba this evening. Or check out Erik Nakashima's art at his "Baked Goods" show. Also free, also music (live jazz) but we're intrigued by the fact that there are 'refreshments' and it's at Tartine. Two words: Fluffgirl Burlesque. 9pm, Bottom of the Hill, $10. If we were feeling adventurous tonight, we might just try......

An inspector at the Dept. of Building Inspection has been arrested for accepting bribes. Augustine Fallay is alleged to have accepted money in "red-colored envelopes" to expedite certain developers' applications, and became the target of suspicion when people noticed he kept bragging about his weekend trips to Europe. Fallay claims everything was a loan. Newsom said, "I hope we can continue to send the message that we're not going to put up with the actions of some individuals that are participating inappropriately in the process of favoritism." (cough cough, Joe O'Donoghue.) In response, Joe O'Donoghue told the Chron that "Newsom is a liar. Ninety percent of the department is excellent, and 10 percent is corrupt. The corruption accelerated in the last year and a half since Newsom came into office." Hey, that doesn't rhyme! In other news, a woman from San Mateo was extradited to Wisconsin to stand charges for murder. Turns out Cherie Barnard's ex-husband, who was the DA in their county at the time, killed someone who threatened to kill a sheriff after the sheriff shot his three dogs. (But he didn't shoot the deputy?) She divorced her then-husband about five years later, after he shot a guy she was seeing on the side. As SFist Eve says, "it's totally an Ann Rule book." And DMV workers in Oakland were busted by the feds for selling illegal drivers' licenses to new immigrants for $3000-4500 apiece. Other workers were in on the take, getting money to enter false information about residency into the computers and selling registration stickers to people whose cars had failed smog tests. ...

From the week that was... -After an extensive, nation-wide search, Gavin announced a new head of the Parks & Recs Department-- the guy who was in charge already. Your new boss of the Parks & Rec Department is the same as the old boss, Yomi Agunbiade. As SFist has done our fair share of temping, we always love it when the temp gets the full-time gig. Gavin also promised major shakeups to the department, including......

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