For those of you into gaming, or at least like to blow off some steam with your Wii (tee hee), we found out through Gamingbits.com that San Francisco will be one of the sites of the US Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournaments. Fanboys and fangirls, commence with your tears of joy. Tournaments will be held in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston, with the winners of each city going to finals in New York.......

-- Perverts. [ASD] -- San Francisco to go solar. [Curbed] -- SUV rampage remembered. [SFGate] -- Bernal Heights robbers? Oh noes! [The Snitch] -- The McKesson Corporation sued. Also, SFBG's got the love for the Examiner? [SFBG] -- The handitards over at Best Buy apologize for sending Scott Beale an inane cease & desist missive. Classic stuff, folks. [Laughing Squid] -- Blueprint -- it's not a good thing. (Eh.) [ValleyWag]......

According to Game Informer Online, Nintendo of America may be relocating -- and one of the rumoured destination cities is right here in San Francisco. More employment opportunities are always good, especially establsihed companies that can bring some economic stability -- not to mention fun aspects like more local video-game testing opportunities....

You'd think that after our ungrateful sniping about the way we were (without our knowledge) nominated for a "Pubby" award, that the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club would blacklist us from all future events. However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site, but they barely mention it as of......

We can't get enough of the home alone kids in San Ramon! Their father and stepmother have pled no contest to the claims of child endangerment, and were sentenced to 270 days in jail and 180 days in jail respectively. They also have the option of home detention, which seems peculiarly appropriate. (We gotta say, though, maaaaan, we've always thought it would be excellent to be on house arrest. Do you get Netflix?) Dad and stepmom are sticking by the "we thought Grandma was coming over to pick up the kids" story. And our other obsession, the Starbucks bomber: they've confirmed that the thing that suspect Ronald Schouten left in the bathroom was not a bomb, but he's being held for shoplifting something from one of the electronic stores on Van Ness (Best Buy, maybe?), and was also busted on an outstanding warrant for cocaine possession from last summer. The police also report that Schouten does not appear to be affiliated with any "anti-Starbucks" groups. Also -- an exclusive interview with Schouten on CBS 5, where he says he loves that Starbucks and would never want to hurt it. Wonder what the coffee's like in jail? ...and pot-smoking engineering majors throughout San Francisco mourn, as a local Hayes Valley gallery reports that two of the MC Escher paintings it was showing were stolen some time last week. Since the alarm didn't go off, they suspect the thief snuck the 1 foot x 1 foot paintings out under a coat or something. They say they're going to start looking into affixing art more permanently to the walls in the future. ...

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The SFist Tech Labs staff is back from last week's big holiday — the launch of the Xbox 360. Oh yeah, and Thanksgiving, too. Our plan to stand in line at Best Buy for 30 hours to follow some poor woman home and steal an Xbox at gunpoint failed, unfortunately, but there's still hope! Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them,......

Was it not enough that we broke Dogster? (Get well soon, SFist Ted! We need you to cover the upcoming heat wave!) We've got even more bad dog news to report. Local animal shelters and pet rescue groups are asking Craigslist not to post ads for dogs and cats for sale, claiming that the website makes for easy access to a marketplace for the dreaded "backyard breeder," making a quick buck by selling inbred and ill-socialized pit bulls. The East Bay SPCA found in one month 183 listings for unneutered pit bull puppies, some as "human-aggressive." And the dog-loving number-crunchers have finished their reports, and found that pit bulls account for 27% of all known dog attacks since 2003, even though they constitute only 6% of the licensed dog population. The statisticians warn that it could be that people are likely to report pit bull attacks and less likely to register pit bulls, but still. Out of 900+ bites since 2003, 626 were traced to a specific dog. Of that 626, 169 were traced to pits. That was more than the next three species combined (German shepherds with 69, labs with 58, and rottweilers with 34). A man also tells a harrowing tale of being attacked by a pit bull in the DVD section of the SoMisPo Best Buy. Uh, who brings a pit bull to Best Buy? Were they checking out TiVos? ...

SFist usually experiences a frisson of excitement when we visit the Kabuki Theater, usually from the 38 that nearly hits us every time we cross Geary at Fillmore (apparently, red lights don't apply to busses). But this time our excitement wasn't the brush with death kind, it was the far more pleasant brush with celebrity type, as we were at the Kabuki to take in the red carpet arrival of several of the folks......