The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While the Library Tower, located in downtown Los Angeles, stands at an alluring 1,018-feet tall, the Transbay Terminal is primed to win the measuring contest at 1,200-feet. You know, we're just saying. Not to brag or anything. Anyway, our tallest skyscrapers so far are as......

Claiming that his California Street Victorian was "part of his own personality" and that its "roots went all the way to Hell," it's fitting that Church of Satan founder Dr. Anton LaVey's black house turned into one ugly-ass condo. Don't get us wrong. We're not on some transplant-ish rant about the evils of condominiums or condo conversion; we'd gladly give up our drafty, earthquake damaged Victorian for some central heating, wall to wall carpeting,......

While crews repair a damaged cable, California Street cable cars will be down for the count today, but could return to service by early tomorrow. Sad, isn't it? According to Muni spokesman Alan Siegel, "[t]he cable runs continuously (up and down the line), so we have to find the one section of the cable that's damaged ... we have to run (the cable) slowly until that section gets into the car barn." [via SFGate]......

Last night a little before midnight, Paul David Addis was arrested outside of Grace Cathedral, suspected of trying to burn down the historic church down. It seems that his neighbor called the police last night after overhearing him say something to the effect of "the cathedral wasn’t going to be there anymore." Yikes....

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 Dan Noyes, "the Silent Drill Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps wasn't allowed to be filmed Sept. 11 on California Street in San Francisco for a segment of its new advertising campaign." Stefanie Coyote, executive director of the San Francisco Film......

-- Cammerin Boyd killed by reasonable force, says jury. [Chron] -- Behold: the 54 million dollar SF home. Bow down before it, plebeians and renters! [CurbedSF] -- Argentina hosts the gay World Cup of soccer. Maricons can play sports? Well, that tears it. [Chron, via AP] -- Ed Jew fights to keep his seat on the board of supervisors. Sigh. [Examiner] -- Castro getting all atwitter over this year's Halloween. And we're all gonna die!!......

We're sorry to pass along the news that a pedestrian is near death after having been hit by a car in the Nob Hill/Polk Gulch area at around 5:30 this morning. The pedestrian was crossing California Street at Hyde when an eastbound car going up the California Street hill plowed right into him. Witnesses reported that the pedestrian rolled up onto the hood, and then fell off after the car hit the brakes. The car......

Tonight, grab a 7:30 p.m. low cost ($4) lecture on planets, stars and brown dwarfs with Dr. Ray Jayawardhana at the JCC. We love the JCC space, because it's organized, clean, and spacious. There's a friendly vibe, too, but be prepared to pop your trunk for a bomb search if you park in the JCC lot. Origins of Planets and Brown Dwarfs at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street. Phone:......

There's a move afoot to help save one of San Francisco's famed bars, the John Barleycorn on 1500 California Street. Apparently, after forty years or so of business, the new owner of the property wants it gone and won't even talk about renewing the new lease. A web site has been put up to help fight the power. ...

Hey, we're back from vacation! And we just missed the 5-foot sinkhole that opened up on California Street between 6th and 7th Avenues for New Year's Eve. Does anyone have pictures? In our second item of news on the city's west side, CHP and the SFPD shut down the Golden Gate Bridge to pedestrians to thwart Code Pink's peace march across the span, to commemorate the 3000th U.S. casualty in Iraq. Code Pink didn't have......

First, the East Bay: The New Yorker College Tour presents on-campus programs and evening entertainment at UC Berkeley at Wheeler Auditorium (near Bancroft and Telegraph Ave.), including a preview screening of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, starring Jack Black and Kyle Gass. (9pm) In SF: Silent Theatre Company presents a Louise Brooks Birthday Bash at the Victoria Theater (2961 16th Street) with a screening, live music, birthday cake, and festivities, followed by......

Hey you kids: get off Wednesday's lawn! Tonight: Nothing says fun like a documentary about a bipolar girl trying to deal with life after her failed suicide attempt! The Film Arts Foundation is screening Learning to Swallow as part of their True Stories: Sneak Previews of New Documentaries series. 7:30 p.m. at the Yerba Buena Center Screening Room, $8. Thursday: The Surround>Sound series wraps up its San Francisco aural experience at the Luggage Store Gallery......

Saturday: Hell yeah! For those of you who couldn't get a ticket during HoleHead, The Primitive Screwheads are back with their stage show The Chainsaw Massacres. Running on June 30, July 1, 2, and 7, you can get your tickets here. Doors open at 7:30, a band plays at 8, and the Sawyers chow down at 9, all at Cellspace (2050 Bryant at 18th). Sunday: Sometimes we like to pretend to be deep, and going......

Don't forget that Grateful Dogs is now doing twice-monthly adoption events! On the first Saturday of every month they'll be at 100 West Portal Ave (at Vicente) from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm, and on the third Saturdays they'll be at 3995 California Street, in Laurel Village, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm. Maybe you can go meet Arnie, who has a rescue story very similar to SFist Franny's. Shy dogs of the world......

Anyone else remember that episode of "Friends" where Joey is in the musical, Freud!? We've had the song he sang (All you want is a dingle/What you envy's a schwang in our head) since we heard about the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the San Francisco JCC's FreudFest, and its Cinema on The Couch series, which kicks off tonight with Secrets of a Soul. From the press materials: cinematic superimpositions, symbolic imagery of razors......

Hey, Grateful Dogs is now doing twice-monthly adoption events! On the first Saturday of every month they'll be at 100 West Portal Ave (at Vicente) from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm, and on the third Saturdays they'll be at 3995 California Street, in Laurel Village, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm. Finally, Starbucks is being put to good use! Hey, this coming Saturday is the third Saturday, so why not go check out Linden?......

Hanging on a wall of the brand new Trader Vic's near Civic Center is a copy of the restaurant's very first menu, circa 1930's Oakland. Back in the day, prices for the vaguely Polynesian cuisine hovered between 50 cents and two bucks, and as we waited to be seated we watched a tall blonde woman in a black trench coat study the old menu. Eventually, she turned to her companion and exclaimed, "I can't believe......

Seven people were injured early Monday morning when the California Street cable car hit something lodged on the tracks at Powell Street....