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Got that parapluie? The Chron reports that the skies are going to open up starting tomorrow, with not one, not two, but three separate weather systems barreling on in from Alaska. They're expecting 2-4 inches of rain in the city, possibly up to 8 inches in the hills, and a "paralyzing" amount of snow in the Sierras. There's also the possibility of flooding, so if your house is prone to it, pick up some free sandbags at the DPW yard on Cesar Chavez and right before the 101 N onramp (2323 Cesar Chavez). Friday is supposed to be the worst day, anyways, so plan ahead. (though it always seems when we actually plan for rain, it turns out to be a beautiful day.) more ›

Free bike light giveaway today only. more ›

-- KrOB'S Film Farm -- Faust (1994): Jan Švankmajer's version of Faust, using Goethe's and Christopher Marlowe's tales as well as heaps of surrealism, screens tonight at 8 p.m. at Chez Poulet, Cesar Chavez (Army) and Mission Streets; free. more ›

Well, at least he lives in the Richmond, right? (Some) affordable housing advocates and ethicists are shaking their heads over District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's poor party timing this week. more ›

Rally at St Luke's Hospital in the Mission more ›

-- "Not guilty," says you know who. [Chron, Examiner, ABC 7] more ›

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again: the civilly-disobedient affordable housing gang finally either climbed over or clipped open that fence at the corner of Cesar Chavez and Mission yesterday morning, bust in on the lot, and set up tents. more ›

A rally against gentrification in the Mission more ›

with readings from the book, music, and a special Bloomsday feast at the Mechanics' Institute. 57 Post Street (x Market), $15, saloon opens 6:30, readings begin at 7:30. more ›

As discussed in the SFist Contributes tips page, what people heard in Ingleside Heights early yesterday morning was a mysterious car explosion. Witnesses saw a man park a car, get out of the car and into someone else's, and then the parked car burst into flames. Around 7:00 a.m, another car mysteriously exploded, this time in the Tenderloin at Ellis and Taylor. The two incidents aren't thought to be related -- but how weird. more ›

Pick your poison -- it's either flyering for Gavin Newsom or going to the Progressive Convention this afternoon. If politics isn't your game, here's some other options for today and tonight: more ›

Okay, this is what we mean when we say that it's totally impossible to get reliable, useful information out of Muni. Even when they do offer up little tidbits of data, it's squirreled away and confusing and the only reasonable response is, dude, WTF? more ›

Gavin Newsom was all raspy voice and bulletproof hair at last night at Cesar Chavez Elementary in the Mission. Despite somebody's command to "Go back to Nob Hill!" Gavin asserted "I'm not going away." He's used that phrase a couple times now. Is that your campaign slogan, homie? We hope not, because you're not exactly the underdog. It's almost April and you still don't have an opponent. more ›

Our feelings regarding the sneaky scheduling of Gavin Newsom’s Third Fake Question Time this Monday can best be expressed through American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee’s latest single, “Over It.” The purple halter dress she wears in this video is pretty cute, too. more ›

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We were listening to the traffic reports a few days ago when one of the radio announcers said that there was a problem on 280 because a naked woman was spotted walking around the highway. All the deejays laughed, of course, so the traffic guy had to say over and over again that it was a true story. And you know what? It was a true story. Even crazier, police think there might be a connection between her and the murder of a transgender person. more ›

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In a sad story, the wife of the dean of the USF School of Education was killed when a Cadillac Escalade making a U-turn hit an SUV going through the intersection. The SUV careened into two people in the intersection and then slammed up against the wall of a building, and the wife of the dean was pinned under the car. There's upsetting pictures from the scene online too. more ›

A woman biking to work (with a helmet) suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by a cement truck making an illegal right turn onto the 101 onramp at Market and Octavia Monday morning. The truck didn't stop, but a motorcycle cop subsequently caught up with the driver on 101 by the Cesar Chavez exit (and determined that the driver didn't realize he'd hit the woman). There have been a number of accidents at that intersection, and the situation is just made worse by the fact that the sun is often in people's eyes. more ›

A 69 year old women was killed today trying to walk across Geary & 25th. Witnesses said she started to cross the street as soon as the light turned green but slipped and fell as she began. A car on 25th either didn't see her or did something they shouldn't have and hit her as they turned. The driver does deserve plaudits for stopping and helping out. No charges have been filed yet. more ›

A new report on the Department of Public Works just came out and it's pretty much not good. Kind of damning, actually. The basic gist of it as that they're spending way more money than they're taking in for not a whole lot of work. Basically, they're not cleaning up graffiti, not pruning trees, and not fixing pot holes. Of, if they are, they're spending way more money than they should in fixing them. more ›

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? more ›

A 26 year old man in Mill Valley called in a bomb threat to Walgreens because he was upset about how long his prescription was taking. Unfortunately, the person who answered the phone recognized his voice and called the cops -- but not before the Walgreens was evacuated and thoroughly inspected by a police dog. That can't have sped matters along with the caller's prescription. more ›

Anything you can do, Wednesday can do better. Tonight: The APA group Kearny Street Workshop, in conjunction with Intersection for the Arts, presents the finale to its 2006 Intergenerational Writers Labwith a reading of the works that the lab participants have been preparing throughout the year. Sounds like experimental fiction, poetry, and maybe some lyrical prose might be making an appearance (though the group is careful to say that their work "transcends genre.") $5-15, 7-9 p.m., at Space180 (180 Capp Street, between 16th and 17th, and Mission and S. Van Ness.) more ›

It's not just that you're a bad driver, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year, it needs $34 million just to keep up, $340 million to take care of the backlog, and that it has never gotten more than $18 million. You may remember in the last election, the city tried to get a bond passed to repair the streets, but it didn't get the 2/3rds majority it needed to pass. So now Supervisor Sean Elsbernd has proposed that the city give $28 million of the budget surplus to fix the roads and sidewalks. DPW has put together a list of streets it would like to pave immediately if it gets the extra cash: Valencia between Market and Cesar Chavez, Mission between 11th and 16th, Page between Franklin and Div, Monterey and San Jose, Quintara and 28th, Lincoln between 3rd and 28th, and Portola between Junipero Serra and Twin Peaks. Man, we were driving down Folsom today and hit a pothole so deep it made our teeth rattle. Just how bad is it on Quintara and 28th? You got any favorite pockmarked streets to complain about? more ›

Ironic, that one leaving for work early in the morning to avoid traffic can end up causing it. A man driving to work in Palo Alto around 5:30 this morning slammed into the side of a 60-foot-long delivery truck on Middlefield near San Antonio. The man claims he didn't see the truck, which seems a little weird to us, because the truck had blocked three lanes of Middlefield as it was backing into the Toyota of Palo Alto lot. The guy was going under 20 mph, and wedged his 1994 Acura Legend right underneath the trailer. Fortunately, no one was injured, in part because the guy was going so slow and the car was relatively low to the ground. Up in San Francisco, the professionally-sensitive CHP have announced that a woman was found wandering in a daze by the side of 101 S near Cesar Chavez around 7:30 this morning with minor bruising and bleeding. According to the article, the woman, who was picked up at the corner of 16th and Mission, was "negotiating for some type of services" with the man, whom she reports not knowing, when they got in an argument and he pushed her out of the car near the 280/101 split. Gee, what do you think was going on there? The woman claims the car was going 60 mph, but the CHP says her injuries would have been much worse if that were true. Call 1-800-TELL-CHP if you have any information. ...man, finding the third entry is always the hardest. Um, MUNI is closing down parts of Third Street this evening as they test the electrical system for the new Third Street rail. You'll see a flash and hear some popping sounds at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. tonight. more ›

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The holiday parties and dinners are adding up, but we can't let that slow us down, even if we're, uh, having an interesting time fitting into our jeans. But here at SFist, we cannot allow carb counting, calorie obsession or shallow breathing in our 501s prevent us from all the cocktails the holiday has to spare, no sir. Which is why we're thanking our lucky stars, bombshells and cherry-bomb pinup idols for Bombshell Betty and her Burlesquercise classes. more ›