Oh, the jokes about Chris Daly and/or the Marina bar scene just write themselves -- but seriously, SF Animal Control reports that there's a rabid bat in the Marina. The bat was found alive and wrapped in a towel at Beach, Cervantes, and Mallorca, right off Chestnut Street last Saturday night, and the tests have only just now come back positive for rabies. If you think you or your pet might have been bitten, call......

Because sluts and date-rapists (we kid!) like iPhones and PowerBooks just as much as dorks, Apple is racing to open up its third SF store, this time in the Marina district on Chestnut Street. Ta-da. But be careful sporting those new touch screen iPods. You never know if these guys are still on the prowl. Image: Curbed SF......

Happening "primarily on Chestnut Street [with a some attacks happening] near Fillmore and Greenwich, two to three [persons] dressed in all black wearing Halloween skeleton masks" and brandishing guns, it seems, committed at least 11 attacks on men and women over the past three weeks. Grabbed while walking on the sidewalk -- including one woman who was reportedly forced into her apartment -- the victims were all robbed of their personal belongings (i.e., backpacks, purses,......

Who needs a little culture after a weekend of mayhem? (We do, we do!) Here are a few things going on tonight that might pique your interest. Spring Art Auction at Mezzanine Visual Aid and Academy of Friends presents the sixth annual spring art auction to benefit locals AIDS service organizations, with cocktails, wine from Napa and hors'd oeuvres before the live auction. Over 50 works of art were donated by well-known artists, galleries and......

We've been dying to debut the new name for this column for weeks now -- weeks! Of COURSE SFist will be covering the District 6 race! This week -- Everyone hates the Marina. The Daly-friendly Beyond Chron reports that Small Business Commissioner and ">columnist for the Daly-unfriendly SF Sentinel Jordanna Thigpen (pictured at right) is sending out feelers about possibly running against Old Daddy Thumbkin, claiming that he's not very environmental and too confrontational. C'mon, what about the time Daly snuck Sierra Clubber Adam Werbach onto the PUC? Not environmental: 0! (but confrontational: 1). Thigpen is an attorney and runs Mask Italia on Chestnut Street, and is active in the Marina Merchants Association. She's previously come out against the San Francisco universal health care plans in 1996 (favoring a federal solution), and helped save a movie theater in the Marina by working with Walgreens. Also, she placed 982th in the 2004 Run to the Far Side. (There is too much information available about people on Google). District 6ers, Thigpen'll be on SF/Unscripted (the show that formerly hosted beloved SFist Jackson) this week, if you're looking for your "anybody" in the "anybody but Daly" category. ...

Oh, the farmer and the merchant should be friends, the farmer and the merchant should be friends -- one man likes to push a plow the other one likes to shop -- and how! but that's no reason why they can't be friends. You'll have to go that much longer without accessible fresh fruits and vegetables in the Marina, now that the merchants of Scott Street have successfully blocked a Tuesdays' farmers market from setting up stands on their street. (There's a longer article about this in today's Examiner, but it's not online yet for some reason). All but four business and three tenants on Scott Street signed a petition against reopening the Marina Farmers' Market, claiming that all those bright, fresh-tasting leafy greens and tart apples interfered with parking and cut into their Tuesday profits. McGoldrick and Ma killed the request at the City Ops and Neighborhood Services meeting yesterday, and proposed to move the market to the Marina Middle School on Saturdays instead, to which (other) merchants complained that the same tomatoes and sugar snap peas would drive traffic away from Chestnut and onto Fillmore instead. The request is up for a full vote at today's Board of Supes meeting. Marina-ite folks should stick together -- Scott Street vendors should all be pals! Pluto's should dance with the farmers' daughters, farmers dance with the trendy bath products vendors' gals! Picture from the SF Center for Urban Education for Sustainable Agriculture...

Where Brit Chick, her Monsieur F & other international mates, gorge themselves in and around San Francisco, one letter of the alphabet at a time. SFist had to overcome it's own self-acknowledged, inverted form of snobbery to make a reservation at widely applauded Marina District restaurant A16. We accidentally left our passport to Chestnut Street - the fake tan bottle, straight blonde wig, and ability to screech "oh my god" in a high-pitched -......

Killer ocean views and Diego Rivera? Sounds like a dreamy vacation in Mexico, no? Well, actually no. Climb up the hill above Bimbo's 365 Club to the San Francisco Art Institute, and you'll find the magic combo. For free. What gives? In 1931 Diego painted a mural in the the building that houses the Art Institute. If you can stop gaping at the mural (which domintates an entire wall of the space) you can also......