In the wake of the horrible Walter Reed National Army Medical Center scandal in Washington, we asked ourselves what we could do to make a difference for wounded veterans here in San Francisco. Here's how: we've got Veterans Affairs hospitals of our own in the city....

For those of you who felt left out of the whole Alqueda Teen Hunger Force terrorist plot, don't you worry, we weren't left out. It turns out twenty of those things were scattered throughout the city. Unlike those idgits in Boston, nobody seemed to think anything of it. So no complaints were filed and no press conferences were held with people trying to explain why something that looks like one of those Lite Brite things was some nefarious plot hatched by people hiding in caves. In fact, one of the ones that was found was found over the weekend on a sign above an art gallery on Clement Street and not only did nobody call it in, but the person who found it thought it was cool. When the batteries went out, he just took it down. ...

We know the rest of you will be just as shocked as we are to hear of other elections going on besides the District 6 race (except for you, commenter poormojo!). Well, David Kiddoo, the write-in candidate for District 2 (Pac Heights, the Marina) running against incumbent Michela Alioto-Pier, has graciously agreed to submit to an SFist interview and tell us what they're worrying about up there north of Market. Thanks, David! Who are you,......

In case you haven't noticed, we're rather fond of comic books, particularly those written by locals. And parties! We like parties too. That why we said "yay" when we heard that our irreverent colleague Lev is throwing a release party to celebrate publication of "The Seven Habits of Highly Negative People," part three in his Tales of Mere Existence series. Lev's modestly drawn stories center around "stuff you think but don't talk about," and......

Sigh -- one less oak in Oakland. Oakland's oldest coast live oak tree in Dimond Park was cut down on Sunday. The tree was diseased and had to be cut down before it fell and hurt someone. The tree will be left in the park to decompose, and pieces of the wood will be saved for woodcutters and artisans. The rest of the money that the Oakland city council had designated to save the tree will be used to save other trees in the area instead. A small fire behind the SF VA Hospital on Clement Street was put out on Monday, with no damage or injury to anything or anyone. Unfortunately, while fighting the fire, some of the firefighters got into a patch of poison oak. Itchy! And they've caught the man who robbed the Banana Republic in Union Square with a syringe that he claimed was filled with HIV-positive blood. He had tried the same trick at a Fortress Telecom the day before. (does Fortress Telecom also have expensive sweaters?) ...

Hey, what's with the new cool SFist banner and block ads you can see all over the -ist network? Well, after an intense, breakneck reader contest, we had our winner, with Rachael Sbuttoni's Muni-themed ads winning by a landslide. Aren't they cool? So meet SFist's newest best friend, our own Southern Belle transplanted to the foggy streets of our city. Everyone say "hey" to Rachael! Introduce yourself in one sentence: A slice of the......

Always making the scene in Tux and Tails, the very picture of high class. Ok, fine, usually half an hour late having forgotten to wear pants, Barrespondent Drew wanders around in search of more aimless drunkitude. Perhaps the most comical thing you can come across during any pub crawl is a ‘scene that doesn’t know it’s a scene’. Nothing gets us giggling and pointing faster than people hanging out and posing while trying desperately......

In which SFist eats its way around the Bay area in alphabetical order. Last week, SFist and its international possy of culinary investigators headed off to Clement Street in search of somewhere to eat beginning with the letter B. Intrigued by the promise of food from a country neither of the three Brits, the Texan Princess or Le Monsieur F had ever visited nor were likely to visit any time in the near future,......

The Richmond’s 4 Star Theater (phone 415.666.3488) is one of our favorite places to see movies in San Francisco. We’ve spent many a night gorging ourselves at one of the zillions of great places to eat up or down Clement Street, then staggering up to Clement at 23rd for great alternative and world movies....