According to Marin County officials, about "1,500 gallons of raw sewage" was dumped into the San Francisco Bay today near Point San Quentin. Grody. According to the Gate: Deartment of Corrections officials have taken action to contain the spill, and are also conducting water testing in the area, authorities said. The public should not go in the water near San Quentin until the area is deemed safe, authorities said. Warning signs will be posted......

An update on the recovery of knife attack victim Loren Schaller....

The Chronicle couldn't. And neither could we. That is, until we read today's most awesome "Corrections" on SFGate. -- In Saturday's story about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the sexual orientation of the Whoreshoes was misstated. Only vocalist Lala Hulse is a lesbian. The other members of the all-female band are heterosexual. O! To read the missive informing the writer that they ain't no goddamn dyke. Not that we know a thing about errors,......

We know. Things have been tough lately. Your comments never show up, the site's harassing you about Typekey, there's weird error messages about proxies and timeouts, and your olive tree is dying. It sucks. Sometimes it helps to talk about these things. That's why we want you to write to sfistbugreport - @t - gmail - dot - com whenever this site breaks. Broken graphics, error messages, comments that never go through, unsettling aromas......

It's that time of the season again! SFist proudly presents our poorly researched, semi-annual Guide to the Propositions (state). We'll post the San Francisco proposition guide as soon as we wade through that guidebook next As always, post your thoughts, corrections, and challenges to our supposed neutrality in the comments. [As you may remember, we have a mandate of nonpartisanship from our publisher, which is why we're never supposed to take sides on anything.] Okay!......

A former San Carlos mayor is filing an appeal of his conviction for defrauding the Belmont-San Carlos Fire Department out of $13,000, by using public funds to pay for a political consultant who failed to win a campaign back in 2003. The fountain at San Jose State smells bad. An occupational therapy major says it's this year's "stank smell," as opposed to last year's, which was their trees. However, a business management major says he......

Total number of people in the pictures of this week's Swells: 58. Minority count: 16. (27.5%). One group of pictures is from the SF Ethnic Dance Festival. Number of people in the pictures whose names we recognize: 4 (Vera Wang, the director of the SF Ballet, the SF Ballet principal dancer, and Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams at his wedding, above). Getty v. Traina: 1-0. Number of hats: 0. Number of horn-rimmed glasses: 4. Percentage of......

The man to your left is a cabdriver named Jack Neeley, not rogue cop John Haggett -- and he's richer by an undisclosed amount after settling his lawsuit with the Chronicle for their misidentification of him in a cover story as Haggett, in their otherwise-strong weeklong report on police brutality from earlier this year. The Chron continues to maintain that they have no idea how it happened, but has apologized, run two corrections (one on......

We're continuing our series of interviews of the Anyone But Chris Daly hopefuls in the upcoming District 6 election! Today's guest: Matt Drake. Hi, Matt! Check out Matt's campaign blog too. Matt emailed us after his previous never-met-the-guy profile, objected to our characterization of his as boring, and asked for a chance to prove us wrong. We're always happy to be proven wrong! (as you can see by our constant stream of corrections in the......

Just as the rain stopped, everyone has a new favorite blog topic--it's earthquake centennial madness! Eric over at and the Family Buick has a fairly lengthy write-up of the event, while Rangelife has a fever, and the only cure is--more cowbell. Sorry, wrong pop culture reference. We're still on the earthquake. Your favorite ex-bathroom attendant has a write-up on the plucky fire hydrant that saved so many, while sfdx has a different drink in mind. Mona has a beautiful pic of one of the survivors up on her blog. Some others, though, are more concerned about the effects of the next big one. Jennifer admits that she's been rattled by all the voice of doom coverage, and Jamison gets snarky over what he feels is unfair proactive re-distribution of blame. Maybe he should keep the turtle he found, a pet might make him feel better. Art makes us feel better. We love that we live in a town where art thrives. The Painted Ground of San Jose Avenue posts protest art this week, while the California Department of Corrections went big time and Kvatch takes over Market Street. This poster--literally--thinks locally. VJ Culture isn't protesting anything, but we do lament the fact we'll never be as cool and smart--at the same time--as he is. On the other hand, we have jerks here, too, as chronicled this week by Ed, in addition to Thomas Hawk's ongoing struggles with building security guards. So is it any wonder that sometimes we just go a little goofy? And sometimes, when the stars are aligned correctly, we have smart, goofy Newsom protest blogs that makes milk come out our noses. You suck! Have a nice day! Picture from If I Ran The Zoo. SFist Jacob, contributing. ...

In the "No s**t, motherf**ker" department, John over at the Legal Reader recently posted an excerpt to an AP story which points out that under California's weapons registration law, the chances you'll get a felony rap is in linear proportion to the amount of milk you need to add to coffee to resemble your skin tone. Black coffee? Felony. Cafe-au-lait? Felony. Just milk? Misdemeanor. The study of the law was initiated by state Attorney General......

...all of which we picked up at Oakland's 24 hour newsstand! Starting with last week's winner, the Weekly -- a genius Photoshop cover of Matty G. reclining on a Getty-like carpet. So genius it's replacing the picture of the car running over the Weekly box (but only for this week!). Photo credit to Darrick Rainey. Mr. Rainey, we shake your hand in congratulations! This illustrates the cover article on "2004: Gonzalez's First Year As Mayor." Surely you remember Matty G's triumphant inauguration – and the scandal that broke out when he allowed hipsters to marry! And those quotes from the New Yorker Matty profile: "Almost everyone in San Francisco knows a small black child who has been shielded from a hail of bullets by Gonzalez." SFist Chesh, you'll be pleased by the fastidious font replications seen here, and SFist Jon, we're sure you'll find the Chron columns shown entirely typical. ("Sports: Bruce Jenkins is on vacation"). You know, after wiping away our tears of laughter, we find that we have nothing more to say about the rest of the paper. Picture of Al-Gore-fat loser Gavin Newsom!!!! Ha!!!! (SFist Jackson, we hope you get home before this issue is yanked from the stands -- it's that good.) On a soberer note, the Guardian. A slew of defensive corrections about last week's coverage of the development freeze in Potrero Hill. There's a protest next Tuesday at 4 pm at City Hall against raising MUNI fares. Annalee Newitz is worked up about the FCC and cable modems. Paul the food critic got a free meal when his chicken was underdone at Foggy Bottom Cafe on Irving and Eighth. Cover article: This year in movies (obscure art-flick edition). The EBX and the weekly of the week (like you don't already know which one it is) after the jump. ...

When we're not poring over voter information to make sure we're the best informed voter we can be, we're hanging out at our local bookstores. And if the other guy wins (you know who we're talking about) we'll be reserving books from the San Francisco Public Library so we can mentally escape from it all. (That is, if he doesn't just get rid of all the libraries! Darn that other guy!) SFist Jon just......

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