We'll 'fess up. We haven't been to the Cow Palace since the 2005 Tattoo Expo. With that said, we're a bit torn with how to feel about the possibility of the Cow Palace being demolished. With such historical events as the Beatles playing there and John F. Kennedy speaking to the masses about starting the Peace Corp, on that hand alone, we'd hate to see this place go. The other hand, however, has to admit......

Somehow this news story managed to slip past our radar last week, but the Gate published a story on how our wonderful state of California will be spraying the Bay Area with pesticides this summer. In an effort to eliminate the light brown apple moth (aww. Aren't they so cute?), an insect potentially disastrous for farming in California, the state agricultural department will be spraying an insecticide known as Checkmate over urban areas, according to......

Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all published Blocker episodes. Blocker, No. 15: Baltimore Way in Crocker-Amazon Just as Four Corners National Monument exploits the fun one can have straddling multiple political boundaries at once, the 100 block of Baltimore Way between Naylor and Cordova holds a certain......

Forget that Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Cooper star in The Kingdom. The divine Jason Bateman also appears -- reason enough to check out this action flick. IMDB tells us that it's about "a team of U.S. government agents...sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East." But seeing as how it's an action release, The Kingdom is bound to be riddled with explosions, the word "fuck," and tons......

As reported on the animal-loving SFGate/Chon, two leashed dogs were attacked by two coyotes (No, not them!) on Saturday morning on a trail near Speedway Meadow. Yikes, is right. So be careful out there in the park. An attack hasn't been reported here in well over ten years, but still, watch out while relaxing or working out in Golden Gate. And for God’s sake, if you live near the park, keep your cat(s) indoors. They......

-- Whole Foods might be in a whole mess of trouble. Federal regulators look over seven years worth of (not-so) anonymous, ethically-questionable financial site postings made by chief executive John Mackey, who apparently has never heard of an IP address. Dumbass. [AP via SF Gate] -- Elderly man shoots garbage truck because of the union lockout. But probably more so because of the sundry of shitty smells, senility. [KTVU] -- Tim Goodman talks about......

Okay, so we're a day late on this, but this post is still well worth it. Before we start, we'd like to issue this reminder-- if you got any questions for our driver, drop us a line at editor@sfist.com. We'd also like to say that next week we got a Very Special Ask a Muni Driver and we hear at SFist are pretty darn excited about it. Anyways, here we go, yo... ...

Daly City's "Little Boxes on the Hillside"...

Why are all the roads collapsing around here? A newly-installed piece of pavement on southbound 280 came loose at around 5 a.m. this morning, necessitating the closure of three lanes of traffic near Burlingame. Take 101 to work this morning, Ed Jew! (yes, we know, San Francisco is northbound.)) At its worst, traffic was backed up about 7 miles, all the way to Daly City, but things should be moving normally by now. Picture of......

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca Ed turns in his residency paperwork to the SF City Attorney a day early. --Keep affairs on your own side of the bridge! People are starting to subpoena Fastrak records in divorce cases. --It's queer senior prom at the LGBT Community......

Rosario Dawson: "Dude, I can't believe you're from Daly City." Sam Rockwell: "I know, right? I'm not supposed to be anywhere." ...

Okay, we're still freaking out about the Macarthur Maze collapsing, but here's the other news we were trying to compile when we found out about it this morning. --Civic Center SFMike went to check out Impeach Beach and caught this picture of an adorable doggie! Thanks for letting us use it, Mike! --Bevan Dufty said something mean about Gavin Newsom. He's since called to apologize. --Biotech's moving to San Francisco. --Liveblogging the baby eagle......

On time this week! Last week's winner: the East Bay Express. All pro-Wiccan letters except for one, which says witchcraft is not a religion. That's right -- it's a sandwich store! The mayors of Alameda and Oakland suck. Skating in the East Bay. Cover article: a local Burning Man DJ is popular, wants to get into hip-hop. That new movie by the Shawn of the Dead guys is pretty funny. Is payola coming back for......

It's time for SFist Answers, trying to enjoy the weather from inside today....

" class="imgright" src="http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_matt/ladylistens-thumb.jpg" width="200" height="312" />Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave your overheard conversation as a message for us: (415)-659-8720 ... Neato! Hipster dude: "I've *done* my time in Daly City. I'm never going back." -- From Andrew Doctor on the phone: "Well, he's on top of......

Hey, do you guys remember the story about estranged Daly City politico couple the Berlangas, where the ex-wife and the ex-husband were running against each other for a seat on the City Council and the ex-wife accused the ex-husband of doing it to intimidate her and got a restraining order against him for stalking her? Well, he was sentenced to 15 days in the county jail and 32 hours of anger management classes for violating......

Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art auction for the Kim family. Lisa, Gerrie Congdon, and Stephanie Barnes organized an amazingly successful auction which raised a total of $16,899.11. The generosity of both the people who bid and the talented artists who donated their work was astounding. All......

So we were going to the Serramonte Mall in Daly City last night. If you must know, it's because we've put off shopping for our relatives, and we thought we might be able to find a toy store there. We didn't find a toy store -- but we did find what looks to be the very first Daiso store in California celebrating its grand opening!!!! WE'RE SO EXCITED!!! Daiso (or "The Daiso," as its website......

Two people saved from gunshots by inanimate objects -- a deputy saved by his belt buckle, and a husband saved from his pistol-waving wife by his La-Z Boy. The wife of the man in the La-Z Boy tried to kill him by shooting him through the back of the chair, but the chair blocked the bullet. The man then got out of the chair and followed his wife into the kitchen, where she tried to......

Those of you taking BART this morning were greeted with delays of around 25-30 minutes, due to a Daly City-bound passenger's illness at the Embarcadero stop. We're not really sure why a Daly City bound passenger's getting sick would affect traffic into downtown SF and to the East Bay, but when we arrived in the BART station, the SFO-bound trains were moving fine, but all the downtown trains were crawling along like... like... like MUNI!......

A few years back we had to spend some time in Vegas on business. This was before they had a Whole Paycheck. We were determined we were going to buy at least some local vegetables and tried to search out the farmer's markets. Silly us, Vegas really is in the middle of the desert, so the produce that some poor farmer schlepped in from California for the markets--not so much. This experience did, however,......

Thanks, everyone, for making our second birthday party such a blast! (and sorry to do this to you, Chris Daly, after you were nice enough to come to our party and sign all the bingo card squares offered to you, in the space labeled "Political Candidate" -- but we couldn't resist!) An extra big thank you to Varnish Bar and IODA for all their help putting the party together, and to DJ Ted for......

The story of the ex-spouses running against each other for city council in Daly City re-ups the sordid factor as Frank Berlanga, whose ex-wife Leah accused him of running for the seat in violation of the restraining order she's obtained against him for his alleged domestic violence, responds (through proxies) in the press. As you may remember, Leah called a press conference earlier this week about her marital history with Frank and his alleged acts......

Yes, the political is personal, but it's not supposed to be this personal -- Leah Berlanga (pictured at right), who's running for one of the three seats open on the Daly City city council against three incumbents, just found out that her allegedly-abusive ex-husband Frank has filed to run for a seat too. Leah Berlanga claims that Frank had repeatedly threatened to run for office against her to embarrass her, and to use the public......

Shoppers trying to enjoy the a/c at the Oakridge Mall in San Jose on Sunday afternoon got less cool air than they were hoping for when the straining mall transformer outside the movie theater blew up. Witnesses reported seeing the lights flicker, hearing a huge boom, and then seeing sparks. In light of the panic and lack of power for the mall, Oakridge threw up its hands and decided just to close for the rest......

Just like other network effect services, a new Craigslist sites takes time to develop as people in the far-off reaches (say... Centre County, Pennsylvania) don't just wake up and start using Craigslist. But after a while, even the most languid of Craigslist locations will start to pick up, either filled with miss-postings (Why anyone in Israel would want to go to buy a 1975 Mercedes Benz 450 SL located in Los Angeles is beyond......

This week's BART breakdown is brought to you by the letter "T," as in Truck. As in truck stuck on a ruck. Or more like stuck on one of those track switercheroo things that lets trains move from one track to another. D'oh!. No word yet as to whether or not there were any mother------ snakes on the goddamn truck. ...

Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Driver over intercom as the M train inbound approached downtown: "Next stop, Montgomery. Beautiful people, get off here." -- From MeiMei on her morning commute Girl: "Whatever happened to Paul?" Guy: "Oh they broke up because he moved away. He was actually deported." -- From John/In Cole Valley Middle-aged woman with dog: "Bliss Bar ... is that a bar bar?" Scruffy middle-aged man:......

BART was delayed today for more than an hour and a half as once again there was a power outage. This time the outage was caused not by a Temp, but by a BART train traveling from Balboa Park to Daly City striking a piece of metal on the track. No word as to what the piece of metal was or where it was from or whether any motherf------ snakes were involved. ...

Our vegan co-editor and labor-activist editor-at-large are going to kill us, and snide food snobs are already saying, "It's 99 Ranch," but our parents call it Ranch 99 (like our relatives call it King Burger) and we love it. Ranch 99/99 Ranch is the Chinese grocery superstore, busy putting smaller local shops out of business by (presumably) not paying minimum wage and exploiting immigrant labor. They also contribute to environmental pollution by insisting on putting everything in like fifteen different plastic bags and then tying them all together in an intricate stays-put fake square knot. We do like how they've made concessions to the earth -- not by using fewer bags but rather, by now using fifteen bags emblazoned with the message "Don't trash California." Plus, the last time we went to the 9-9, we had a good time reading their health code citations form; we've never seen one that went on for five pages before! So why do we keep going to Ranch 99? Four words: Fry Your Own Fish. That's right! You can buy a fresh fish and at no extra charge, they'll fry it for you to take home. It smells so good (and we presume the frying action kills off any bacteria that might have been introduced from the health code citations). Sprinkle a little soy sauce and scallions and ginger on top when you get home, and you've got yourself a meal. ...