Results tagged “day_around_the_bay”

• Any donation made online to the San Francisco Food Bank through Wednesday, November 25th will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000. [SF Food Bank]
• Do you want to live in a Twitter CEO's old SOMA digs? Because we sure do. Sigh. [Curbed]
• Michael Chiarello teaches you how to brine your holiday meat. [CHOW]

What do you think of this "Celebrity sells for Bay Area chefs" article? [Chronicle]

Meet Jennie Ketcham, the former Penny Flame. [Violet Blue]

• UC Regents approve staggering 32% fee hike. [Daily Cal, CBS 5]
• What on earth is "business as usual" for Gavin Newsom? [SF Weekly]
• A chat with "The World's Biggest DJ," Tiësto. [SFBG]

• Photos and film from the Skirtchaser 5k race. [Richmond Blog]
• Bauer gripes about Top Chef host's spokesmodel duties for the world's greatest beverage. [Bauer]
• More on Nate Ballard's departure, including commentary from Chris Daly. [Appeal]

Three hospitalized after eating amanita phalloides, or "death caps." [SFGate]

• Shuttle bus alert: work starts Friday on N-Judah rail replacement. [Streetsblog]
• Disgraced Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's campaign is equally disgraceful as seen in this inane, politically correct missive. [Valleywag]
• Photo of false investigator! [Sex Pigeon]

Can you feel the residual mayoral butt warmth at Willie Brown's favorites restaurant tables? [Eater]

Sixth suspect, Elvis Torrentes, 21, charged in Richmond HS gang rape. [SFGate]

• Just because: Princess Leia and her stunt double sunbathing on Tatooine while filming Return of the Jedi. [Laughing Squid]
• Downtown ice skating rink opens next week! [7x7]
• U.S. attorney targets white-collar crime. [WSJ]

How the Department of Correction did everything wrong with Philip Garrido. [SFGate]

Coast Guard responding to runaway fishing vessel off California coast. [Pier System]

The end of Pirate Cat Radio? [Appeal]

Alice Waters, Cambodian dictator? [SFGate]

Bay Bridge could -- could -- reopen tonight. [CBS 5]

• Cool aerial shots of San Francisco. [Laughing Squid, Telestar Logistics]
• Politics, crippling state-funded services to the disabled? [SF Weekly]
• All you need to know about Bay Area beers. [SFBG]

SF supervisors approve Sanctuary City law changes. [CBS 5]

Novelist Andrew Sean Greer watches Glee, enjoys The Usual Suspects, but doesn't care much for literary blogs. [NYT]

J-Schoolers downward spiral into insanity continues unabated. [Daily Clog]

• People to freak because an affordable store -- one that sells neither salted-caramel ice cream to covert yuppies nor the joys of print publishing to locals youths --opening up. [Curbed, Streetsblog]
• Congress expands hate protection to gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability. [Associated Press]
• Woo hoo! Controversial chef David Chang will make SF appearance in early November. [Eater]

Every Wednesday for the next two months, 'Day Around the Bay' will be edited by a San Francisco Supervisor. (All of them will get a shot at it, hopefully, depending on their love, or lack thereof, for SFist.)

First of the freeway lots grow at Octavia Court. [Curbed]

Larry Ellison has the worst sense of style. [Valleywag]

• Inside SOMA's Ironside. [Eater]
• Adios, unfinished electronic sign on Oak Street. You looked like you were dying to pour forth pearls of information. [SFCitizen]
• Leather community mourns 'Mister Marcus'. [BAR]

Taking a closer look at Mission hipster bar The Phone Booth. [SFBG]

Sacto Mayor Kevin Johnson, who was robbed in Union Square over the weekend, gets his stuff back. [Matier & Ross]

More layoffs rumored at Current TV. Which, yes, is still around. [NBC Bay Area]

Sad news: the truly awesome leather/nightlife columnist Mr. Marcus died. [BAR, SFBG]

Fleet Week, the king of the fleet, you see him rockin' that fleet from across the street. And huh huh." [Examiner, Mercury News, Military.com]