Photo: meganallison/Flickr Those quick cats over at Curbed beat us to this, but you know the building that was recently demolished over at One Hawthorne (at Howard Street) to make way for a gloriously glassy condo complex? It revealed some old signage from the days of yore. At the risk of sounding like Homer Simpson, why there isn't a store devoted entirely to the perfect production of ham and bacon anymore is beyond us.......

Photograph of investigation at Times Square recruiting center by kerfuffle & zeitgeist on Flickr Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City.Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles of rat poison started washing up on local beaches.Shanghaiist was surprised by Bjork's rooting for Tibetan independence at her concert (see video), and the political fallout has only......

Photo: innout/Flickr Yeah it is.......

While Golden Gate Bridge shots tend to veer on the boring side of SFist's Flickr stream, we really admire this image here shot by Jameth. Amazing yet so simple. Brilliant. And that weather you see? That we've had over the last few days? It's gone. Alas.......

Photo: sfjim123/Flickr Always rockin'? Hell yes. Update: Here's a link to Cry2God, which begs the question: won't Flash users also burn to hell?......

Photo: 37 °C/Flickr James Brown impersonator killing it at Saturday's 27th Annual Black Cuisine Cooking Contest & Street Festival.......

We found ourselves asking ourselves lots of questions when we decided to post this piece of urban art that SFist reader Mike found on the corner of Sutter and Larkin last week. We were like, is this not suitable for work? It's just graffiti, and it looks just like all the beautiful vagina clichés that are cliché for a reason. It's like a lovely clam, or a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, or a head......

Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy. Former District 4 supervisor Ed Jew may have pled out of his state court civil suit ("okay, you caught me, I don't actually live here"), but his federal criminal extortion case ("a man can't get a $40,000 bubble tea once in awhile?") continues apace. In his federal case, Ed's now asked for a hearing on whether his former lawyer,......

Photo credit: Flickr user kapshure......

SFist reader Mai sent us this precious find that she found last Friday at 22nd and Valencia. Below is Mai's transcription, about which she said, "I tried to stay as true to the capitalization as I could." Thanks, Mai! Sappenin' sammy! yo dude! I just officialy met you this year but you've been a pretty cool dude, ese! ITS A GOOD THING you DONT JUDGE People OR eLse U'D THiNK IM a CRack Head... YeaH.........

Outside Citizen Space on Second Street. Heh. (For another view of the Will Ferrell cum toddler tranny hilarity, check out Curbed's shot.) Image credit: Flickr's Amit Gupta......

Hey, it's another Polk post, folks! We're thankful to Flickr user Lulu Vision for giving us a heads-up in the SFist Contribute section regarding tonight's Lower Polk Neighbors meeting with SF Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White about Fire Station 3 and how they're trying to make us all go deaf with their sirens. Hilariously enough, this fire station is located right next to Diva's and Grass Roots. Why would they ever want to leave? From......

Oh, San Francisco. You amuse us so. This SUV here would like you to know that it's not furnished with any animal products, okay? But before you start going into convulsions, it's an SUV hybrid. So...well, it still grosses us out a bit. Not the SUV part, but the part about environmentalists of the Bay Area adopting an even more aggressive moral majority-ish tone, one that worries us. Watch it, people. Image credit: Flickr's......

Behold the Baron, a figure drawing class model. Who is he? Well, according to Flickr user lovenotes: This model, known as "The Baron," has pretty much done anything you could imagine in life and probably more. He always struck me as lonely and yet extremely brave. I didn't know if I admired him more than I felt sorry for him. And at the same time I was fairly scared of the man. In any......

This philosophic message/challenge adorning/"besmirching" Caffe Trieste's bathroom wall in North Beach last November comes to us from Seven Morris via the "sfist" and "found" tags. Sometimes a blank wall is miles more eloquent than anything that might besmirch it. Well, the wall is no longer blank though, is it? Oh, you clever, bathroom philosopher/ tagger, you. Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them "sfist" and "found" on Flickr!......

Remember how we told you that today there would be snow? Well, we decided to check it out for ourselves up on the north side of Mt. Tam. The photo above is from Potrero Meadow. That white stuff coming down? It ain't rain, kids. 'Twas wintry mixy up there today, and the trails were near-deserted. Can't say as we blame those who stayed home - we were dehydrated and a tad hypothermic when we......

The (Oakland) Hills Image credit: Flickr's reverendlukewarm......

(Check out the actual chin scratching occurring, lower right, at an intelligentsia event. Har!) Here we have novelist Dave Eggers at the National Book Critics Circle nominee announcement at City Lights. We're in love with his bulky v-neck sweater. Very nice. Image credit: Flickr user Steve Rhodes.......

Just prior to last week's No Pants Subway Ride (AKA: No Pants 2k8), a few improv-appreciating activists went on a mooning spree of the blue kind. The nerve! But don't take our word for it, check out all of the shocking naked-butt action, above. And in front of the Irish Bank, no less! (Brilliantly brought to you by Viddyou's nahduhlee's.) To check out some photos of the naked BART riders, do visit No Pants......

Here we see the start of a memorial at Capp and 24th Streets, right on the spot where a 19-year-old male lost his life in a double shooting last night. Are those bullet holes? Yikes. Although, according to one SFist tipster, "someone took away the candle" moments ago. Which: why? We think the memorial grow far and wide. Hey, wouldn't this be a smashing way for you to silently voice your concern about the......

As hard as it is for us, we're keeping our mouth shut on this one—because, wow—so: discuss. Image credit goes to Flickr's 37 °C.......

SFist reader/ commenter Jameth picked up this little lady at Church & Market on Monday and has taken her on quite a few adventures. We don't know that much about her except that she used to have a body and was a golfer in her past life. Update: The alligator has posted a Craigslist ad in search of Jameth. How romantic... Jameth lost track of the alligator in Dolores Park this afternoon (see photo at......

Can you read that? SFist Jim got some pictures of Ed Jew's statement at the Herrera press conference earlier today. We've taken the liberty of uploading it (page 1, page 2) to our Flickr account if you want to see the whole thing. We were going to type out the whole statement for you, but then we figured we'd just wait for someone in the MSM to do it and we'll give you the......

Hoodies-N-Heels: Tonight's hip hop for the ivory white comes to you care of DJ VinSol. But he does more than just pump out hip hop staples. His electro, thrash, and slick soul sounds will have you staying to this Mission club just a little bit longer, getting just a little bit more drunk. A win-win, really. Goes from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Double Dutch; free. Media Web Meet-Up III: The Producers: Come......

An elderly woman was struck by an outbound N-Judah this evening around 5:45 p.m. at 9th Avenue and Irving Street. Over at N-Judah Chronicles, fittingly enough, Greg Dewar was downing a pint at Blackthorn Tavern when the collision occurred. While having a pint at the Blackthorn Tavern, awaiting the beginning of pub trivia, Bobby, the owner alerted me to a situation just outside the door. It seems that at 5:41 pm (according to sources......

SFist reader/commenter Tendernob kindly sent this find our way: I spent the holidays with my mother in Los Angeles, who collects rare first-edition books. While I was visiting, she opened "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" (circa 1930) and an old San Francisco MUNI transfer fell out. We don't know whose it was, or how long it was in that book. We're not even certain how old this ticket is, but google tells us that John M.......

Hee: "'Broc' Obama" Obama for President! Or whatever. At the risk of breaking the royal we's fourth wall, we're just delighted to see the name veer away from its many unfair pornographic connotations. Image credit: Flickr's jen_maiser......

How fury-inducing. Image taken by Flickr photog Omega it's jameth......

Seeing as how we're ashamed of and grossed out by almost every bodily function imaginable, if you want to see the uncensored image above, featuring canine fecal matter adorned with a US flag, you can find it hiding behind the jump. It's visually coarse, and you've been warned. It seems someone in "the Mission neighborhood has apparently been sticking flags in poop piles for quite some time." While that's a curious political statement, we're......

Well, he has our vote. The shabby minimalism of his campaign poster here is the work of a political mastermind. For sure. Image credit: Flickr user Omega it's jameth.......