Dispatches from TJICistan points out a delightful fact about General Frederick N. Funston--the apparently sensitivity-free Medal of Honor recipient known for his manliness in both the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, and the current namesake for Fort Funston--who once boasted the following. Ahem: I personally strung up thirty-five Filipinos without trial, so what was all the fuss over Waller's 'dispatching' a few 'treacherous savages'? If there had been more Smiths and Wallers, the......

A man stabbed a 15-year-old girl and the man who tried to stop the attack on her, in a Twin Peaks bakery on Saturday (link fixed per comments). The man, Scott Thomas, had just been released from San Quentin the day before, where he'd been in solitary confinement for attacking a guard. Thomas had been sent to San Quentin for violating the terms of his parole (which he's done 8 times since 2001 -- it......

Last Saturday, a fight broke out at the "Hyphy High School Bash" at the Marin County Corte Madera Recreation Center. The police raced to the scene upon hearing reports of gunshots and a Golden Gate Transit bus being blocked on Tamalpais Drive by 80 teenagers. They couldn't confirm whether shots had been fired, but someone had sprayed pepper spray into the crowd and around the same time, someone broke into a nearby elementary school. Hilariously,......

It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so. The Armory's got......

Jim Herd has sent us so many fantastic photos of the Bay Area that we asked him to join us. So please welcome our latest feature as every Thursday (at least and we hope), we'll have a little photo display of the area we all call our home. Up this week, dolphins! Or porpoises. We can't tell. Either way, we love dolphins/porpoises. These were taken at the hang glider launch area of Fort Funston...

--How come Gavin Newsom'll stop a ski jump for Laurie Beijen but they won't do anything about the Bay Bridge closure for the couple that's been planning their Treasure Island wedding for over two years? --The hang-glider shot by the crazy guy in Fort Funston has died. --Gender is meaningless in local kindergartens. --Bollywood karaoke contest tonight! --Together, united, online poker players will never be defeated. --Lesbians march in Oakland for the Sistahs Stepping Out......

Be careful walking your dogs, folks -- there was a triple shooting last night at Fort Funston. A man described as a thin, bearded, 5'8" man acting strangely, approached two people who looked like they'd just finished hang gliding, started up a conversation, and then shot them before shooting himself. The shooter is dead, and the two hang gliders were critically injured. As one witness, there walking his dog, said, "When my dog took off,......

This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. We're just so happy to see thet no one makes Kiva wear any embarassing scarves or sweaters -- of course, if you adopt him, all this could change! Kiva is a handsome husky mix. He is a neutered male, about 5 years old and 45......

Thanks to the Da Vinci Code, everyone is loving stories about hidden secrets and long-lost treasures found amidst old things. It's been recently discovered that we have one of those things happening right here in the Naked City, except without ancient conspiracies, self-flagellating albino monks, and Nicolas Cage destroying whatever acting cred he has left. Tucked away in some random corner inside a wood display case at the San Francisco War Memorial is a fabric......