Photo by www.dheepend.com We're going all the way to Texas for our photo of the day where this yoga studio has an "NRA-inspired bumper sticker prominently displayed on the front door." That's two kinds of peace! Om.......

Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that magic recording device that can pinpoint the locations of discharged gunfire in San Francisco's most at-risk neighborhoods--hears gunfire that city residents should be reporting. Via. Two men were shot and killed in SF on Saturday night. First, just outside the Japan center in Japantown......

Speaking of backlash, the Mayhill Fowler assault is percolating at a gentle boil. You paranoid wheels-within-wheels political fans out there will be happy to know that, apparently, stellar journalist and master of the MP3 recorder Mayhill Fowler is totally ">out to get Obama. How so? Well, because she's wealthy, her husband's lawfirm knows a guy who knows someone who met someone who likes McCain, and she's the devil reincarnated. Or something like that. Don't......

You know how political fetishists are losing their minds this week over Barack Obama's kind of awesome but kind of classist statement at the Getty manse? You know, this: And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. The fundraising event on Billionaires Row, as most of you......

Yesterday, the state supreme court flicked away San Francisco's feeble attempt to bad handguns. Or, in the words of CBS 5, the court "unanimously rejected the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms." This is the final nail in the Prop H coffin, an initiate that voters passed in 2005. Proposition H barred the possession, manufacture, and sale of firearms by anyone in San Francisco,......

This is not pirates and cowboys, OK? It's music set to guns, flags, sabers, and color. Or something fantastically bombastic like that. Do check it out. If you're reading this via an RSS reader, please click through to access the sound file. And, as always, if you have or know of a bizarre, curious, or noisy occupation that cries out for SFist-y documenting, let us know. Thank you.......

UPDATE: according to one eyewitness who went to the police station after the drive-by to make a report, "all of the gunshot victims died." However, after talking to SFPD, all victims are listed "critical or serious" condition as of noontime today. We had falsely reported otherwise. Oops.) A little after 1 a.m. this morning, three people were shot near the intersection of Stillman and Third streets. Right after the dozen or so gunshots jostled......

We were thinking of Chekov’s principle of drama: "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it," when Hotel Casablanca opened with a rack full of guns hanging on the wall. Was it to illustrate that Thomas Pasatieri, the composer/librettist of this new opera, had relocated the original French play in NRA-friendly Texas, or were the weapons instrumental to the plot? Well, we won’t spoil the......

Friend of SFist Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp's CEO and co-founder, just shot us this note: "Guns drawn in front of Yelp office..."...

-- Guns-for-gift card trade today at Civic Center. [Chron] -- How will Giants' owner Peter Magowan celebrate the moment Bonds makes the hit? [Examiner] -- Rebecca Schaeffer's stalker cum murderer stabbed 11 times in prison. Ouch. [Chron, Examiner, via AP] -- SJ hit-and-run suspect still at large. [KPIX] -- Lawrence Livermore Labs plan for more uranium blasts. Yikes! [IndyBay] -- Free Wi-Fi in SF? [The Register]......

Happening "primarily on Chestnut Street [with a some attacks happening] near Fillmore and Greenwich, two to three [persons] dressed in all black wearing Halloween skeleton masks" and brandishing guns, it seems, committed at least 11 attacks on men and women over the past three weeks. Grabbed while walking on the sidewalk -- including one woman who was reportedly forced into her apartment -- the victims were all robbed of their personal belongings (i.e., backpacks, purses,......

Here's todays sports news...

Photo of Jesse Jackson's address in the Western Addition. ...

Oh no! Brilliantly, some crossed wires resulted in us writing two separate articles about the same event. Whoops. Celebrate independence by celebrating mind-control! Go check out the one-day-only "PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR" (it's capitalized in all of the PR materials, so you know it's legit). They've collected hundreds of political posters from all over the world, and hung them at the Phoenix Hotel's Bambuddha Lounge at 601 Eddy Street. The display's open today (the......

And the hits keep on coming! The Chron reports that when they stopped by Ed Jew's City Hall office yesterday, some wag had taped a "Gone Fishing" sign to the door. Fish do love tapioca, we hear. Meanwhile, Peskin really thinks Tapioca Ed needs to go: "This is a stain and it's making the operation of government very difficult. I'm worried that the residents of the Sunset are being denied an effective voice at City......

Geek out! At Ask a Scientist SF, a monthly lecture slash happy hour with a guest speaker on some sciencey topic. This month's meet-up touches on everything you ever wanted to know about terra incognita, Antarctica, with Kurt Cuffey, a UC Berkeley professor of geography. Get there by 7pm to snag a beer and a seat. Axis Cafe, 1208 Eighth St., SF. If Le Tigre and The Shangri-Las had a British love child, it......

As discussed in the SFist Contributes tips page, what people heard in Ingleside Heights early yesterday morning was a mysterious car explosion. Witnesses saw a man park a car, get out of the car and into someone else's, and then the parked car burst into flames. Around 7:00 a.m, another car mysteriously exploded, this time in the Tenderloin at Ellis and Taylor. The two incidents aren't thought to be related -- but how weird. Gimmi......

A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission and 29th Street. A woman came into the taqueria and started yelling racial and anti-gay slurs at people in the restaurant, and when the teacher and his friends tried to get away from her, she attacked him with the knife. The SFPD......

SFist interviews Kevin Robinson from Viva Voce, after their stop at the Warfield in San Francisco opening for the Shins...

There's a heated and productive conversation happening over in our earlier post about Muni's dangerous plan to get bus-mounted cameras with optional bayonets and gatling guns. One of the best comments (and we really do mean one of the best -- other commenters have busied themselves with some delightfully implausible logic) has evoked the memory of Orson Welles, seen in the above video endorsing a Santa Clara winery. Enjoy!......

Here's todays news stories...

In a totally shocking expose, the Examiner reports that there's not a lot of enforcement out there of speeders. Considering there's not enough enforcement of parking scofflaws, sidewalk parkers, illegal handicap parking stickers, and pretty much everything else, this can't be considered a surprise. The reasons cited: not enough cops...blah..blah...blah...no money....blah...blah...blahbity...blah. ...

Here's todays wrap up of the news...

So what's the latest with those two Asian-American embarrassments of last week, racist Kenneth Eng and Gavin-obsessed Han Shin? Or, as we call them around here, Green Dragon and Purple Glove! The Green Dragon first: A reader passes along the tip that the publishers of Kenneth Eng's sci-fi masterpiece Dragons: Lexicon Triumverate (about dragons armed with machine guns) have pulled his books off the shelves (scroll down) and will delete the book from their website......

The story about Rex Farrance, the PC World editor shot to death in a home invasion robbery gets more complicated, as his 19-year-old son tells the media that the "drug trade" alluded to by the police was in fact a stash of licensed medicinal marijuana that the son was keeping at the father's house with the father's knowledge. Farrance's wife, who was pistol-whipped in the attack, strongly denies any drug dealing in the house --......

As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, the -ists look back not at the past week, but at the past year. So here it is, your Best of 2006 Spectacular. And from all of us at the -ists, happy New Year!...

-The rain and all the usual stuff causing havoc on the roads. -Teachers to get Lunar New Year off. Oh, and students will too. -Vallejo cops shoot a driver for extremely reckless driving. -Thanks to activists in the Bay Area, people will be able to whack off to a more eco-friendly Victoria Secret's catalogue. -The Ex thinks the Transit Effectiveness Project should do a book report on how Portland does public transportation. -Berkeley U.N. Center......

We'll admit to some stunted growth and immaturity on our parts. The Holidays brings that out of us. So you won't be surprised to learn that the only thing we're excited about watching tonight, (aside from a new episode of "Battlestar Galactica," of course), is the ultimate Rankin-Bass Christmas Special, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which CBS is running at 8 p.m. (followed by the slightly less stellar "Frosty the Snowman" at 9 p.m.). We......

Chip Johnson in the Chron is reporting on a promotion in Oakland to get people to hand in hand guns. The promotion this time around is basically if you hand in your gun, you'll get tickets to an upcoming concert. The upcoming concert this time around is Guns n' Roses at the Oracle on December 15th....

Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of -Ist-a-verse Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It's getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we've seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he'd made his way around the world on the -ist tour. In Shanghai, Borat would be observing Inane Learnings......