Photo: SFist Just seconds ago we came across frantic police activity at Boss nightclub (on Harrison Street between Third and Fourth streets). Police informed us that they found a dead body, and declined to give any further details. We'll update you with more info as it comes in. Update: According to the building security guard next door to Boss, three "homeless couples" who have been living outside of BOSS have been feuding. Apparently, a......

-- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a can of paint. He might soon get sprung from the funny farm. [ABC7] -- Streets such as "Van Ness Avenue, Broadway...Harrison Street" and more could turn into toll roads under a proposed city plan to ease traffic congestion. [Chron] -- Viggo......

Wednesday is sick and tired of these motherf****n' snakes on this motherf****n' plane! Tonight: Learn a little something about the "ecological disaster" of the stagnant Salton Sea in southern California and the strange characters it attracts in a Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea, a Slamdance documentary narrated by the inimitable John Waters. The movie's screening at the Red Vic at 2, 7:15, and 9:15, $7. Thursday: You Wear It Well is a festival......

All the Fastraks in the world can't save you now, as Caltrans proudly announces that it expects weekend Bay Bridge traffic to be backed up for the next year. What? Why? How? Well, in September, they're moving everyone driving in from Oakland to that new bridge they've been building over on your right-hand side, and then they're closing off the SF Harrison Street offramp for the next three years. After that, over 2006, they'll be tearing down half of the upper deck, and therefore closing off most of the onramps. Caltrans will be paying for additional BART service on the affected weekends. .....but a fat lot of good all that BART service is going to do for you if you need to get to the South Bay! SamTrans is now refusing to pay for extra service down the Millbrae-SFO BART spur, so they're cutting back rush-hour service to the airport and Caltrain. Bummer, especially since they just recalibrated the Caltrain schedule to match up with BART. You'll be getting less frequent service and shorter trains -- so it'll be time to cuddle up with all those other people trying to lug four suitcases apiece to SFO. Boo Samtrans. Why don't you just make everyone trying to get to the South Bay take one of those Wild West pump car trains or something? ...

SFist loves a free show (thanks, KCSM), so we checked out Los Hombres Calientes, a steamy Latin jazz band out of New Orleans, at last weekend’s Carnaval festival. We’ve also been itching to check out Los Hombres bandleader Irvin Mayfield, the only-28-but-already-a-legend trumpet player who is earmarked to be America’s finest jazz ambassador since Louis Armstrong. With remarkable talent, huge personality, chutzpah, good looks and charm, Mayfield is an unstoppable force. So did the......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. We admit we are a bit of a loss to describe the ethos behind Cafe Gratitude. We are told that Matthew Engelhart is a millionaire who started training in the being of abundance in 1984. Yes - he is the kind of guy who made his fortune selling workshops. Twenty years down the line Matthew, who apparently keeps his attention on......

Our concert picks for the week of 5/26-6/1. Although Memorial Day should mean more than just a day off from work (if you get the day off, and, well, if you have a job), clubs do take advantage of the three day weekend by offering up an action-packed Sunday night. But of course, San Francisco offers up stellar music events all week long. You could spend tonight with the straight-from-the-bottle swillers in The Cuts at......

This news item combines all our favorite things: commuter news, SUVs, cigarette regulation, the mayor's quality of life plans, and a generous espresso shot of schadenfreude to boot! Hooray! Did anyone see a flaming car spinning out of control on the Bay Bridge at the Harrison Street exit in the City this morning? A man finishing up his cigarette in his Ford Expedition around 10:30 a.m. today decided to defy Mayor Newsom and litter in our beautiful city by throwing the still-lit butt out the window. Unfortunately, the cigarette flew back into the car, and set his back seat on fire. The driver panicked, pulled over to the leftmost lane (which is not a breakdown shoulder on the bridge), and jumped out of the still-moving car. The car then crashed into the guardrail at the end of the bridge and burst into flames. The Harrison Street exit was closed for an hour while firefighters doused the flames. The driver is fine, except that his head was singed (and he's out a car). The authorities say that throwing a lit cigarette out a car window is a misdemeanor and the driver will be charged. In the court of SFist public opinion, though, we find the driver -- ha ha ha ha ha! Here's what to do if your car catches on fire: pull over and call for help. We will concede that the hints do not say "come to a complete stop" first. ...

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