• SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others.
• Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list.
• Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island.

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SFist interviews Onion editor, Joe Randazzo more ›

With tomorrow's official switch from plastic bags to paper bags looming, news stations have their top cameramen (or the more PC "camera operators") hitting grocery stores across the city, sticking their cameras in your face at the checkout stands. We ourselves were just shot (without permission, BTW) at Whole Foods on 4th and Harrison. Thank goodness we remembered to bring our reusable frayed-green Whole Foods tote. more ›

-- Oh dead God: "Hearts in San Francisco" returns. Sweet cuddly baby Jesus, help us all. [Curbed SF] more ›

A hurrah and a huzzah goes out to Raider Nation for not selling out Sunday's Raiders game. As a result, football fans throughout the area will be allowed to watch The. Biggest. Game. Ever. from the vicinity of their couch. more ›

Just after the Britney Spear/drug test bit, y'all.
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We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness - we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. more ›

While not exactly local news, SFist's sister site, Sampaist, has coverage of last night's extraordinarily fatal plane crash. For those of you concerned about loved ones and/or family down there, or if you just want to know more about the gruesome scene, you can find out more here. more ›

is pretty hilarious. Spanish food in Menlo Park (we got totally trashed on sangria at that restaurant once! Fond memories.) And the Metro also wants more late-night pastry places. We hear ya. more ›

YES!!!! Thank you, CUIP-SF, for passing along your YouTube clip of the guy singing his pro Ed Jew version of Madonna's Borderline at the public comment session of yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting! Thank you thank you thank you!!! more ›

with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park, former college baseball player Mayor Gavin Newsom: more ›

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? more ›

Warrior Nation, can it get any better? Seriously. After Golden State's tenacious, gutty, and spirited come-from-behind 103-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in the O-rena, the Warriors have taken a 3-1 lead in their best-of-seven series. After 13 years of waiting, nobody in the NBA is more jacked up than the Warriors and their long-suffering fans.

The season has gone from just another shit sandwich to a gravy train with biscuit wheels in little more than a month. From nine games below .500 to .500. Not just a .500 record, but playoffs. Not just playoffs, but most favorable matchup. Not just favorable matchup, but a game one victory to take home court advantage in the series and set the basketball world abuzz.

Can you believe we're going to be on the teevee AGAIN? It's CBS this time, tonight at probably 5:30, 6:30, and 11. The lesson here: if you want a ticket to fame, just videotape a Muni driver and you'll be an instant media-magnet. Even Matier and Ross weighed in on it -- they called us ! more ›

OMG! We are SO hitting the big time! We've got two news appearances coming up: tonight at 5pm on KRON-4 and someday at sometime KGO-7. (Update! The KGO story may be delayed, or may not run at all -- their enthusiasm waned when they learned they'd have to share the story with KRON.) Both are in regards to our hard-hitting phonecammery, documenting the EARTH-SHATTERING CATASTROPHES that are Muni's casual standards. We'll be appearing on the "evening news," which is like a blog except you have to sit there for a half hour while someone reads it to you. more ›

Okay, we're a local news junkie Asian-American, and we're just going to say it -- we're a little embarrassed for our people from yesterday. Or, rather, we're going to strongly support investing more resources into Asian-American mental health advocacy and support groups. more ›

First off. Alcoholism is a serious problem and we hope Gavin Newsom (.pdf) gets help and support. more ›

So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving for "personal reasons" the mind does tend to go to certain places. But no matter where your mind wandered, we have a feeling it didn't wander as far as what really happened because the Chron is reporting that Tourk quit mainly because Gavin had an affair with Tourk's wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk. Rippey-Tourk (and woah, what a name) was Gavin's appointments secretary at the time. more ›

event where people show up in chicken suits and just look what happens! Did SFist really get name-checked at the Board of Supervisors' meeting yesterday???? more ›

Oh, where would we be without those local news I-Team reports? Probably stuck in a world full of scamming businesses, not enough labels on things, and bad tanning salons. Now we owe another round of thanks to an I-Team, the KGO one. Because thanks to their hard-hitting report, San Jose is going to undertake the task of cleaning up their libraries. more ›

The sports site Deadspin had a lot of fun with a story about one of those local news investigative report teams going out and reporting on an epidemic of people who masturbate at the local library. What made the story so great is that they gave the story the full "I-Team" treatment for what was essentially a story about a 20-year old loser with a really bad moustache who kept on going to the library to choke the chicken. Why do we bring this story up? Because KGO, Channel 7, sent their very own I-Team out to investigate our libraries and discovered that, well, bad things happen there. And you know what? WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!! more ›

The FCC took a break from fining people for cursing and investigated local news programs who aired video news releases instead of, you know, actual news. Two of the stations that were caught doing it were KGO and KPIX. Whoops. KRON did it too but for some reason isn't mentioned, but then again, nobody watches KRON anyways more ›

We're pretty unhappy that a couple of yayhoos managed to ruin what looked like a very nice time yesterday in the Castro. So are a lot of people -- all the local blog servers were whirring away processing everyone's comments on the story. You guys did us proud with your thoughtful conversations about what the Castro and the city's next steps should be (and we appreciate how nice you guys were about that weird spam attack we got in the middle of the day, which not only left us random letter strings signed by people with names like "Abraham McMinnsberg," but duplicated a number of comments as well.) more ›

Update: 11/1. 4:10 p.m. Shooting count back down to 9. Incident was sparked when one group of party attendees threw a bottle at another. One person was questioned by the police but then released -- no arrests have yet been made. Only two people are in the hospital (one grazed on the head by a bullet, another hit in the knee). At least one group is thought to be a gang. Gavin and Bevan met today to discuss options for next year (metal detectors, entrance fee, age restrictions). more ›

For months, the entire Bay Area has been flummoxed by one question, one mystery so confounding that it's all everyone, or at least several people, have been talking about-- where's Leslie Griffith of KTVU? more ›

The urchins in Haight Street sure are in the news a lot these days. First there was the super-excellent story in this week's SF Weekly. But of even more significance is that Gavin, while in New York, studied up on Central Park and got some ideas on how to make Golden Gate Park nicer. First thing up-- trying to get rid of the homeless. more ›

If you notice a change in the usual Dr. Phil and local news-centric programming at KRON 4 tonight, don't worry, you aren't going crazy; the channel is. more ›

We try to keep our new feature Day Around The Bay pretty short -- so these three longer items we found in our relentless scouring of local news sources have been relegated to their own separate post. more ›

Welcome SFist Jessica, our undercover tourist! The all-Alcatraz outfit was definitely a nice touch -- and we're still looking forward to the poignant watercolors she's going to paint of her time on the San Francisco Bay Quackers tour. more ›