For those unfamiliar with the phenomenon that is "Ghost Ride the Whip," let us get you up to speed. Ghost riding is when the driver of a car puts it in neutral or allows it to idle, and then the driver (and passengers) exit while it's still rolling and dance beside it or on the hood or the roof. It was started in the Bay Area and was coined by Mac Dre and later popularized by E-40, as part of the hyphy culture, which features ghost riding as one of the automobile tricks done in sydeshows....

The Cali-KC rap war that began started with the murder of local raper Mac Dre in November 2004 escalated with the retaliatory killing of Kansas City rapper Fat Tone this past May. Andre "Mac Minister, Choppa, Chop" Dow, the prime suspect in the Fat Tone's murder was captured yesterday in a San Francisco apartment, by SFPD SWAT and FBI agents. There was a standoff for about 90 minutes, until a woman allowed law enforcement......

Pant pant, running -- sorry we're late! Post-Thanksgiving Internet woes. The Chron gets all underground rap with a story about the complicated beefs involved in the shooting of Mac Dre. And hey, remember that dude who tried to carjack the newlyweds outside a Taco Bell? He pled not guilty. Dude, didn't they catch him running from the scene of the crime, with a lady in a big puffy white dress and guy in tux running after him? Drop the chalupa! And we find out more about the three single teenage moms involved in the San Jose Amtrak accident where a two-year-old toddler was killed -- the mother of the toddler had asked her friend to babysit her two children while she attended a job training at Toys R Us, her friend passed the kids to her roommate when the first friend realized she had to take a drug test, and the roommate was crossing the railroad tracks when a train was oncoming. ...

...because we like big butts and we cannot lie. Looking at the Weeklies splayed out on our desk, it's an endless promise of fun. Let's ruin the illusion and dive right in. Last week's winner, the SF Weekly, sports Harmon Leon's absolutely f**king genius Infiltration of a Promise Keepers meeting. (Did you know that the busiest weekend for strip clubs in Indianapolis isn't during the 500, it's during the PK convention?) This week, no......

So far, the most popular post here on SFist has been, by far, our coverage of Mac Dre's funeral. Fans and well-wishers have left dozens and dozens of comments full of praise and respect, and the stats bear out that folks looking for Mac are all over that post. So when we saw a new comment from 'dp' that said Fat Tone, AKA 23-year old Anthony Watkins of Kansas City, had been shot to......

Mac Dre, the Vallejo rapper shot in Kansas City last week, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mountain View cemetary in Oakland. Unfortunately, the funeral home, which only seats 100, was not able to accommodate all the members of Mac Dre's family and fans who wanted to pay their final respects, and only family members whose named appeared on the official list were allowed in. ...

...and it's the special silver linings edition! We're mixing up the format a little and starting off with the East Bay Express. Why not? Bottom Feeder reports on a fight in a Contra Costa condo complex where one person tore out someone else's topiary duck. So Method and Red. Gay couples aren't sorry they demanded equal rights. Cover article: Julia Butterfly Hill (the chick who lived in a tree for two years) started her own......

In response to reader feedback, we're trying out new graphics for the blotter. Let us know what you think! Halloween came and went with a minimum of fuss in the city -- as one officer noted, there were 250,000 people and only five punches thrown (working out to a ratio of one punch per 50,000 folks). One of those punches was thrown around 10:30 p.m. at Market and Castro, where a man complained that someone......