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Egads. A man fell to his death yesterday at Monster Park after falling 20 feet from the upper concourse area of the stadium to the concrete mezzanine below. Scary. And sad. According to the Chronicle, the 31-year-old sports fan "went to the concession area between sections 5 and 7 to hang out during halftime about 2:20 p.m. and fell over a wall to the floor below." After two other accidents that happened in the......

Photo from last year's Halloween in the Castro...

Prints + good tunes = the Pipettes -- The Pipettes: This all-female, British, Phil-Spector-sounding band gains more and more popularity by the day. See them tonight so that by next year when they're too big for SF venues, you can say you saw them when. They perform with Social Studies and Monster Bobby (read our interview with him here!) -- the Ladybug Transistor, who were scheduled to go on, will not be appearing -- tonight......

SFist interviews Bobby of Monster Bobby who is opening for the Pipettes tonight' at Bimbo's ...

We're starting to run out of ways to introduce these stories about the murder count in SF, so we're going with a clip of "Miss Murder" by AFI, above. So here's the latest: Two more bodies were found today. One person was found shot to death in the head around 9:30 last night near Monster Park, and this morning, a woman walking in Golden Gate Park saw a dead body in a grove of......

We were flipping through the channels over the weekend and caught a few minutes of a National Geographic show on Sea Monsters and so we stopped. We're big fans of Nessie. Towards the end of the show, a segment came up about something we hadn't heard before, that San Francisco has its very own Sea Monster right here in the Bay....

SFist interviews Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation...

--They tore down that house everyone's laughing about. --The Niners got San Francisco to cough up money originally intended for parks to go to fixing up Monster Park instead. They're just going to move to Santa Clara anyways, guys! --Mission Bay bores Chron architecture critic John King. --Fiona Ma sponsors legislation to make it easier for, say, Gavin Newsom to change his name to Gavin Newsom-Siebel. --Aaaaaaa-choo! --The SF Sentinel's photo tips. Also, they......

Here's todays news...

Listen... Can you hear that? That distant sound? As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced? Holy nerd alert, Batman! WonderCon is coming! Yes, this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Moscone Center will host the hundreds, nay, thousands of nerds, dorks, fanboys and fangirls who are too lazy and/or poor to make the trip down south for ComiCon in July. And we will proudly be amongst them. After the......

Venerable contemporary art institution, Southern Exposure hosts a big fundraiser tonight - its 7th Annual Monster Drawing Rally, where an impressively large number of local artists take turns drawing things on paper, which are then sold for a measley $50 with all proceeds benefiting Southern Exposure's exhibition and educational programs. Some draw monsters, some draw abstract patterns and shapes, though maybe one can be convinced to do caricatures of Bill and Hilary Clinton like the......

You don't have to write the SFist Blotter to notice that we've had a disturbing uptick in violent crime over the last few weeks -- we've now had 14 murders in the last 17 days, with six murders taking place this weekend. Two parents were shot in front of their children on Friday night in Mission Terrace (the five-year-old knocked on doors in the neighborhood until someone came out to help), a man killed his......

Hey, the new MUNI T Third line is finally open! That's the new light rail route that goes (.gif) from Castro Station down Third Street, through Dogpatch, down the Bayview, past Monster Park, and all the way to Sunnydale Avenue. We decided to spend our day off today checking it out. The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about......

-A SFPD police officer was shot in killed trying to serve a felony warrant on somebody who was under suspicion for a variety of burglaries in the Taraval district. It's the third cop to die in the line of fire this year. The suspect was also killed in the shooting -A tiger mauled a trainer at the San Francisco zoo during feeding time yesterday afternoon. This happened in plain sight of everyone who was watching. ...

We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. We feel especially in touch with our inner Cookie Monster after all that reading, and you'll see why. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle Amanda Gold recommends using seasonal spices in baked desserts, including cookies. We really want to try the dreamy looking and sounding lemon layer cake with cranberry lemon curd, ooh la la!. Gold is also all about the (vegetable)......

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......

From the people who brought you AT&T Park and Monster Park and the Doritos’s Fiesta Bowl comes word that the Golden Gate Bridge-- THE Golden Gate Bridge-- might get corporate sponsorship too. ...

We would like any polar bear who plays the accordion, or bunny who glows in the dark. But what won us over for the Octonauts & the Only Lonely Monster, a children's book released earlier this month by San Francisco publisher Immedium, is that, out of the eight animals who compose the Octonaut team, there are both a sea-ottery scientist and an octopussy professor. That’s at least 25% of the crew with a doctorate degree.......

Barrespondent Nico loves an unsubstantiated claim. Truly. Given that the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster and Area 51 remain a major part of his raison d'être one would think he runs out for the new edition of the Weekly World News at first light. Which is not entirely untrue. We feel the world would be much a less interesting place without the simple pleasure of freaks and cryptozoology. Take Sasquatch for example. Perpetually bashful,......

--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......

When this SFist attended a recent press sceening of the animated feature Monster House, something wonderful happened. A writer we've always respected made a pointed crack about "movie reviewers from the dailies", which inspired another film journalist to darkly mutter "Uh, I don't like them animated cartoons", a joking impression of Nemesis of SFist and San Francisco Chronicle movie reviewer Mick LaSalle. After the laughter had subsided, several of us recounted our favorite idiotic lines......

Hey you kids: get off Wednesday's lawn! Tonight: Nothing says fun like a documentary about a bipolar girl trying to deal with life after her failed suicide attempt! The Film Arts Foundation is screening Learning to Swallow as part of their True Stories: Sneak Previews of New Documentaries series. 7:30 p.m. at the Yerba Buena Center Screening Room, $8. Thursday: The Surround>Sound series wraps up its San Francisco aural experience at the Luggage Store Gallery......

This week's comics, courtesy of Isotope, involve a boy motivated by his love for God, a man motivated by a threat to his wife, and a group of kids motivated by sex. Yep, God, violence, and sex -- honestly, what other reasons are there for doing anything? Let's start with Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan's "American Virgin," because that was our favorite. Adam's a charismatic college kid on a mission from God: to......

While the rest of us will most likely weeping into our Jell-O shots at the Mint while wailing "Fighter" into the Karaoke machine this weekend in preparation for another Valentine's Day spent lining the catbox with our exes' silk boxers, there's no reason you shouldn't be having more fun than we are. For instance, this Friday you could meet legendary "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander at the Center for Sex and Culture, where she'll be......

Tiiiiimber! Commuters blamelessly trying to get to the Golden Gate Bridge got stuck in a whole lotta mess this morning, as a lumber truck misjudged how fast it was going and spilled its load on that sharp turn up the northbound 101 9th Street and Mission/Van Ness exit. No one was hurt, but the entire highway was blocked, and cars parked below were damaged from the falling logs. Traffic on 101 backed up all the way to Monster Park, and the highway was reopened about four hours later. In other traffic news, this time in the East Bay, last night, the connecting ramp between 580 and 80 was closed for about two hours to deal with a fatal crash, where an SUV crashed into the center divider and caught on fire. And finally -- wanna buy a parking place? They're going for around $85,000-$125,000, which could buy you a two-bedroom house in Birmingham, Alabama. Invest now -- if Daly's 2-spaces for 3-units legislation survives a veto threat, they're going to only go up in value. (But make sure they're not located underneath the northbound 101 Mission/Van Ness Street exit -- tiiiiimber!) Picture by Karl Mondon, off sfgate from the Contra Costa Times...

Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval's in a Monster Park of his own making, after his proposal before the Board of Supes to support the Seahawks was greeted with a cry of "Offsides!" from the red-and-gold faithful. "Sandoval sounds like a traitor," announces the head of the Santa Clara Niners booster club. A Niners spokesman said the resolution "represents an appalling lack of loyalty to San Francisco." That guy's just probably happy no one's asking him questions about videos for a change! Sandoval says, "Come on, give me a break, it's just a way to have fun and help a few bar owners," noting that sports bars have seen a precipitous decline in attendance since the Niners limped to a 4-12 season this last year and that Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren is a San Francisco native. But as of this morning, Niners fans vowed to show up at today's Board of Supes meeting at 2 p.m. to protest against the proposal. Well, given how bad the Niners defense is, we're sure the proposition will pass 41-3. Picture of a Niners-Seahawks game in 2003 from the NFL website...

In our ongoing efforts to Stick It To The Man, we threw off the shackles of local cable giants and went with Alameda Power & Telecom for all of our cable service needs. One of the pleasant side effects has been getting public access channel 31, which produces the TV show "Monster Island Theatre." To call it "the Bay Area's homage to 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'" is to sell both TV shows short. We......

Winona "Winnie" Tong comes to the Bay Area from the cool climes of beautiful Canada. Her profile reads like the history of personal computing which, frankly, it is (and, at least in the early years, mirrors our own experience -- except she started on an Apple and moved to WinTel, and we went vice-versa). Now, of course, it's Web 2.0, and instead of BBS systems and ICQ chat, she's got a blog, Creative Constipation.......

So yes, both the Niners and the Rai-duhs lost yesterday in typically awful fashion. But we don't think this is such a bad thing. Not a bad thing in all. In fact, we think it's a good thing: it’s just a matter of how you look at it. Take the Niners for instance; they’re now 2-10 and owner of the second worst record in the NFL. On the other hand, they're still a game......