Your Black Muslim Bakery -- the prominent and notorious Oakland setting featured in many a Chauncey Bailey story -- will probably be sold today to Vital Life Services, a nondenominational "nonprofit serving people living with HIV/AIDS and other critical illnesses," founded in 1987. The high bidder NCK LLC, a limited liability corporation, plans on buying the space, then turning it over to VLS. (Aw.) The property was also sought after by several other interested......

-- Bridge? Closed. (They're gone! Quick, put away the bongs, and bust out the vodka, straws, and mirrors!) [Examiner] -- Near, far, wherever you are, free Wi-Fi must go on. [eWEEK] -- Two bodies found in Ingleside Heights. [Chron] -- Also, four other attacks in SF. How lovely. [SFist] -- While out jogging, Ross Mirkarimi helps apprehend two Western Addition drive-by suspects. Oh, Ross, you's so strong! [Chron] -- Good to the last drop,......

-- John officially wants SF throne. So does Josh. [Laughing Squid, JW] -- Dublin-Pleasanton BART station closure times, dates. (Our apologies for posting this unforgivably late.) [BART, Chron] -- Pirates beat Giants. Arrr, indeed. [Examiner] -- Fish sandwiches and bean pies: what could have been but never was. [Chron] -- 12 shootings in 24 hours in the city of Richmond. [ABC 7] -- Friday's gunfire in SF threatens the lives of two. [Chron] --......

Tonight at City Hall, three men are being honored for 1) attacking an attacker, 2) chasing said attacker, and 3) coming to the aid of the attacked. Remember in May when a teenage girl was randomly attacked with a knife in a bakery by some loser who got out of San Quentin the day before? Well, that happened in our part of the city, where not much usually happens. Have you ever heard of Miraloma......

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. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts......

As already mentioned in Blotter's comments and in our tips section, Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue (hot fish sandwiches -- mmm) was raided this morning, resulting in the arrests of over a dozen people. Police, bomb units, and SWAT teams came down on the bakery and several other "related locations" in North Oakland and Emeryville at 5 a.m. (Read Chron's article about it here, Examiner's here.) Police claim that this was all......

More setbacks for those of you wanting souvenirs or a grilled cheese sandwich by the Golden Gate Bridge -- the Warming Hut's reopening after its devastating January 2007 fire has been delayed. The Warming Hut is that cute historic building right on Crissy Field, run by the Golden Gate Park Conservancy and dedicated as a Green business for selling sandwiches and warm sweatshirts (ah, tourists). Eco-consciousness only goes so far, though, as the January 2007......

"She loves 'plebeian American food' like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but doesn’t allow herself even a nibble, fearing an insidious slide into the next dress size." - San Francisco Magazine, on Dede Wilsey. ...

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. In New York, Gothamist isn't sure whether to love or hate......

Oh, who cares about news when the title of the NEXT HARRY POTTER BOOK HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! WE'RE SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All right, enough of that. ...

We had our excuses (Hangar One Thai Boxer cocktails, delectable nibbles, interesting gossip opps, and supreme people watching) for staying for the entire CHOW launch party at Bix. It was fascinating and delish, which is always a wonderful combo! ...

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? ...

SFist runs a repeat interview with Bing Ji Ling who is performing at Cafe du Nord as part of noisepop. ...

Having worked in SoMa for seven years, we consider ourselves at least slightly informed as to what's doing in that neighborhood. So we read the New York Times' "36 Hours: SoMa, San Francisco," with some interest, hoping to see some of our favorite drop-in spots in print. What we saw instead was a wallet-busting tour of an area that's got a lot of great bargains. Although SFist totally applauds the inclusion of City Kayak's......

Good morning, class! Today's the first day of the school year for the San Francisco public schools. Mmmm, smell the chalk in the air! Test scores are up, Ackerman's raise was approved by a trial court, things are good over at the SFUSD. One problem, though -- some union workers are staging a one-day sickout over their labor negotiations for raises. The school district wouldn't say how many people were out today, but volunteers will be staffing the principal's office at Malcolm X Elementary and there may not be hot lunches today if enough people are out (though the schools will give out sandwiches). This is not an officially union-sanctioned action, though the union is taking the position that if people are sick, they're sick. Also in honor of today, the Chron's got an article that follows three kids who went to the same preschool, didn't do so well in the school lottery system, and are now at three different elementary schools -- a public school teacher who's sending her child to an expensive private school, the Protestant family who's enrolled at a Catholic school after they decided the public school wasn't working for their child, and one who's thrilled with their public school despite its middling-level test scores. The article's fascinating -- we hope the Chron keeps following these kids throughout the year. How'd you take the first day of school as a kid? What's your thoughts about the SFUSD? Share with the class! ...

It's the better safe than sorry edition! So an SF mother frantically alerted the media that her daughter was missing after her finals in Atlanta, only to find out that her daughter had been arrested. The daughter had refused to give her name to the Atlanta police, so when the mother called to ask if her daughter was in jail, they didn't have her name in the database. Another woman alerted the SFPD that her elderly parents had been missing since Tuesday. Last she'd heard, they were going to the doctor's for a routine appointment, and when she managed to get into their house, they didn't have any of their medication with them. They turned up two days later, reporting that they'd gotten a little lost. Numerous people reported seeing their car in various places in Oakland and San Francisco. And finally, Wendy's reported that its second quarter earnings were down 4 percent, all because of finger-in-the-chili Anna Ayala. However, sales of chicken club sandwiches, iced cappuccinos, and yogurt are up, up, up! ...

In which SFist eats its way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order First of all we thought it would be really, really funny to review Hooters for our restaurant beginning with an H. The idea amused our friends, male acquaintances started heckling for an invitation and we quietly congratulated ourselves on the brilliance of our own imagination. But when we checked the Hooters web page for directions and stumbled across a photographic depiction of......

If you're not going to HorrorFest, checking out the bands recommended by SFist Krissy like you should be or have tickets for Sleater-Kinney at the Warfield or Fischerspooner at the Fillmore, then here are some ideas: Tonight at the Metreon is the fourth annual "Global Sight and Sound" party, featuring two of SFist's favorite local DJs Dan the Automator and Cheb i Sabbah, among dozens of other awesome acts and artists. It's pricey --......

One of our SFist editors, unfortunately the ill-gendered one, promised to kiss us if we ever wrote a post in French. We have postponed such post thus far, but with the opening of Café du Soleil, we have to put up or shut up: the place is as French as a fry. You will have to excuse our French, which we hid behind some link after the jump, in the hope said editor won't......

Pass the basket, please! The San Francisco-based US Bread Baking Guild competitive team won this year's Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, described as "the World Cup of bread baking." The team coach and one of the bakers are from the San Francisco Baking Institute (in South City), and the Baking Institute also offered training space for the team. The team beat out perennial powerhouse France and third-place winner Japan in all three categories: baguettes, viennoiserie (pastries and sandwiches), and artistic design. Team America's artistic design was a bread sculpture featuring Mt. Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty with a flaming torch of wheat and -- Marin ups! -- a Golden Gate Bridge painted with paprika and little savory rolls for cars. (No mention if a suicide barrier made out of breadsticks was featured.) Rad! SFist loves baking competitions. ...

A while back, we had interviewee Michele Alaniz question the San Francisco obsession with the burrito. We know, we know -- worshipping burritos is such a gringo thing to do. But SFist is all about what's really going on down in Mexico, and you'd honestly be surprised at how similar it is to what's going on up here. We're talking pie, fresh squeezed juice and sandwiches. We admit that our column has been south-of-the-border-centric,......

SFist is going to take a stand and say that Lucca Foods makes the best sandwiches on the West Side. We're not going to say that theirs are the best in the whole city, because we feel that title belongs to San Jose Avenue's Roxie Food Center, but Lucca brings you the best sandwiches our side of the avenues. We started eating at Lucca during a particularly dark time in our lives. It was......

It's January, which means it's time for the long awaited Macworld SF. Nothing like gadgets and booth babes to get the geek blood flowing. If you haven't had your fee paid by your publisher or employer, or don't have the money to spend for yourself, then you can at least join Jason Shellen, Biz Stone and Eric Case for lunch at Yerba Buena Gardens. The invite from shellen dot com: Let's meet at 12:30pm on......

SFist interviews bing ji ling aka quinn luke...

Congratulations to our Westside Organics contest winner Niall K., who managed to score himself three deliveries of fresh produce by getting back to us within, oh, thirty minutes or so of the post going up. We should have made the questions harder! Live and learn. Thanks to everyone who entered -- we're sure you'll get some free stuff from us eventually. In the Guardian, Dan Leone thanks everyone for their support through his recent troubles......

Now, SFist is an omnivore, and proud of it (we baa quietly under our breath when we eat lamb). But when walking down Valencia Street, we noticed that the venue that formerly housed "the lunch club" had put up some new menus in the window. (You may remember the lunch club as the place with adorably cute indie boys and girls listlessly serving mediocre overpriced sandwiches while earnest emo music poured from the sound system.) Urban Forage, it said....