Last night's episode of South Park centered around all the fleeting internet memes that make up a part of our collective cultural dialogue these days, however sadly. The episode begins with the boys attempting to get a photo of Cartman "Faith Hilling" (making pretend boobies with your shirt) at a Republican debate, only to have Newt Gingrich call them out the next day in the press for being "so 2000-late" and "pretty stale... If they had crashed the debate by Taylor Swifting, that would have been impressive." As Kyle says, "How can we be passé? We're only in fourth grade!" more ›

(by D. Hanousek) So, this week I'm writing from Portland, Oregon. I'm in the middle of a two-week offsite and I've been away from San Francisco for eight days. I was lucky enough to see my husband and kids in Tahoe over the weekend, but as I sit in my hotel room feeling homesick and watching First Week In, I realize that I have another confession to make: I Love San Francisco. more ›

We've come to admire District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim. Mainly for lightning rod reasons - as of late, she has certain wonk sects in a tizzy over only God knows what; being an attractive woman, presumably - she's garnered a spark that could prove combustible. Good or bad, only time will tell. Whatever. That said, Kim will make a public appearance tonight at 6 pm The Butler & the Chef (155 South Park) in South Park, hosted by the South Park Improvement Association. (Word to the wise: If you're a reporter, you'd better hide your spiral notepads and laptops.) more ›

Realizing that we here at SFist subsist on a 75% dairy diet, the American Grilled Cheese Kitchen (1 South Park Avenue) opened shop this week around the corner from us, just off South Park on Second Street. As of 11:30 a.m. today, the line was growing just around the block. And how. more ›

The Twittersphere was all aflutter today as the food cart (and food table) sensation hit South Park, because this time it drew media interest from BBC Radio, some unnamed video outlet and, yes, your 'umble narrator at SFist. Among the fine folks dishing out tasty, affordable treats were @GumboCart, @AdoboHobo, @TheChaiCart, @WholesomeBakery, @MagicCurryKart, and more. More pictures here to warm up your appetite for next time. more ›

Get ready, hungry worker bees buzzing about in the SOMA/Mission Bay/Rincoon Hill/downtown area. Dottie, the sweetheart of The Sweet Cart, will be selling her goods in South Park tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon. She will be out in the park from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. selling her signature (not to mention astoundingly delicious) cheesecake and red velvet cupcakes. more ›

Ten-year-old Mireya Zapata was reported missing from her home in the Tenderloin District at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning. She was wearing a black jacket with gold lettering that either says, "South Park" or "South Pole," black jeans, red and black sneakers with a heart print, and she was carrying a pink backback. She has a small black freckle near her mouth. She is about 5 feet tall, weighing 75 pounds. more ›

Yes, by popular demand, San Francisco Film Society's SF360 Film will once again bring you the one, the only, "Trapped in a Closet" sing-along, the awesomest sing-along this side of the Buffy "Once More With Feeling" sing-along (sing it everyone: "Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes/They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses...") The show will be Friday, January 25, at 7:00 pm at Mezzanine. more ›

It’s early on a Saturday afternoon, and we’ve somehow found our way to Paris. OK, we’re not in Paris. Rather, we’re poking around mellow South Park between 2nd, 3rd, Brannan, and Bryant Sts., where arrondissement 94107’s narrow ellipse of green space merely feels a bit Parisian. The scene in the park is, for the most part, typical and ephemeral: young parents with their kids at the playground, couples chatting on benches or picnicking at tables, dogs and their attendant humans. Falling leaves pepper the ground with muted autumn color. South Park’s twist on the familiar neighborhood park theme, however, is the regular presence of down-and-out’ers at its west end. Nobody seems to demonize the two or three unshowered men hanging about, and while we’re not interested in joining them for a game of checkers or anything, it seems to be a case of no harm, no foul – at least on this afternoon. more ›

It appears to be bomb day here at the ole 'Fist as we have yet another bomb story to relate to y'all. This one involves a die-hard (seriously die-hard) Giants fan who called in bomb threats at Turner Field in Atlanta. more ›

-- Wing: With album titles like Wing Sings Elvis, Wing Sings AC/DC, Dancing Queen by Wing, and Beatles Classics by Wing, it's easy to see why she shot to cult-icon status and became a favorite of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who ended up using her in South Park. See her tonight along with comedian Lisa Geduling at 8:30 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord, Market and Sanchez Streets; $12. more ›

WoW Player Meet-up -- in RL!: If you didn't see the South Park episode or ever stumble upon the Big Blue Dress video while browsing YouTube at 3 am, you're way behind. World of Warcraft, with 8 million gamers subscribed internationally, is a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) affectionately known as Warcrack throughout the gaming community. more ›

First Viacom didn't want their stuff on YouTube. Then they did. Now, once again, they don't. So some poor schmos at YouTube are looking at missing the Super Bowl as they have to pull clips from Viacom shows. The guesstimate for the amount of clips on there is about 100,000. more ›

Tonight there will an interesting auction, for the Princess Project. It's a Bay Area non-profit that provides prom dresses and accessories to high school girls that could not otherwise afford them. Which sounds kind of not very important but just think about what a special night it will be for those girls who are suddenly able to have a nice dress to the prom. One could argue too, that this would make a great reality show for MTV but who cares about poor people when you can show rich, spoiled sixteen year olds. The auction will feature items from local businesses and will from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., at Dolce in San Francisco. more ›

SFist reviews Comedy Death-Ray at SF's Sketchfest more ›

It's the original South Park cartoon that started it all, the Spirit of Christmas and it's still one of the funniest things we've ever seen. This YouTube clip also includes the original and really raw first "South Park" Christmas Special. more ›

Remember back to the giddy days of Napster? Remember how everything could be found online and for free and everyone did nothing at work other than download their favorite songs? Remember how there was a feeling that as great as it was, it was not meant to be as it was just too gosh darn great and how when it all came to a crashing end (thanks, Lars), we all somehow knew it was inevitable? Why are we bringing this up? Because YouTube is now running into problems. Sometime over the weekend, YouTube's new overlords, Google, took down clips from Viacom related shows. Big whoops, right? Wrong. The first things that were taken down were clips from Viacom owned Comedy Central. Which means we'll no longer be able to post clips from the "Daily Show" or "The Colbert Report" or "South Park". That sucks. There are still videos on there but not nearly as plentiful as there was before. And since they're all supposedly going down within days, no time like the present to show off the "South Park" episode that makes fun of us San Franciscans (see above). more ›

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? more ›

SFist interviews Marco Panella from Dark Side of the Cop more ›

This thing about the three-year-old who accidentally killed a family friend in Alameda is too weird. So the kid apparently found a gun in his house and started waving it around in the living room. As his parents tried to disarm him, the gun went off and killed a guy hanging out in the house. Turns out the gun is owned by the cousin of the man who was shot, who may or may not be a gang member, and who may or may not be fleeing to Mexico. They've also taken the child into protective custody because they're afraid the gang member might retaliate against him. Surely no one in the gang thinks it's the kid's fault, do they? Further freaking us out, it turns out the 3-year-old has already witnessed someone getting murdered before, when a cousin was shot in front of him in El Sobrante. Attack of the sea lion! The good folks at the Berkeley Marina have been reduced to shooting water hoses in the face of a surly sea lion on the dock, who attacked three people on Wednesday alone. Most dramatically, the 1,500 lb. male grabbed a woman by the ankle and tried to drag her into the water, in what a witness described as "a virtual tug of war." The sea lion also tried to eat someone's backpack, but decided it wasn't to his liking. And early this morning, the cops shot (non-fatally) a guy fleeing from the scene of an armed robbery at 14th and Belcher in Duboce Triangle. Cops found the car the robber was in, but the robber refused to stop. They chased the car into a dead end in SoMa, at which point the driver tried to ram the cops in reverse. The cops then fired, and the driver kept going in reverse until he hit a tree. The driver then took off (in drive) again but was ultimately stopped at Townsend and Second. more ›

Few things go together better than baseball and dogs – no, not the kind that contain pig snout and esophagus and cost $4.50, but the canine type. And every summer The San Francisco Giants host the Dog Days of Summer where canines are admitted to watch the game from the outfield bleachers. more ›

Blue Sky">go away. Come again another day. . . more ›

Well, friends. The end has officially arrived. "Arrested Development" producer Mitch Hurwitz announced yesterday that they would not be pursuing any offers to continue the series on another network. One could take that to mean that they weren't getting enough money, or not everyone needed to continue the show was willing to continue the show, or everyone thought it was better to go out with three seasons of brilliance than with untold seasons of possible suck. more ›

Wait a minute, starf**ks! We're just reporting the news! Don't sue us like you did to local artist Kieron Dwyer when he produced the image at right for his comic book series . Though we don't know much about the terms of your settlement with him, we do know that it wasn't terribly favorable to the artist, and includes such stipulations as that he's never allowed to design a circular logo ever again. The republic certainly can sleep safe tonight thanks to you. more ›

Unlike most years, Hanukah falls after Christmas. Actually, the first candle lighting will take place the day of. What does this mean? Besides the fact that Jews might be able to save Christmas, it'll mean the shoes on the other foot this holiday season. Usually, by the time Christmas rolls around, us Jews have become so over our presents that we can only enviously watch as the Goyim open up their presents. "Oh man, they got an XBox. We only got socks!" But this time, the shoes on the other foot. Now all the Goyim will enviously watch us open up our presents. "Oh man, they got socks. All we got was an XBox!" Suck on it, boy-os. With Hanukah actually falling on Christmas, it'll mean menorah lighting parties, but for those looking for something to do until then, and for those Christmas orphans stuck here instead of with the fam, there's plenty of options. more ›

It looks like the Giants craptastic season has claimed some more people-- at KNBR. In light of KNBR's sport talk show host Larry Krueger's statements last week about the Giants being made up of "brain-dead Caribbean hitters" KNBR fired Krueger as well as long time program director Bob Agnew and the morning show producer Tony Rhein. As they say, it's not the crime but the cover-up and in this case, it's not the crime but the joking about it afterwards that did them all in. On Monday, Felipe appeared on ESPN’s "Outside the Lines" and referred to Krueger as a "messenger of Satan." In response, KNBR’s morning show aired snippets of Alou's Satan comments and parodied it with references to the Satan on "South Park." An interesting reference considering Satan is mainly depicted as wracked with inner turmoil due to a dysfunctional relationship with his boyfriend Saddam Hussein. In firing Krueger, Agnew, and Rhein, KNBR issued a statement saying that their jokes "demonstrated an utter lack of regard for the sensitivity of the issues involved and a premeditated intent to ridicule Felipe Alou's commentary." In other words, if you're trying to appear all contrite and apologetic over an offensive comment, don't make light of the person you've offended. more ›

Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to rabble rouser Jan Wahl that deposed royalty The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will Smith, will be living and working in San Francisco while shooting the as yet untitled Chris Gardner story. more ›

A trailer for Rent has hit the Internets, and that amazes us, as it seems like only yesterday we were watching them film in South Park, perpetratin' like it was Tompkins Square in New York. We tried to watch the trailer closely, looking for signs of our fair City, but if there are some SF-in-disguise shots in there, we have to commend them for doing a bang-up job of camouflage. Of course the video is quite small, and the song is really distracting, (we admit it--musicals just aren't our thing) so we invite you to cast your scrutinizing eye on the clip and see if you can spot any sure signs of San Francisco amongst the "New York" grunge. more ›

Gothamist, our sister site for people who don't know how to leave Manhattan, had previously secured assurances from Revolution Studios that all of the exteriors would be filmed in NYC's East Village, which is so OK with us we don't even care. No word yet on what made them change their mind, or why the film version of the play (which takes place during Christmas) would require footage of a leafy, summery park. more ›