While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic......

SF Jenna plays Huey AND Riley tonight! Cuz a little culture never hurt anyone.... Aaron McGruder at the JCC: Ever crack open the morning paper to catch up on the latest exploits of Huey and Riley, adorable inner-city youths exiled to the suburbs in The Boondocks? Even if you haven't read the recently-ended comic or seen the show, you've probably heard of cartoonist Aaron McGruder and the controversy swirling around his oft-politically charged work. Swing......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists....

We may be crafty, but that doesn't mean we don't enjoy spending hours in front of a TV with some good video games once and a while. We'd love to tell you that we spent most of our childhood knee deep in crayons and paper mache, covered in finger paint, but we grew up in the suburbs of Jersey and in-between trips to the mall we played video games. Zelda, Mario Brothers, Pitfall, Pole Position, X-men, we like to think those pixilated masterpieces influenced our crafty minds. Sure, we can get with some Wii, but when it comes down to it, we prefer 8 bit graphics. So we were thrilled to see this crocheted Atari set on Craft's blog yesterday, and even more giddy when we saw the TV with Pitfall on the screen. We did some digging, and found some more art and crafts inspired by video games we thought you should see. What a wonderful marriage of two things we love. The amazing crocheted Atari above and the TV below were both created by Christine Domanic. As Craft mentions in their post, Christine also has an Etsy shop and starting in May she will be doing custom orders for any Atari game you'd like to have crocheted. Pretty fantastic. ...

-Bay Area not the only place that's had an up-tick in violent crime-- everywhere else has too. It's just a little worse here. -And crime is also heading to the suburbs. ...

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle announced their season ending yesterday, something of which we are constantly told could mean something when it comes to the Oscars. The idea, we guess, being that these awards are like the NCAA brackets: Movie A wins the SF Flim Critics and movie B wins the LA Film Critics award, then they go off to meet the winner of the New York Critics Awards with the winner being the front-runner for Oscar gold. Or something like that. ...

We know we're saving up our money for countless Halloween-themed events this weekend, so tonight we're all about the free stuff. Funcheap SF is an e-mail newsletter that clues in the city's under-employed, bored and frugal on the best in fun and cheap stuff to do. Tonight they're hosting the Cheap Bastard Fun Happy Hour at EZ5 Bar(682 Commercial St. at Kearny near the Holiday Inn in Chinatown). The event will feature cheap happy......

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wiedling and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much. LAist has finally come around to purchasing tickets for Clipper Train. Hyper local dating sites are spamming L.A. neighborhoods and the fascinating Dame Darcy talks with LAist about art, the city and earthquakes.......

SFist interviews Brendan Benson...

Following his doctor’s strict advice, Barrespondent Drew continues to get all lit up a few times a week and sober up long enough to scribble out a review of the only place he remembers going. At least we think it was a doctor. He had a white coat on… People are always telling us to ‘Get out and see the world.”. Or at least telling us to ‘get out’. So following that advice, we......

So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's head. The cop's in the hospital and three yutzes are in the clink. Our feeling is, what's the point of having all these Sureno and Norteno Mission Street gangs if they're not actually going to protect us from outsider threats? But we'll save all that for tomorrow's Blotter. SF Indybay was at the protest, and posted some pictures and coverage of the fight. KRON 4's new aggregator-blog, The Bay Area Is Talking, which was liveblogging it, then put up the Indybay pictures on their site. Bloggers love bloggers, right? More publicity makes for higher hit counts, right? Nope. Indybay sent an angry note to KRON accusing them of copyright infringement and demanding that the pictures be taken down. KRON 4 said they thought the use of the pictures constituted permissible fair use, but agreed to take them down and link to them instead. There's some fascinating ironies here about anarchists invoking the august majesty of federal United States Code section 17, a group called "IndyBay" censoring the content of another independent media provider (yup, KRON's indie), a member of the mainstream media going all Creative Commons, and leftists avoiding publicity for their public demonstration -- but mostly, it seems to have devolved into a fight where people are mixing up copyright and trademark law. Maybe SFist Jackson and the EFF can clear this up for you at their panel discussion next Tuesday, the 19th --"Bloggers -- Know Your Rights." ...

So apparently everyone was shocked -- shocked! -- to hear that someone wanted to kill our dearest President George W. Bush. Of course, SFist's first thought was to call most of our friends to make sure it wasn't them. After all, George Bush probably doesn't come here very often (ever?) for a reason. Heck, if we got close enough, we might even take one for the team. We say 'might' because we don't want......

Andrew Louder covers Cama....