Because you can't go home. One of our guilty pleasures during storms is sitting around and looking at live traffic updates to keep track of the mayhem. We snapped this screenshot just now. Accidents and incidents literally every minute? We'd be glad we're taking MUNI except that it's closed at Market at 3rd... Anyway, as far as we can tell, if you live in Marin and work in Contra Costa, or vice versa, you can't......

There's going to be some more clipboard-wielding petition signature gatherers near Burma Superstar, as a group of Geary Street merchants filed the official paperwork to launch a recall campaign against District 1 (The Richmond) supervisor Jake McGoldrick, for being insufficiently car-friendly. Insufficiently car-friendly? He only just biked to work for the first time in 2006! The recall campaign, which is spearheaded in part by one of the six candidates who ran against McGoldrick for the......

Wow, there's a whole lot of benefits for worthy causes going on this weekend, as well as a head-spinning amount of other stuff to do: Friday that's tonight, and it's the kick-off for Creativity Explored's (3245 16th St. at Guerrero) Annual Holiday Art Sale, a bargain hunter’s paradise of original artwork by artists with developmental disabilities. And it’s all on sale for rock bottom prices – many items as low as $5. Creativity Explored......

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. Rad dream cartoon this week. Feeding your pets raw meat. Are people trying to sneak into the Berkeley school system? Cover article: not sending juvies to jail. The Dixie Chicks play Oakland this Friday. The Slits are in town. A review of Xyclo -- Oakland Vietnamese restaurant, with a cool name. Old people went to the Rolling Stones show. And Tenacious D. Next up: the Bay Guardian. Nancy......

Saturday: SFist Jackson just about lost his s**t when he heard about MOB: the ArtFag Mafia Premiere Event. Starting at around 9 p.m., there'll be "Fighting Robots, Fire Art, DJs and bands". It's all happening at the NIMBY warehouse (28th St. and Mandela Parkway, in West Oakland). Sunday: We've got to go see sketch comedians Bitter Show's Pilot Pitch-O-Rama, in which they pitch "terrific television pilots to you. All you have to do is......

Here at SFist, we'll admit to a bias toward events where fabulousness and social conscience go hand in hand. That's why we're looking forward to Sunday night, when The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation is presenting Help is on the Way for the Holidays VII. Northern California’s largest annual Aids benefit concert, this night of performances from stage and screen stars will benefit the HIV/AIDS Program at Children’s Hospital Oakland, Project Inform, and Maitri. You can......

The traditional weekend SF shootings report: three shootings in the Mission (two fatal), one shooting in the Bayview, and one fatal shooting at Twin Peaks. Police are investigating. The Richmond police department says they've nabbed a "kingpin" in the gang violence plaguing that city. Vincent Jones, who was wanted for two counts of attempted murder, fled from the cops and was found hiding in a garbage can by a police dog. Jones resisted arrest, and the dog bit him, causing minor injury. ...but you want to know what's really a crime? Naming your son Kal-El! Local celebs Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim, you couldn't have just gone with Clark Kent Cage or something? ...

Two food blogs, Life begins at 30 and Locavores have been organizing the Eat Local Challenge, an effort to support local producers and encourage awareness of what is on our plates, by eating for the whole month of August, food grown within some radius of where you live. We find it a noble goal. However, our participation could be summarized in our nodding with approval, maybe saying ‘you go, guys’, then eating Dungeness crab......

A feature in which SFist brings attention to restaurants in the oft-overlooked Richmond and Sunset districts. We hope you're inspired to try new some new places, and we'd love to hear recommendations of Westside joints you'd like to see reviewed, so please send your thoughts our way, or leave them in the comments....

We're not normally in the habit of endorsing tribe.net - it's a little too Burning Man for our tastes - but no SF-geek should go without reading this blurb about the origins of the neighborhood names. A fifth-generation Californian who goes by "Big Daddy" (not, we assume, his Christian name) has compiled the info on The Neighborhoods from a weath of resources, and it contains such nifty tidbits as: Russian Hill is named for the......

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The Richmond’s 4 Star Theater (phone 415.666.3488) is one of our favorite places to see movies in San Francisco. We’ve spent many a night gorging ourselves at one of the zillions of great places to eat up or down Clement Street, then staggering up to Clement at 23rd for great alternative and world movies....