The feds have gotten big bucks for the value of the Busan, so it now has one less hurdle to jump before heading home. ...

We stuck it in Day Around The Bay already, but thought we would let you hash it out here in its own pad, readers. It seems that, according to the preciousness that is Dan Noyes, "the Silent Drill Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps wasn't allowed to be filmed Sept. 11 on California Street in San Francisco for a segment of its new advertising campaign." Stefanie Coyote, executive director of the San Francisco Film......

-- Norman Nsu to return to Redwood City. [ABC7] -- Beth Spotswood writes in real-time about this year's Macy's Passport, with SFist aluma Eve Batey as the Virgil to her Dante. [Chron] -- Ed Jew trail delayed. [Examiner] -- Press conference of San Diego's mayor reversing his decision on same-sex marriage after his daughter comes out. Really, it's amazing footage. [CBS5] -- The U.S. (well, the South) keeping us safe from teens' exposed underwear.......

-- Judy Butterfield: Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, and more come to life via seventeen-year-old Judy Butterfield. Wait, she's seventeen and headlining at the Plush Room already? We were robo-tripping at that age. Christ, that's amazing. OK then. She sings at 8 p.m. at The Empire Plush Room, 940 Sutter; $25. -- The Devil Came on Horseback: The U.S. isn't the only country that loves a good rape and murder spree on foreign soils. Take, for......

--What is going on in this town? There was a mob-style shooting near the 5th and Harrison 80 off-ramp this afternoon. Someone shot 17 bullets into a rented blue Dodge Charger around 1 p.m. today, as both cars were getting off the highway and stopped at a light. The shooters sped off up Fifth Street in a green minivan, which hit another car in the getaway. The victim suffered life-threatening injuries but is as......

The U.S. Census Bureau released some new housing data for the years 2000-2005, and there was some semi-good news for two Bay Area cities. San Jose boosted its total housing units by 6.3% to 299,650, while San Francisco's housing stock rose 2.4% to 354,963 units. Yay! More housing is good, what with housing prices affected by "supply" and "demand," right? ...

With almost four months til the World Cup, it's tune up time for the U.S. team and today, at Whatever the Hell It's Named Now Stadium, the U.S. team will have a chance to tune up with a game against another Germany bound team, Japan. The match is what they call "a friendly," which is soccer-ese (sorry, football-ese) for what we here in America call an "exhibition" game. This means that there is a good chance Big Boys, like Landon Donovan or Eddie Pope, who are on the roster, might not play. Big Boys Claudio Reyna and SFist Fave Demarcus Beasley aren't even on the roster because they're in Europe right now. ...

Now appearing 50% more often! San Francisco is not particularly happy with Sony right now. Law Geek Jason Schultz explains the rootkit fiasco to Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel of GETV, and while talented graffitti writers continue to be harrassed by the SFPD, Sony has no trouble spraypainting our town with 'viral' ads for the PSP. In other video game action, Electronic Arts is getting sued for stealing an idea for an independent game......

In a terribly tragic irony, Marla Ruzicka, who grew up in Lake County, and worked tirelessly for Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange before founding her own organization, "The Campaign For Innocent Victims of Conflict" in the wake of the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, was killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad on Saturday at the age of 28. The U.S. Embassy reports that the bomber was attacking a convoy of 'security contractors' that was......

Medical marijuana finds its way back to the Supreme Court. Man, you just can't kill that weed!...

Sfist has steered clear of Santa Cruz ever since we heard the fictional city of Santa Clarita was based on Santa Cruz. But this weekend, you're far more likely to say that something you never could stomach about Santa Cruz is all the damn martial artists, as The U.S. Open IX Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tournament comes to town. Jiu-Jitsu is not the most thriling spectator sport ever (in fact, we've been known to describe it as......