Photo of our lunar eclipse...

The legendary Cafe Flore might find its way to the obit page of the B.A.R. soon. Why? Because if it doesn't "get permission to have the option to serve food 24 hrs a day, to have the option to have amplified entertainment to allow a background DJ," or to get the chance to serve booze until 2 am, the place might zip up and never call again according to SaveCafeFlore. Noes! Look, Cafe Flore......

The good folks over the Curbed SF have -- at last! -- posted on the conservative genius (an oxymoron, we know) that is Twin Peaks Properties in Noe Valley on 24th Street. (Apparently, a reader had never witnessed the monument to Noe Valley conservatism. The poor lamb.) Many of you have seen this storefront for years, and chuckled. But who is he, exactly? It's all too easy to chalk up his flair for window......

"I am not gay. I never have been gay," lisped Republican Idaho Senator Larry Craig, with his beard wife, Suzanne, by his side. After getting arrested by an undercover office in a Minneapolis airport boy's room for engaging "in actions 'often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct,'" the GOP senator plead guilty to a disorderly conduct charge, with the hope that it would all quietly go away. Well, it......

A photo of a shooting star...

Updated with picture from SFist reader Oscar. Thanks, Oscar. Here's the Google Street View picture of the house. This is an SFist News Flash: a tipster reports that there's a house fire going on right now in Twin Peaks. The phrase "up in flames surprisingly quickly" was used to describe the situation. Oh noes! Traffic will probably be diverted, so plan your travel accordingly. Our sympathy goes to all parties involved.......

A man stabbed a 15-year-old girl and the man who tried to stop the attack on her, in a Twin Peaks bakery on Saturday (link fixed per comments). The man, Scott Thomas, had just been released from San Quentin the day before, where he'd been in solitary confinement for attacking a guard. Thomas had been sent to San Quentin for violating the terms of his parole (which he's done 8 times since 2001 -- it......

SFist interviews James Elkington of the Zincs, opening for The Sea and Cake at Bimbo's tonight. ...

More mysterious criminal events in Fremont! This time, someone dropped a five-foot tall safe off a truck in the middle of the road. The safe had been pried open, revealing...... a collection of about 70 Star Wars action figures, still in their original packaging. Somewhere, a broken-hearted fan weeps. The yutz alert is on high after the horrific Virginia Tech tragedy: the UC Berkeley law student who posted a fake threat on a blog that......

A few photos of icy S.F....

A photo of Comet McNaught from Twin Peaks in San Francisco. ...

" class="imgright" src="http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_matt/ladylistens-thumb.jpg" width="200" height="312" />Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave your overheard conversation as a message for us: (415)-659-8720 ... Neato! Queer 1: "What happened to all that lube you just had?" Queer 2: "I drank it." -- At a party in the Castro The scene:......

-Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata proposes health care for all workers in California. -Da Mayor to host Inauguration party for Da Governor. -Theme of party? "We Belong Together." -In a story we're all going to get sick of, rain screwed up yesterday and this morning's commute. - Mo' bond money to cause mo' problems for Bay Area. This story is one we can pretty much cut and paste in for the next few years.......

This Sisyphus is just trying to get to the Exit Theater -- but what were we futilely trying to get done this week? *Just trying to get to work, darn it! The MUNI derailment in the Twin Peaks tunnel stranded 60% of the lines and delayed 100% of blameless San Francisco light rail commuters. *Trying to find love for our beleaguered mayor Gavin Newsom. (We've already totally given up trying to get any love for......

So MUNI claims that your morning commute from the Sunset should be okay today, after yesterday's debacle in the Twin Peaks tunnel. Turns out there was indeed a derailment (of an L train, at 7:50 a.m.) in the tunnel, and the initial reports of an electrical problem were incorrect. Also, it turns out that this was the second derailment on MUNI in seven days. Where was the first derailment? According to MUNI spokesman Alan Siegel......

If you're anything like us, you've had just about enough of "How to Get the Guy." But in case you've developed a sick addiction to it, you can catch a new episode tonight at 10 p.m. on ABC. Last week on "How to Get the Guy," four very single women "got in the game," with the help of their "love coaches." Kris found out she's a giant lush, and needs to lay off the......

It's not just that you're a bad driver, folks! DPW says that over half of SF needs to be repaved and it's going to need $340 million to do it. DPW says per year, it needs $34 million just to keep up, $340 million to take care of the backlog, and that it has never gotten more than $18 million. You may remember in the last election, the city tried to get a bond passed to repair the streets, but it didn't get the 2/3rds majority it needed to pass. So now Supervisor Sean Elsbernd has proposed that the city give $28 million of the budget surplus to fix the roads and sidewalks. DPW has put together a list of streets it would like to pave immediately if it gets the extra cash: Valencia between Market and Cesar Chavez, Mission between 11th and 16th, Page between Franklin and Div, Monterey and San Jose, Quintara and 28th, Lincoln between 3rd and 28th, and Portola between Junipero Serra and Twin Peaks. Man, we were driving down Folsom today and hit a pothole so deep it made our teeth rattle. Just how bad is it on Quintara and 28th? You got any favorite pockmarked streets to complain about? ...

Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl 1: "Wow, I've never been up this high!" Girl 2: "I've never even been in this building before. Well, I've been to the bar downstairs." Girl 3: "This would be a great place to have a party!" -- At a party on the 12th floor balcony, Adagio Hotel Twentysomething hip-hop girl to friends: "I'm looking. ... It says both of my parents were Caucasian." Hip-hop......

I pronounce thee carjacked (ha!) -- a newlywed couple successfully fended off a carjacker in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in San Mateo last Saturday. The groom, still in his tux, left the car running and his new bride in the front seat as he went to pick up a snack on his way to their honeymoon suite -- at which point someone jumped into the car and put it in reverse. The bride opened the door and fell out of the car, as her husband came running, at which point the carjacker rammed the car into the Taco Bell sign and was caught by cops as he attempted to flee on foot. Moral is: make sure you eat something at your wedding reception. A three-year-old has been reunited with his parents after being discovered wandering the streets of Twin Peaks early Thursday morning. A nurse returning home from work saw the little boy, wearing Blue's Clues pajamas, in the middle of the street on Burnett Avenue and called 911. When the police came by, the little boy sang some Barney songs with them but would not tell them where he lived. They ended up waiting up with him until about 5 a.m., when his frantic mother called the station. Apparently the boy had gotten up in the middle of the night and let himself out of the house. Moral is: I love you, you love me, we're a happy family. And did you hear all those cars honking downtown yesterday afternoon, like a Philip Glass piece? Taxicab drivers, protesting limos stealing their business. Unexpectedly melodious! ...

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? ...

Likely to start throwing chairs if he hears the words ‘Virgin Pina Colada’, Barrespondent Drew continues his quest to find a bar so seedy and unscrupulous that they’d spike your kid’s Shirley Temple given half a chance. Whether it’s because of a deep seeded and constantly flip-flopping jealousy or our subconscious desire to pigeonhole every person in the city into predefined little categories, we continue to hold on to the belief that San Francisco......

Special "overpowered by funk" edition... Okay, we're going to the Femi Kuti show at the Fillmore thanks to the benificence of George Kelly. Thanks, George! Look for our review of the sold-out show tomorrow. But really, that's just part of the hottness tonight -- the eleventh annual North Beach Jazz Festival and the third annual Rare Groove Festival will also connect you to your roots and get your rump shakin'. So if you like......

In what is becoming a near-yearly holiday tradition, the lights are out in the Marina, Pacific Heights, and Russian Hill. PG&E says 13,500 people have their power out, probably due to a problem at the Marina substation. No word yet on the cause - and we're certain that it has nothing to do with SF's oh-so-tasteful power conservation measures. Update: A roving correspondant (or possibly a stumbling drunk) informs us that lights are on downtown,......

EssEffist, bowing to the traditional Wednesdayness of the local food columns, weighs in with a favorite of ours, perfect for the warm days we've been having: seared ahi on a salad of tomatoes, cucumber, and grilled corn. This is a fantastically easy dish that you can start and finish in under an hour. Invite some friends over and double the recipe, and watch them swoon....