This video shot from high atop Sutro Tower was uploaded to YouTube a couple months ago, but judging by it's lowly 450 plays not many of you have gotten to enjoy this acrophobia-inducing short film yet. The views here about as spectacular as you'd expect on a clear day high above Twin Peaks, but what really gets us is that ominous shadow of Sutro's claw, as seen from a platform 761 feet in the air. more ›

On Sunday, May 22, San Francisco will mark the 30th anniversary of when the first AIDS case was reported in the city. To reflect on the occasion, Twin Peaks will don a giant red ribbon, similar the pink triangle seen each Pride weekend. BAR reports: "San Francisco AIDS Foundation CEO Neil Giuliano, Supervisor Scott Weiner, volunteers, and others will gather Sunday, May 22 at Twin Peaks Viewpoint. Installation begins at 8 a.m. The dedication ceremony will be at 11 a.m." The ribbon, visible across the Bay Area, will remain up from May 22 to June 19. more ›

Police need help identifying the suspects involved in last weekend's fatal shooting on Twin Peaks. If you recall, Luis Venegas, 24, was shot and killed after an altercation with a group of men. Described only as two or three white or Hispanic males, the suspects "fled in a white Honda Odyssey minivan." Anyone with information is asked to call homicide inspectors at 415-553-1145. Tips can also be directed to the city's police communications center at 415-553-1071 or anonymously at 415-575-4444. [Examiner] more ›

Scott Thomas was sentenced to 26 years in the clink yesterday. If you recall, back in 2007 Thomas walked into Creighton’s Bakery and stabbed 15-year-old Loren Schaller five times, which severed her jugular vein. (She nearly bled to death, but a medical doctor in the area saw the attack and rushed over to stop the flow of blood until help arrived.) He also punctured the lung of 60-year-old Kermit Kubitz. The incident happened one day after Thomas was "released unsupervised from San Quentin State Prison." [via SFGate] more ›

Egads! Early Friday morning on Twin Peaks Boulevard, two people in a car went over a cliff and careened down a hillside in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. "A couple was up on viewpoint and as they were leaving instead of putting the car into reverse they out it in drive and went down the hill," Battalion Chief Kevin told KTVU. "They fell approximately 300 feet or so." Both victims where transported to SF General in stable condition. The crash remains under investigation. more ›

As seen over at Mission Mission, photographer Rachel Granofsky created this bit of whimsy here. She explains: more ›

A daunting Twin Peaks by kapshure. more ›

According to Emergency_In_SF, "Power is sill out to 5,300+ customers in Mission & Noe Districts, Diamond Heights and Upper Market..." Most harrowing of all, SFist Deborah almost missed out on her Monday grocery shopping. She reports, "The power went out at Tower Market. We paid in cash as the computers went out right when we saw the total. Everyone else left empty-handed." more ›

Excellent landscape shot, exxonvaldez. Kudos to you. more ›

Photo of our lunar eclipse more ›

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. more ›

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.) more ›

"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... more ›

A photo of a shooting star more ›

Updated with picture from SFist reader Oscar. Thanks, Oscar. Here's the Google Street View picture of the house. more ›

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 looks like he went in originally on a mix of grand and petty theft-type charges). Thomas was caught by two police officers who were in the area, and who described him as covered with blood, carrying a hunting knife, and speaking and singing incoherently. The girl is improving, and the man who intervened suffered only minor injuries. more ›

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

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. more ›

A few photos of icy S.F. more ›

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

-- At Twin Peaks more ›

-Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata proposes health care for all workers in California. more ›

This Sisyphus is just trying to get to the Exit Theater -- but what were we futilely trying to get done this week? more ›

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? more ›

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. more ›

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? more ›

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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! more ›

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? more ›

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. more ›