misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City. Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Mar 3 - 9 Wednesday night is when things get real exciting. Division Day, who released their debut album, Beartrap Island on Eenie Meenie Records (Scissors for Lefty, Wallpaper, Great Northern) at the end of last year
misc Week Around the -Ists Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale. Gothamist marveled at the city's new NYC-branded condom campaign - especially the use of a Toronto landmark in the advertising. (Also, fun
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 120 Washington Wizards 117- Playing at home? Playing a team that's tired, losing, and banged up? Easy peazy, right? But not for your Golden State Warriors who seem to be unable to
misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade. Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattleās Saturday caucus. Londonist had
misc Killer Whales Hungry for Salmon Does anyone else cry at the end of the movie when Jesse bids farewell to Willy? Gets us every time. Every time!
SF News Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's Killers Sentenced to Camp The three boys who took part in the shooting death of Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan in Washington Park in Alameda last Halloween, and then reportedly boasted about it, were sentenced in juvenile court today.
misc Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of Sport -Bud and Donald went to Washington yesterday for the annual brow-beating on baseball by congress. Taking the most heat were the Giants, who were shame-shame-shamed (shame of fools) for not doing anything about
misc Livermore Cockfighting Ring Busted It nice to see that the farming and ranching traditions of Livermore's past live on to this day. You see, seven men were nabbed this past Sunday in connection with a cockfighting ring
misc Day Around the Bay The Washbag shuts its doors for good. (But didn't they, like, invent drinking? Or something like that?) [Culture Blog] Beware of the guerilla knife sharpener. [Curbed] Tetris cookies are good cookies. [The Snitch]
misc A Kennedyesque Inaugural Unda the Rotunda Gavin Newsom began his second term as mayor of San Francisco this morning in front of a huge crowd under the largest dome in the western hemisphere. (Yes, even larger than those found
SF News American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2008, "And Then The Rain..." -- the Jesus Lizard, "And Then The Rain"The NFL's 2008 Wild Card Wknd has arrived at the same time as this rainstorm front. It's forecasted to be wet at both of Saturday's
misc SFist Blotter San Francisco started the year with a bang. Literally. 1/1: The title of First Murder of 2008 was snatched up just a few hours after midnight. An unidentified man was shot to
SF News Congrats, Now Your Lives Are Over, Too! Convictions In Iko's Murder. Two brothers and a friend (ages 16, 15, and 13) were convicted in juvenile court today of first-degree murder. While neither of the three rapscallions was the actual shooter, they were found guilty
Arts & Entertainment Dennis Herrera Drops the Hammer on the Cosco Busan Getting the Busan ready for the long journey home. Most of the patching job should be done by now. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit this morning against a host of
misc Anti-Gay Group to Exhibit Their Folsom Street Fair Doc/Repressed Desires for National Press Club O! What we wouldn't give to attend this press screening in Washington DC tomorrow! DCist has the pleasure of reporting on the anti-invert, pro-missionary sex group called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH)
Arts & Entertainment Eat it, Portland! San Francisco Most "Walkable" City Everybody get and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas here in .pdf. But why are we talking about Portland? And what about
SF News Hostage Situation at Clinton Headquarters Update: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign office in Rochester and John Edwards' offices have also been evacuated. Our sister site, Bostonist is live-blogging the situation right now. Apparently, a man wants to "speak to
misc Funds for Family of Murdered Pizza Deliveryman And speaking of problems with pizza, Marisa Lagoshas wrote a handy-dandy little post with info on two separate funds set up for Thanh Thach's family, Check it: Two funds have been set up
SF News You're Out: Coast Guard Commander Replaced After screwing up mandated drug tests and failing to report the severity of the oil spill in a timely fashion, as of this morning Coast Guard Captain William Uberti is out. And an
misc Wiretapping Immunity (Again) The secret room at AT&T's Folsom Street facility is in the news again. Staffers from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation are in DC this week and next, trying to convince
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Chicken John hosts the Loser's Ball. Which a lot progressives did. Lose, that is. [Politics Blog] -- Although Prop A might pass due to prog efforts. (See where horizontal pastels get you,
SF News Three Teen Boys Arrested in Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan's Murder Three boys -- possibly ruining their lives at the wee ages of 15, 16, and 17 -- were arrested yesterday, all of then booked on suspicion of murder. The fuzz believes that the
SF News Arrests Made in the Halloween Slaying of Teen Rachael Ray Admirer Although we're not sure at this point whether or not Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's assailant is in custody, according to CBS 5, "at least three boys were taken into custody Tuesday morning after police
SF News SFist Blotter Happy day after, All Hallow's Eve. Although the Castro was tame, others parts of the Bay Area, it seems, were not. Last night at Washington Park in Alameda, a 15-year-old girl was shot