Arts & Entertainment The Real Dope Behind 420 (Which Was Coined By A Group Of California Teens) Today is basically St. Patrick's Day for stoners, the high holiday known as 4/20, and the date does not have anything to with the fact that it's Hitler's birthday. As most educated
SF News Man Knocked Out In The Haight Over Weed A man is recovering from head injuries after he was knocked out in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood over his weed. KTVU reports that the man was punched in the face and hit his head
SF News 4/20 Cleanup Costs Were Incredibly High This Year Due to extra police staffing, Muni re-routing, and trash cleanup, the cost of cleaning up after the annual April 20th smoke-out/celebration in Golden Gate Park soared to over $100,000 this year.
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Report: Patrolling Hippie Hill With Stanley Roberts "There are no bad people," Stanley Roberts says casually as we navigate between blankets in Golden Gate Park, "just people behaving badly." It's Sunday, April 20th: marijuana's unofficial high holy day and I'm
SF News Park Station Police Captain Greg Corrales Still Very Anti-Weed While simultaneously touting the impending crackdown by city leaders on this year's 4/20 craziness, Park Station police captain Greg Corrales included in his typically amusing Park Station Newsletter this week an Associated
SF News Highly Intoxicated 'Nincompoop' Faces Off With Fire Truck in the Upper Haight If you don't subscribe to the SFPD Park Station newsletter, you probably should. Phrases like "loathsome louse" and terms like "flower child" and "nincompoop" are de rigeur, and what officers have to deal
SF News Group Of Drunks To Clean Up After Stoners In First Flash Mob We Actually Like We've been harsh on flashmobs in the past, but here's one we can finally get behind: A group calling themselves The Bay Area Drunkards Association sent out invites to local Yelp and Reddit
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser, 420-Style: "When You're Low" Ever wonder what musical theater people do when they move to L.A. to make it big? They smoke/eat a lot of pot and make YouTube videos containing big production numbers about
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser, 420-Style In light of yesterday's revelation (via the SFBG) that high school kids in SF aren't smoking nearly as much weed as they did a decade ago, we offer up this palate cleanser, featuring
SF News Buzz-Killing UCSC Officials Puts the Kibosh on 4/20 Perhaps due to the many squares of acid or complete the lack of sex, we don't remember UC Santa Cruz demigods coming down so hard on 4/20. But SFBG's crusty-but-benign (and victorious!
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After You remember how all those douche-baggy ex-frat guys would wear those striped, Nick Lachey shirts whenever they went out? We’re pretty the new look for those guys is anything with a Red
SF News Chess King Hey, a local 12 year old from Foster City just won the world chess championship for the boys 12 and under age bracket. Champ Daniel Naroditsky won 9 games, lost 1, and played
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Barry Bonds: your San Francisco diva. [SFGate] -- Halloween in SF was a "a dead zone" [Examiner, SFGate] -- 19th Avenue -- now less deadly. [SFist] -- SF hotel bars. Which one
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Monster Bobby Occasionally we are reminded that San Francisco is not the very center of the world. Rare occasions, true, but still, when an interviewee points out that they may not have an encyclopedic knowledge
misc And The Nominees Are: Your Transbay Terminal Designs Pelli Clarke Pelli's Transbay Terminal vision "Although there's no guarantee that any of the towers will be built," John King and Jonathan Curiel at the Chronicle report that three crazy-tall and skyline-altering designs
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Singles events are always awkward, but you've got it easy tonight with a killer line - Did you ride your bike to work today? Head over the supperclub for Date My Friend where
Arts & Entertainment Happy 420 Day In honor of today being "420," here's a little thing to put you in the mood-- it's a YouTube clip of a Pink Floyd laser show.
SF News American Football Spectacular: Sports Aren't That Important In the 49ers' final game of the 2006 regular season, the team will have something more important on their mind than football. * San Francisco vs. Denver Sunday, December 31, 2006. 1:00 PM,
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? Well, it's official, or at least as official as official gets-- the A's are moving to 'the Burbs. Tuesday they held a press conference with all the official types and even unveiled a
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After-- Part I Niners 9, Vikings 3-- In all honesty, we didn't watch any of this game. We went to see Borat instead. And you know what we thought of the movie? It was fine but
Arts & Entertainment Dick Valentine of Electric Six Best venue in the world? Glasgow Barrowlands. Best fans in the world? The Scottish. You’ve said that the greatest fans are in Scotland, yet you named your album SWITZERLAND. Please explain. Doesn’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Take The Caffe Out of North Beach, Is It Truly Trieste? So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one
SF News Craigslist Encounters: The Darker Side Of Craigslist We here at SFist don't have that much bad to say about Craigslist. We've found housing, bought and sold things which we never thought possible and maybe even watched a movie about it.
SF News J.T. Leroy: The Chron's finally on the case The creative team behind J.T. Leroy should send James Frey flowers, since his little revelations have given the J. T. Leroy hoax story a sort of also-ran quality. However, we were pleased
