SF News Barge Hits Richmond-San Rafael Bridge According to the Coast Guard, "a barge has hit the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge" around 6 p.m. this evening. Yikes! The barge, reportedly carrying 63,000 barrels of heavy black oil, hit the
misc Carpenter Replaces Severed Thumb with Big Toe St. Mary's Medical Center got a tip of the hat care of VH1's Best Week Ever blog. For what, exactly? Why, for acting like Dr. Frankenstein and slicing off carpenter Garrett La Fever's
misc Day Around the Bay -- Fallout from yesterday's tiger-ian death of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. continues. [CBS 5, SFGate, Spotswood, FCJ, SF MetBlog, Peta (cuckoo!)] -- We simply refuse to believe that One Rincon Hill is anything
SF News Another Spill Goes Down the Drain. Or Did it? Although ABC 7's Cheryl Jennings -- who we find kicky and whimsical -- told us that a cleaning solvent spilled into the bay this morning, we're getting conflicting reports as to whether or
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 11 For reasons better left unsaid (and in the name of tasteful censorship), we here at SFist are enjoying ABC 7 Dan Noyes' new publicity shot. Very much so. (Even better than the old
SF News Your Commute: Recursive Car Accident Sounds like a mess down on 880 just north of Highway 84, where a big rig ran off the highway at around 1 a.m. this morning and spilled its cargo all over
SF News Vacationing <em>Chronicle</em> Subscribers Robbed This one goes out to all of you octogenarians out there who still receive print papers at your door every morning. You know how you notify the Chronicle to temporarily halt having the
SF News Thwap: Bay Bridge Hit By Container Ship Egads! The west span of the Bay Bridge was struck this morning by a container ship, the Cosco Busan. According to the Chronicle, "Coast Guard officials said the incident was not serious enough
SF News UPDATE: Palo Alto Teen's Attacker Caught According Eric Thomas from ABC 7, who went into mighty graphic detail about what happened, a suspect was arrested today for the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old Palo Alto teen. A press
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Asian Americans vs. ABC Disney It all has to do with what lovely local Teri Hatcher said on a recent edition of ABC's . The offending line of dialogue from the show: “Okay, before we go any further, can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More TV Premieres Following "Murder Club" at 10 p.m. is the return of "Men In Trees," and yes, we actually watched this last season. And yes, we liked it. And no, we don't want to
SF News SFist Blotter Hey, remember angry Sarah Nome, the lady who refused to move out of the Kaiser hospital in Marin for over a year, and ran up a $1.4 million bill? Well, Kaiser's 1)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Wednesday Fall TV Premieres Tonight's big premiere is the quirky comedy "Pushing Daisies" which premieres at 8 p.m. on ABC. There are a lot of big names associated with this dramedy, including executive producer Bryan Fuller,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Tuesday Fall TV Premieres OK, we're kind of loathe to even mention one of tonight's series premieres because it is that infamous sitcom that's based on a series of Geico commercials. We're speaking, of course, of "Cavemen"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Sunday Fall TV Premieres ABC has the season premieres of "Desperate Housewives" at 9 pm. and "Brothers & Sisters" at 10 p.m., two shows we tend to watch just because there's nothing else on Sundays that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Thursday's Fall TV Premieres Every time we watched an episode last year we thought, "Wow. We should really be enjoying this more than we are." Occasionally cute, occasionally funny, it was never consistently anything. And we especially
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Monday's Fall TV Premieres Following "Stars" at 9:30 p.m. is yet another season of "The Bachelor" and horror or horrors joy of joys, there is actually another Bay Area gal vying for her 15 minutes
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
SF News Day Around The Bay -- RIP: Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank dies. [Chron] -- Busted water pipe downtown = Bay Bridge entrance difficulties. [ABC 7] -- What a good idea! MUNI cop ride-alongs. (Oh, you know you also love
SF News SFist Blotter Bad series of news items for the SFPD -- the rookie cop who accidentally shot himself at a party earlier this month when trying to demonstrate tips on gun safety was legally drunk
SF News Gavin Continues His March To Victory: Tony Hall's Out Hall was the one unambiguously-serious mayoral candidate running against Gavin Newsom (and by "unambiguously-serious" we mean was a wedding singer but does not have an animal in his name and wears clothes, of
Arts & Entertainment UPDATE: Cult Alert -- Youth With a Mission "Cult Alert!" flyers garnished lamp posts on Third and Market Streets the other night -- a siren song if ever we've heard one. (It seems like forever since SF's been plagued with a
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 8.8-foot-long Smart Fortwo cars in SF. Squash. [Chron] -- No surprise: Gap Inc. sales suck. (Hint: Burn all billboards promoting horizontal pastels.) [Examiner] -- Hayward murder-suicide.[Chron] -- Barry Bonds bash.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The very attractive Yusuf Bey IV, Your Black Muslim Bakery chief and sudden media darling, now faces real-estate scam charges. Gulp again, dude. [Chron] -- Blue Angels still allowed to soar; Daly
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Blue Angels to be banned in SF? [Examiner] -- Islamic Center of the East Bay's recent blaze decried as an "act of terror" by local Muslim leaders. [Chron] -- Man who attacked
