SF News Berkeley-Born Animal Rights Extremist Captured For Bay Area Bombings Two Decades Ago A radical animal-rights activist who was linked to three Bay Area bombings in 2003 has recently been captured after two decades on the run, in the United Kingdom.
SF News Zebras Break Free From Circus For Brief Taste Of Freedom A couple of zebras, who were set to perform at O.co Coliseum over the weekend, managed to escape from UniverSoul Circus on Friday. The two presumably terrified creatures were spotted running north
SF News Oakland 'Animal Rights Extremists' Facing Domestic Terrorism Charges Two Oakland "animal rights extremists" have been hit with charges of terrorism for an cross-country animal liberation spree. Joseph Buddenberg, 31, and Nicole Kissane, 28 of Oakland were arrested on Friday and charged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Animal Activist Storms Downtown Restaurant, Demand Justice For Chickens Either Bluestem Brasserie is in trouble, or an animal activist who recently staged a demonstration at the restaurant chose a terrible time to try to spread her message. As you can see in
SF News Squirrel Scandal Rocks Berkeley's City Council The city of Berkeley is wrapped up in a very Berkeley-esque mixup after a plan to eradicate the ground squirrels and gophers at Cesar Chavez Park was met with an outpouring of backlash.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Humphry Slocombe's Brilliant, Harrowing Response To Foie Gras Activists Oh, this is rich. Ever since foie gras was banned (or "banned") in the state of California on July 1, a smattering of animal rights activists, it seems, have since harassed Mission District
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anti-Foie Gras Activists Revealed Location Of Last Night's 'Secret' Dinner Animal rights activists protested a very special dinner Thursday night in San Francisco, one that featured foie gras, the succulent and soon-to-be-banned duck's liver of note. Activists with the Animal Protection and Rescue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Group Wants Cigarette-Like Warning Labels On Foie Gras Following on the heels of yesterday's report that, as soon as the ban goes into effect, foie gras will turn into an underground treat for gastronomes—all of this fattened liver talk has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Civic Center Farmers Market Bans Live Chicken Sales The Farmers Market at Civic Center, the only San Francisco outdoor market to sell live chickens, voluntarily decided to ban the sale of all live poultry come May 27. Why? Due to pressure
SF News Scene from Today's Pro-Life Protest On Van Ness Why, here's a shot from this afternoon's PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) protest against McDonald's, over on the 600 block of Van Ness. Not nearly as erotic as we had
SF News See Semi-Nude "Chicks" Bathed In Blood On Van Ness at Noon Today Want to see slinky, kinda nude women bathing in a tank of blood-colored water on Van Ness at noon? Of course you do. According to , PETA campaigner Jena Hunt "organized a protest scheduled
SF News PETA to Newsom: Ban Carriage Horses On one hand, we hate the idea or horses being used as engines to carry tourists around city streets; on the other hand, these bitches are batshit. See, it seems Peta (AKA: the
SF News Day Around the Bay Kicking it at the Days-Inn on Lombard. [Butter Retriever] Twitter explained in plain English. [Laughing Squid] The very hot Tyler Florence to take over the very gay Plush Room. Intriguing. [Eater] More on
SF News SHAC7 Claims No Responsibility for UCSC Researcher Attack We just made contacted with a member of the reportedly elusive SHAC7. They told us the following: No--we are not responsible. In fact, the only knowledge we have of the whole ordeal is
SF News Extreme Animal Rights Activists Attack UCSC Faculty Member? Pro-life animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is being accused of taking part in a break in of a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, whose research using animals "sheds light on the
SF News Heh...Heh...Heh...We Said Cockfighting This is the kind of thing that would bring on the animal rights activists as well as PETA but even more so in light of the Michael Vick thing; in fact, the guys
SF News Day Around The Bay --Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Documentary Shorts We got to a classroom-sized room and settled into a folding chair just as people were starting to trickle in and, more importantly, right as the Trader Joe's snacks were being unpacked. Clearly
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>Your Mommy Kills Animals</i> Watch the trailer for Your Mommy Kills Animals. We felt a little bad when the lady working the concession stand at the Roxie seemed so startled we were getting butter on our popcorn
misc Do Think Of An Elephant ... because how could you not with a picture this cute? Elephant with a pumpkin! Ha! The Oakland Zoo held its annual Thanksgiving Leftover Pumpkin feeding for the animals in residence yesterday. We can
SF News Some Follow-Ups Mimi the pregnant toe-licking Japanese Chin dog has been found, wandering University Avenue in Palo Alto. Since being taken home, Mimi has mostly been hiding in a closet. The City of San Jose
SF News Disillusionment, Part Two SFist doesn't know why were on the animal experimentation tip so heavy. May have something to do with the intersection of the biotech industry and animal rights activism. While SFist just re-uses the
