SF News UPDATED: Cosco Bucan Oil Spill: How You Can Help To volunteer: call the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at (800) 228-4544, or email Baykeeper at volunteer - at - baykeeper - dot - org. Send Baykeeper your photos of oil damage, too. To
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Oil Spill = Death at Fisherman's Wharf See what we are dealing with on the closed beaches of S.F., after the jump.
SF News Bernal Heights Burrowing Owl In Danger? We got word today from an anonymous source that two residents of Bernal Heights -- including a former President of Golden Gate Audubon Society -- spotted a burrowing owl a block from their
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions for Willo, Designer Extraordinaire 1) Most of your work since we've known you has been Web and Graphic Design for corporations and small businesses, so what prompted the move over to the apparel, jewelry, etc? What's your
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera: the Magic Flute The set, originally designed for the 92-93 season of the LA opera, and seen for the first time in SF, is build around a massive pyramid: Mozart was a Mason when he composed
misc Finally, An Alternative to Clubbing Baby Seals Bay Area polluters (that's all of us, kids) are responsible for contaminating the Bay with such nasty toxic materials as sewage, flame retardants, and Teflon. Mother seals who eat contaminated fish, pass the
misc Aw: Baby Whale Washed Up Whales are fascinating creatures, so: alas. This weekend a baby humpback whale washed up on the shore in Pacifica. The Marine Mammal Center gave word of the decomposed 27-foot female body, and said
misc Caltrans Cares So Much, They'll Bury Fido For You CBS5 recently uncovered Caltrans secret pet cemetery -- somewhere along eerie Highway 9 in the Santa Cruz mountains -- where they simply bag, tag, and toss little fluffy over a cliff. Gross. Caltrans,
misc Bernal Hill Coyote Roams In our continuing effort to stave off (unfair) pitbull hysteria, we bring you even more (unfair) coyote hysteria. Run! While driving around Bernal Hill on Alamaba Street, SFist reader Katie Spence snapped these
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Andy Vogt Where is the best place to see art in the area? Hard to pick one since they all have something different to offer. I always enjoy shows at Ampersand International Arts, Gregory Lind
Arts & Entertainment Lion House Reopens Today -- Hooray! Look how cute and cuddly these guy are. We’re sure these African lions think what Tatiana, the Siberian tigress did was totally déclassé. If you’re still suffering from PTSD after nine
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond and the Guardian editorial board go in with both fists swinging about Newsom's latest two begging-from-the-rich schemes. Yeah! We love it!! Guess that banner about
misc Giraffe Dies in Vallejo RIP Makonnen Now this is an RIP we’re real sad to be writing. 2-year old Makonnen, a giraffe at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo died early this morning in a barn
misc New Penguins at the Zoo By the handsome looks of these birds, it’s no wonder that Penguin Island has the highest success rate of captive breeding. The 200-foot pool may not be as spacious as the original
Arts & Entertainment Carmel Hell: 71 Miles' Midsummer Travel Tip/Warning Who doesn't love a weekend jaunt to Carmel? Well, those of us who can afford it, anyway. What's more, those of us who can tolerate its cloying horror. John Vlahides, co-founder and executive
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Unhappy Sharks of San Francisco [Update: Errors were made in todays HTML coding. Fixed. Also, we didn't mention the relationship between the illegal fishing of these cute sharks and the fish supplier to your favorite local sushi house
SF News Ask a Muni Driver {Disclaimer: I am not an official spokesperson for anything except my opinion as a MUNI driver, San Franciscan, and daily passenger just like the rest of you sorry sods relying on MUNI to
Arts & Entertainment Kangaroo-Based Shoes (and More) Banned...for Now Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals) filed the suit against the makers of the aggressively-colored sports shoes, claiming that they "oppose kangaroo products because...hunters mistakenly shoot endangered species" while going after the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Treat or Trick!: Ack, it's Halloween in July! SFShenanigans invite you to hand out candy at the Civic Center BART station tonight (at the platform closest to the Embarcadero.) Why? Just...because.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Recent coyote "execution" still reverberates [Update: Coyotes run with their tails down, as shown. This is a fox, while this is a coyote. (Links fixed.) One is small, the other is big. In GGP, one has a white-tipped
