SF News Photos: Occupy San Francisco Marches on City Hall Reports from yesterday's Occupy SF solidarity march suggest that thousands of people showed up to show their support for the Occupy movement. Protesters marched from the Occupy SF general assembly at the Federal
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Ribbing Brad Pitt and Taking Credit for Steve Jobs' Work Last week we saw Willie shilling for his favorite sandwich shop again, this week Willie classes it up a bit for a charity dinner at Michael Mina, which you may recall recently topped
Arts & Entertainment Vintage S.F.: A Nudist Goes Hang Gliding From Fort Baker Behold: a whimsical portrait of 1970's San Francisco, when you could jiggle and flap your hang glider right off a cliff near Fort Baker, naked as a jaybird. We highly doubt anyone told
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Addendum: Boxwars 5, Fight or be Recycled! This Saturday, San Francisco's premiere recycled materials battle returns to Dolores Park for an afternoon of playful reuse. For the uninitiated, Boxwars combines recycling with gladiator-style battles to exhilarating and hilarious result. Basically,
Arts & Entertainment A Quick and Dirty Guide to an Enjoyable Treasure Island Festival The Treasure Island Music Festival is this weekend. Are you going? We're going. It's going to be great, the weather appears to be on our side, the lineup is enticing and there's a
SF News Scenes From a Public Education Demonstration at the Palace Hotel Protesters affiliated with Occupy SF, the Occupy Wall Street Movement and several teachers groups descended on the Palace Hotel yesterday evening to protest Jeb Bush's conservative education conference and what they view as
SF News San Jose Man Busted for Running a Gun-Peddling Taco Cart Unlike in San Francisco where taco trucks need to create some sort of Asian fusion to stand out from the crowd, taco cart owners down in San jose are deadly serious about their
SF News Brazen Thief Arrested After Bragging About Stolen iPhone on Muni A thief at Stonestown Galleria made off with a woman's iPhone after nabbing it right out of her hands while she shopped Wednesday evening. But the thief didn't get too far with it.
SF News Occupy Richmond Pops Up with Blessing of City Officials, Cops Yesterday afternoon a group of "about six dozen" protesters gathered in downtown Richmond, California to add their voices to the cacophony of Occupy Wall Street protests. For about an hour yesterday, residents, activists
SF News Emergency Drill Happening in Fisherman's Wharf This Morning In order to keep the city's nexus of tourism and colorful panhandling safe, the Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District and the SFFD along with the Department of Emergency Management will be running a
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional Occupy Wall Street had an exciting morning. NYPD threatened to evict the protesters camped out at Zuccotti Park for a "cleaning", but backed down at the last. Protesters are calling it a win,
SF News Day Around the Bay Fog City Journal attended the TNDC Pool Toss last night, high-resolution photos of the hilarity right this way. [FCJ] Are the real estate agents behind this Inner Sunset abode deliberately marketing to Catholics?
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Here's Jane Kim Getting Tossed Into a Pool We mentioned the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation's Pool Toss fundraiser earlier this week and now, for your afternoon schadenfreude, the aftermath of the sopping event has been posted to Facebook. (Because that's where
SF News Matt Smith Heading to The Bay Citizen In the wake of harsh layoffs at SF Weekly, the Bay Citizen has literally saved journalism. Or one journalist, at least: the charity case online newspaper has hired Matt Smith, whose name you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Waitstaff Want to Make 25% Tip the Standard, Claims Food Columnist After the Michael Bauer stirred up controversy by suggesting the city's Healthy SF program was to blame for San Francisco's crappy tipping, some members of the service industry are pushing to make a
SF News John Avalos Discusses Occupy SF with Keith Olbermann [Video] After finally getting to the bottom of what Occupy Wall Street wants last week, Keith Olbermann turned his attention to the movement's expansion to San Francisco's Financial District last night. To lend some
SF News In Bernal Heights, Angry Parents Rally Against Unjust Grade School Conditions Add another demonstration to the list of unhappy mobs around town: down in the quiet hillside hamlet of Bernal Heights, some twenty parents of children at the Paul Revere School gathered at the
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Oft-forgotten Richmond district residents have their concerns heard by KQED. Are you listening, mayoral candidates? [RichmondSF] Solyndra's CEO bails, is replaced by a guy who's apparently good at dealing with bankruptcy. [SFBiz] Wal-Mart
SF News Meanwhile, in Dolores Park... Park renovations are coming along nicely. They apparently include a new welcome sign and a laundry list of rules that we're skeptical any of the Dolores Park regulars will ever be following. Hat
Arts & Entertainment Ed Lee Biography Sparks Controversy, Craigslist Auctions, Book Clubs We briefly mentioned The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, but the book's sudden cult following (or backlash, if you prefer) is worth a mention of it's
SF News Transbay Tower Foes Throw Shade on Tall, Shady Building The proposed Transbay Tower, which you should know is going to be very tall and very adjacent to the rebuilt Transbay Terminal and it's 5.4 acre park, has hit another road bump
SF News Lupe Fiasco Visits Occupy Oakland, Donates Supplies [Video] Occupy Wall Street got a visit from Kanye West (in his very expensive-looking chain, natch), but over in Oakland the 99% got a more useful visit from fellow Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco. Mr.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alioto-Lazio Fish Company Reopens After 10-Month Cleanup The historic Fisherman's Wharf crab purveyors at the Alioto-Lazio Fish Company have reopened after being dark for the better part of the year. The staff of all-female fishmonger at the generations-old wholesaler were
SF News SF Chronicle Endorses David Chiu for SF Mayor After subjecting candidates to lengthy endorsement interviews, the editorial staff at the paper of record has emerged from whatever smokey backroom it is they discuss these things in (The Tempest, probably) and announced
SF News Cupertino Gunman Shareef Allman Shot Himself From Santa Clara County, the medical examiner's office reports that Shareef Allman, the gunman who opened fire on his coworkers at the Lehigh Cement Plant before leading authorities on a peninsula manhunt, died
