SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump Another East Bay PG&E outage took out BART last night. The outage closed the Downtown Berkeley station for about two hour. [BCN/Appeal] Is the Muni stop at Hyde and Turk
SF News Day Around the Bay Get Your Flu Shot with 211 and keep your grimy rhinovirus off the rest of us. [SFAppeal] Everyone is talking about The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor, the new book about Ed
SF News Protesters Plan 'Foreclose Wall Street' Demonstration Wednesday Morning Tomorrow morning, as part of ongoing Occupy SF protests and the We Are the 99% movement, several local activists groups will be marching on the Financial District during the morning rush hour to
SF News Bryan Stow Leaves the Hospital, Heads for Rehabilitation Although he's still got a long struggle in front of him, congratulations are in order for Bryan Stow and family. According to his physicians, the assaulted Giants Fan has been making "dramatic progress"
SF News Mayoral Candidates Vote for Themselves As we mentioned earlier early voting opened today at City Hall. Right on cue, candidates David Chiu, Joanna Rees and Mayor Ed Lee all showed up to cast their votes. Luckily, one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Umami Burger, Pot-Infused Wine, Trivializing Julia Child If you're looking to get a taste of Los Angeles glamburgers at the freshly opened Umami Burger on Union Street, InsideScoop recommends you plan your visits strategically, as the place has been packed
SF News Homeless Activists Take Over Cathedral Hill Hotel [Updated] Monday night's World Homeless Action Day demonstration sounds like it was a rousing good time despite the evening rain. According to one demonstrator's report, the festive-sounding event began at Civic Center with some
SF News Early Voting Starts today at SF City Hall If you've already got your mind all made up about your top three candidates for Mayor, District Attorney and sheriff — as well as those various propositions on the November ballot — you should now
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup In Novato, a 700-pound statue of a pelican with a ten-foot wingspan (pictured) was stolen from a public park. There's a $1,000 reward for it's safe return, which is actually $5,300
SF News Day Around the Bay This man from Redwood City believes he's close to capturing Bigfoot. [SFEx] Steve Jobs' death certificate indicates his immediate cause of death was respiratory arrest stemming from the pancreatic cancer. [AP/KTVU] Oakland
SF News Occupy SF and Homes Not Jails Team Up to Seize Vacant Housing As part of World Homeless Action Day, the Homes Not Jails activist group will team up with the hashtag-friendly Occupy SF and other activists groups to rally for homeless housing rights by squatting
Arts & Entertainment SF Mayoral Candidate's Shih Tzu Endorses Its Owner Today in unnecessary uses of social media on the campaign trail: Joanna Rees' dog Jill has joined Twitter. The Shih Tzu pup, who we assume tweets with the assistance of a social media
Arts & Entertainment Analyzing Campaign Videos: Bevan Dufty Has More Adorable Children, Lee Sells His Jobs Plan with Google Earth After Bevan Dufty's campaign won our hearts and minds with last week's magical Muni ad, the former D8 supervisor is tugging at our heartstrings again with a new campaign video addressing the city's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Is Restaurant of the Year, Says Esquire Continuing the parade of national print media praise for our local food scene, Esquire magazine has released their Best New Restaurants list for 2011 which, among other things, includes food writer John Mariani's
SF News Netflix Ditches Qwikster, Will Keep Sending You Red Envelopes After last month's announcement that his company would split in to two businesses, a streaming video service and a DVD-by-mail service, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has already decided to send back that idea
SF News Monday Morning Roundup Raiders owner Al Davis dies and the Raiders send him off with a win. [NYT] Meanwhile, the media is being kind of hypocritical about how they're handling Davis' death. Minnesota turtleneck manufacturer is
Arts & Entertainment Apple Fans Hold Vigil at Stockton Street Apple Store Apple fans hold vigil for Steve Jobs, leaving candles, colorful post-it notes with messages and memories, and (of course) various Apple screens looping images of the former Apple CEO. Jobs died from advanced
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday October 5th, 2011 Just when we were on a roll with sub-three hour meetings, the Board had to go and put a teeth-gnashing public hearing on youth housing smack in the middle of yesterday's agenda. Final
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: October 5, 2011 It's days like today when we are reminded that free weekly papers can still serve a purpose when we find ourselves stranded in a sudden downpour and without an umbrella. If you manage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Your Favorite Treasure Island Music Festival Artists at Soundbite Pop-Up Dinner Tomorrow night the tireless local music promoters at NoisePop and musically inclined kitchen staff from graffEats are teaming up again to combine classy foodie-ism with playful music appreciation. The theme this time: next
SF News BART May Have Figured Out Late-Night Friday Service Promises of late-night service on BART may have taken the backburner at the transit agency while they sort out a few bigger problems popping up and bring the new management up to speed,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Street Thief Wanted More Than a Free Refill On Monday morning, a coffee-seeking customer knocked off a neighborhood corner store at Castro and 14th Street (Courtney Produce, we presume) by pulling the ol' beverage in-the-face trick. As Bay City News reports,
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump Gavin Newsom is so good at social media, just look at how he expertly replaces entire words with numerals while plugging his own book. It's like he's got the thumbs of a 15
SF News Day Around the Bay Congratulations are in order for noted funnyman Seth Rogen, who married longtime girlfriend Lauren Miller at Sonoma County's Kunde Estate over the weekend. [US Mag] Speaking of famous people in wine country: David
SF News Brace Yourselves: Wet, Blustery Weather on the Way Monday's wet spot may have dried up today, but don't get too comfortable with the brief return of the Indian Summer. According to the AP's weather team, we've got another wet, blustery storm
