SF News Monday Morning Roundup Your Weekend Giants scores in brief: On Friday, Matt Cain held strong, only allowing two runs over six innings, but the offense couldn't pull off anything more than a solo homer from Panda.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2011: Friday Impressions The Outside Lands festival kicked off in Golden Gate Park yesterday, (as you know!) and while crowds may have looked a little thin in the early afternoon, things definitely perked up by the
Arts & Entertainment Notes from Thursday Night's Mayoral Debate: Round Two with Ed Lee Thursday night at the African American Art & Cultural Complex in the Western Addition, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club and the San Francisco Young Democrats hosted nine of everybody's favorite candidates
SF News BART Called for (Possibly Illegal) Cell Phone Service Cutoff to Prevent Protests Yesterday evening around the time protesters were supposedly going to rally on the Civic Center BART platform, cell phone service from Civic Center to the transbay tube was cut off as part of
Arts & Entertainment Adorable, Laser-Cut Wooden Sutro Tower Models Now Available For Purchase Here's an enjoyable thing: a 1/1000th scale model of San Francisco's most well-loved, peak-topping TV tower. This adorable wooden version of the once hated landmark is cut from 1/8th inch plywood
SF News Cops Seeking Deplorable Post-Teenagers Who Attacked a Man With a Scooter Last night around 10:30 p.m. a group of three men in their 20s attacked a 40-year-old victim in the Tenderloin by beating him with a Razor scooter on Ellis Street near
SF News Jeff Adachi Enters the Mayor's Race for Some Reason According to the Examiner, San Francisco Public Defender and creator of a not-so-popular pension reform deal Jeff Adachi has jumped in to the race for Mayor. Today is the final day to file
Arts & Entertainment A Quick and Dirty Guide to an Enjoyable Outside Lands Weekend Whether you're heading out to the Polo Fields to catch three days of music, wine and food or maybe you just live in one of the surrounding neighborhoods and don't want to deal
SF News Stop the Violence Campaign Marches Against Hate Crime Tomorrow The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, along with Castro Community on Patrol and the Triangle Martial Arts Association, have scheduled a march for tomorrow, Saturday August 13th, to speak out against recent hate crimes
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional The Giants had the day off yesterday after sinking in that series against Pittsburgh. Today they're on the road in Florida to play the Marlins. Scheduled starter Matt Cain looks to improve on
SF News Day Around the Bay Reminder: Tonight's Mayoral Debate kicks off at 6 p.m. with SFist pals Melissa Griffin moderating and beth Spotswood providing color commentary along with Pollo Del Mar for the folks at home. but
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Chiu is a Lush, Joanna Caffeinates and Everyone Steps Out at Sunday Streets With a slew of debates and forums on the horizon, the candidates don't seem to be making quite as much time for for boozy meet-and-greets these days. But if you desperately need to
Arts & Entertainment James Franco Banging Out a Documentary About Kink.com On Tuesday night's episode of Conan, Palo Alto-bred wunderkind and your boyfriend James Franco dropped in to support his latest role in Rise of the Planet of the Apes*, but during the interview
SF News BART Protest Updates: Demonstration Planned for Civic Center Station at 4:30 P.M. Today [UPDATED] Breaking news regarding threatened protests on BART throughout August: No Justice, No BART, the website rallying point for last month's BART protest has posted details on another demonstration set for today's evening commute.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain: Drinking Through Lower Haight, Popping Up in the Mission, Splashing the Tonga Room Pool As you know, the chef, travel writer and TV host has been in town this week shooting bits for his new show The Layover, which hits all the the must-eat and must-drink spots
SF News Environmental Group Protests the America's Cup at 10 A.M. Today [Summer of Protests] The Environmental Council, a joint effort between 30 bay area organizations who all want a say in the America's Cup environmental impact report, is set to protest in front of City Hall this
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Jonathan Sanchez couldn't keep the Pirates at bay last night and the Giants ended their homestand with a plundering at AT&T park. Pittsburgh wins 9-2, and some of us are considering
SF News Heads Up, BART Riders: More Protests Could Spoil Your Commute Last night BART put out a rider alert warning passengers, "Protests may disrupt service as early as Thursday, August 11th" (that'd be today). The protests -- more demonstrations in response to the officer-involved
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: August 10, 2011 Judging by the covers alone, this week is not a very strong showing for San Francisco's alt-rags. On the Weekly, we've got an imported story from a sister publication in Seattle and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Bowling Alley Updates: Mission Bowling Club Wins Support for Booze, Lucky Strike Lanes Breaks Ground in SoMa We bring you all the latest news about the city's two most anticipated bowling venues: Mission Bowling Club and Lucky Strike Lanes. Because we know how you've been patiently waiting for some new
Arts & Entertainment Have You Seen Arnold Schwarzenegger's New Website? Well, it's not so much a website as it is a digital postcard from the former Governor, but this photo of Arnold playing chess that's currently blasting us from Schwarzenegger.com, complete with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NoisePop and graffEats Team Up for Serge Gainsbourg Tribute Dinner San Francisco's venerable indie music festival promoters NoisePop are joining forces with the traveling foodies at graffEats to create another one-night-only dinner of food and music on September 8th. You might remember we
SF News Caltrain Service Delayed After Incident in Burlingame According to Bay City News, Caltrain service in both the Southbound and Northbound directions was halted just after 10 a.m. this morning after a train struck and killed a woman on the
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Announces 2011 Lineup Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the yearly 3-day free music festival in Golden Gate Park's Speedway Meadow has announced their lineup for this year's event set to take place Friday, September 30th to Sunday, October
SF News 9-Year-Old Hit-and-Run Victim's Condition Improves Ryan, the 9-year-old boy who was hit by a drunk driver in SoMa last Thursday has been steadily improving at SF General Hospital. Ryan, who was in town with his family for a
