SF News Woman Swindled Out of $30,000 by 'Some Sort of Black Magic' In the Outer Sunset, an elderly woman out for a walk on 37th avenue near Sunset Blvd was relieved of $30,000 after a trio of swindlers convinced her she had an unspecified
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Your San Francisco Giants are going for some kind of record in number of extra innings played during the regular season. Thanks to Nate Schierholtz' RBI single tying it up in the 9th,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Read the Weeklies: June 1, 2011 Did your hardcopies of the weekly papers get soggy on your way to work this morning? Go ahead and toss those in the blue bin, because here's our Wednesday roundup of what's up
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings: Recess Edition So the Board of Supervisors had the day off from their regular Tuesday meeting yesterday. Contrary to our wildest hopes and dreams, SFGovTV did not, in fact, televise a Post-Memorial Day intramural two-on-two
SF News Muni's Tentative Union Agreement, In Summary Charlie Goodyear, SFMTA's hired gun PR guy, announced yesterday that the agency reached a tentative agreement with the Muni Operators Union. As pretty much everybody reports, the deal will save the agency $21.
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump The baby girl who went missing when her mother's car was stolen in Morgan Hill was returned safe after the car turned up in Salinas. [Chron] California has 1.1 million Medical Marijuana
Arts & Entertainment SFist Guide to June's Free Festivals and Street Fairs Summer Street Fair Season is fast approaching and because nothing drives us to drink quite like a crowd of people slowly waddling past miles of vendors, we bring you our brief guide to
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 20: The Society Op In this week's column, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society earn their hardboiled bonafides as they bring us on a tour of the darker side of San Francisco's literary history: crime fiction.
SF News Your Prius Now Has Another Out of Date Bumper Sticker The yellow "Access OK" Clean Air Vehicle sticker your hybrid car has been sporting since 2005 is set to expire on July 1st, meaning you and 85,000 other Prius owners will no
SF News Frustrated With Obstructed Views, Larry Ellison Buys Neighbor's $40 Million Home Oracle CEO and billionaire boating enthusiast Larry Ellison, seen here eating a hot dog, has overcome some NIMBY issues in the richest way possible. As Curbed reports this morning, Ellison has been battling
SF News Post-Holiday Weekend Roundup Welcome back from your three-day weekend. We sincerely hope inflated hamburger prices didn't ruin your barbecue. And speaking of inflation, the Giants and their worst-in-the-NL offense brought home 7 runs yesterday. Here's what
SF News Memorial Day Morning Roundup What's open today? [Chron] Unintentionally hilarious story of the morning: An extremely intoxicated person attempts to crash a party in Daly City, pulls a gun on the hosts and ends up running away
SF News This Week in Willie Brown Late last week, a beleaguered Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up the telephone and dialed his BFF to ask for some advice. And who better to help Mr. Schwarzenegger cope with the embarrassment of scandal
SF News Reminder: DUI Checkpoints This Weekend With the holiday weekend in front of us, traffic cops and highway patrollers are gearing up to give you a citation for pretty much any stupid thing you can do behind the wheel
Arts & Entertainment Casual Friday! Six Candidates for Mayor Sporting Casual Attire Because those suits can get so stuffy, you know?
SF News Muni Allows New Awkward Thing on Buses Folding bicycles, the nerdy mode of self-propelled transportation preferred by anyone who has to go more then 4 blocks from home to train or train to office, will now be allowed on all
SF News Your Memorial Day Weekend Forecast San Francisco is doing that wet thing again. Not quite rain, but too misty and thick to be classified as fog. The post-commute dampness on your carefully considered outer layer isn't doing anything
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional Have you seen the Planning Department's Recreation and Open Space Element? (ROSE, if you're nasty.) It details the department's plans for creating or modifying the city's green spaces, including one awesome proposal to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Attends: Noise Pop & graffEats' Covers Dinner Last night, Noise Pop teamed up with guerilla dining society graffEats to reprise the Covers Dinner experiment they debuted during this year's Noise Pop music festival. The concept is pretty simple: pair each
SF News Muni Drivers Now Literally Under Attack As the Examiner reports today, assault cases against Muni drivers have shot up this year. In April alone, ten cases of assault against operators were reported. Or if you prefer to look at
SF News Wall Street Journal Examines the Post-Newsom Mayor's Race, Snuggles Up With Dennis Herrera Over at the Wall Street Journal, the New York financial paper is absolutely in love with Dennis Herrera's bid for the top job at City Hall. Without going so far as to officially
SF News Red Vic Set to Close This Summer The Red Vic Movie House will be holding their final screening this summer unless some generous patron of neighborhood theaters steps in to save the venerable Upper Haight institution. KQED reports that recent
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup In the Bryan Stow case, police are happy with the lineup they pulled together down in LA, but others still think Giovanni Ramirez' alibi will hold up. [SFEx] New! From the people who
SF News Your Morning BART Delay: 10-Minute Waits at Powell Just before rush hour this morning BART officials closed the platform at Powell Street station after a man in a wheelchair fell on to the tracks. The injured man was taken to the
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, May 25th 2011 Yesterday's board of supervisors meeting was Sean Elsbernd's time to shine. Because if there are two things Elsbernd gets excited it's Zanze's cheesecake and demolishing some postwar garden court apartments to make room
