Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 12: What's Your Sign? Peace, Love and Dry Cleaning Every week our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic Society explore some lesser-known aspect of San Francisco city life. This week our topic of interest is the future. Specifically: how can we learn more
SF News Tuesday Morning Links The weather appears to have returned to normal, so expect temperatures in the low-to-high sixties this week, partly sunny with a chance of clouds and occasional gusts of wind to mussy up your
Arts & Entertainment Noted East Bay Motorcycle Club to Hold Punks vs. Hipsters Fight Night The East Bay Rats are well known for their fight nights (SFist even crashed the party way back in 2005*), but hanging out at the San Pablo Avenue clubhouse of a motorcycle (ahem)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Mayoral Hopeful Joanna Rees' "Sex and the City" Cocktail Hour After last week's meet-the-mayoral-candidates event at the Chinatown YMCA, we came away with a sophomoric impression of Joanna Rees: that she was definitely your girlfriend. Which is to say, she strikes us as
SF News In Court with Barry Bonds: Former Girlfriend Testifies to Shrinkage The latest testimony in Barry Bonds' perjury trial comes from Kimberly Bell, the homerun champ's girlfriend from 1994-2003 and someone who surely has an intimate knowledge of the man's physique. According to Bay
SF News Muni Chief Nat Ford's Vacation Schedule Exposed On the Bay Citizen this weekend, the New York Times farm team dug up a list of the Muni Chief's absences in 2010, and for one of the city's highest paid public officials
SF News Worthy of Your Outrage: Rolling Stone's "The Kill Team" Special Report While most of the venerated music magazine's local audience will be looking forward to early reviews of an album by a former mouseketeer, Rolling Stone put out it's bi-annual piece of hard-hitting, long-form
SF News Meanwhile in Vacaville: Newspaper Bomb Injures Elderly Man An elderly man in Vacaville was injured by an explosive device hidden in his Sunday newspaper yesterday. When the man went to retrieve the paper from his lawn the hidden device exploded, alerting
SF News Attention Crab Fisherman: Aquarium of the Bay Will Pay You For Your Giant Octopus Aquarium of the Bay has added a new creature to its near-shore tunnel exhibit: a Giant Pacific Octopus, and like so many captive animals in the Bay Area - it's a rescue. The
SF News Radiation-Free PG&E Service Will Cost You Twenty Bucks a Month With so many folks out there suddenly concerned about the potential dangers of radio frequency radiation, the California Public Utilities Comission asked the power company to propose some radiation-free alternatives to the wireless
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown As we mentioned earlier in the week, last Sunday was Da Mayor's birthday. Willie is a sprightly 77 years old, which probably explains why he's been getting so grumpy about how the city's
SF News Medjool Owner Unloads Giant Value for Condo Development The ongoing saga surrounding developments at Mission and 21st Streets got a new chapter this morning when the SF Business Times reported Gus Murad has unloaded the former Giant Value property to Oyster
SF News Chronicle Editor Goes on Assignment with the Guardian Angels [Video] In response to the recent increase in violence in the Mission, the Guardian Angels began increasing the frequency of their night patrols in the neighborhood. And in response to that, Chronicle Editor at
SF News Slight BART Delays This Morning Hope you weren't already running late for your BART commute: East Bay-bound trains have been running on a 10-minute delay through 24th Street Station since just before 9 a.m. due to an
SF News Friday Morning Links Target is suing a pro-Gay Marriage group for canvassing outside it's San Diego County stores. The well-lit retailer insists it's just business and the group is driving away customers. Customers who hate Gay
Arts & Entertainment Otherwise Reasonable San Franciscans Are Willingly Putting Dead Animals in Their Hair From SFIndieFashion comes the latest frustratingly-cute trend in hair enhancements: fur extensions. Unlike the previous trend of attaching feathers to one's horsey mane, which was bothersome because we couldn't decide whether it was
SF News Gov. Brown Approves Billions in State Budget Cuts Well, we knew this was coming: Jerry Brown slashed somewhere between $7 billion and $10.8 billion* worth of funds from the state budget today, the Chronicle reports from Sacramento. That leaves another
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forthcoming Tenderloin Lounge Will Exorcise Your LA Fetish As one of the few places in San Francisco where anyone could stroll in and lounge poolside with a beverage, we were disappointed to see Bambuddha Lounge at the Phoenix Hotel disappear last
SF News That's One Cold Game of Cityville "[Zynga] let us know there is no way in the world that they can go public and pay payroll tax on all their employee stock options. They mostly just dropped that in our
SF News Possibly Radioactive Raindrops are Falling on Your Head. Or Not. After last week's news of a radiation plume drifting across the Pacific from Japan, officials worked to make sure San Francisco's network of rooftop radiation sensors was operational. Which it wasn't. About a
SF News These Morning Links Are Soaked The rest of our morning items: The days might be numbered for your $12 Walgreens umbrella: gusty winds could hit 45 mph today. [BCN/SFAppeal] Luckily, this could be the last big storm
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: March 23, 2011 As you get ready to leave work and head for your bus, train or corporate-sponsored leisure shuttle you might want to consider picking up one of the many local weekly papers for your
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 23rd Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a
SF News Gascón Wants You To Volunteer to Judge Your (Criminal) Neighbors Judging one's neighbors is, of course, a favorite pastime of San Franciscans but Newsom-appointed DA George Gascón wants to go ahead and make it official by instituting a volunteer community courts plan for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Lanes of Locally-Sourced Bowling Coming to the Mission From our pals at Tablehopper comes word that the ladies behind the conveniently sized Mini Bar on Divisadero will be opening a six-lane bowling alley in the Mission next spring. Apparently they weren't
