misc Virgin Megastore: Temporary Holiday Parking (Video) Late last night, somebody decided to park their cheap import right by the escalators in the empty Virgin Megastore on Market Street. So far, both the SFAppeal and the Weekly have been unable
SF News Local Columnist Taunts Sailing Billionaire to Make This Boat Race Happen In his SFGate column today, Chuck Nevius calls out boating enthusiast Larry Ellison and the BMW Oracle sailing team for making such a stink about which piers on the Eastern waterfront they'll get
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seafood Peddler's Escargot Ruled Not Explosive, Just Splattery In San Rafael, a small claims judge has ruled in favor of the unironically-named Seafood Peddler Restaurant in the case of explosive escargot. Friends and co-plaintiffs Chadwick Saint-O'Harra and Steve Righetti claimed back
misc This Guy Predicts "Judgement Day" for the Board of Supervisors, Creeps Us Out After last week's Board of Supervisors meeting turned out to be such a charming shitshow, we've become something of SF Government TV Nerds around here. Our only real complaint is that there aren't
SF News Supes Pass Local Hiring Ordinance In an effort to create more jobs for San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 last night to approve an ordinance that requires contractors to hire city residents for municipal construction projects.
SF News San Jose's Plastic Bag Ban is Better than Ours Not that we compare ourselves to San Jose that often, but our neighbor to the south has just become the largest city in the country to ban plastic grocery bags. We've been plastic-free
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Can't Catch a Break, Is Sued Over Happy Meals Still stinging from those Happy Meal bans in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties, McDonald's has been hit with a fresh lawsuit protesting the fast-food chain's use of toys to market floppy hamburgers
SF News Supervisors Would Rather Not Pick an Interim Mayor Yet Last night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to postpone nominating an interim mayor. So the current board will have one last chance to pick San Francisco's Mayor for 2011 when they meet
SF News What's Up With the America's Cup? So that big yacht race, we've been following for the past couple of months is looking like a sure thing now, right? Maybe! Last week reports flooded in that San Francisco was dangerously
Arts & Entertainment Andy Warhol Foundation Threatens to Pull Funding Over Smithsonian Censorship You'll remember a couple weeks ago, Rep. John Boehner was unhappy that some Catholics found the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's LGBT-themed Hide/Seek exhibit offensive. Boehner threatened increased scrutiny of the museum's funding
SF News Two Separate Kidnapping Cases End in San Francisco Over the weekend, authorities in San Francisco made arrests in two separate, alleged kidnappings. Both involved young girls in their early teens found with older men in their 30s, but the similarities end
SF News Second Collared Seagull Freed From Throttling Beer Can Over the weekend, we spotted several reports of a second seagull freed from the clutches of the Budweiser-loving bird-hater. This particular gull was befriended by a neighbor close to San Francisco State University
SF News UC Campus Crackdown on Cycling Incites Civil Disobedience Meanwhile in Berkeley: Excessive fines for various biking-related violations around campus are the latest thing to upset the student population, according to the Chronicle. In a town generally supportive of anything not powered
SF News Notes from Gavin Newsom's Holiday Open House at City Hall Yesterday afternoon in the spirit of The Holidays (but also kind of in the spirit of "see y'all in SacTown"), Mayor Newsom held the first public meet and greet in as long as
misc This Week in Willie Brown Last week after bringing us his review of the new Michael Mina, Willie promised to review Bourbon Steak, which has since taken over Mina's old space in the St. Francis Hotel. As a
misc Sea Lion Shot in the Face, Survives An injured Sea Lion was picked up on a Sausalito beach Wednesday night, where he was found with his right eye missing, his left eye swollen shut and shotgun pellets lodged inside his
misc Brian Wilson Answers Your Questions via Webcam We've known for a while now that Brian Wilson is no stranger to conducting delightfully weird interviews questions via webcam, but since none of us unfortunately had the World Series closer on speed-dial,
misc Here's Our Dirty Santa on The Tonight Show As we mentioned yesterday: current Lefty O'Doul's Santa-in-Residence and former Macy's Santa Claus, John Toomey flew down to LA yesterday to appear on the Tonight Show. A little over three minutes in to
misc DVR Alert: Fired Macy's Santa on Jay Leno tonight John Toomey, the fired Macy's Santa Claus who recently found work at Lefty O'Doul's, has apparently become a "media sensation." This morning, Toomey zipped off down to LA for a taping of the
misc What's Going on Here, Golden Gate Bridget? First of all, we have no idea what this is. On the surface, we have a kind of a nice 80's song with a weird Deborah Harry-meets-Phil Collins-meets-The Squeeze kind of thing going
misc <em>On the Road</em> Shooting Wraps Up in SF, Kirsten Dunst Spotted Speaking of tacky gossip news: Kirsten Dunst was spotted at Zeki's in Nob Hill this week. She is in town to shoot the final scenes for the movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gavin Newsom Eating Ribs: Gossip-Worthy, Apparently Perhaps shamed by their crushing defeat in the World Series, someone in the office of Arlington, Texas Mayor Robert Cluck's office apparently leaked a photo of Mayor Newsom chowing down on his plate
misc San Francisco Animal Care and Control Would Like You to Help Them Swaddle Kittens We all love kittens and puppies on the Internet, of course, but if you really love animals then you ought to show your support by donating your old towels to SFACC where they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Southern California Cilantro Recalled While we're sure no one here ever purchases produce grown anywhere farther away than Gilroy, the AP is urging shoppers to exercise caution when buying bunches of cilantro. Pablo's Produce of Oxnard, California
SF News Mark Zuckerberg, Other Rich People Pledge to Give Away Money Today in rich people news: Palo Alto-based billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has promised to give away a large portion of his fortune. The announcement is part of the Giving Pledge, an effort started by
