misc George W. Bush, Taking Questions Live from Facebook HQ Today Yesterday afternoon, Facebook announced they will be hosting the most recent George Bush in their Palo Alto headquarters for a livestreamed Q&A session at 2 p.m. PST this afternoon. The
SF News Way to Blow it on that Not Driving Drunk Thing, Bay Area Well, it looks like we spoke too soon. Just when we thought our faith had been restored in humanity's ability to resist getting plastered and speeding home in their death monsters, a bunch
SF News Good Work on that <strike>Not</strike> Driving Drunk Thing - Nevermind Way to go, Bay Area! According to early CHP data, the number of drunk drivers arrested at the start of the holiday weekend is fewer than last year's numbers, although barely. Bay City
SF News Two Holiday Shootings: Near Japantown and SF General Two shootings occurred in the city last night: The first, a fatal shooting near the intersection of Buchanan St and Geary Blvd in Japantown occurred around 8:55pm. Bay City News provides scant
Arts & Entertainment Mark Your Calendars: Gavin Newsom's Holiday Open House Just before everyone took off for Thanksgiving, soon-to-be-ex-Mayor Newsom tweeted an invite to his Holiday Open House at City Hall. So save the date for December 12th from 2-5pm, when you can schmooze
SF News Surviving Palace Swan Takes Refuge at S.F. Zoo Now that Thanksgiving is over, it's back to mourning the loss of large fowl. Blanche the lone remaining mute swan at the Palace of Fine Arts lagoon, and sister of Monday who was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Results Are In: No One Likes Cake It seems the cake fans didn't even show up to vote in our not-at-all biased poll weighing cake vs. pie. (Or rather, they were mostly relegated to the write-in section.) Meanwhile the pie
misc Day Around the Bay The polls are still open in our cake vs. pie vote, but pie has taken a commanding lead. Things San Franciscans Like: Their Google Friends [SFAppeal] Bay Guardian wins antitrust case against SF
SF News Where to Drink on Thanksgiving Whether you're taking your Thanksgiving meal with family or friends or complete strangers, one thing is certain - there are only so many times you can go back to the fridge for another
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: First in Line for Black Friday Making plans to take advantage of Black Friday shopping deals? We'd rather not, personally, that's why we have the Internet and a stack of Amazon gift cards. But if that's your kind of
misc Photo du Jour 746 "Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. Red sky at night, sailors stay in bed the next morning because it's freakin' freezing." That's how that goes, right?Photo via: SFist flickr pool/
SF News Kamala Harris is Your Next CA Attorney General Just like that Steve Cooley bows out of the Attorney General's race. According to the Appeal/BCN, Harris' opponent and current LA County DA decided he couldn't make up the 50,000-some odd
SF News Bay Area Man Wants "Arizona-Like" Immigration Law Michael Erickson of Belmont won approval from the secretary of state to start petitioning signatures for a ballot initiative that is more or less the same wording as that controversial Arizona immigration law
SF News Supes Decide on How to Pick a Mayor Well, we're ever-so-slightly closer to actually choosing an interim mayor. The Appeal reports that last night the Board of Supervisors approved a process to select who will win a year's supply of Gavin's
misc So, Did Everyone Survive Last Night's Freeze? There was a flurry of frost warnings throughout the Bay Area last night. Did everyone make it? Reports from friends (and a twitter search for "freezing") reveal the Western edge of town was
misc Day Around the Bay Aubrey Huff will be sticking around for 2 more years. [McCovey Chronicles] Newsflash: Waiting at the DMV always sucks, but it sucks twice as much in San Francisco. [CBS] US Conference of Mayors
misc Local Teens Show Disrespect to Genteel Authority Figure Yesterday, two teenage girls harassed a 59-year-old crossing guard near the Willie L. Brown Jr. Academy College Preparatory School in Bayview. According to BCN on the Appeal, the two teens yelled at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Early Season Crab Fishing Roundup Dungeness crab season started last week. Eager crustacean aficionados might have noticed it came a day late though, which is practically a lifetime when you're jonesin' to dip a largely tasteless meat into
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: My Grandma and Your Grandma Sitting by the Macbook At some point this holiday season your grandmother is probably going to ask you, savvy Internet user that you are, to explain how email works. At this point, instead of showing her how
SF News With Detective's Testimony, Even More Unsettling Details Emerge from Richmond High Gang Rape Case As we reported last week attorneys for the seven defendants accused of gang-raping a 16 year-old female student were still claiming sex with the victim was consensual and her severe wounds were self-inflicted.
misc Rodents Rescued from Reality TV, Available for Adoption in San Jose A pet store in San Jose has rescued more than a thousand rats from the reality show "Hoarders." It seems a child from a home featured on the show about people who have
SF News Man Stranded on Roe Island for 5 Days With Only Burritos and a Cellphone Roe Island, a deserted spot less than a mile North of the Contra Costa County shoreline in the middle of Suisin Bay, was home to a stranded rafter named Brian "Goat Man" Hopper
misc People are fainting at screenings of James Franco's new film <em>127 Hours</em> ...and not just because Franco is your new boyfriend. Apparently two men passed out during particularly graphic moments in Saturday's screening of Danny Boyle's new film at Embarcadero Cinemas. The Snitch has the
SF News Oxycontin on the Rise in the Tenderloin From the Tenderloin, CBS5 reports on a new kind of drug traffic: Oxycontin has become the drug of choice for young suburban adults who are driving in to the city to buy it.
