SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Let's Put Black Rock City On Mars Imagining Burning Man's Black Rock City on Mars. [io9] McCovey Chronicles pens some pure poetry about Barry Zito. [McCoveyChron] The Guardian asks: can City College be saved? [SFBG] No surprise here: panhandlers are
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Take A Tour Of 1930s San Francisco This week in historical documentary films about the Bay Area, we have: Golden Gate City: San Francisco. This standard issue travelogue was released in 1940, just a couple years after the Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Foxygen, NO, Dylan Shearer At Brick & Mortar Tonight monthly free music series Wood Shoppe returns to Brick & Mortar Music Hall on Mission Street to showcase a trio of emerging artists in cover-free, cheap-drinking environment. The latest installment of the
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Slashed In The Throat Over A Backpack Full Of Weed A 29-year-old man became the victim of one unchill dude with a knife at an Upper Haight house party late Sunday night. According to Bay City News, the victim, who was probably the
SF News Mayor Lee Ditches Stop-And-Frisk Plan That Nobody Wanted Anyway Today, during a press event in the Bayview, Ed Lee will announce that he will drop plans to implement a controversial stop-and-frisk policy after everyone from community groups to the Board of Supervisors
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Museum Workers Strike Brewing Museum workers are ready to call a strike if they can't reach an agreement with employers at the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor, so brace yourselves for possible picket lines. [Chron]
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Beer And Lit In The Conservatory Of Flowers Tonight in Golden Gate Park, the folks from local literary concern Quiet Lightning will host the first of three monthly Greenhouse Effect beer-and-literature events in the always lovely Conservatory of Flowers. The event
SF News Obamacare Also Offers Protection Against Transgender Discrimination According to a new memo from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, if you like) will prevent any health care provider receiving federal funds
SF News This Sit/Lie Ban Is Hurting Haight-Ashbury's Sidewalk Alcoholic Tourism Business As we've noted before, the Sit-Lie ban that went in to effect last year has had negligible effects on the Upper Haight. According to the Chronicle's latest Sit/Lie report, the ban might
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: The Future Of San Francisco's Skyline John King thinks we've got too many glass buildings coming to San Francisco's skyline. [Chron] Please welcome your newest San Francisco character: Cash 4 Gold, Watermelon 4 Hat. [MissionMission] Santa Clara County is
SF News Day Around The Bay: Donorsexual Speaks Human sperm factory Trent Arsenault finally breaks his silence on why he's such a prolific sperm donor: He's a donorsexual. He can't help it, he was born that way. [SFBG] Some old-money NIMBYs
SF News Seal Escapes To Hawaii, Gets FedExed Back to Oakland A story of a daring Pacific Ocean journey comes to us by way of the pinniped beat today: A northern fur seal somehow ended up on a beach on Oahu this past Tuesday.
SF News Some Guy Spent The Night On The Golden Gate Bridge Using Nothing But Fog As His Blanket Some guy, whose name and description is not being released as he is thought to be suicidal, camped out on south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge last night. He was apparently spotted
SF News Afternoon Shooting Injures Two In The Western Addition A man and a woman, both in their twenties, were shot in broad daylight a few blocks from Alamo Square in the Western Addition Thursday afternoon. According to Bay City News, the possible
Arts & Entertainment We Played Word Association With Jenna Jameson Last Night Accomplished entrepreneuress and adult film star Jenna Jameson made her first appearance in San Francisco to celebrate the Gold Club's 8th Birthday last night. Sadly, Mrs. Jameson pulled out of our interview at
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The New York Times Takes The Wiggle For A Spin The New York Times discovers The Wiggle and "techno-hipster" bicycles. [NYT] Here's where you'll be having your lunches once the Exploratorium opens on Pier 15. [InsideScoop] Which candidate for district supervisor is Samuel
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland's Last Stand For Radical America The New York Times calls Oakland, "The Last Refuge of Radical America" [NYT] Take a look around all the great swimming pools of San Francisco. If only we had been born in the
SF News Have You Seen This Guy? Wanted In Connection With Diamond Heights Homicide Steven "Eriq" Escalon, 28, has been identified as the victim in San Francisco's 30th homicide of the year, which occurred back in June. Escalon's body was found bound and gagged at his apartment
SF News S.F. Giants Come Out Against Chick-Fil-A [Not Really] Fans of the San Francisco Giants (on Facebook, that is) got a surprisingly political (but timely) message from the team this afternoon. It read: "That Chick-Fil-A guy sure is an asshole." The Facebook
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: John Vanderslice Performs Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs', Plus 'The Science of Sleep' Tonight at the Vogue Theatre in Laurel Heights, legendary local indie rocker John Vanderslice will perform David Bowie's classic album Diamond Dogs in its entirety followed by a screening of Michel Gondry's dreamy
SF News Chick-Fil-A Judgement Day Ends With Accusations Of Fascism, 'Christophobia,' Possible Brain Damage After yesterday's Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day drew hundreds of thousands of people clogging drive-thrus and arteries across the country, the media had a chance to put the whole controversy over Dan Cathy's comments supporting
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Bar Tartine's Wildly Anticipated Sandwich Counter Ta-da! Bar Tartine's new daytime sandwich shop finally opened yesterday amid much food blog fanfare. Sadly, the line stretches straight on until next Tuesday. (We kid! Everything looks delicious.) [GrubSF] Not only does
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Slashed Repeatedly In Drive-By Stabbing Just before 7 p.m. Tuesday evening a 20-year-old male victim was stabbed repeatedly in the hip and back while walking on 14th Street near Minna Street, Mission Local reports. According to the
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From August's 'Gazette' As is monthly tradition around here, we present our 10 favorite utterances from the August issue of the Nob Hill Gazette, "San Francisco's original social network". Last month, we noted the magazine had
Arts & Entertainment Tony Sly, No Use For A Name Frontman, Dead At Age 41 Tony Sly, singer and principal songwriter for noted San Jose, California hardcore punk outfit No Use for a Name has passed away at age 41. His cause of death has not yet been
