SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sandwiches, Scofflaws And Gopher Abatement Bar Tartine's sandwich shop opens August 1st, and it may or may not be overrated already. Depending on your thoughts on Bar Tartine. [GrubSF] Another weekend, another N-Judah and J-Church shutdown near Duboce
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Sisyphean Saga Of The 24th Street BART Escalator The 24th Street BART Escalator returned to working condition after 4 months out of service, only to crap out again within hours. (It was mercifully fixed again, but who can be sure how
SF News Schizophrenic Beat Poet Joins Berkeley Mayor's Race Over in the People's Republic of Berkeley, a well-regarded, Chomsky-endorsed beat poet with 13 books and one degree in engineering to his name has thrown his metaphorical hat in to the race to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: The 'Foie Gras Lady' Meme You Didn't Know You Needed After Wednesday's piece on PETA's sensational anti-foie gras statement thrust one overjoyed Los Angeles resident directly in to the hearts of all of us over here at SFist HQ, we couldn't help but
SF News Redwood City Man Felt 'Threatened' By Toy Poodle, Beat It To Death With A Brick In Redwood City, a man accused of beating a toy poodle to death is claiming he acted in self defense when he smashed in a 12-pound dog's face with a brick. The suspect,
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: The Rich Kids Of Instagram The Rich Kids of Instagram is one of those things you will hate very much, but you will continue to look at anyway. [via: Gizmodo] Two houses in Berkeley are for sale for
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bike Thefts Decline After Teen's Arrest This guy, deplorable 18-year-old Irving Morales-Sanchez, was probably responsible for a large chunk of bike thefts. [Chron] Being pregnant is the least of Marissa Mayer's challenges, says the Harvard Business Review. [HBR] So
SF News Zombie Horde Descends On UCSF Mission Bay To Protest Fee Hikes, Perform 'Thriller' [Updated] During a meeting of the UC Regents at UCSF's Mission Bay campus this morning, dozens students and campus workers dressed as zombies protest possible tuition fee hikes across the University of California system.
Arts & Entertainment Jenna Jameson Will Pack The Gold Club's 8th Anniversary Party Jenna Jameson, star of 161 adult films and countless teenage wet dreams, will grace the stage at SoMa's Gold Club for her very first appearance in San Francisco. The former Penthouse Pet, who
Arts & Entertainment Bay Guardian Answers SF Weekly's Call For More Naked Man Parts [NSFW] Exciting developments on your corner store newsstands this week: It's the San Francisco Bay Guardian's annual Northern California Nude Beaches issue! Besides being a handy resource for naturists and free softcore for everyone
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Puppies, Ponzi Schemes And Don Pisto's On the cover of the Weekly today: the collapse of the Vanguard Public Foundation — which was supposed to fund radical grassroots organizations, but turned out to be a big ol' ponzi scheme. [SFWeekly]
SF News SFMTA Chairman Advocates Snitching On Cab Drivers With 'Broken' Credit Card Machines As anyone who has been stuck in a cab with a suspiciously non-functioning credit card machine has probably figured out by now: those fancy video-streaming card swipe machines aren't actually breaking down with
SF News Video: Cyclists 'Behaving Badly' On The Wiggle! KRON 4's Stanley Roberts, owner of the best newsman voice in the entire state of California as well as a Bay to Breakers pee voyeur, is back with a new installment of his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tenderloin Deli To End Heroin Sales, Pay City $30K Barah's Market, known around the Tenderloin as a good place to grab an Arizona Iced Tea and some smack, reached a settlement with the city yesterday. According to Bay City News, the owner
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Marissa Mayer's 'Breaking Bad' Moment Yet another piece about how "the honeymoon is over" for Ed Lee, but this one compares the Mayor to Stalin and Vlad the Impaler at the end. [Chron] Deplorable teen pushes a 59-year-old
SF News Marissa Mayer's Other Big Announcement: I'm Pregnant Hot off the heels of Marissa Mayer's big news, the freshly annointed Yahoo CEO made another glass ceiling-shattering announcement yesterday evening: she's roughly seven-months pregnant. As the former Google VP revealed to Fortune,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ready For A Lake Tahoe Crayfish Boil? Lake Tahoe opens its first commercial crayfish season. Who's ready for some high-altitude crayfish boils? [NYT] At least one America's Cup sailing team can't find a place to stay anywhere near the piers.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Melt Your Brain With This Hypnotic Tour Of San Francisco Those of you who take your jangly indie pop with a side order of tripping balls on a Friday afternoon will enjoy this video from Hypno SF. Ostensibly a music video for Kalle
SF News Apple Re-Joins EPEAT Certification Program, Touts Commitment to Greenness Just one week after removing 39 of the company's laptops and computers from the widely used EPEAT certification for environmental friendliness, Apple's Senior VP of Hardware Engineering explained today that all of the
SF News City Attorney Shoots Down Mirkarimi's Request For Perjury Investigation According to the City Attorney's office, those perjury accusations levied against the mayor by Ross Mirkarimi's attorneys have absolutely no bearing on the benched sheriff's official misconduct hearings. As a Deputy City Attorney
SF News Woman Arrested For Stabbing Boyfriend In Napa's First Homicide Of 2012 Tranquil Napa County got a bit of a jolt this week when 36-year-old Robyn Kathleen Gevas was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly stabbing her 62-year-old boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife. Police
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Who Is Cindy Sherman? No one at SFMOMA knows what Cindy Sherman looks like, apparently. Her latest exhibition adorns the museum wall. [SFWire] Speaking of Cindy Sherman, a This American Life piece about the artist should be
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Gavin Newsom's Awkward 'Whole Fat Cream' Face Look, we don't watch much television. But we do know is that The Gavin Newsom Show is the best place — online or otherwise — to see the former Mayor say dumb things and make
Arts & Entertainment Look At This Adorable Local Animal That We Just Learned About In the Outerlands where Golden Gate Park neighbors are constantly keeping an eye on the wildlife just in case a coyote tries to steal their baby or something, local nature photographer David Cruz
SF News Hey, Mayor Lee Is Not The One On Trial Here, Says Mayor Lee After attorneys for Ross Mirkarimi hurled perjury accusations at the mayor during the sidelined Sheriff's ongoing official misconduct hearings, it seems Ed Lee is trying to get out of the spotlight as quickly