SF News California May Allow Political Donations Via Text The California Fair Political Practices Commission is mulling over the idea of allowing citizens to use texting as a way of making political donations. We can already donation to a slew of charities
SF News With 8-1 Win, SF Giants No Longer Tied for First Whew, that was quick. After losing five games straight against Arizona, your San Francisco Giants booted the D-Backs out of first place in the NL West via a 8-1 win today at AT&
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook One of Facebook's earliest employees, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, resigned from the social networking company. Randi "is leaving her position as director of marketing at the Palo Alto-based website after
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theater to Go Dark Eight Nights in August What with so many cinema houses closing down, we always worry about our dear Castro Theatre, the Bay Area's best (if we may) theater. But, just like in April, it will go dark
Arts & Entertainment Longest Running Queer Open-Mic Night 'K'vetsh' Calls It Quits Well, this is some sad news: Awarded "Best Open Mic" by both SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly, queen open mic night K'vetsh will call it quits after 15 years. It was the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFChefs Week Is Here For those not in the know, SFChefs stands as our weeklong homecoming of all things food in the Bay Area, culminating around two big tent nights in Union Square on Friday and Saturday.
SF News Woman Clings to Life After Falling from Civic Center BART Wall A 51-year-old woman sits in the hospital "battling life-threatening injuries" after plummeting from a 15 - 20 feet wall surrounding the Civic Center BART station. The incident happened on Thursday a little before
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free BBQ at Third and Harrison Today In horrific news today, the Diamondbacks are now sharing first place with the Giants. After losing their fifth straight game last night, SF now ties with Arizona. Shudder. In better news a mega
SF News Day Around the Bay The Yerba Buena Street Life Plan [Curbed] Berkeley PD Wins Motorcycle Competition [Berkeleyside] How Not to Prove Facebook Is Destroying Our Relationships [Gawker] How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My New
SF News San Francisco Mom, Son, Public Toilet Featured On 'Intervention' On last night's Intervention (the Emmy Award-winning reality series that follows drug addicts around with a camera, culminating in a usually heart-wrenching "gift" of rehab presented by the subject's family) two locals were
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week at Concord Gathering Self-righteous parents of the Bay Area, listen up! This week is National Breast Feeding Week (August 1-7), and you're invited to braise in your own holier-than-thou juices regarding infant nutrition this Thursday at
SF News Silver Terrace Morning Shooting Lands Man In Hospital Ow. A 28-year-old man was plugged in the stomach this morning in Silver Terrace. The incident happened near the intersection of Quesada Avenue and Selby Street a little after 2:30 a.m.
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons to Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday or Wednesday, we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site
SF News McAllister Goes Both Ways This Week Citing "quicker bus service" as the main reason, a portion of McAllister Street between Hyde and Market will go into two-way traffic mode "after previously only allowing westbound traffic." The change will go
Arts & Entertainment Behold Exploring Google Street View Friend of SFist Troy Holden brings our attention to today's latest eye-catcher. Namely, Robert Flâneur's Exploring Google Street View. What it is is this: a Google Street View roulette doohickey that changes images
SF News The Top Party Schools of 2011 Are... Ohio University topped this year's list of America's Top Party Schools by Princeton Review. The Athens-based institution of higher learning landed on the the party school list 12 times since 1997. This is
SF News Woman Shoots Man In Bayview This Morning Near the intersection of Shafter Avenue and Jennings Street this morning, a man was shot while sitting in his car. "The 38-year-old victim was sitting in the car when a female fired a
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour Hipsters vs Hippies water balloon showdown in Dolores Park on Saturday. Photo by Bhautik Joshi.
SF News New iPhone 5 Design Revealed? Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo is so certain that this is the design of the iPhone 5 that he promised to wax his entire body and only eat vegetarian for a month if it's
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Dore Alley 2011 Yesterday on Dore Alley, loads of gay men (and a smattering of women) converged for the annual Dore Alley (aka Up Your Alley) Fair, SOMA's other sex fetish fair. Similar to Folsom Street
SF News Alex Trebek Burglary Suspect Appears In Court Today Lucinda Moyers, 56, appeared in court today to face felony burglary charges after swiping property from Jeopardy host Alex Trebek's hotel room at the Marriott on Fourth and Market streets in downtown San
SF News Day Around the Bay David Sedaris talks dirty about China [Chronicle] Tickets for Dustin Lance Black's 8 no on sale. [AFER] New CA Supreme Court justice likely to be seated in time for Prop 8 hearing. [BAR]
SF News Berkeley Public Warm Water Pool Closing In a three-part series on the city budget, the Daily Cal reports that the Berkeley warm water at Berkeley High School will close in December. This makes the second public pool to close
