misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist was reminded that the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH and that the prepared food-next-to-garbage in the Whole Foods elevator isn't supposed to be normal. DCist featured amazing video footage of a man
SF News Day Around the Bay: D6 Candidate Debra Walker Debra Walker is an Artist-slash-Building Inspection Commissioner and a candidate for District 6 Supervisor. She tweets here and facebooks here. She was once a contestant on The Dating Game. Take it away, Debra:
SF News Super Slow Food Slam Vegansaurs editor and SFist contributor Laura Beck moved over to SF Weekly today with this darling, daring piece on the city's sacred Slow Food movement. Among so much choice advice, Beck suggests the
SF News October Surprise: Meg Whitman's Problematic Son Accused of Rape Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's deplorable son, was accused of sexually assaulting a classmate while attending Princeton. Gawker's Maureen O'Connor, who broke the story, has the frightening accusation: On
misc Photo du Jour 722 WIRED interns, staffers and freelancers pose with recent issue of titular magazine. Chortle.
SF News Fans Willing to Perform Tawdry Acts for Giants Tix We're a little late getting around to this, but the twentysomethings over at Mission Mission were not. See, on a now prostitution-free Craigslist, someone was a tad desperate for Thursday playoff tickets. He
SF News Giants Lose to Phillies, Head to Philadelphia Sigh. In a painful-to-watch game filled with errors and crap-laced luck, the Giants lost last night, 4-2. San Francisco needed just one game -- one game -- to wrap up the National League
SF News Have You Seen This Missing Hayes Valley Man? An 83-year-old man suffering from Alzheimer's went missing from him home on Thursday morning. Have you seen him? According to BCN (via SF Appeal), "Nile Baker was seen walking out of his home
SF News Day Around the Bay: D6 Candidate Jane Kim Jane Kim is the President of the San Francisco School Board and a candidate for District Six Supervisor. She tweets here and does a pretty decent job of updating her Facebook here. She
SF News Obama Arrives In SF President Obama is officially in the Bay Area now. Air Force Once arrived this afternoon at SFO. The President traveled to tawny Atherton where he will attend a fundraiser for Kamala Harris. Later
SF News Crucial Giants v. Phillies Game 5 Starts at 4:30 San Francisco Giants dangle on the precipice of clinching their first pennant since 2002. And tonight? Could be the night. National League Championship Series Game 5, set for a 4:57 first pitch,
SF News <em>Rolling Stone</em> Blasts Anti-Gay <em>Rolling Stone</em> Anti-gay marriage and hateful citizens, unite! A fake Rolling Stone based in Africa has been dishing out "one of the most vile and hateful anti-gay screeds," ever! And the real Rolling Stone, which
SF News Castro Gas Main Break Prompts Shelter-In-Place View Larger Map Evacuations and a shelter-in-place are underway in the Castro today due to a "big gas main break" at 18th and Hartford. SFPD confirmed this to SFist, saying that the fire
SF News Ninth Circuit to Hear Judge Walker's Ruling In December The Ninth Circuit just announced that on December 6 it will hear the appeal of Judge Walker's ruling that overturned Prop 8, California anti-civil rights amendment barring same-sex marriage. The arguments will start
SF News SFist Reviews: Today's San Francisco Earthquake Drill Siren Pft. Bah. Gah. What the hell was that? For starters, the alarm during today's Great Shakeout drill was weak; far too gentle on the eardrum. Also, we couldn't understand a single thing being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over by Laura Beck Chocolate Mint Cookie at Arizmendi (1268 Valencia, S.F.) We know all you want to read about today is The Giants and how much we all want to stick it
SF News A Game Away from World Series, Giants Beat Phillies, 6-5 "We're going to win this thing right here," screamed Brian Wilson after he pitched a critical ninth inning that gave the Giants a 3-1 game lead over the Phillies. Whew. The Chronicle's Henry
misc Photo du Jour 720 Pro-Giants board found outside SoMa's Nova Bar. Shot by Everyday Photos. Hat tip: Allan Hough of Mission Mission.
SF News Obstruction On Tracks Results In AM BART Delay Loose cover boards, according to KTVU, "forced BART trains to single-track between Lafayette and Concord this morning," resulting in sluggishness throughout the morning. As of 8:45 a.m., residual delays from 10
SF News Four-Alarm Downtown Fire Displaces 75 A four-alarm fire that ripped through an apartment building on the 800 block of Hyde Street, between Sutter and Bush streets, displaced about 75 people this morning. According to SF Appeal, "a call
SF News Day Around the Bay: Patrick Connors Patrick Connors and his spouse are one of the limited edition 18,000 same-sex married couples in California. He can be found on Facebook or Twitter, and he writes a column for SF
SF News Photos: Giants Beat Phillies, 3-0 Giants won Game 3 against the Phillies, 3-0. Here are some shots from this afternoon's game, which include the now iconic Cody Ross, Zooey Deschanel singing, "God Bless America," a Barry Bonds cameo,
SF News (Updated) Giants In 3-0 Lead Over Phillies After 8th Pleased standby for citywide commotion. (Fingers crossed, of course. Fat lady singing, etcetera, etcetera, and so forth) Update: S.F. wins. Giants rule.
SF News Behold the Brian O'Neill Memorial Peopleway Now that the city's Bicycle Plan is back on track (har), fanciful new ideas are coming to light. One idea that we like best, which was highlighted Streetsblog today, is the Brian O'Neill
