misc Week Around the Ists Bostonist went gay for Palin at the Tax Day Tea Party. DCist was stunned by a new video of Prince George's County police officers beating a Univ. of Maryland student during a post-game
SF News Day Around the Bay Alicia Parlette, the ex-Chron copywriter who chronicled her life with cancer, is now in hospice care. (To read "Alicia's Story" from The Chron, go here.) [SF Chronicle] Lincoln Park Playground open for business.
misc Happy Anniversary, Great Nitroglycerin Explosion of 1866! "Terrible Explosion and Loss of Life in San Francisco" roared the headline in the Placer Herald describing what happened 144 years ago today after stored nitroglycerin boxes at the Wells Fargo and Co.
SF News Parents Picket Outside Oakland School In Teacher Protest Parents picketed outside Lazear Elementary School in Oakland yesterday over an allegedly unfit teacher. Parents claim the teacher in question "took a smoking break during class, leaving his students unattended; that he locked
Arts & Entertainment Aquarius Records, Your Superior Indie Record Store What better way to celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday than by visiting Aquarius Records. Why? Because Spin readers ranked the Valencia Street vinyl treasure chest as the 7th best indie record store
SF News SF 'Tea Party' Protest Pics While not every rally in San Francisco is newsworthy, Thursday's 'tea day' tax filing day protest in Union Square was unique due to its heavy right-wing tint. (Other than anti-abortion rallies and lynchings,
SF News Shuttle Bus Scramble After Morning N-Judah Tunnel Snafu Ugh. N-Judah trains "are turning around at Carl Street and Hillway Avenue, and outbound trains are turning around at Church Street and Duboce Avenue" due to a "problem with an overhead line," reports
SF News Nancy Mary Sage, Great Quake of 1906 Survivor, Dies SF Weekly reports that one of the few remaining Great Quake of '06 survivors died yesterday. Nancy Mary Sage, who stretched her life out to a staggering 105 years, died in Littleton, Colorado.
SF News Students Keep Quiet to Help Stop LGBT Bullying Thousands of schools from across the country, including more than 100 in the Bay Area, are taking part in today's "Day of Silence," a protest "to raise awareness of the silencing of lesbian,
SF News Day Around the Bay AARP convention or tea party rally in Union Square? [Generic] Tea party guy breaks law, gets ticket. [Claycord] Touching strangers on a plane. [Spotswood] It's on: Giants versus Dodgers series preview. [McCovey Chronicles]
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Tips Ted of BAGeL Radio posted a list of handy tips for those of you trekking down to Coachella. Some helpful advice while sojourning in the glamorous Coachella Valley? Ted suggests, among other things,
SF News Man Delivers Own Obit, Then Hangs Self Dark news here, folks. A sick Placerville man, according to Associated Press, "delivered his own obituary to a newspaper then hanged himself from a nearby bridge." The body of Allan Leo Peters II,
SF News Rec and Parks Department Makes Peace with Druids Melissa Griffin brings us what could possibly be the most delightful news we've heard all all week: harmony has been restored between the Druids and Golden Gate Park. See, last week city employee
misc Adoptable Pets of Week: Sugar & Sassy Sugar 7-year-old female Chihuahua Here’s Ms. Sugar (AKA Sugarpants, Sugarpop, Sugarface) pondering life’s big questions "How did I get here?...Why haven't you come to adopt me yet?...Why am I
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Chron Food Folk Pick Personal Favorites Say what you will about The Chronicle, the gastronomes at Fifth and Mission know grub inside and out, period. Today some of The Chronicle's noted food writers reveal their favorite Bay Area dishes.
SF News 'Tea Party' Tax Filing Day Protests In SF Tea party folks plan on protesting the blacks and the gays tax day today with two protests in San Francisco: one at Union Square (from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.) and
misc Style-ist Star Sighting: Jay Nicolas Sario by Chloé Harris "Love you on Project Runway!" No, no, just kidding. We would never say anything so humiliating. But just what is the proper entrée to approaching Jay Nicolas Sario, the Project
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Overrated & Underrated SF Restaurants Tablehopper (who released the wildly handy The Tablehopper’s Guide to Dining and Drinking in San Francisco: Find the Right Spot for Every Occasion, a book we cannot recommend strongly enough) hosted a
SF News More Necessary Neighborhood Abbreviations Revealed Local online types suffered violent fits of uncontrolled hysteria this week after SFGate proudly and justly declared SoCha a new boutique neighborhood south of Cesar Chavez.. (For those of you who patriotically refuse
SF News Breaking: Some Women Cry Over Bad Hair CBS 5 reporter Thuy Vu cracks the case of bad hair and XX-chromosome carriers. In an investigative report, Vu visits a Saratoga beauty parlor wherein she discovers that women, who like all things
SF News 2 Protesters Arrested at SFSU Two women have been arrested this morning after 19 protesters took over the Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University. According to student paper Golden Gate [X]Press, "[t]hey appeared
