misc Social City By the Numbers Number of people pictured in today's "Miss Bigelow's Social City": 82 Minority count: 6 7 The help: 0 Who was celebrating what and where: California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes!) hosted its 15th annual
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... "Berkeley: A guide for the perplexed," sot by Amor de Cosmos. To learn more about the book (and George Berkeley), go here.
SF News "Bay Area News Project" Becomes "The Bay Citizen" The Bay Area News Project, that much ballyhooed journalism project of awe and mystery, is noted for two things thus far: convincing themselves and other journalists that it could be the second coming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mag Picks Bay Area's Best Sandwiches Nabbing the coveted cover story slot, food treasure Jan Newberry of San Francisco Magazine developed a near-definitive guide to the best sandwiches in the Bay Area. Her "opinionated" guide proves that nothing beats
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Free Ben & Jerry's Cone Today View Larger Map Holy smokes, y'all! It's Ben and Jerry's Free Cone Day today! Yippie! What does that mean, you ask? Well, it means if you head over to your nearest Ben and
SF News Health Bill Won't Trump Healthy SF According to CBS 5/AP, "San Francisco officials said health care reform legislation passed by Congress won't do away with the city's universal health care program." Why? Well, according to Gavin Newsom and
SF News Let Them Eat Vegetables, Says Newsom San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom vegetable garden plan, which he unveiled last July, will take root today, involving gardens in "a building that produces steam to heat the Civic Center, Department of Public
SF News Day Around the Bay World's strongest beer at Toronado. [Eater] San Francisco, a backwards city. [Uptown Almanac] Nine Oakland police corral combative crash suspect. [Chronicle] Turn juice into booze! [CHOW] Joe’s Ice Cream moving after 50
SF News Release Confidential Prop 8 Campaign Docs, Rules Judge Walker Get ready to see some dirty laundry aired. Today Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ordered gay marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Proposition 8,
SF News Muni Fail In Progres @MuniAlerts (a Twitter feed you should follow closely) says: "24 broken down in Market / Castro intersection. Ex[p]ect more delays than usual." (Pic)
misc Calling All Filmmakers: Streetsfilms Wants You to Film Pavement and More The folks at Streesblog are looking for a few good (and, God willing, entertaining) fillmmakers to document the streets of San Francisco, if you will. They say: "we are now seeking future Streetfilms
SF News Murder Suspect Nabbed After Potrero Hill Crash After a muirder occurred at a convalescent center over on the 5700 block of Mission Street this morning, the suspect was later arrested after a crash in Potrero Hill. According to BCN (via
misc Tips On Getting Your Dollar Bills Into Muni Fare Slot Are you one of those hapless souls who keep Muni buses from moving because your flimsy dollar bills just won't fit into the fare box? We sure are. And we hate it. We're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award Nominees Announced Enough with the semifinalist nominee list nonsense. The final James Beard Award (the Oscars of food) nominees were announced today. Congratulations to Charles Phan of The Slanted Door and Gary Danko of Gary
SF News Rush Limbaugh Expatriate Watch: Health Care Reform Passes After a menacing political battle -- which, outside the Capitol before President Obama's speech on Saturday, included Tea Party protesters shouting "faggot" and "nigger" to members of Congress, like Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.
SF News Pedestrian Killed at 4th and King Identified The pedestrian fatally struck by a pickup truck while standing on a Muni platform at Fourth and King Streets has, according to BCN (vis SF Appeal) "been identified by the medical examiner's office
misc Week Around the Ists Londonist found photos of the day the space shuttle came to London, and took a special trip on the city's new Tube line, getting a video from inside the driver's cab. Phillyist nominated
misc The Truth About 9/11: Cookies Are Delicious "I can't believe no one thought of this before," exclaims Tabitha Russell who snapped this shot at Civic Center Plaza. And it's a great marketing scheme because any (crackpot) theory goes down better
SF News Day Around the Bay Catamaran constructed of 12,500 plastic bottle sets sail tomorrow from Sausalito to Australia. [Chronicle] Phenomenal food writer Paolo Lucchesi, is back! [SFGate] Discarded to Divine fashion preview. [SF Indie Fashion] Careful if
SF News Newsom On Bill Maher Tonight Back on the campaign trail, Mayor Gavin Newsom sent out the following Twitter message. Ahem: "@GavinNewsom: About to head down to LA. Going on @BillMaher tonite to talk health care. Catch me live
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... CAL Men's Water Polo Team, who swim "in support of ballot Measure C -- a bond measure to save, rehab and improve Berkeley's city pools." You can sponsor them (and why wouldn't you?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hipster Kryptonite Mission Joint Now Serving Lunch Oh no, Medjool. The much-maligned Medjool. Evil Medjool single-handedly displacing the disenfranchised brethren of the Mission. Everyone hates the place, right? After all, it's got a lovely rooftop deck (Southern California-gated-community-ishly named "Sky
SF News SF Appeals Court Nixes Anna Nicole Smith Estate’s Request to Millions In a final blow to the tragic (yet entertaining) life of Anna Nicole Smith, a federal appeals court ruled today that the estate of onetime model/actress/reality show spectacle was "not entitled
