SF News Map: POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces) Of San Francisco Produced in part by the fine folks at SPUR (San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association), this map indicates POPOS (Privately Owned Public Open Spaces). Many of them, it seems, are not visited
SF News New Blood At 7x7 Magazine Look for local glossy 7x7 to receive a fresh new tone and feel. Maybe. Because the two top leaders there are gone. Todd Sotkiewicz is now the magazine's president, replacing Tom Hartle. Sotkiewicz
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker MUSIC: The Winter Music Festival, presented by SF Indiefest, begins tonight with a show at Bottom of the Hill. Moody, lounge-y, goth singer Rykarda Parasol performs. Daughter of a Swede
Arts & Entertainment SF This Weekend: San Francisco Mixtape Society by Rachel Brodsky As a John Cusack character once said, "The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem." Regardless
SF News One Woman Dead, Two Missing In Sonoma/Point Reyes Three women, ages 37, 77 and 34, have disappeared since January 10. The locations are "approximately 60 miles apart if you take Highway 1 straight up from Pt. Reyes to Calzadero." Sleuth Beth
SF News Obama's State Of The Union In Five Minutes Wednesday night began with the greatest of intentions. You were going to turn off your phone, whip out a notepad, and watch the entire State of the Union Address. It's important, as Americans,
SF News Lowell HS Students Counter Protest Westboro Church While the mentally-disturbed and soul-free members of the Westboro Church protested several San Francisco hot spots on Thursday, the students at Lowell High School beat them at their own game. And how. SFist
SF News Day Around The Bay Cop collides with biker. [Upton Almanac] Taxi collides with pedestrian. [Mission Mission] N-Judah line collides with pedestrian. [Dewar, Eye On Blogs] Woman files $10M suit against former 49er Eric Green forcible sodomized her.
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... SFist reader Liz Story came across a box of floppy disks, with a key to protect all that important data
SF News J.D. Salinger Tribute: Top 5 Holden Caulfield Catchphrases by Amy Crocker In honor of J.D. Salinger, whose Catcher in the Rye is as fundamental to 10th grade English as FOIL is to 8th grade algebra, we've recapped the top five
SF News Muni Cuts And Fare Increase Proposal The SF Appeal is first to bring you the new proposal for Muni cuts and fare increases, which will be presented to the MTA board in a special emergency meeting this Friday at
SF News Scene From Today's Anti-Gay, Anti-Jew Protest The Westboro Baptist Church (AKA the God Hates Fags sect) are out in full force at the Contemporary Jewish Museum today. Not satisfied loathing the queer community, they're now dipping their toes in
misc San Francisco Marina Hotel Ranks Filthiest Of All Scott Kleinberg with the Red Eye posted about the 10 dirtiest hotels in the nation as ranked by TripAdvisor, slamming San Francisco's Heritage Marina Hotel California as the filthiest of them all. In
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker MUSIC: Oakland rappers, The Souls Of Mischief, will play a live set at "Left Fest" to promote their new album Montezuma's Revenge. The night also features performances by Crown Royale,
misc Photo Du Jour 559 The hysterical ladies of Code Pink and writer John Ross protest pro-torture UC Law professor John Yoo at the Commonwealth Club.
SF News BART To Pay $1.5M In Grant's Death At the risk of putting a price tag on the life of Oscar Grant, or anyone for that matter, $1.5 million is the amount for Oscar Grant, the rapscallion who was shot
SF News J. D. Salinger Dies Reclusive author J.D. Salinger died. He was 91. Salinger was best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, and its 1961 follow-up, Franny and Zooey. Of the countless writers
SF News Day Around The Bay Newsom's hair on a plane? [Sex Pigeon] Spending Saturday night at the Star Trek Convention. [Culture Blog] Although it's fun to watch them in use, tasers, it seems, are a problem. [SFBG] Cabbies
Arts & Entertainment Donna McKechnie In 'Nice Work If You Can Get It! An Ira Gershwin Salon' Holy smokes, folks! Donna McKechnie is coming to town. Primarily known as the best dancer ever to grace the Broadway stage, McKechnie (A Chorus Line, Company, Promises, Promises) will appear in Nice Work
Arts & Entertainment Mrs. Vera's Massive Marvel Comic Book Sale, Saturday, 1/30 From what little your editor knows regarding the sexy world of comic books, we had heard about a divide between Marvel Comics and DC Comics fans similar to that of the Catholics verses
misc Adoptable Pets Of The Week: Mable & Cat Benatar Good news! Tito, Twinkle Toes and Sage have all found good hoomes. And the SPCA, we're told, saw a spike in visitors over the last two weeks due in part to "Adoptable Pets
SF News Prince Frederic von Anhalt Throws Hat Into Gubernatorial Ring Can't find a decent candidate for California governor? Well, look no more. Prince Frederic von Anhalt, famous for being Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, plans on being your next governor. According to Wikipedia, Von
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: The 8th Annual Film Noir Festival continues at Castro Theatre with a double feature of "bad girl" themed films. In One Girl's Confession from 1953, Cleo Moore plays a
