Arts & Entertainment Arse Elektronika 2009 Festival, 10/1 - 10/4 Arse Elektronika 2009, the annual conference on sex, technology and the future, kicks off tonight. Here's how this year's kinky conference (“Of Intercourse & Intracourse”) is being described. We may not forget that
SF News <em>Trauma</em> Street Closure: Folsom Folsom between 11th and 12th Streets will be closed today in order to produce another explosive episode of Trauma. If you need to dart down Folsom this afternoon, expect delays. In related Trauma
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: <em>The Next Iron Chef</em> contestant Dominique Crenn by Amy Crocker Like a kid in San Francisco developing a love of fog and fleece jackets, it’s no surprise that Dominique Crenn, born in France to a family of farmers, developed
SF News Herrera Continues Effort To Close Pink Diamonds How could a place so sweet sounding be so violent? When that place operates in the Tenderloin, it's damn easy. And, as he's done before to other heavenly establishments, City Attorney Dennis Herrera
SF News Indonesia Quakes Remind You To Get Prepared This morning's 6.8 earthquake that followed yesterday's 7.6 shaker in Indonesia is the perfect opportunity to remind you to, please, get ready for the next big earthquake that will hit the
SF News New SF Tax For Smokers To Help Clean Up City Streets This morning, a fresh new ordinance went into effect: cigarette addicts now must pay 20 cents extra per pack "in order cover the costs of cleaning up discarded cigarette butts throughout the city.
SF News Meg Whitman = Bad Citizen by Chris Jones Well, well, well. It looks like some pesky reporter over at the Sacto Bee got snoopy and discovered that Former E-Bay CEO and current Republican gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman, somehow
SF News Bank of America CEO Leaving Uh oh. According to AP, "Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company, succumbing to nearly a year of strife that followed his company's acquisition of Merrill
SF News Another Reason To Make Gay Marriage Legal Now This story comes out of Florida, not San Francisco, but it's pretty compelling. See, a few years ago, a hospital refused to let a lesbian, Janice Langbehn, see her dying partner, Lisa Pond,
SF News Truck Stuck at Broadway and Divisadero Oh no, not again. A big rig moving tuck, it seems, got stuck this afternoon at Broadway and Divisadero. SFist reader Dennis sends us word as well as these shots of the stuck
SF News Scene from Last Night's Sand Dune Carnage On Great Highway This is what shutdown Great Highway last night? Really? That's, like, a handful of medium-sized small sandcastles. At best. (We really have turned into a too tender bunch here in SF, haven't we?
SF News Noe Valley Whole Foods Opens Today, Controversy Ensues The grand opening of San Francisco's fifth Whole Foods is happening right this very second over at 3950 24th Street in Noe Valley. Supervisor Bevan Dufty will be there to cut the tape.
SF News Tsunami Advisory Lifted After yesterday's 8.0-magnitude earthquake created a tsunami around the Samoa islands, a tsunami advisory threatened the Pacific Coast. That threat, according to reports, has been lifted. A very slight tsunami lift was
SF News Newsom Wants More Wind to Power SF Setting himself up for countless "hot air" punchlines, Gavin Newsom "is calling for windmills throughout the city," reports KCBS. An estimated 29 of them might pop up in SF sometime in the very
SF News Forming Sand Dunes Close Great Highway According to Alert SF, "the Great Highway has been closed by the US Park Service because of sandunes [sic] forming near Great Highway at Noriega. Please use alternate routes to avoid this closure.
SF News Day Around the Bay Have you taken a ride on the Bernal slides? [sf secrets] Jen Siebel's The Trouble With Romance declared second-worst movie of 2009 thus far. [movietome] Julie's Supper Club turns into something you've already
SF News Tsunami <s>Warning</s> Advisory (?!) At the risk of sounding like an alarmist -- oh hush, yous -- a tsunami warning has been issued for the California and Oregon coasts. We're not buying it. But still, check it.
SF News Poll: Choose Your Next Governor! Oh oh. It's on. Today, we got word that Jerry Brown has filed with the Secretary of State for a "Brown for Governor Exploratory Committee." That is to say, he's one step closer
SF News ABC Drops Suit Against GAMH The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, a malignant cancer attacking San Francisco's nightlife scene, has dropped its "ambiguous" suit against Great American Music Hall. It seems the ABC was upset at the O'Farrell
SF News Facebook and Twitter Considered More Affluent According to a study done by the Nielsen Company, Facebook and Twitter users are wealthier and than their MySpace counterparts living on the other side of the railroad tracks. Computer World notes, "The
SF News Photo du Jour 473 The culprit behind yesterday's bomb scare that closed down Transbay Terminal ad blocked off a four-block radius in downtown San Francisco: a bag full of dirty clothes. According to Plug 1, who shot
SF News Captain 'Sully' Goes Back To Work Capt. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger -- the Danville pilot turned hero, who safely landed his U.S. Airways plane into the Hudson River after birds got sucked into the engines -- has decided to
SF News Water Main Break On Bay Bridge A water main broke, affecting the lower deck of the Bay Bridge. According to KRON 4, it's shooting water onto the two right lanes (fun!) heading east toward Yerba Buena Island. Expect traffic
