SF News Market Street Automobile Closure Day One - An Eyewitness Account by Chris Jones We regularly commute by bike from our pad in the Upper Haight down to our office on the Embarcadero and have been curious as to how the closure of Market
SF News Abuse of the Mid-Market Street Corridor To Continue Unabated by Chris Jones Today is the first day of the City's ambitious six week experiment to revive the Mid-Market Street corridor by removing eastbound automobile traffic from the City's main drag. City officials
Arts & Entertainment Live-blogging the Premiere Episode of <em>Trauma</em> Tonight marks the first episode of NBC's Trauma, filmed right here in San Francisco, an hour-long drama about paramedics and explosions. Oh, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom will, we think, be in this episode.
SF News Day Around the Bay Part of Market Street closes on Tuesday. (Also: happy Yom Kippur. Repent!) [Streetsblog] Chronicle vows to "smash" "naive" new media organizations. Isn't that adorable? [Appeal] Oakland's Commis lands a tepid review care of
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day In response to some new collages that Matt Gonzalez posted on Facebook, Stephen Robert Lee says "Vibrant and beautiful, Matt. I also loved the analysis of the legal organization and the belief system
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Schools Still Need Better Food Although the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is being served up a Balboa High, San Francisco public schools still serve junk to kids. It's a big problem. Of what little money goes to
SF News Sex Offender Sweep Hits South Bay Planned way before the recent Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping story came to light, the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement task force conducted a recent shakedown of sexual predators who haven't registered in the South
SF News Bomb Squad Truck at Transbay Terminal The big bomb squad truck is there at the Transbay Terminal right now. AlertSF says you'll want to avoid the area for at least the next 90 minutes. We'll update with more info
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: SF Artist And MacArthur Fellow Camille Utterback by Amy Crocker It always pays to be smart, but sometimes it really pays. Last week, The MacArthur Fellows Program awarded San Francisco digital artist Camillie Utterback $500,000. Commonly referred to as
SF News SFist Blotter SATURDAY/MISSION: At around 9:40 p.m. at 14th and Mission streets, someone was stabbed. The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening stab wounds.
SF News Man Climbs Into Bear Enclosure at SF Zoo Over the weekend, a man climbed into the bear enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo. Authorities still aren't sure why Kenneth Herron, 21, who is described as a "transient," made his way into
SF News Gap Founder Don Fisher Dies After a long battle with cancer, Gap founder and third-generation San Franciscan Don Fisher died on Sunday. He was 81. Co-founding the wildly successful clothing retailer in 1969 with his wife, Doris --
misc Week Around the Ists Torontoist gawked at photos of all the celebrities who made it to this year's Toronto International Film Festival: George Clooney! Megan Fox! Ewan McGregor! Natalie Portman! And co-star of the smash hit White
SF News Day Around the Bay There was a fire on the Bay Bridge late this afternoon. [Appeal] OPD were in a standoff today inside the same building where Lovelle Mixon shot, killed officers earlier this year. [CBS 5]
misc Outer Sunset Emerges Victorious On Wednesday, SFist asked you to vote for your favorite foggy neighborhood, pitting the Sunset against the Richmond. Over 1,500 votes came in. The winner, creaming her competition my miles, was the
SF News Quote du Jour: Shut It, Trudie Styler Oh geez. That woman who was in that episode of Friends where Pheobe uses Ross' kid to try to get Sting tickets has "personally" invited 6,000 Bay Area Chevron employees to Crude,
misc Photo du Jour 471 The Nightman Cometh Musical based on an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia by Darwin Bell.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NOPA: Apple Pie Contest This Sunday While we cannot stomach the taste and mouth feel of warm fruit, many of you love pie -- apple pie, especially. Some of you even have recipes. Grandma's famous apple pie recipes, if
SF News Driver Survives Plunge Off Devil's Slide In Pacifica The luckiest man in the Bay Area right now is doing well after his car careened off of Devil's Slide in Pacifica a little before 6 a.m. rthis morning. After driving off
SF News Woman's Bleeding Breast Not Emergency, Says Blue Shield Sorry for the depressing way to start your Friday morning, but CBS 5's Anna Werner has a pretty damn harrowing tale of an insurance company, Blue Shield of California, twice denying a claim
SF News Fire On Kearny According to KRON 4 News, a restaurant is on fire at 919 Kearny, between Drummond and Jackson Streets. Columbus is backed up to the tunnel. "Traffic is a nightmare" in the area. The
SF News Day Around the Bay The nine "big deal" restaurants you need to know about. [Eater] Low-flying East Bay pilot arrested for stalking in the air. [Claycord] Visualizing the cost of the Central Subway. [Appeal] Ryan Tate interviews
SF News Christmas Comes Early to SF While friend of SFist Eye On Blog's Britteny Gilbert is none too thrilled to see these LED snowflakes -- presumably meant to signify winter, which signifies the holiday season, which, come now, signifies
misc What's Going On Here, Irony? We know it closed a week or so ago, but hoarder-like Haight and Ashbury bookstore Forever After Books was a favorite -- a favorite in the cranky-people-who-run-small-businesses-on-upper-Haight genre, that is; where have they
