SF News Day Around the Bay Behold the best thing to happen to Octavia Boulevard since Miette Confiserie & Patisserie opened shop. [Curbed] MTA to start repairing fleet of damaged Muni trains. [Streetsblog] Lean about love and live via
SF News UPDATE: Pickup Drives Off Treasure Island Into Water Earlier this afternoon, at around 1:40 p.m., a pickup truck careened into the water off of Treasure Island. According to SFAppeal, "The truck entered the water on the east side of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former <em>NYT</em> Food Critic of Note Disses Zuni's Roast Chicken Bread Salad If San Francisco had an official dish -- which, by the way, it should -- Cafe Zuni's Roast Chicken with Bread Salad could be it. The medium-sized bird quickly seared/roasted in a
SF News Let's Ask for the Moon, We Don't Want the Stars Former pop star Kanye West, that (racist?) Senator who called Obama a fibber, the oddly schadenfreude-free sight of a bruised Tila Tequila, murder-suicides in the Bay Area, Serena Williams, the staff at SFist
SF News Small Plane Flies Over Concord, Drops Racist Flyers -- Allegedly Our current obsession? Concord. Why? Because the craziest stuff goes down there. Claycord, Contra Costa Country's best blog for breaking and bizarre East Bay news, reported on an unidentified pilot who has been
SF News Cal Marching Band Brutalizes Bystander Brittney Gilbert of Eye On Blogs brings our attention to this little gem: the Cal marching band knocking over an event staff guy at a recent football game. (Also, what's going on with
misc Photo du Jour 462 San Francisco 49ers runningback Frank Gore, left, and tackle Chilo Rachel, right, celebrate Gore's game-winning touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday. Yay, American
SF News Garrido's Bail Set at $30 Million Although both Philip Garrido and his robot wife, Nancy Garrido, have pleaded not guilty to all 29 charges of kidnapping, rape, and false imprisonment charges, Philip's bail was set today at $30 million.
misc Get Poked for Free On Tuesdays What with all this ballyhooing over health care, would you like to test drive some alternative medicinal practices? Take, for example, the prickly art of acupuncture, the popular practice of inserting tiny needles
SF News VP Joe Biden Vists SF for Barbara Boxer Wondering what all of that security in SF was for on Saturday? Well, Vice President Joe Biden was in town, showing face at a private party. (Matt Baume has footage of his royal
SF News Al's Comics Vandalized Well, this wasn't cool. Al's Comics, located on Market Street across from The Center, was vandalized over the weekend. According to Josh Ellingson, who captured the image above, "Around 3-4 a.m. on
SF News East Bay Nursing Home Plays Host to Murder-Suicide 64-year-old Yvette Harden, according to the Oakland Tribune, "fatally shot her handicapped daughter at an East Oakland skilled nursing facility Sunday night then killed herself with the same gun." Harden had been living
misc Week Around the Ists Chicagoist scoped out the spectacle, the crowds, and the madness surrounding Oprah's 24th season premiere, which shut down a stretch of the famed Magnificent Mile (aka Michigan Ave) and sent some residents and
SF News Day Around the Bay Sneak peek of Academy of Art at NY Fashion Week. [SF Indie Fashion] Do you hate cute animals? [LA Weekly] Todd David Burpee, Palo Alto rapist, gets 43 to life. [SFGate] Put taggers
SF News UC System: Now With Even More Fee Hikes Oh jeez. In addition to the now paltry 9.3% fee hike approved back in May, the University of California is discussing raising student fees an additional 32%, which would make "annual undergraduate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Bill Tells Family What Waiters Thought of Daughter Eater reports on a couple of cheeky British waiters who deserve some sort of award. See, on August 30 over in the UK, two-year-old Molly Craig was acting "restless" at Halifax, West Yorkshire
SF News SF Homicide #34 John Montgomery, 37, has been identified as the 34th San Francisco homicide victim of 2009. Montgomery was stabbed at the Vincent Hotel at 459 Turk sometime around noon on Thursday. According to CBS
SF News Where Were You On the Day That Changed Everything? Hello. Today is the anniversary of the day when hijackers crashed four commercial planes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and the ground in Pennsylvania. That is to say, today is 9/11.
SF News DA Kamala Harris Won't Seek Death Against Ramos Proving to be a woman of her word, San Francisco DA Kamala Harris refused to kowtow to public pressure that demanded the death penalty in the murder of a man and his two
SF News Energy 92.7, Dead Yesterday, rumors were swirling like a tweaker with glo-sticks that Energy 92.7, the city's preferred dance station with a gay bent, will come to an end. Turns out said rumors are, sadly,
SF News Leno Delivers 40K Harvey Milk Day Signatures to Schwarzenegger Yesterday, EQCA and Senator Mark Leno (D-SF) delivered somewhere around 40,000 petitions "with names of Californians from every part of the state," demanding Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to -- finally! -- sign into
SF News Day Around the Bay Today's guest blogger editing Day Around the Bay: Sex Pigeon. His site, for those of you who don't know, features bits of his life captured through cell phone images and densely-packed brevity. Take
SF News Steve Jobs, the Rachel Zoe of Silicon Valley? Though not nearly as important as Rachel Zoe (obvi), Apple CEO Steve Jobs is facing some of the same criticism as Hollywood's most stylish heroine, namely his pin-thin stature. "I probably need to
SF News Man Reads James Joyce's <i>Finnegans Wake</i> Out Loud at Civic Center Plaza As SF Weekly noted yesterday, Lars Russell, a San Francisco-based writer, starting reading the entirety of Finnegans Wake out loud at Civic Center Plaza near the San Francisco Public Library. The work, Jocye's
