Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung What do you get when you mix members of the Smashing Pumpkins, Hanson, Fountains of Wayne and Cheap Trick? Apparently... Tinted Windows. Aidan Vaziri at SFGate has an amusing interview
SF News Day Around the Bay Guest bloggers will return to Day Around the Bay starting tomorrow. Until then, your SFist editor will man today's edition. Who designed this lovely parking garage? [Curbed] No charges filed against Hasanni's foster
SF News Former Miss California Confuses "Religion" With "Bigotry" Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California piece of gristle who famously and fascistly told the Miss USA audience that gays should not be allowed to marry, is now suing pageant officials. Why? Because
SF News Man Puts Crushed Aspirin in Baby Food Jars What is wrong with people? Some sick individual put aspirin in baby food jars in San Jose in early August. According to CBS 5/BCN, San Jose police alerted residents about "a man
SF News SF Graffiti Mecca Scheduled for Demolition An old tuna cannery in Bayview Hunters Point, condemned after the Loma Prieta earthquake, has turned into some sort of hot spot for vandals or graffiti artists, depending on which side of the
SF News Imposter Cabbies Burn City's Britches In an effort to fill the large, gaping hole of necessity for more cabbies in San Francisco, it makes sense that imposter taxicabs try to fill that need. According to today's Examiner, "at
SF News 2 Shot, Killed in Richmond Restaurant Over at Pit Boss Barbeque, a restaurant located in Richmond at 12889 San Pablo Ave., two people were shot and killed around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday night. The victims have been
misc Men in Trees: Phallic Art Appears These bright orange wangs, around 50 or so of them, appeared around Fell and Clayton over the weekend. Anyone care to explain what in God's name this is all about?
SF News Dugard Helped Garrido Run Home Business New details have emerged in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kept hidden inside an Antioch home for 18 years. It seems Dugard helped her captor, Philip Garrido, run a small
SF News Bayview Four-Alarm Fire Contained After a rare four-alarm fire ripped through seven warehouses in San Francisco's Bayview district yesterday (check out photos of the inferno here), firefighters finally contained the blaze last night. According to Appeal/BCN,
SF News Fire in Cole Valley/Haight SFist reader Jomo sent in this shot of a fire happening in Cole Valley/Haight on the 200 block of Frederick between Ashbury and Clayton. According to Emergency_In_SF, it's a three-alarm
misc Week Around the Ists Bostonist mourned the passing of our senior U.S. Senator with a slideshow of the memorial at the JFK Library, a look at the Boston history of the Kennedys, and a report from
SF News Police Arrest Hasanni Campbell's Foster Parents for Murder And now for some even more depressing news. SFAppeal has word that Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, the foster parents of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell who went missing earlier this month, have been arrested
SF News Day Around the Bay Today's guest blogger? Phil Bronstein. Oooohhhhh, is right. While almost every blogger in this city has an overinflated sense of their own internet celebrity status, Phil Bronstein is an actual star, not to
SF News Free Bike Valet at Outside Lands Festival The benevolent folks at SF Bike Coalition will help you keep your bike safe and sound while you're at this weekend's Outside Lands Festival. SFBC says, "keep your bike safe and secure at
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Early Burn at Burning Man Starting today, folks will trickle out of SF to head for the Playa for Nevada's most popular circuit party. Bye-bye. But back in 2007, pyro-troll Paul Addis set the man ablaze a few
SF News Phillip Garrido's Brother Speaks Out Oh wow. This story just gets better and better. Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper's brother, Ron Garrido, just spoke to The Chronicle about his deviant brother, Phillip. "It just seems so bizarre, but
misc "Trauma" Shoot: Duboce Park NBC's somewhat anticipated fall drama series "Trauma" filmed a presumably nail-biting scene in Duboce Park yesterday, one that involved a helicopter landing (!) and Halloween decorations (!!). NBC Bay Area has more on yesterday's shoot.
SF News More Sanity-Estranged Ramblings from Dugard Abductor Phillip Garrido As details of the kidnapping case still unfold, a lot of people are asking why Jaycee Lee Dugard didn't manage to escape during her 18 years of captivity in an Antioch backyard. Why
SF News Salami Plant Ammonia Leak Injures 2 Dozen Some sort of ammonia spill at South San Francisco's Columbus Salame, the same meat processing plant that played host to a four-alarm fire in July, caused an early morning evacuation. Also, reports confirm
SF News Horrifying Details Unfold in Dugard Kidnapping Case Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl who was kidnapped on her way to catch a school bus in 1991 only to reveal herself to police this week, had spent most of her life in
SF News Day Around the Bay Today's guest blogger taking the wheel of Day Around the Bay? Leslie King of Squid Pro Quo. In addition to being wildly fascinating and funny, King also throws a damn fine dinner party.
