SF News Bomb Threat at Pier 96 According to Emergency_In_SF, "Bomb threat at Pier 96 [home to Norcal's Recycle Central] resulting in evacuation of 100+ people. No other info available yet." (Posted at 3:38 p.m.) We'll
SF News SF Wax Museum Gets New Michael Jackson Figure In honor of Michael Jackson's 51st birthday, and in remembrance of his untimely murder, the San Francisco Wax Museum will get a new Jacko wax statue to go along with the one they
Arts & Entertainment Photo Exhibit Tonight: Brandon Norris Hanging out in the SOMA arrondissement this evening? Yes? Well, then, why not stop by Electric Works on Eighth Street for a photo exhibit by local photographer (and MOREboy) Brandon Norris. Known for
SF News It's On: Harvey Milk Day Bill Under Attack This again? OK, folks, time to man up. Or woman up. Just get up, and listen. Noted hate group Catholic Exchange, a site that promotes biggorty and homophobia under a simulacrum of God,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour 495 Please meet one of San Francisco's dearest treasures, the Sweet Cart lady. She sells cheesecakes, cupcakes, and other assorted titular treats. You can see if she plans on making a pit stop in
SF News Kidnapped Girl's Alleged Abductor Will Give You Nightmares Oh wow. According to Claycord (who has been going above and beyond excellence in covering this story), Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged abductor, Phillip Craig Garrido, is all kinds of batshit insane. Above is
SF News Union Street NIMBYs Lose Marbles Over Muni Bus Proposal A Muni proposal is underway to "establish a 291 feet long Bus Terminus at Union & Fillmore," which we think it a might fine idea. Improvements to public transportation like this should be
SF News SF AIDS Cuts Postponed The fine folks over at the Bay Area Reporter have word that local health officials will postpone "cutting AIDS contracts until mid-October in order to give the Board of Supervisors time to respond
SF News 1991 Kidnapped Girl Found Alive Yesterday, a woman walked into the Concord Police Department claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 in Lake Tahoe. Dugard, now 29, "was last seen on June 10, 1991
SF News Day Around the Bay Today's guest blogger taking charge of Day Around the Bay? Beth Spotswood. She writes for SFGate and SFAppeal. Also, she has a site of her very own, which is a must-read. Of course.
Arts & Entertainment Deborah Butterfield's Horses at 425 Market Deborah Butterfield's horse sculptures will be on display at 425 Market until September 14. Check them out if you're in the neighborhood. Also, there will be a show of her work through Saturday,
SF News Cal Ranks No. 1 When It Comes to Public Schoolin' For the 75892432th year in a row, UC Berkeley was named the number-one university when it comes to undergraduate education at a public university. At least according to U.S. News & World
SF News Vanity Fair's Dominck Dunne Dies Hollywood producer and Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne died today at 83. Self-described as a "a high-class Zelig," Dunne is best known for writing about the "courtroom travails of the rich and famous.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist, Manliest Restaurant? Eye On Blogs brings this poll to our attention. Asylum, a gentlemen's online magazine that features articles like "10 Things You Should Never Say to a Girl With Huge Boobs" and "Look Glourious
Arts & Entertainment YouTube to Broadcast Outside Lands Festival Live Good news, music-loving hermits. YouTube announced today that they will live stream this weekend's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. The live broadcast can be found over at youtube.com/outsidelands beginning Friday,
SF News Senator Ted Kennedy, the "Liberal Lion," Dead at 77 Senator Edward Kennedy, noted blue blood brother, passed away at home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts late last night. He was 77. His family said, "We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family
SF News Day Around the Bay This week and next, SFist has offered notable bloggers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: editing Day Around the Bay. (You've read what they write, now read what they read. Right? Right.) Thanks for taking the
SF News Remember: BART to Run All Night During Labor Day Weekend In a move that screams "BART slumber party, everybody!," the Bay Area Rapid Transit system will be open for business all night during the Labor Day Weekend, during most of the time the
Arts & Entertainment M.I.A. Livid Over Opening for Tenacious D Well, this is, as the gays say, just fabulous. The glorious M.I.A. took to Twitter on Saturday to (rightfully) bitch about having to open for Tenacious D, that funny-/fat-man band
SF News Cop Writes Ticket, Even With Time Left in Parking Meter SFist reader Mike sent us the following narrative about a suspicious parking ticket situation that went down this afternoon. Behold. Tuesday, August 25th, high noon 2nd and Folsom I see a traffic cop
SF News Photos: Newsom Visits Mexico In an attempt to snare the golden Latino vote, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took a PG&E-sponsored trip to Mexico today. There, he stopped being polite, and started getting auténtico. Here
SF News Sunnyvale High School Teacher Arrestsed for Making Love to Student Edward Riley Slate III, 41, was arrested on Monday, accused of having intimate relations with a 17-year-old student. Slate, a math and special education teacher at Wilcox High School, is alleged to have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Safety Certifications Revoked for Hundreds of SF Restaurants Oh boy. We just got work from Dennis Herrera's office that the SF Department of Health will come down hard on over three hundred San Francisco restaurants today, invalidating their food safety certifications.
