misc Photo du Jour 494 "A Sad State of Affairs In the City of San Francisco" by Plug1. (Image shot dangerously close to SFist HQ. This is the neighborhood on a good day, folks.)
SF News More Chronicle Layoffs While news of another batch of layoffs at the Chronicle isn't particularly newsworthy in this economy, the California Media Workers Guild posted the following missive yesterday. Chronicle Unit Chair Michelle Devera issued the
SF News Veteran OPD Officer Commits Suicide The Oakland Police Department revealed yesterday that "Officer Murray Hoyle committed suicide in an unincorporated area of Brentwood on Saturday." Hoyle, it seems, was with the OPD for more than 28 years. According
SF News Newsom Eating Flautas In Mexico Today While Gavin Newsom's daily itinerary is typically (and aggressively) detail-free, today's public schedule is brimming with loads of information, stuff you might find during a showcase showdown on the Price Is Right. Today,
SF News Hillsdale High School Bomb Suspect Identified Alex Youshock, 17, has been identified as the former Hillsdale High School student who tried it set off pipe bombs at the San Mateo school yesterday. If you recall, ex-student Youshock, armed with
SF News UPDATED: TL Standoff According to ActionNewsSF, "Tendernob standoff now has Hyde closed Sutter-Geary & Post closed Polk-Leavenworth." Please adjust your route home as you see fit. KGO Radio reports that a man barricaded himself inside a
SF News Day Around the Bay Are you ready for the FiDi condo cylinder? [Curbed] "Chronic-inebriant" culture savant discusses boozers and San Francisco. [Spotswood] Mission-specific fashion blog proves that Mission females fear anything resembling a heel. For shame, ladies.
Arts & Entertainment Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Outside Lands has arrived. Remember last year? Substantial Muni fail, Radiohead's sound cutting out, Mr. Clothezoff, and other freshman-year festival growing pains... this year, we have a gaggle of headliners
misc Twitter vs. Facebook If you're like us, you judge a restaurant by the beauty and cleanliness of their bathroom. So, it makes sense to judge social media network bigwigs Twitter and Facebook based off of their
SF News Cyclists Occupying City Sidewalks What with last week's cyclist-meets-Muni crash still fresh in our mind, today's Chronicle Watch hit us like a blast of B.O. from a 4-o'clock-hour bike messenger. It seems that San Francisco cyclists,
SF News L Taraval Collides With Automobile (Good grief, San Francisco. You're really making up for last week's glaring lack of BART strike with a busy morning, aren't you? First the fire, now this.) This afternoon, according to Appeal, an
SF News SFist Blotter TODAY/HAYWARD: Someone was shot in Hayward. (Hi, Hayward!) No arrests have been made. There's a $1,000 reward waiting for anyone with info leading to an arrest. Please call Crime Stoppers at
SF News Fire in the Financial District (at Tadich Grill) We just got word that there is a rather large roaring in the financial district. Or, as our tipster informed us, there's a "[b]ig ass fire in the Financh right now." Oh
SF News Caltrain Teen Suicides Prompts Press Conference After three students from Gunn High School in Palo Alto committed suicide this year by lying down for their final nap at the East Meadow Drive crossing, Caltrain plans to hold a press
SF News San Mateo High School Evacuated After Bomb Explosion Students and employees at Hillsdale High School at 3115 Del Monte Street in San Mateo were evacuated to nearby Abbot Missle School. According to the CHP, there are reports of a pipe bomb
misc Week Around the Ists SFist was sent back to the halcyon days of childhood after Lombard Street was transformed into a Candy Land game board. Gothamist was amazed that former Giants star Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty and
SF News What's That Awful Smell, San Francisco? Late last night, according to SFist readers and KCBS, San Francisco was blanketed with a malodorous odor, stretching all the way from the Outer Richmond to the Financial District to the Excelsior. One
SF News Day Around the Bay Lower Mission near 7th Street. [What I'm Seeing] You must look at this dog right now. [Mission Mission] CitiApartments employees embarrassed about working at CitiApartments. [Appeal] California jobless rate roars. [CBS 5] Google
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Chow Closed for Two Weeks After Morning Blaze A one-alarm fire charred Chow for about "35 minutes" until San Francisco firefighters put it out around 6:30 a.m. this morning, according to Appeal. "Preliminary reports indicate the blaze ignited in
misc Tips On Photographing Your Cat As Laughing Squid pointed out today, if there's one thing the internets needs more of it's cats. Lots of them too. Which is why Karen Nichols at Catster came up with the top
SF News Drinking in Dolores Park Curbed? People are crying foul after SFPD had the unmitigated gall to hand out citations to people boozing it up in Dolores Park. Drinking alcohol in San Francisco parks, as most of you know,
SF News Café Gratitude = Dangerous Mind Control Cult? by Chris Jones Today’s "In Marin" blog at SFGate (clearly inspired by this article in East Bay Express) reports that a former employee of local semi-raw foods, vegan eatery, Café Gratitude, has
SF News From the Editor's Inbox: Fascist Obama, Pro-Rapist March, Defecating In the Park Oh dear. We received the following missive from an angry Texas resident (or troll) early this morning. While she doesn't directly point to it, we assume it is in response to this. She
