misc Week Around the Ists Phillyist headed down the shore for the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival, where they got to hang out with Ted Allen and Guy Fieri. DCist revisited the saga of Molly, the stolen
SF News Cops Shut Down 8-Year-Old Girl's Lemonade Stand In an effort to raise money to haul her family to Disneyland, 8-year-old Daniela Earnest and her stepmother decided to build a lemonade stand at an intersection in Tulare, where they would sell
misc Photo du Jour 478 Love him or hate him, this shot of SF Giants' Barry Zito is top-notch. (What wasn't top-notch? Last night's game, which saw the Giants blow it in the end against the Cincinnati Reds,
SF News Fire In Noe Valley Eye On Blogs' Brittney Gilbert caught images of a fire burning in Noe Valley this morning. Anyone in the area know what's going on? We'll update as soon as we find out more.
SF News Day Around the Bay Trumpets played when Newsom arrived at SF Chefs. Food. Wine. [Eater, SF Weekly] What is Muni’s photography policy? [Appeal, What I'm Seeing] H1N1 counts on the rise. [Eye On Blogs] Harvey Milk
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dangerous Downhill Daredevil Massan from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo. We came across this harrowing bit of footage over at Mission Mission. This SF cyclist is, for lack of a better word, insane. And a bit sexy too,
SF News Cocaine Killed Billy Mays Seeing as how he had such a boisterous voice and leap-off-the-screen-like presence, this should come as little surprise. Famed TV pitchman Billy Mays, whose overly-enthusiastic adoration for OxiClean and Orange Glo helped Mays
SF News SF Ranks 5th In Felinophobic 'Pet-Friendly Cities' Survey Another day, another publicity-driven top-ten list. Today, San Francisco came in fifth place when it comes pet-friendly U.S. cities. (That is to say, pet pooch-friendly U.S. cities; canines seem to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: Brian Boitano by Amy Crocker Before now, the closest figure skating and cuisine had come together was when the blade of a skate served as a makeshift knife the 2000 Tom Hanks movie Castaway. Well,
SF News A's Release Jason Giambi The Oakland A's just released 2000 AL MVP and five-time All-Star Jason Giambi today. A noted hitter (he slammed his 400th career home run in May against the Arizona Diamondbacks), Giambi was also
SF News Welcome Aboard, George Gascón! San Francisco's newest beacon of hope, George Gascón, starts his first day as the city's police chief, forcing journalists throughout the Bay Area to learn how to use the accent mark feature. What
SF News Twitter DoS Attack: Republic of Georgia Separatist? Yesterday's Twitter outage, it seems, was the result of one blogger, a separatist in the Republic of Georgia. According to CNET: "The blogger, who uses the account name 'Cyxymu,' (the name of
SF News Day Around the Bay 1927 Streetcar map has rustic charm. [Burrito Justice, via Octoferret] Google HQ has "Recess at Work" day, featuring square pizzas, chicken nuggets, juice boxes, four square, and dodgeball. [Valleywag] Oakland fan getting tazed,
Arts & Entertainment Tenacious D to Replace Beastie Boys at Outside Lands Tenacious D (Jack Black's funnyman rock 'n' roll shtick) will replace the ailing Beastie Boys at the upcoming Outside Lands Festival. Ta-da. (If you recall, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in Adam Yauch's
SF News Sotomayor Gets Confirmation, 68-31 Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be sworn in as the Supreme Court's 111th justice and first-ever Hispanic judge and third xx-chromosome carrier. With a Senate vote of 68-31, Sotomayor was also the first nominee
SF News John Hughes Died Creator of Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, and The Breakfast Club, director/writer John Hughes, died today. According to TMZ, "Hughes suffered [a] heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip
SF News Psychologists Reject Gay 'Therapy' Treatment On Wednesday, the American Psychological Association finally "declared that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments." Why? Because it's abusive, unethical, and doesn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Winery Nixed, Probably for Something You Will Never Want to Visit In an effort to drive people away from the Presidio, rendering it completely inaccessible to anything that resembles interesting, the Presidio Trust nixed plans last month for Foggy Bridge Winery. Because neighbors complained
SF News Bricks Fall from Hibernia Bank Jones Street Over in the Tenderloin yesterday evening, some pieces of molding fell down from the top of the old Hibernia Bank Building at 1 Jones Street on McAllister. Why? Because the place is old
SF News Possible San Jose Workplace Massacre Averted A man recently fire from his job at a San Jose recycling plant was arrested yesterday "while on his way to the plant with a loaded handgun hidden in his boot." According to
SF News Freaking Out About Twitter Being Down Twitter is down this morning. So is Facebook at times, but only because people are rushing over from Twitter to cry. Anyway, the fine folks at Twitter are in the process of fighting
SF News Day Around the Bay Day one of the Kiteboard Course Racing World Championship. [Appeal] When will Current TV finally talk about what happened to Laura Ling and Euna Lee? [Valleywag] San Francisco treasure Eric "ShutterSlut" Stein finally
misc Photo du Jour 475 One of those (dangerous looking) Smart Cars parked perpendicularly, shot by Jim Herd of SFCitizen. Is it legal to park your fun-size car like that, Herd asks? Nope.
