SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy National Farmers Market Week! The US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has officially declared this week National Farmers Week. Farmers markets are "important nationwide outlets for agricultural producers." What's more, thousands of farmers markets offer "consumers affordable,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Your Protein Giant Chef Burger, an East Bay restaurant, wants you to know that if you're sitting on their patio and a bug lands on your plate, please enjoy it. It's one of mother nature's
SF News Bike Sharing, Other Improvements Continue to Elude City by Chris Jones Yesterday, visitors to Golden Gate Park had an opportunity to try out this newfangled European bike sharing scheme that is currently all the rage somewhere that's not here. Seven bikes
SF News Detained Hikers In Iran Have Bay Area Ties Three hikers (Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal) were captured by Iranian authorities last week, "after they strayed across the border while hiking in Northern Iraq in a tourist area." Two of
SF News Google CEO Steps Down From Apple Board Since working for both Google and Apple is starting to look odd, Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently ditched his gig on the board at Apple. Being on the board since 2006, Schmidt thought
SF News <i>Chronicle</i> Commits a Fashion Don't by Chris Jones Once again, the San Francisco Chronicle, has rendered the local populace awestruck and scratching their heads in bemusement. It would appear that the Chron put together a crack team of
misc Week Around the Ists Chicagoist saw controversy erupt when a youth-painted pro-immigration mural was defaced with racist graffiti. Torontoist was shocked to discover the mythical chupacabra! Actually, a raccoon with alopecia, it turned out. Houstonist was surprised
misc Photo du Jour 472 The scene outside last night's Midnight Mass screening of . Check out the rest of Peaches Christ's movie lineup here.Showgirls
SF News SF and Oakland A.M. Shootings Early Saturday morning, a 16-year-old girl was shot on the 3400 block of International Boulevard in Oakland. According to reports, after OPD officers saw a car driving "erratically" a little before 1:30
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Heavenly States, along with French Miami, Railcars, 60 Watt Kid, Anderson Congress and Vitiligo, rally the troupes at tonight's DorkFest. 7:30 p.m. // Cafe Du Nord (2170 Market) // $10-$12
misc NSFW Critical Mass Photos, 7/31 Nudity and cycling clashed at yesterday's monthly Critical Mass. Plug1 of What I'm Seeing snapped these choice images, some of them drastically NSFW. (Warning: nudity) Enjoy!
SF News Day Around the Bay A peek inside Cine Latino. [Burrito Justice] CitiApartments foreclosures are up, but lawyer suspects they're not broke. [Appeal] Flour + Water pops up in fancy food mag. [Gourmet] RIP, Corazon Aquino. [Bronstein] What is
Arts & Entertainment Sexpigeon Muni Shirts for Sale Tomorrow Before you head over to Dolores Park on Saturday to watch Andie, Iona, Blaine and Duckie on a big outdoor screen, be sure to pickup one of these whimsical Muni shirts. That's right,
misc Happy System Admin Appreciation Day! Did you today is System Administrator Appreciation Day? It is. And did you know that most of you should show them more respect than you do? It's true. They're the smarties you call,
SF News Oakland Salon Beating Case: Misdemeanor Charges?! Cavenia Bryant and Jamillya Edgerton, the two waste-of-space human beings who videotaped themselves brutally attacking an Oakland hair salon owner, then bragged about it on-air to radio station KMEL -- were in court
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Our favorite part of the Kill Bill magnum opus? Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver. Which is surprising since she's never been good in anything, ever. (Quentin Tarantino, if we may snit, is
SF News BART & Unions Announce Tentative Agreement; Looming Ends After teasing us over and over and over with a strike that promised to cripple public transportation and the lives of many, BART and union leaders came to a contract agreement, tentatively. According
misc Perturbed Windshield Note Will Make You Swoon Found over at 23rd and Guerrero in the Mission district, SFist Cedric found the above love letter stuck on his windshield. He explains, "I found a spot that was literally three inches longer
misc Bay Area Slang Top 100 Check out Rafael Casal's "Bay Area Slang Top 100". Any slang terms Casal missed? [via Eye On Blogs]
SF News MC Hammer's Cousin Arrested for Rape Marvin Grant (Bigg Marv), MC Hammer's cousin, was arrested late afternoon on Thursday after a manhunt. The reality TV supporting player is accused of raping a woman he met via Twitter in Livermore.
SF News Arson Suspect in Custody According to yesterday's Richmond Police newsletter (via RichmondSF), an arsonist was arrested yesterday. On July 30, 2009 at about 3:00 AM, alert Richmond Station plain clothes officers spotted a wanted arson suspect
SF News 74X CultureBus Ends Finally. The failed experiment that is the CultureBus -- a very slow, yellow Muni bus that would take passengers around San Francisco (downtown to Golden Gate Park) to look at art and trees,
SF News Day Around the Bay Rape charges lead to manhunt for MC Hammer's cousin. [NBC Bay Area] Iron Chef Morimoto top open shop in downtown Napa. [Eater] Fall ballot could be dullsville. [Melissa Griffin] Mick LaSalle review's Judd
SF News "City Bright" Lieberman On Michael Savage Tonight SFGate "City Bright" scribe Rich Lieberman just wrote to us to ask if SFist would mention his appearance on Allen Ginsberg's ex-lover's radio show. (Sure, we like the guy. He's interesting. He wears
