SF News Caltrain Claims Another Life Proving that this newfangled locomotive technology will do society more harm than good, Catrain confirmed this morning that a woman was struck and killed by a train at a Palo Alto railroad crossing
SF News Day Around the Bay The kind of censorship print publishing can (and will) get behind. [Wired] Bikes in the city. [What I'm Seeing] Café Royale offers a bit of everything. (Except hard liquor.) [Tenderblog] "Real Sex” being
SF News Twitter for a Tree You just can't top this one, Gavin Newsom. United Nations Environment Programme promises to plant a tree for every person who follows them on Twitter. Check it: "UNEPandYou: Remember, UNEP will plant one
SF News AT&T Park Sucks? Tommy Craggs' brilliance is back. Hurray!, is right. Now writing for Deadspin, the former SF scribe has a nifty new feature, "Why Your Stadium Sucks." And he starts things off with San Francisco's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacon Meme Reborn Tamara Palmer at SF Weekly revives the OMG-I-TOTALLY-LOOOVE-BACON-TOO trend with a top-five list of surprisingly tasty-sounding bacon-based sweet treats. All of which you can find here in San Francisco. Palmer counts down with:
misc Photo du Jour 325 We came across this over at Eye On Blogs. Greg Dewar, N-Judah Chronicle blogger, captured these shots of a futuristic San Francisco as conceived by J.J. Abrams in the new Star Trek
misc San Jose Falcon Brings Slow News Day to an End With Flight Yesterday afternoon, one of the young female falcons that adorn the roof at San Jose City Hall (named Ilahay, which is "angel" in Persian) took her first flight. According to the Mercury News,
SF News Photos: Vigil for Dr. George Tiller at San Francisco City Hall Steve Rhodes was at last night's vigil for Dr. George Tiller, the activist who was murdered this past weekend by an anti-abortion zealot. Here are some scenes from what went down at City
SF News North Bay Blotter: Face Stabbing, Molestation The North Bay had a characteristically macabre Monday night. Last night at a little before 8:30 p.m., a woman was walking near Water Street near the Petaluma River when a sketchy
SF News Why So Low, Murder Rate? Newsom, That's Why. Yesterday, after SFist asked why the San Francisco murder rate in 2009 has been so low, the Examiner answered: Mayor Gavin Newsom. While the city almost hitting 50 at the same time last
misc 311 and Twitter, Together at Last The Ballard just posted this message, "@biz and @gavinnewsom just announced that you can report potholes in SF by tweeting @sf311." The seem to be having some sort of live press conference about
SF News Day Around the Bay Attractive new Muni shelters hide deep, dark things. [Curbed] The divine Tommy Craggs makes a return, this time he throws some serious shade at AT&T Park's way. [Deadspin] 'Mr. Pickles Hostage
SF News Vigil for Murdered Abortion Doctor Tonight at SF City Hall Pro-abortion people, listen up: You know that doctor that was murdered this weekend? There will be a vigil for him (and for keeping abortion legal) tonight in front of City Hall, starting at
misc Macy's Union Square Ladies' Room Among Top Ten Best Public Restrooms in U.S. Cintas Corporation, a company that manufactures poo and pee toiletries, is having their annual America's Best Restroom Competition. And the Union Square Macy's 6th floor crapper made the top ten. Yay! Although females
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The last time we saw Jens Lekman, as his set ended he apologized that he had run out of time. The lights went on, he hopped down from the stage
SF News Protip: Do Not Twitter Your Vacation Plans In a virtual allowing-newspapers-to-accumulate-at-your-front-door-like move, Arizona resident Israel Hyman (tee hee, sounds like "hymen") left twitter messages mentioning that he was out of town. Then, as fate would have it, Hyman's residence was
SF News Death Penalty Upheld For Klass Killer Today, San Francisco's California Supreme Court made the decision to uphold the death penalty of Richard Allen Davis, the man convicted of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Polly Klass at knife point during her
SF News Quote du Jour: Heather Fong Is Rich Coming to you from dynamic duo Matier Ross, our favorite platonic couple have word on what retiring San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong will pull in annually after she vacates her position. Ahem:
SF News Photos: Saturday's "Meet in the Middle" Prop 8 Protest in Fresno On Saturday, droves of pro-civil rights citizens and "hundreds" of anti-gay, bigoted types rallied in Fresno for an event called Meet in the Middle for Equality. Newsom wast there so was Charlize Theron.
SF News Why So Low, Murder Rate? This year's murder rate -- which, as SF Appeal notes, the mainstream media cannot agree upon; it's 18 or 19, depending on who you read -- is kind of low. In fact, as
misc Week Around the Ists LAist, too, had a whirlwind of a week regarding the upholding of Prop 8, prompting various protests and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to call the state "fundamentally broken." Case in point, Gov.
SF News Day Around the Bay Eater's quest for food scribes continues with Examiner critic (and Hayes Street Grill owner!) Patricia Unterman's masked visage. [Eater] Schwarzenegger details $3B in more budget cuts. [CBS 5] Dionne Warwick and Stern Grove.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Jenny Lewis @ the Fillmore by Moses Namkung San Francisco guitarist Johnathan Rice said as he strummed the opening to "See Fernando" to kick off the evening, "it may not be legal for all of us to marry.
