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Get well, Joe Martinez. [SFGate] Jesus was murdered today. [ABC 7, Valleywag] KFC helps fix Bay Area potholes. [KNTV] Lohan's ex-lover Samantha Ronson. Spinning at Slide. Trash. [Eye On Blogs] Moon over Noe

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SFist Tonight

MUSIC: Gui Boratto, Hatchback, Broker/Dealer are playing down in SOMA tonight. They play, like, pop music. Or house. Or rock music. Or something. You can read more about them in detail, right

Rachel Maddow Wants You to Go Teabagging

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Not sure if this would be Maddow's bag, per se; but since Sacramento plans on having a teabagging party, San

Yelp Increases the Drama, Allows Businesses to Respond

In what could be the most drama-inducing move to hit the internet in ages -- God willing -- Yelp has agreed to let businesses respond publicly to customers' critiques. Possibly in an effort

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The 4th Annual Bad Bunny Pub Hop

What better way to celebrate Good Friday than be getting good and smashed. And tonight's fourth annual Easter themed bar crawl, the Bad Bunny Bar Crawl, will do the trick. While you should

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Eggs! Pretty eggs! Remember, there's a lot going on this weekend to celebrate Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's alleged return FROM THE GRAVE: Bay Area Easter egg hunts; the Sisters of Perpetual

Downtown SF BofA Robbed

Maybe this morning's helicopters weren't just for the next exciting episode of Trauma? According to San Francisco Business Times, the Bank of America at Market and New Montgomery was robbed. "As helicopters circled

Day Around the Bay

Happy 25th to the perpetually awesome Leah Garchik! [Chronicle] Yelp to allow businesses to comment publicly on their reviews. [CBS 5] The ’00s rule. Period. [Mission Mission] Alleged activist throws pain at BART

UPDATE: Why Is There a Helicopter Hovering Above SOMA / Downtown?

Assuming no one mixed speed into our Earl Grey tea, there has been a helicopter hovering the downtown / SOMA / Lower Rincon Hill area all morning. It's low and it's slow. Anyone know why?

Oregon Criminalizes Unspeakable Act

Sad news, nonconsensual bukkake aficionados. In one of the shortest debates to occur in the Oregon House, a specific type of gang initiation was called into question this week. A proposed new law

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SFist Reviews: Vetiver @ Great American Music Hall

by Moses Namkung While Vetiveris a perennial grass of the Poaceae family, native to India, and is also a magical hedge against erosion, in these here parts Vetiver is better known as that

What's Going On Here, Scene of the Accident?

Scene from some sort of accident last night. Exciting stuff, folks. Any idea what happened?

North Beach Strip Club Plays Host to Drive-by Shooting

An employee and a customer were wounded this morning after a shooting outside a North Beach strip club. The incident happened just after 1 a.m. outside Broadway Showgirls located at 412 Broadway,

Phil Bronstein Vists The Colbert Report

Let's face it: The Daily Show blows now, and not in a good way. Comedy Central's fake news has turned into The Capitol Steps for Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. It's the kind

Phone Outage Affects Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties

Thousands of Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz county residents are currently without phone service this morning. They can't even call 911 in case of an emergency. Why? Because of an old,

Bumblebee Strikes SF

Bumblebee, a Los Angeles-based artist, has been turning abandoned telephone booths into works of art. After a recent trip to San Francisco, he struck one booth on Minna, above. Here's how Bumblebee explains

Online Date Leads to Violence

Three Hayward residents (of course) are sitting in jail facing attempted murder charges after kidnapping and beating a man they met online. The 22-year-old unidentified victim, a San Jose man, had "gone to

Day Around the Bay

Psst, here's some footage from last night's surprise Green Day show at the Independent. [Eye On Blogs] Killing JROTC. [SF Weekly] UC Santa Cruz to dump their questionable Community Studies department. [CBS 5/

311 = $1.96?

Well, this is some surprising news. Word has it that whenever you make a Muni-related call to SF service number 311, that call costs Muni around two dollars. No, seriously. During today's Dufty-driven

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SFist Tonight

CLUB: As mentioned here and here, tonight's is Broke-Ass Stuart's Fuck the Recession Party. A keg of beer will be given away, and SF Indie Mart will silkscreen any T-shirt you bring --

Anti-Gay Ad Auditions Uncovered

Sure, it's preposterous. Amazing in its unbelievability. But the National Organization for Marriage (a truly vile organization) is something to take notice of, because people believe this shit -- powerful people; people you

Bevan, Buses, and SFPD B.S.

Back in March, SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty (who, if casual rumors come to fruition, might be your next candidate fr mayor) was up in arms, and rightfully so. Why? Because he demanded to

Bay Bridge Shutdown Over Labor Day Weekend

The Bay Bridge will close down over the Labor Day weekend. Again. CalTrans announced today that they will shutdown the bridge across the bay in both directions on Friday night, Sept. 4, until

<em>SF Chronicle</em>'s Zachary Coile Announced as Boxer Communications Director

Proving that there's life after print publishing, former San Francisco Chronicle’s Washington Bureau reporter Zachary Coile will join Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Washington office. Coile will be her new Communications Director, overseeing

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Finding peace in the Middle East, one Potrero Hill Whole Foods men's room diaper changing station at a time.