SF News Virgin Megastore to Close in April The Virgin Megastoe at the corner of Stockton and Market will be closing its doors in late April, according to KCBS. This comes on the heels of Virgin announcing the closure of two
misc Happy Ash Wednesday! We plan on celebrating first day of Lent by burning a verboten Duraflame log under the duress of a doctor-prescribed Vicodin. How about you?
SF News Day Around the Bay Berkeley burrito brawl ends badly. [Daily Clog] Watch former editor Eve Batey shine (and C.W. Nevius almost-cry) while talking about journalism, the Chron sale. [CBS 5] Body found in Piedmont home, [SFGate]
SF News March MUNI Fast Pass Missing Something Can you guess what it is? If you guessed price, then you're right. The March 2009 Muni Fast Pass (a calming mix of sea green and sky blue) is missing its $45 tag.
SF News Day Around the Bay Adorable East Coast pub slams California, San Francisco. [Curbed] What Valencia Street really needs. [Mission Mission] Troubled San Francisco paper in danger of closing? What paper could that be, Examiner? [Ex] The Obamas
SF News Hearst Threatening To Sell SF Chronicle Holy smokes. This just in: the SF Chronicle is (practically) up for sale. Word is that "if they don't sell it, they'll shut it down." No deadline communicated yet. The following memo was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Film du Jour: You’re Doing It All Wrong - How to Remove Meat From a Crab Being that it’s officially Dungeness Crab Week in San Francisco -- oh, yeah, did you know it was officially Dungeness Crab Week in San Francisco? Because it is -- check out Brian
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: In honor of Quebecoise chanteuse Celine Dion -- songbird of Titantic's "My Heart Will Go On" and power ballad "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" fame -- electronic outfit Celine Dion
Arts & Entertainment Map: IHOP National Pancake Day View Larger Map Unlike the alleged shadiness going on at San Francisco Quiznos, IHOP really is giving it up for free today. Fat Tuesday, you see, is also the annual "International House of
SF News Police Gear up for Mardi Gras Celebrants Known as the pre-Lenten celebration where you play "Mike Tyson's Punch Out" until midnight when the Catholic kid in your neighborhood had to give up Nintendo until Easter, tonight is Mardi Gras. And
SF News Have You Seen this Skirt-Chasing Sexual Predator? SFist's thinner, younger, and more attractive brethren over at UC-Berkeley want you to be on the lookout for this guy (at left) who has been sexually assaulting dames near Greek Row (or whatever
SF News Cesar Chavez Redesign Workshop Tonight Sir Allan Hough I has word that tonight is the night to voice your feelings on making Cesar Chavez Street not suck. And while we know many a Missionite is adverse to change,
SF News 5 Shot in the Tenderloin, 1 Dead Over on the glamorous intersection of Turk and Taylor -- do you think rent for a studio is still astronomical over there? Even though it's in the pit on the TL? Even with
SF News Day Around the Bay Catherine Bigelow reports from Warhol Live opening party. [7x7] Sketh of sketchy UC Berkeley skirt creeper released? [Clog] Richmond police blog: Off beta, ready to roll. [RichmondForum] Coin stop-motion animation by PES. [Laughing
SF News Tonga Room No More? While the news is a few weeks old, it stings fresh as this morning's rain. See, word has it that the new plan to turn part of Nob Hill's Fairmont Hotel (which, oh
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Are Crips to Sureños as Bloods are to Norteños? Probably. After all, each grouchy-guy clique seems to prefer the same color palate as the other. Anyway, you can learn more about the
SF News Opium found in drums near SFO More than twenty pounds of sweet, pain-alleviating opium were discovered "wrapped in plastic and concealed inside false walls of drums" arriving from Thailand, found at SFO. The incident, which happened in "mid-February," prompted
SF News Media Circus at Ammiano 'Legalize Pot' Press Conference this AM at State Building With support from Supervisor David Campos, CA Superior Court Judge James P. Gray, and SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey, Tom Ammiano held a frenzied press conference at the State Building this morning. The topic
SF News Images: "Signs of Hatred" at the Oscars As refined "commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns" approached last night's Oscars, here's what they were greeted with before arriving to the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. The folks from God Hates Fags ilk. Yep, they
SF News South SF Man Robbed for his PlayStation3 Around 2 p.m. Friday on the 800 block of Southwood Drive in South San Francisco, an 18-year-old man was robbed of his PlayStation 3. (Mean!) According to KNTV, "he was sitting on
SF News Sean Penn's Oscar Speech Since most of you think you're too smart to watch the Academy Awards, do let us cram them down your throat this morning. Especially since San Francisco got a major tip of the
SF News Penn, Black Win Oscars for <i>Milk</i> Nominated for eight Academy Awards, Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic Milk took home two awards last night: Best Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black) and Best Actor (Sean Penn). This makes win number-two
