misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist watched as some NYU students occupied the student center with varied demands (amnesty! transparency! scholarships to Palestinians). It ended with arrests...and there was a topless component (NSFW). Bostonist photographed the impressive
SF News Day Around the Bay Alice Waters wants a piece of the bailout pie. [Eater, Valleywag] Do shoppers have to be drivers? [streesblog] Suck my manhole: part 3 [SFBG] Peter Hartlaub thinks Titanic should not have won Best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Enter/Exit opening reception -- featuring art by Jared Lindsey Clark, Jake Watling, and Joe Penrod -- kicks off over in Oakland tonight. Music provided by DJ Maryam and Host Family. 6
SF News Fruitvale stabbing death "self defense," says BART You know the 18-year-old who was stabbed to death last night the Fruitvale BART station? Well, it turns out he was killed in self-defense. The two assailants, it seems, had the tables turned
Arts & Entertainment Snuggie Pub Crawl, 3/20 Quick! Be the first to declare how 2008 the Snuggie™ meme is in the comments, and be the envy of all other commenters! See, the first-ever "Snuggie™ Pub Crawl" is gearing up to
SF News Shirtless Actor Gallery Whets Appetite for Oscar Sunday What with the Academy Awards happening on Sunday -- the biggest night of the year, period -- the good folks over at The Sword have searched the internets to come up with a
SF News Drive-By in the Mission? Mission Mission has word that there might have been a drive-by shooting on Capp Street last night. This just isn't possible. According to reports, the San Francisco Police Department is doing a bang
SF News Evil Landlords Back in Jail Kip Macy and Nicole Macy, the Palo Alto-based landlords who did "everything in their power to evict the tenants or intimidate them into leaving in order to raise rents on the units," are
SF News Two Murders Near Two BART Stations A 21-year-old man was killed outside the Daly City BART station last night. According to the Chron, the shooting, which happened around 7 p.m., occurred while two cars were stopped in traffic
misc Happy Birthday, Pooch! When the above-reproach Catherine Bigelow laid out the accomplishments of newly middle-aged "PR pro" Lori Puccinelli Stern, she left off our favorite: defender and fellow bee-savior of Holy Mother of San Francisco. Let
SF News Day Around the Bay 'I Do' education campaign launched. [BAR] Geary Blvd. in the Richmond needs more traffic lights. [SFCitizen] Antioch music teacher busted on kiddie porn charges. [CBS5] Craigslist crime! [Examiner] indoor vs. outdoor cats [Eye
Arts & Entertainment "Bluerain" Be sure to check out "Bluerain" before it leaves this Sunday for the London School of Economics Library. What is it, you ask? Well, aside from being totally awesome, it's an art installation
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Victor Krummenacher San Francisco-based band McCabe & Mrs. Miller, which features Camper Van Beethoven co-founder and bassist Victor Krummenacher and the Sippy Cups' Alison Faith Levy, will perform at Hotel Utah this Saturday night as
SF News Afternoon Shooting in Oakland According to the breaking news red box over at CBS 5, "3 people were shot on Hillside St. in Oakland around 1 p.m. The shooting took place near Castlemont School. No details
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Are you a Carla fan? We are. So much so she's pushing us dangerously close to a vegetarian lifestyle. (Well, with the occasional meat or fish thrown in for good measure.) Why
SF News Scenes from Bay to Breakers Rally at City Hall Around a 100 or so people showed up at today's Bay to Breakers Rally at San Francisco City Hall. But numerous speakers (e.g., Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, former Supervisor candidate and progressive Alix
SF News Car Charging Stations Unveiled at City Hall Yesterday, Mayor Gavin Newsom giddily unveiled some sort of Green Vehicle Showcase, ushering in bragging rights for SF to call itself the "EV Capital of the U.S." Which is to say, there
SF News California State Budget Passed It is done. (Well, almost done.) By 7 a.m., both houses of the Legislature passed the shiny budget plan. The 33 bills include "$15 billion in spending cuts, $11.4 billion in
SF News What's the Media Saying About Baby Newsom? While it might be too early to chat about this most holy offspring -- Jennifer is reportedly upset that the news leaked, which could mean she's not yet at the three-month mark yet,
SF News Fatality at Market near 5th? Anyone know what happened? Sounds grim. Around 7:35 this morning, I saw someone sprawled on the Market St. pavement. Two city workers (maybe from DPW) were there with a white pickup truck,
SF News Berkeley Sexual Predator Still At Large A sexual predator has stuck a 10 times in an area south of the University of California at Berkeley campus. In each reported incident, the suspect "approached the victim from behind, lifted her
