SF News The Feds Raid the Bay Area The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began a series of raids in Richmond, San Francisco, Redwood City, Oakland, and Fremont this morning. Federal agents busted people at on the 2200 block
SF News Richmond Police Admit Ignoring Hate Crime Report Richmond police admit ignoring the racially-motivated beating of Brandon Manning, whose crime report sat unnoticed on the desk of a sergeant who was "absent for several days." Fortunately, though, police finally looked at
SF News Day Around the Bay Muni pays up. [Noyes] A commenting snafu on ohnotheydidnt inadvertently creates the world's greatest symphony of comments. [ONTD] This week's Tablehopper has arrived. [Marcia] The rise of the guinea hen. [CHOW] California's best
SF News 'SF Promise' Guarantees SFSU Admission to All SF Sixth Graders Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a bold plan today, SF Promise. The idea is that all SF 6th graders who graduate high school will gain admission to San Francisco State University. The partnership between
SF News 3.0 Earthquake Sends NJ Citizens Into State of Panic Last night, at around 10.30 p.m., a 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck, centered a few miles away from Morristown, NJ. According to reports, New Jersey citizens lost it. "It sounded like
SF News Torched Porta-Potty Map View Larger Map For three months, porta-potties in the Marina, North Beach, and Russian Hill have gone up in flames. Rob Spectre at Dream Not of Today created this illuminating map that shows
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC/FILM: Dean & Britta highlight "13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests" this evening. Andy's screen tests featuring such Factory notables as Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper Nico, and Edie Sedgwick,
misc Bleep! Obscene Baseball Card Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary by Travis Jensen 2009 marks the 20-year anniversary of the infamous 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken baseball card, which features a young Ripken (son of Cal Sr. and younger brother of Hall of Famer
SF News Creepy Weather Coming to an End? The mild heatwave we've been experiencing will, at last, come to an end, at least according to the National Weather Service. As soon as Wednesday, we should see clouds blanket the sky, followed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Il Borgo by Tiffany Maleshefski Mention Il Borgo to most folks in San Francisco and they get all warm/fuzzy inside recalling their evenings spent at this cozy little Italian eatery in Hayes Valley. We'd
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Artistic Director/Choreographer Jason Gilkison by Tiffany Maleshefski If there's anything that ABC's Dancing with the Stars has taught us, B- and C-list celebrities may never be cool again, but ballroom dancing, on the other hand, will be.
SF News New Prop. 8 Donor Names Released After all the brouhaha the Yes On 8 sect put the courts through finally subsided -- trying to keep proposition 8 donor name hidden, even though they were the first ones to threaten
SF News Day Around the Bay Google unveils oceanic exploration. [Mercury News] Mormon Church lied about the amount it donated to Prop 8. Shameful. [Queerty, SFGate] Submit to Medjool. [Mission Mission] Gavin isn't all that bad, is he? (Hint:
SF News Richmond Hate Watch: Nazi Art To go along with the two brutal hate crimes that happened in the city of Richmond in January, Zometime captured this charming image of a swastika. ZT goes on to say that "the
SF News Dining Out's Death: January '09 Eater is a fantastic spot to read what's opening and hot in the Bay Area's gastronomic scene. We all know that. But these days, and we really do hate saying this, it's pressing
SF News Baby Born With 12 Fingers, 12 Toes A Daly City couple has even more to cheer about after giving birth to a healthy baby boy with 12 fingers and 12 toes. According to KTVU, baby "Kamani Hubbard has six-fully formed
SF News Switching Sides: the Great SF American Apparel Debate After venting on one of the many American Apparel threads we have going -- one a day keeps the cold pricklies away! -- SFist commenter Angrybat had a swell idea. He suggests that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Be sure to check out "Vimeo Offline" Members at Vimeo head to the Mission to curate an evening of the most enjoyable videos from the their vault. Vimeo is 758349105 times better
SF News Toilet Torcher Strikes Again: No. 21 We were beginning to think we our favorite arsonist hung up his bic. Not so. According to reports, it seems the Toilet Torcher has struck again, this time at "3:50 on Sunday
SF News Film du Jour: Superbowl PORN Accident 2009 [NSFW] Heh. Tuscon AZ Comcast had a bit of an mix up during yesterday's Super Bowl game. What happened? Well, Comcast somehow accidentally broadcast a 30-second pornographic clip in front of thousands (millions?) of
Arts & Entertainment SF Turns Out the Verdigris for 'Wicked' Why have Coit Tower, the Ferry Building, and City Hall literally turned green? According to SF Citizen, it's in honor of the third return of the popular Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked. The "untold
SF News Hate Crime Reported in Richmond A little over a week ago, Jan. 24, seven male suspects beat a UPS employee (who is black) in a park in the 3500 block of Morningside Drive in the city of Richmond.
misc Photo du Jour 329 Danville pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, second from right, the hero of US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed into the Hudson River Jan 15 in New York, stands with his crew members, co-pilot Jeffrey