Arts & Entertainment Roxie Cinema Needs Your Help Being Better Oh, we love the Roxie. Or rather, we love the idea of the Roxie. It's a small, yet oddly spacious seeming, theater nestled in the heart of the Mission with so much potential.
SF News Solidarity with Greek Uprising at Westfield San Francisco Centre Around 50 to 75 people were allegedly involved in a spree of vandalism, masquerading as a protest, at Westfield San Francisco Centre on Saturday. The mall rally, which started at about 4:30
SF News Google Cancels Cash Bonuses this Year While we wait -- and wait and wait -- for Sergey Brin to call asking to meet him at the St. Regis lobby to "talk" over cocktails, some Googlers are bemoaning this year's
SF News Was Your Car Damaged on Capp Street? If so, an SFist source, who saw what happened and asked to remain anonymous, writes in to tell us: Walking last night around 10:30 near Capp & 22nd I saw some guys
SF News Newsom Greenlights $2 Billion for SF Water System Newsom quietly signed a bill late Friday that moves $1.9 billion for the $4.4 billion Water System Improvement Program. The water system siphons water from Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
SF News SFPD Chief Heather Fong Calls it Quits Just as Mayor Gavin Newsom jump starts efforts to get the hell out of San Francisco, Police Chief Heather Fong announced her retirement. The big news came on Saturday on the Newsom's All-Star
SF News San Rafael Man Accused of Throwing Toddler from Car Alfonso Israel De Leon, 34, was arrested on charges of tossing a two-year-old boy from a car in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. While police wouldn't "disclose the children's relationship to De Leon,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight HANUHHAHAHAUKKAH: Eat your brisket, finish that nasty glass of Manischewitz, and head down to 111 Minna where tonight's "Super 8: Hub Hanukkah Party," a fête for the chosen ones (and then some), crams
misc Week Around the Ists Torontoist exposed infamous local fiend Dimitri the Lover's new protégé, Pavel the Lover—a man who approaches underage girls, calls them "elegant," and passes them business cards asking them if they'd like to
SF News Attorney General Jerry Brown Declares Prop 8 Invalid Whoa. This is big. Attorney General and former Governor of California Jerry Brown says prop 8 is invalid. Yesterday Brown filed a legal brief claiming the same-sex marriage ban, which would amend the
SF News What's to Become of Mission Bay? Now that few can afford to buy, well, anything, what will happened to the promised Mission Bay/South Beach lifestyle? Much like Rincon Hill, We hear vacancies abound over there.
SF News Day Around the Bay Psychic of refined beauty and grace suspected of swindling elderly clients. [Noyes] Remembering the Zodiac Killer. [SFGate] Nancy Pelosi's son is hot. [Valleywag] SoMa yogurt bar on a "very long winter break." [Eater]
SF News Vandals Attack UC/Santa Cruz Campus While the banana slugs are on break for the holidays, hooligans went on a vandalism spree on Wednesday night at the UCSC campus. According to reports, the unidentified misfits damaged "up to 20
misc Scene from a Bird Flight Really, how can you hate them after seeing this? They're gorgeous in "Pigeons on a Mission," above, shot by Flickr photog captin_nod. As always, SFist, for some strange reason, loves pigeon shots.
SF News Judge Dismisses Walgreens Whine Over Cigarette Sales Ban Our favorite 'no' judge in San Francisco, Peter Busch, brought the hammer down on beloved Walgreens today. See, after SF banned the sale of cigarettes at all Walgreens, the company, in turn, brought
SF News SFist Tonight MUSIC: If you love when "accordion trills join synthesized, repeating vocals and the boom-boom of a bass kick," and you should, you'll love Tijuana -based Nortec Collective, who are most spectacular. They're muy
SF News We Also Know California Must Do Better Oh, Gavin. You know on some level we love Newsom. But we suspect deep down he doesn't like being in politics. So it always bums us out when he makes the call for
misc Photo du Jour 297 Giants pitcher Barry Zito laughs at a magician's tricks during the team's holiday party for homeless children at AT&T Park.
SF News US Refuses to Sign Condemnation of Anti-Gay Laws Along with the Vatican and several Muslim countries, the United States refused to sign some sort of benign declaration presented at the United Nations "calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality." Written by France
SF News Revoke 8 Rally 12/19 at Noon What with the holiday shopping (very little) and binge drinking (very much) we've been doing as of late, we almost forgot to tell you that there will be another prop 8 protest today.
SF News Baby Gorilla Update: Still Adorable, Still Nameless I'm afraid we just can't get enough of the San Francisco Zoo's baby gorilla! (Tatiana who?) The little squirt is nine-days-old today. Ever since he was born last week, his mother, Monifa, has
SF News Deep Throat, Dead Baby boomer icon of mystery Deep Throat, AKA W. Mark Felt, died yesterday in Santa Rosa after suffering congestive heart failure. He was 95. elt was once second-in-command at the FBI. He snitched
SF News Equality California Director Backs Out of Obama Inauguration Over Warren Pick Geoff Kors, Executive Director of Equality California, has decided not to an invitation to attend Obama's inauguration. Why? Because of the Obama administration's decision to have evangelical pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation.
misc Day Around the Bay More than 800,000 abandoned square feet are currently on the market. [Curbed] Bay Area home value nosedives. [SFGate] Snow? In Berkeley?! [SFWeekly] Cute couple marches through California in an effort to revoke
