Arts & Entertainment Help the Totoro Forest Project, Won't You? Put on by the a few of the fine folks over at Pixar, there's a benefit party (a real benefit, not what San Francisco trash thinks a benefit party is nowadays) for the
SF News Mock Funeral for Health Care Cuts Today Because city health care programs are under the false impression that they are untouchable bastions of altruism and benevolence, a coalition of community groups, labor, and concerned citizens will hold mock funeral at
misc Give the Gift of Don Asmussen for the Holidays One of the few people left at the Chronicle with a sense of clarity -- not to mention razor-sharp wit -- comic extraordinaire Don Asmussen is offering what could very well be the
SF News Pointy Castro Restaurant to Become Mixed-Use Space That seldom-visited, pointy restaurant at the corner of Market, Sanchez, and 15th streets, Thai House, looks like it might become a "50-foot-tall mixed-use building with ground-floor commercial, 22 residential units, and underground parking.
misc Bart Delayed by Many Minutes Seriously. Or, so it looks that way. It's reading the times of both trains. Or so we you know.
SF News FBI Raids Hayes Valley Den of Iniquity A total of five people were arrested after the FBI carried out a bust in San Francisco and Oakland this morning. According to the FBI, eight locations were targeted, including one in San
SF News Dead Woman Found Outside SJ Planned Parenthood The body of a dead lady was found outside an abortion clinic in San Jose this morning. According to reports, the woman was neither homeless nor killed at the site. Officers also made
misc Photo du Jour 291 "The humble causeway (aka "incline") of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge casting shadows on its replacement. Composite of two conversions. Yerba Buena Island."
SF News More Budget Cuts for SF In addition to the major cuts Newsom announced earlier this week (during a rare encounter with the Board of Supervisors, and speaking of rare encounters: Mayor Gavin Newsom is currently speaking over at
SF News Day Without a Gay Protest Photos, San Francisco, 12/10 Tonight's Day Without a Gay protest seemed peaceful compared to those just over a month ago when Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban, passed. Although cops in riot gear gathered on Market and
SF News Day Around the Bay Owen Thomas buys former Yahoo workers a round of shots at Hotel Utah. Really: Awesome. (Meanwhile, we have some Pringles dust up for grabs.) [Valleywag] Recruiters bearing tacos greet listless ex-Yahoo ilk. [NBC3]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Sonoma Pomegranate Sparkler by Tiffany Maleshefski We're a little sad here at SFist that so many of our pals are facing layoffs this holiday season. We were always taught that this was the season of giving,
SF News Tiger-Attack Victim Lands 10 Days in the Clink Big-cat attack survivor Kulbir Dhaliwal, who saw his fame quotient skyrocket last year after Tatiana the tiger escape from her grotto and went on a fatal rampage, was handed ten days in jail
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Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Pretty, plinky pop abounds when Return to Mono, Mochipet, the Flying Skulls, and Anon Day hit the stage. 9 p.m. // Red Devil Lounge (1695 Polk) // $5-8 PROTEST: Over on skid row
SF News Photos from Temporary Transbay Terminal Groundbreaking Ceremony Newsom, Brown, Daly, Dufty, and Ford are at this morning's groundbreaking ceremony for the temporary transbay terminal. Where are you? Billed as the "Grand Central of the West," today's dirt shoveling launched the
SF News 400 SF City Workers Out of a Job After yesterday's rare appearance before the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his team's $118 million in proposed "mid-year solutions." Part of said solution will be to eliminate 400 city jobs. While
misc Wish You Were Dead Pool Many of our friends have been laid off by ailing companies, so we worry that places we love might go under. What's more, it's frustrating to see companies we adore fall to bits
SF News Two Arrested After Potrero HIll Home Invasion, Kidnapping Yesterday at around 3 p.m., four suspects entered a home in the 700 block of Missouri Street, kidnapped an unidentified victim inside the residence, drove said victim to the bank, and demanded
SF News Layoffs Begin at Yahoo, Valleywag has the Script Yahoo commences with its 1,500 layoffs starting today. Hundreds of employees were notified, with layoffs continuing until year's end. In an effort to "trim $400 million to shore up the company's finances,
SF News Mark Leno on Day Without a Gay Today's is Day Without a Gay. Are you without? How very sad for you. Anyway, SFist asked Mark Leno for his thoughts on Day/Gay, whether he will be taking the day off
SF News Film du Jour: Nameless, Emotionally Abandoned, Baby Gorilla The first gorilla birth in over a decade, this little tyke plays "a contributing role to the conservation efforts taking place for this critically endangered species through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums
SF News Fourth Suspect Arrested in Tracy Teen Abuse Case 29-year-old Anthony Waiters was arrested in Pleasanton on Tuesday for reportedly participating in the torture the 16-year-old Tracy boy, whose case has made national headlines. The four allegedly took part in torturing the
