misc iPhone Ads: Yes, We Have No Dilemmas by Evan James Apparently it is no longer possible to watch even two hours of vitally important teen television dramas on the CW without being bombarded by iPhone commercials, all of which are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Austrian composer Gustav Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand. When Mahler's Eighth, a work of damnation and salvation, premiered in 1910 with 1,000 performers, it soon got stuck
SF News Hillary Clinton Still Considering Secretary of State Gig More intriguingly, former President Bill Clinton has entered the talks: According to a "close friend," apparently Bubba "is open to giving up foreign sources of income if his wife becomes secretary of state.
SF News Walnut Creek Real-Estate Agent Answers Nanny Exploitation Allegations Taking a page from Karen Walker's handbook, Bay Area real-estate agent Mabelle de la Rosa Dann (AKA Mabelle Crabbe) is in federal court today on charges of coaxing a Peruvian nanny to her
SF News Rude Attitude Gets SF Judge Reprimanded Watch your manners in courtroom, people. Same goes for you, honorable judges. See, Superior Court Judge James McBride was publicly reprimanded for his courtroom behavior on Tuesday. With cases going back to 2006,
SF News "Gavin, Where Are Our IDs?" Happening at around 10:30 a.m., this small gathering could get bigger. What today's scene outside city hall about, you ask? Supervisor Tom Ammiano's ID card legislation, which was approved by the
SF News Daly Helps Pull Funding from Community Court Supervisor Chis Daly went on the defense against Mayor Gavin Newsom's quality-of-life pipedream at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting. Daly introduced legislation that would yank funding from Newsom's Community Justice Center and put
SF News Al-Qaida Slams Barack Obama Proving a fan of neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, Al-Qaida's second in command, Ayman Zawahri, slammed President-elect Barack Obama tpoday. In an audio tape posted on several jihadi forums, Zawahri chided Obama
SF News Bart Extension Expected to Pass The proposal to raise the sales tax in Santa Clara County by a teeny one-eighth of a cent to help fund the (much-needed) BART extension from the Warm Springs section of Fremont into
SF News 108 Congo Explosion an Accident, Says SFPD Police are viewing the blast that shook San Francisco's Sunnyside neighborhood Monday night as an accident. Although illegal fireworks were found in the house's garage and rumors swirled about possible mischief, police still
SF News Day Around the Bay "Same-sex activists," whatever that may mean, target pretentious film festival. [Variety] Real Foods in Noe Valley, still closed. (Time to let the dream die, NVers.) [Curbed] Ross Mirkarimi and Christopher Daly want to
SF News Remembering Jonestown: Post Office Renamed / Memorial Unveiled Today was the 30-year anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Days before more than 900 member of the Peoples Temple church committed suicide or were murdered in Guyana, former congressman Leo Ryan was killed
SF News Russian Hill Apartment Fire Kills 1 One person was killed after a two-alarm fire torched an apartment building in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood this afternoon. The blaze, reported at 11:52 a.m., sparked on the second floor
SF News Craigslist Sex Encounter Climaxes in Gunfire On Sunday, while attempting to get the sweet love of a woman he met through a Craigslist sex ad, a 37-year-old Concord man found himself dodging bullets instead. Rendezvousing at the 4700 block
SF News Transgender Day of Remembrance Sparked by the unsolved 1998 murder of Rita Hester, the Transgender Day of Remembrance has grown from a little candlelight vigil on the streets of San Francisco to a worldwide memorial in major
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Food Bank Needs Your Help This Holiday Season With Thanksgiving a little over a week away, and before we list the top restaurants for turkey dinners, remember that the SF Food Bank needs you help. With over 300 tons of food
SF News UPDATE: Investigation in 108 Congo Explosion Continues The police have ruled out electrical and natural gas as causes of last night's 108 Congo explosion. The front of the house was blown out (including the garage, where the explosion originated) and
Arts & Entertainment Prop. 8 and Race Pannel Discussion Tomorrow, 11/19 For those of you too tired to march around Civic Center, make another clever protest sign, or shout rhyming chants about quality and Prop. 8, there's a sit-down discussion tomorrow night in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Hollywood icon and quasi-Picasso Tony Curtis comes to town to talk about his life, loves, and legacy. Before a screening of Billy Wilder's (1959), Curtis opens up to KRON 4's resident hat
SF News SF Parking Meters to Use Law of Supply and Demand San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials plan on capitalizing on the lack of parking spaces in San Francisco with the start of demand-based parking meters. Kicking off today, the idea goes something like
