SF News Yahoo: The Search For the Next Yahoo CEO While Silicon Valley sobers up from last night's news about Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stepping down, the question on techies minds today is who's next? Valleywag and blogger Kara Swisher speculates that Peter
SF News Cyclist Down: Fillmore and Fulton A reader, Ryan Hogan, sent SFist the above image, snapped this morning, after he witnessed a bike-auto accident. It seems a cyclist collided with a truck at Fulton and Fillmore. "Bikes pick up
SF News Berkeley Tree-Sitters Sentenced Three of the privileged youths who protested the removal of the Berkeley oak grove were sentenced in Berkeley on Monday. Kingman Lim and Zachary RunningWolf Brown, both ground supporters, and Michael Schuck, a
SF News Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Stepping Down Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang announced today that he was, finally, stepping down from his role at the troubled internet mammoth. Promoted to the position over a year ago, Yahoo has seen drastic cuts
misc Terrifying Noe Valley Shack on the Market Found over at It's Lovely! I'll Take It (via redfin), check out the sweet Noe Valley pad you can call your own for a cool $738,000. Mention you were raped and murdered
SF News Don't Forget: SFist's Matt Baume On KALW Tonight, 7:30 p.m. Be sure to check out voice of reason Matt Baume on KALW" tonight at 97.1 on your dial, or live right here. He goes on 7:30 p.m.-ish. SFist's Editor
SF News Day Around the Bay Six Apart's Mena and (her hot husband) Ben Trott go to Disneyland, and are proud of it. Awesome. [DollarShort] Speaking of Six Apart, get one of those newfangled "Web logs" for free, print
misc Crab Season Begins This past weekend crab season kicked off, and local fishers headed out to sea to roundup laods of Dungeness crab. This year, however, expectations of a huge crab catch are low. According to
misc Caught on iPhone Over on the Apple discussion boards, things are taking a turn for the soap operatic. See, user "Susan042764" poses a worrisome (albeit gullible) question on the "Using iPhone,Camera and Photos" forum: can
SF News Jonestown Massacre Marks Its 30-Year Anniversary 30 years ago tomorrow, 900-plus men, women and children died after drinking a fatal cyanide-laced potion of Flavor-Aid (not Kool-Aid, as widely reported) at Jim Jones' compound in the jungles of Guyana. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: Punk Rock Sideshow, a weekly DJ night night of classic punk tunes over in the Tenderloin, hosts local, metal-ish Kowloon Walled City and Seattle-based Helms Alee. 7 p.m. // Hemlock Tavern (1131
SF News AG Brown Asks CA Supreme Court to Review Prop 8 Constitutionality... Now Due to extreme public interest, State Attorney General Jerry Brown pressed the CA Supreme Court today to decide whether or not the gay marriage ban, Prop 8, is constitutionally valid. While these kinds
misc Photo du Jour 273 Photo/digital illustration of "Language of the Birds," the sculpture installation at the NW corner of Broadway where Grant and Columbus Streets intersect. The unveiling happens on November 23rd, 2008, at nightfall.
SF News Gay Leaders Advise Against Prop. 8 Boycotting While wielding boycotts as political statements have had a history of effectiveness (look no further than the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott as a prime example), and with publications like the Chronicle and the
SF News Obama Forced to Give Up BlackBerry and IM Capabilities Now that President-elect Barack Obama is moving on up to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., it looks like he'll also have to stop using his beloved BlackBerry and scrap his email account. According to the
SF News All that Olympic Torch Brouhaha Pays Off, Newsom Launches ChinaSF Team Newsom recently kicked off a nightclub-sounding economic development initiative called ChinaSF. The "public/private" partnership will help connect businesses in China to San Francisco and the Bay Area, helping cash-rich Chinese companies
SF News Feds Says There's More Pot than Coffee Here God bless the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. Their blog, Pushing Back, claims that there are more medical marijuana spots than Starbucks in San Francisco, adding, the "state 'medical' marijuana
SF News Top consultant breaks with Mayor Gavin Newsom While many in the city concerned themselves with that civil rights protest at City Hall, Mayor Gavin Newsom was wringing his hands over the loss of his top consultant, Shawnda Westly, last week.
SF News Prop. 8 Demonstration March, 11/15, San Francisco After Saturday's Nationwide Prop 8. protest at City Hall, an after-march sprouted through the streets of San Francisco, going from Civic Center to Octavia and the Castro and then back up Market to
SF News Female Body Found Near Richmond School An unidentified woman's body was found in a ravine near Lincoln Elementary School this morning. The woman, who was in her 40s, "appears to have suffered blunt force wounds" and might have been
SF News Wu Arrested in Santa Clara Triple Homicide Jing Hua Wu, who was recently fired from his job as a product test engineer, was arrested on Saturday for the triple murder of his former colleagues at SiPort. After losing his job
misc Week Around the Ists SFist saw Prop 8 protests continue since election day, including a disturbing anti-LDS one involving a home emblazoned with a "F--- Mormons" banner. Phillyist and its readers debated the merits of keeping Eagles
SF News Protesters Stage Sit-in at Castro and 18th Streets While we're still waiting on confirmation, a tipster tells SFist, "Appx. 100 No on 8 protesters are now (6pm) staging a sit-in in the intersection of 18th & Castro. Police have blocked off
SF News Nationwide Prop 8. Protest Underway: San Francisco, 11/15 San Francisco rallied against Proposition 8 (the same-sex marriage ban) starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning. The demonstration is part of a slew of other Prop. 8 protests taking place across
SF News Day Around the Bay More on San Francisco’s Green Festival 2008. [SF Citizen] Fourth person hit by Caltrain since Oct. 30. [CBS 5] Another frozen yogurt joint? Oy. [Eater] Katz Bagels lives on, bagelcraft flies off