SF News Huge Gang Crackdown Underway in Richmond Attorney General Jerry Brown will announce a major crackdown on street gangs today. Early this morning, agents presented more than 40 search warrants and 43 arrest warrants at Richmond locations -- e.g.
SF News New Yorkers Protest Prop 8, Connecticut Begins Gay Marriage Last night, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people gathered for a protest outside the Church of Latter Day Saints' Manhattan Mormon Temple and march down Broadway to Columbus Circle. The planned and peaceful event
SF News Day Around the Bay Bzzzzt: SFPD detective tasered in her home. [ABC 7] Living the high life on Valencia Street. [Curbed] Valleywag way back when. [Valleywag] Don't think we forgot about you, Archbishop George Niederauer. [SFBG] "I
SF News Bone Marrow Transplant Cures AIDS? While we'll wait to ask you all to throwout your condoms, we did just come across this interesting story about an American man who, it seems, "appears to have been cured of [the
SF News Valleywag Shutting Down? Not quite. Word from the realm of Twitter (@melissagira): "Just heard: Valleywag is shutting down, per order of Denton." But according to Alley Insider: Rumors are flying that Valleywag will be "shuttered." It
SF News Parody Obama Posters Tell Prop 8 Truths We've used a couple of these before, but thought we'd give you all a chance to view them all. Mark (last name unknown) from Stop8.org made these Barack Obama styled posters that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: Juanita More and Joshua J.'s stellar weekly Wednesday night bash "Booty Call" -- quickly becoming the place to get drunk/high in SF during the week -- celebrates its one-year anniversary.
SF News What's Going On Here, Katz Bagels? No, no, no. No. Why is this coming down? See, frequent SFist commenter Plumpy (Michael Plump) just sent in this harrowing image, showing the Mission's Katz Bagels big, fake bagel/alien spacecraft being
SF News Inane Vandalism Hits Two SJ Churches Two churches in San Jose -- Trinity Presbyterian Church and Indonesian Christian Church, each located at 3151 Union Avenue -- were defaced by confusing graffiti this week. Spray-painted swastikas and a few Star
misc Photo du Jour 271 Photo by Matt Jalbert. While we admire the oddly Christ-/Mao-like Obama poster, we're more impressed with these steps that lead up to Rincon Hill. Very necessary.
SF News 10-Townsend Hits Cyclist The elusive 10-Townsend, according to Muni Diaries, hit a female cyclist this morning at Townsend and Fourth streets. I saw a young woman squirming in pain on the ground at Townsend and Fourth.
SF News Ask SFist: A Call for Constructive Prop. 8 Overturning Tactics Is it out of your system yet? While all of this in-fighting, blaming, exempting, and naive attacks of reverse-discrimination (a chortle-inducing term if there ever was one) has been fun, let's get down
SF News Kamala Keeps Her Fans Waiting We love stuff like this. SF Citizen sent SFist the following message, "The media crowd waiting for queen Kamala at City Hall is getting restless. 20 mins. late and counting." We can only
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Ice Rink Open for Triple Lutzing and Kneecap Breaking It's that time of year again. The holiday season is -- at last! -- here. And since most of you cannot afford to go on a rabid shopping spree, what second-best way to
misc Vandalism Report Card: Hipster Batman Shot by Amor de Cosmos (found over at Mission Mission), we enjoy Hipster Batman. Because we like our graffiti when it's done with a comic strip's flair, not muddled with that overly vivid
SF News San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris Makes a Bid for State Attorney General City Hall diva and DA extraordinaire Kamala Harris plans on ditching her gig at City Hall for the big league via a a bids to run for California attorney general. With current state
SF News California Musical Theatre Aristic Director Donated to Prop. 8 Queers are calling for a boycott of the California Musical Theatre -- at least according to the -- after discovering that its artistic director, Scott Eckern, donated $1,000 to Prop. 8. Eckern
SF News Karl Rove and John Edwards Come to Town Something called Bridge Finance Group is hosting a chat between former Republican Deputy White House Chief of Staff and scary man, Karl Rove; and former Democratic Senator and egotistical, lying, hypocritical, cheating sonofabitch,
SF News "F*ck Mormons" Sign Removed CBS 5's Joe Vazquez reports that the big, pink "Fuck Mormons" banner has been removed. While rumors of photoshopping swirled, CBS 5 managed to figure out that, yes, the sign was, in fact,
SF News Day Around the Bay Today was Veterans Day. [SFGate, Daily Clog, The Island] After a few on-air curse words, KGO Karel gets the boot via one paragraph email and three minute phone call. [Examiner] Where have all
SF News Employees at Wired, Six Apart Cut Loose Wow. Current TV wasn't the only one hit today. Other SoMa/Mission Bay world-wide-web dabblers also felt the economic pinch. "A quarter of the 50-something employees in Wired.com's San Francisco newsroom" are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Film du Jour: Low-Budget Food Porn The Where-Is-Your-God-Now? Burger from MAKE MOVIES on Vimeo. Found at A Hamburger Today, this low-budget film, shot at the Krispy Kreme/In-N-Out exit off of 101 280 in Daly City, presents a jarring
SF News Current TV Sacks 30+ Employees Emmy-awarding Current TV -- YouTube for the Atlantic Monthly set, and a site we have grown to love over the last year -- is handing out the pink slips today. Alas. According to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Gitane By Tiffany Maleshefski When you have a menu item named Bacon Bon Bons (prunes stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in smoked bacon), the intrigue enough should guarantee a full house, at least
