SF News No On 8 Site Under Attack The No on 8 site -- which is helping to defeat Proposition 8, which would deny equal rights to people based on who they screw -- came under attack yesterday. A DoS attack
misc Why Are Your Fingers Crossed and Your Hands Behind Your Back, Halloween in the Castro? What with Halloween only a day away -- and with many minds focused instead on election night parties (see you at Otis, kids!) -- this sign went up recently in the Castro Muni
SF News Judge Halts Evil, Evil Algebra In what is possibly the best news story in the history of ever, on Tuesday Judge Shelleyanne Chang ordered a "temporary restraining order" against the teaching of nonsensical algebra to California eighth graders.
misc Note at Church Street Cannabis Club Door Photo by Jameth Found tacked to the door of the cannabis club at 194 Church Street, which opened in 1994. It reads: Dear Cannabis Community: Due to the city of San Francisco imposing
SF News UPDATE: Yes on H Lunchtime Fun in Downtown SF Tomorrow at noon, in front of of PG&E’s headquarters at 77 Beale, Yes on H activists will install three gargantuan wind turbines. Fun! The makeshift wind turbines will stand 12-feet
SF News Day Around the Bay Local writers -- writers, mind you -- weigh in on Obama's and McCain's favorite books. [SFGate] We would so hop aboard the "Peskin machine." That is, if there was one. [SFBG] Hayward parents
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM/THEATER: La Legion Fantastique recreates Orson Welles' (in)famous radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" live on stage, followed by a screening of the film War of the
misc Work Now, Pay Later By Tiffany Maleshefski This has got to be one of the best Craig's List job postings in some time. It comes from Matador, an "innovative" peer-to-peer travel website, linking up writers, photographers, artsy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Angry Black White Boy</i> By Tiffany Maleshefski Everyone is kind of a racist. Not that everyone intentionally sets out to be a racist, but even those with the most pluralist intentions have had those awful thoughts creep
SF News One Rincon Hill's Second Tower Comes Crashing Down Looking at our monitor through a wall of tears, the following info is difficult for us to report. According to Curbed, it has been confirmed that "the second tower of the Rincon Hill
SF News Photos: <i>Milk</i> Premiere at the Castro Theatre Last night, Gus Van Sant's Milk finally shot its load all over the Castro. The premiere you weren't invited to saw the likes of Penn, Franco, Newsom, Siebel, and more cross the red
SF News District 9 Supervisor Candidate Q&A Tonight Over at Mission Mission -- the site for all things Mission district-y, and then some -- we heard word that District 9 supervisor candidates David Campos, Eric Quezada, Eva Royale, Mark Sanchez, Eric
SF News Woman Arrested for Robbing from the Dead On probation for theft, Kimberly Ann Baker, 43, was arrested (again!) for stealing. This time she was pinched for swiping five copper inserts, a bronze vase, and a 12-foot copper drain pipe from
misc Film du Jour: "Pansy" The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco produced the above Yes on Prop. R ad, which pays homage to Lyndon B Johnson's infamous "Daisy" ad from the 1964 Presidential campaign.
SF News Day Around the Bay Tablehopper got to meet Gayle King. Jealous? Very. [Tablehopper] David Campos, hellbent. [SFCitizen] The Fillmore Center Plaza is open for business. [Curbed] Are worried about Halloween night? [SFBG] Well, are you worried about
SF News Photos: Celebs Saturated Paul Newman Benefit at Davies Symphony Hall Scores of Hollywood folk came to Davies Symphony Hall last night to remember Paul Newman, who passed away recently, by performing a staged reading of "The World of Nick Adams," an adaptation by
misc Porn for Equality By Jeremy Hatch With the election just one week away, you can help defeat Proposition 8 by doing something you were probably just about to do anyway: buy porn. We got word from
SF News Sex Worker Sting Now Billed as Child Prostitution Bust After over 100 sex workers in the Bay Area were nabbed as part of a nationwide FBI sting operation, it turns out this massive effort was targeted to rescue underage kids working in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Mission Mission's Allan Hough seems to think Girl Talk (which is the stage name of musician Gregg Gillis) is pretty swell. Some might you. Described by as "a lawsuit waiting to happen,
misc What the @$#%!! Are People Talking About on Twitter? While some are afraid to curse on Twitter, others aren't. Cursebird, a site that will entertain you anywhere from one to two minutes, culls those dirty word-laden tweets and put them all in
Arts & Entertainment <i>Milk</i> Premiere Tonight , Milk, Milk, Milk, Milk. Milk. The city is abuzz, streetcars are being renamed, and our inbox is brimming over with requests for tickets to tonight's Milk premiere. (Sorry, folks, but we haven't received
