misc Gentrify: Displacement Made Easy Those of you who find this quasi-tongue-in-cheek map amusing are, most likely, the same folks who aid and abet gentrification -- i.e., those who find rather droll. But seeing as how we'd
SF News Where In the World is Bernie Ward? Recently transferred to federal prison in Oklahoma, former KGO radio host and child porn connoisseur Bernie Ward has been transported to a federal prison in eastern Texas to serve out the remainder of
SF News Photos: The Really Really Free Market Honors Kirsten Brydum This past weekend, the first Really Really Free Market since the murder of its founder, Kirsten Brydum, opened for business in Dolores Park. If you recall, the 25-year-old activist was shot and killed
SF News California to Tighten the Tap Hmm, looks like there's been some sort of drought going on in California. In what's being called "the worst crisis in decades," the California Department of Water Resource plans on cutting the amount
SF News Over 100 Sex Workers Arrested In Oakland, Concord, San Jose, Campbell, Milpitas, Morgan Hill, San Mateo, Santa Rosa, San Rafael and San Francisco, more than 100 people were arrested as a part of a nationwide prostitution sting. The
SF News Day Around the Bay Bronstein chats with No on H starlet and city supe Carmen Chu. (Added bonus: endearing shout out to SFist/blatant link begging in the comments. Swoon!) [SFGate] Sleek new construction in the Castro
SF News Film du Jour: Yes On 8 Rally? More like Yes On Hate Rally! The Face of Proposition 8 from Theremina on Vimeo. The above footage was recorded last week in Oakland near the Lake Merritt vicinity. Meredith Yayanos -- who must have nerves of steel to
SF News Skinhead Plot to Murder Obama, Decapitate Blacks Foiled Holy begeezus, America. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms just busted up a plot to "assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight READING: Although some may disagree, Marilynne Robinson's is one of the best books put to paper in the last 25, 50, or 100 years. (Don't believe us? Ask former SF Weekly editor Karen
SF News BART Not Immune to Financial Crisis All of this, it seems, stems from the collapse of insurance mammoth American International Group. According the Associated Press: Bay Area Rapid Transit, the San Francisco Bay Area's commuter rail system, could also
SF News SFist Blotter SUNDAY, VISITACION VALLEY: A little before 8:30 p.m., near the intersection of Sunnydale Avenue and Sawyer Street, an unidentified man was shot and killed. No arrests have been made. If SF
SF News Muni Collides Into Pole, Six 49ers Fans Injured Oops. This morning a Muni bus, the rare 77x Candlestick Express, "careened out of control" and smacked into a light pole on Van Ness at Geary. The incident, which occurred at around 11:
misc Week Around the Ists Photo by 3dollarbilly. SFist asked readers (who weren't busy battling it out over the election) to take a moment to decide what should be done with the city's mammoth Mervyns space after the
SF News Photo du Jour 257 Photo by P3t3rT, found in SFist's Flickr pool. Shoes from some runners after they finished in some sort of marathon near Marina Blvd, San Francisco.
SF News George Lucas Gives to No on 8 Effort, Notables Follow Suit Sympathetic with the plight Jabba's gay uncle, Ziro the Hutt, as well as countless same-sex couples throughout California, Marin County resident and filmmaker George Lucas, plunked down a cool $50,000 to the
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: Noe Valley Snobs, Alleged "Erotic" Balls, Glide During this our last warm weekend in SF (God willing), Muni will make sure nothing runs smoothly. Behold! Temporary Bus Stop Relocation: Starting at 7 a.m. this Saturday and going until 4
misc Film du Jour: Friday Gaiety Have you seen Beyonce's latest video to, ahem, "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"? Which is a takeoff of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's "Mexican Breakfast" routine? It's pretty smurfy, right? Well,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: Check out the homosexuals in their natural habitat (the Castro) doing what comes naturally (drinking, waiting for the bathroom) as they celebrate Halloween a week early with "ZombBEAST." DJs Javi En Rose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kudos, 555 Mission Energy be damned! This halo around 555 Mission is gorgeous. It's genius. It's Godly. More please.
SF News Obama Drama Fairey Tale By Tiffany Maleshefski Artist Shepard Fairey was clearly trying to do a good thing when he donated oodles of his highly coveted Pop Art political propaganda to the Barack Obama campaign. You know
misc For Your Convenience: San Francisco Board of Supervisors candidate Video Map We just got word about something cool. Well, cool insofar as local politics is cool, which? Not so much. But for those of you confused by who is up for what in which
SF News Manhunt for Two South SF Armed Robbers Egads! The police are looking for two suspects who, it seems, mugged a 25-year-old man at gunpoint while he was walking alone in South San Francisco last night. The incident occurred at Randolph
