SF News Bailout to Benefit Bicyclists While many of us are flipping kittens over the $700 billion bailout, some of it will help you cyclists out there who use their wheels as a primary mode of transportation. According to
SF News Bernie Ward Heads to Federal Prison Disgraced former KGO talk show radio host Bernie Ward, who was sentenced to more than seven years in the clink this last August for kiddie porn possession, was moved from the Santa Rita
SF News Red Flag Warning: Dry Gusty Winds Prompt Fire Scare Red Flags will fly throughout the California today and into the weekend, ending on Saturday night. Why? Well, due to a "strong cold front entering Northern California tonight bringing very dry gusty winds.
SF News (Update) AIG Comes to the Ritz at Half Moon Bay As insurance companies ask taxpayers to help them out with bad mortgage bets, American International Group (AIG), who received a $85 billion loan bailout yesterday, still continue the posh life. (Jealous!) Take, for
misc Puppy LiveCam Local dog. Just gave birth to the world's cutest batch of puppies. You can watch them frolic, eat, sleep live, here. Need we say more?
SF News Mildly Humorous Yes on H Ad Andy Blue (Reverend Billy) has demanded we show you this Yes on H: The Clean Energy Act ad, which, yes, is actually a bit clever. (Oh, and if H passes, it seems, 51%
SF News Day Around the Bay Melanie Morgan, hardcore Palinista. [MM, SFWeekly] C-Big reports from Artist Ball 7. [7x7] San Francisco Bay City Bombers = roller derby magic. [SFBG] Muni of the now: 47-Van Ness inbound. [Jameth] More on the
SF News Another Day, Another Multi-Billion Dollar Loan The Federal Reserve just agreed to hand over $37.8 billion to vile insurance giant American International Group. You know, to go along with the $85 billion loan bestowed to the troubled insurance
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Horse Feathers (country folk and blues a la 1960s and '70s Laurel Canyon sound) , Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers ("Portland singer-songwriter playing hushed folk tunes"), and Lady Genius ("short, layered pop songs
SF News What's Going On Here, Pelosi Hater? Cynthia Sheehan showed up at the steps of city hall to protest Newsom and Arnold's latest attempt to murder puppies, or whatever. An estimate 60 or so people showed up to today's protest.
misc (UPDATE) Please Excuse Our Dust: Commenting Capabilities, or Lack Thereof Some of you may have noticed that commenting on the Ist is a bit screwy this afternoon. We're working on it. In the meantime, scream into a pillow until each and every one
misc Film du Jour: Slow News Day It's an oldie (all the way from 2006!), but remains a classic. Enjoy.
misc It's Official, No More New Bars for North Beach Curbed's Andy J. Wang delightfully points out that North Beach might soon see a "glorious new age of shoe outlets and hammer stores," a la Union Street. Why? Because Aaron Peskin's booze-hawking restaurant
SF News District 9 Supe Debate In Vague Review After a few beers at Dolores Park, and with Mission Mission in tow, SFist went to last night's District 9 Debate. And it was OFF THE CHAIN. OK, not really. But there were
misc Photo du Jour 243 Photo by hippiesaredead/Flickr David Byrne at Symphony Hall on Monday performing at "Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno" tour.
SF News Psychological, physical harm due to Excessive Noise? Yay, slow news day story! According to NBC3, folks in the Tenderloin (AKA the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District) and SoMa face "psychological and physical" harm due to noise pollution. The San Francisco Public
SF News Day Around the Bay Meet your District 1 supervisor candidates. [SFCitizen] Band geeks gone wild. [Daily Clog] Fresh from Marcia Gagliardi's hot oven. [Tablehopper] "Dow Pounded Again" (Tee hee!) [SFGate] Julie Haener describes the Blue Angels as
SF News Pub War Deathmatch: Amanda Witherell vs. C.W. Nevius Guurrl, hold her earrings! Amanda Witherell comes out swinging in her recent post, "Nevius: check your facts. See, it's a response to C.V Nevis' recent article on, you guessed it, homelessness (Changing
SF News No More Drunken E-mail Blathering on Gmail! While it'll be a pity to lose the belligerent/drunk/meth-induced emails the SFist inbox receives from midnight to 3 a.m. every night, we would be remiss to point out Google's latest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tonight's Old School Punk Bands Tribute Night features Mongoloid (Devo cover band), XXX (X tribute band), the History Lesson (Minuteman covers), Club Internationale, Donuts, Headgear, Laser Dance, Night of the Oldies, and
SF News Park It: Spot or Not? The Front Steps came home the other day, during that Bluegrass music thingy that happened in Golden Gate Park, and found the image at right parked near their apartment. Uh oh. It looks
misc Anyone Scorch their Corneas at Nude Olympics I? According to our dear commie-pinko pals over IndyBay, "around a dozen nudists competed in athletic events" at Sunday's Nude Olympics I, which went down at Baker Beach on Sunday. Did anybody happen to
misc The Wild Birds of the Financial District Alex Clemens -- ruler of Barbary Coast Consulting, SFUsualSuspects.com, and, well, pretty much SF politics as many of you know it -- sent us these images of wildlife found right here in
misc Photo du Jour 242 Saturday gourmet ghetto scene captured by Rebecca Wegley who tells us, "I was walking near 18th & Dolores in SF this weekend and came across five adorable young girls selling lemonade. They were
