Arts & Entertainment D9 Supervisor Debate Tonight For those of you not interested on watching US presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama call each other a "terrorist sympathizer" and "creepy old man with one foot in the grave," be
SF News Breaking News: SF Rents on the Rise Despite the fact that penetrating tower after penetrating tower continues to sprout up across SoMa, downtown, and Rincon Hill, San Francisco rent prices are still skyrocketing. According to SF Business Times, [a]sking
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Artists Ball 7 We dragged estimable photog Darwin Bell with us to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' annual bash to local artists, Artists Ball 7, last Friday night. The first half of the fete was
SF News The Blue Angels, They're Back UIFOs won't be the only thing zooming in the skies above this week.Those window-ratting Harlem Globetrotters of the skies, the Blue Angels, will fly above SF for four afternoons: practice flights on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Urban Tavern By Tiffany Maleshefski Let’s get this out of the way right now: Urban Tavern, the new eatery brought to you by wunderchef Laurent Manrique and restaurateur Chris Condy (together they are C&
SF News Day Around the Bay Not everyone is thrilled with Pizzeria Delfina. Good. (Also, start delivering and selling slices like a real pizzeria, you pretentious louses.) [7x7] Most censored story in SF, not so much? [SFWeekly] Check out
SF News UFOs Seen Flying Over San Francisco "This is no joke, no lie, no delusion," claims the Craigslist ad, UFOs were spotted hovering above the City last night. It seems. At least according to a lunatics and/or pranksters in
SF News Man Accused of Killing Angels' Leader Surrenders The guy wanted in connection with the shooting death of San Francisco Hells Angels' leader Mark Guardado surrendered to authorities. Christopher Ablett, 37, of Modesto gave himself up in Oklahoma on Saturday. Ablett
misc Decision 2008: Boston or San Francisco? Those worldly folks over at Travel and Leisure are having their annual America's Favorite City. San Francisco, of course, is winning. But not by much! Some place called "Boston" is creeping up on
SF News What's Going On Here, Black Monday? Courtesy of (a triumphant) Jameth, these meow-ish posters, promoting progressive celebrity Cindy Sheehan, could be found all over SoMa this morning.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM TALK: The former king of camp, John Waters, appears live in person tonight, bringing his one-man "vaudeville" show to the Castro. Tonight's show focuses "on Waters' early negative artistic influences and his
SF News UCB Tree-Sitters = Racist? The always entertaining duo Matier & Ross came across the letter that UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau sent to alums, right at the height of the tree-sitter standoff that lasted two years, claiming
SF News Resident Rescued In Castro Blaze San Francisco's Castro became a little more flaming than usual this morning after a two-alarm fire torched a three-story residential building at 18th and Market streets, smack dab in the heart of the
SF News The End of the World As We Know It The stock market roller coaster is continuing unabated, last week's $700 billion bailout notwithstanding. Mid-morning today, the Dow Jones industrial sank more than 400 points, falling below 10,000 for the first time
SF News Caltrain Collides With Truck SFist's Jonathan Hunt sent us this image from Burlingame this morning. Apparently, a Caltrain hit a truck. And then the truck pooped boxes. The train smacked into the big rig on the tracks
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist covered the three B's this week: A new Banksy-commissioned mural in Soho, new bike rack protoypes, and (Mayor) Bloomberg's controversial decision to seek a third term. Seattlest, recovering from ESPN's ranking of
SF News Day Around the Bay Last night's gastronomically-astute Mission food truck proved a sell-out success. [Eater] Barack Obama tackles the iPhone. [Examiner] Landlord smears blood and fecal matter on tenants’ door. What? [Mission Mission] Outta control partying in
SF News Retired Kung Fu Masters for Wilma Pang! Current D3 supervisor candidate (and former mayoral candidate) Wilma Pang just got denied matching funds from the City. Why? Because of her shitty paperwork. Our favorite part is what the City freaked out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Icelandic Sigur Rós comes to the East Bay to play their sumptuous, melodic, and plinky-sounding music for their adoring masses. 8 p.m. // Greek Theatre, Gayley Road and Stadium Rim Way, Berkeley
SF News You Do Have Our Contact Info, Brit Dear Brittney Gilbert, We know you have our contact information, because you've used it to ask us for interviews (which seem to have been canceled altogether, it seems.) And that's fine. But when
SF News Once Again, Only You Can Save Marriage California, Please Vote No On Proposition 8 from Stop8.org on Vimeo. While Sarah Palin held her own last night during last night's debate, more or less, and Joe Biden shed an effeminate
SF News Breaking News: $700 Billion Package Passed by Senate With 345 to 163 votes in (with 26 votes left to be counted) 263-171, it looks like the emergency economic rescue bill is all set to go, which was just passed by the
SF News Incoming Rain Could Bring Debris Flows With the Bay Area scheduled for a much-needed shower, an "incoming storm," according to California Fire News, will drag "the remnants of a typhoon that hit Taiwan last Sunday" bringing said debris to