SF News Rape Charges Thrown at Contra Costa Co. Deputy DA Michael Gressett Charged with rape, oral copulation, sodomy, and penetration with a foreign object, Martinez deputy district attorney Michael Gressett, 51, is accused of raping another deputy district attorney. Gressett is currently spending time in
SF News S.F. Activist Murdered During New Orleans Robbery Activist and founder of the Really, Really Free Market in Dolores Park, Kirsten Brydum, 25, was killed in New Orleans last Saturday during an apparent robbery. She was shot in the head while
SF News SF-Based Wells Fargo Bank to Buy Wachovia For a $15.1 billion all-stock deal left on the nightstand, Wachovia allowed Wells Fargo Bank to buy it this morning. But not so fast, says Citigroup, who "now demands that Wachovia abide
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Fun-Size Edition Well, since we've already given you bars in which to see tonight's debate -- all of them, in fact -- and a place to binge eat on fattening food, we're going to recommend
misc What On Earth Is Happening With Al Davis' Face? While your editor is no picnic to look at, this here is some terrifying stuff. Check out the Gate's jarring shot of Oakland Raiders master and lord Al Davis. Shudder.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine's Anthony Myint Serves Up Grub From Taco Truck Tonight For those of you edgy kids hitting it in the Mission district tonight, Bar Tartine line cook Anthony Myint will be serving up batshit insane cheap, not to mention tasty, sandwiches from a
Arts & Entertainment Where to Watch Tonight's Vice-Presidential Debate What gold nuggets of wisdom will pour forth from Sarah Palin's lips? What will Joe Biden, um, be wearing? (Yeah, we have nothing on him.) Find out tonight at one of these lovely
SF News San Franciscans Like Obama, Hate Two and a Half Men, Says New York Times Those left-wing extremists, Sarah Palin gang-rapists, and Zionist hoodlums over at the New York Times came to town to write about politics and San Francisco. (No, not about the increasingly-retarded local SF political
Arts & Entertainment Win Pair of Tickets to Litquake's Opening Night Literati Orgy Litquake -- San Francisco's annual ode to print writing, serious novelists, and other assorted literary notables from the Bay Area -- kicks off their 2008 festival tomorrow night. To start the celebration, the
SF News Wednesday Night SF Shooting/Murder Near the Crocker Amazon, over on the 700 block of Brunswick Street, one person died and another was injured last night after a bout of gunfire. The two victims, it seems, were inside
misc Ask SFist: Vice Presidential Debate at Bars? If this is any indication of things to come, tomorrow's Palin-Biden debate could prove the single most entertaining trainwreck in television history. And we want you to share this moment with other inebriated
SF News Muni Train Derailment: Another View The door got mangled during today's derailment. Yikes. Also, live diversions and motorcars are still in place. Alas.
SF News Muni Derailed, Literally Over at Duboce and Church this morning, just after 10 a.m., a Muni train came off its tracks, blocking the tunnel at Church. According to Transit 511: On Wednesday, October 1st, as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: DIY (Do-it-yourself) art types -- who live in world of skateboarding, surfing, punk, hip hop, graffiti, etc. -- get the documentary treatment in Beautiful Losers (2008). A few of the artists interviewed,
SF News Film du Jour: Ralph Nader Mocks -- <i>Mocks!!</i> -- Barack Obama SF Weekly's Janine Kahn captured Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader's talk at SFSU yesterday. And he comes down hard on Barack Obama, calling him, among other things, a "sniveling coward." Oh noes! Get
SF News SF Shooting, Stabbing Kills Two A stabbing, happening early this morning, and a shooting, which went down yesterday afternoon, claimed the lives of two residents. James Starghill, 44, was shot around 2 p.m. in the Portola neighborhood.
SF News Day Around the Bay Real estate thinspiration. [Curbed] Someone, it seems, has the gall to use "Suze Orman" and "crap" in the same sentence. [SM] Flickr lets you store your images in one place, or something like
SF News Beaking News: Mountain Lion Spotted in Natural Habitat on San Bruno Mountain Trail This just in: "At 1300 hours today [1 p.m. -- SFist], possible Mountain Lion [Pretty, pretty fluff puff with a big, wet nose] seen on trail on San Bruno Mountain [at his
misc Barack Obama: S&M Fan? Look at what someone gone and did during last Sunday's Folsom Street Fair. Pretty sneaky, kids.
SF News Sharon Stone "Wanted to Botox Her Kid," Says Court Docs During the contentious court trial between (former) Bay Area married couple of note, Ginger McKenna (AKA Sharon Stone) and the Chronicle's Phil Bronstein," the former, it seems, was described as an "alarmist" who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ferry Building Gets Pricier The historic Ferry Building -- home to stores devoted solely to hawking olive oil, cheese, fish eggs, mushrooms and the best Japanese food in the universe -- is raising its rents. Aw. And
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: John Schlesinger's 1975 film of Nathanael West's 1939 novel, , features three awe-inspiring moments: Hollywood in the '30, the divine Karen Black, and a terrifying 20-minute finale. This classic about "alienation and desperation
