SF News Crime Wave Peace March Tonight Prepare your candles, mourning attire, and faces full of fear. A peace march is happening tonight in the Mission district, so that everyone can collectively be all WTF regarding the "wave of violence
SF News Outsiders Blamed for (Alleged) SF Crime Wave Once again, lots of sticky, viscous blood bathed the streets of San Francisco. Let's see, we had a 19-year-old man shot while strolling along 23rd Street and Treat, two people shot inside a
misc Week Around the Ists Shanghaiist can't wait to meet the tattooed Louis Vuitton pigs that are coming to town. Phillyist commenters spent the early part of the week debating whether Barack Obama is an asshole. Phillyist concluded
SF News Day Around the Bay Tomorrow we feel relief. [Weather Underground] finally gets it right: Catherine Bigelow hops aboard. Awesome. [7x7] Better late than never, finally getting around to the whole Sarah Palin-Tina Fey thing. [SFW] Tim hearts
SF News Santa Cruz Cyclist Stabs Motorist Authorities are looking for, oh dear, "a bicyclist in Santa Cruz who fled after allegedly stabbing a motorist during a confrontation." It seems there was some sort of heated driver-to-cyclist confrontation today, which
Arts & Entertainment <i>When Doilies Go Bad</i> Over at Mission Mission, we came across this most interesting art exhibit opening on Saturday night. It's called When Doilies Go Bad. And, boy, do they. Artists Lisa Mendelson and Laura Mappin have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: Come catch classical/electronic composer Mason Bates working his magic outside Carnegie Hall and Davies. He spins tonight in downtown SF along with sublime MarsBassMan (David Arend) on upright bass. 6 -
SF News Help Send LiveJournal Blogger to Sarah Palin Luncheon LiveJournal user Jameth is asking readers to send him to Sarah Palin's Woodside Luncheon, happening on Thursday, Sept. 25th, in Woodside (SFist's official off-site headquarters. What?) at Tom Siebel's pad. And he needs
SF News Nancy Pelosi Dead Wrong on Abortion, says SF Archbishop Sorcerer Archbishop George Niederauer is hopping mad at Nancy Pelosi. Why? Because of what she said about the church's teaching on abortion. It seems on NBC's Meet the Press last week, the congresswoman
SF News Gross Weather Prompts Another Spare The Air Day No, keep it out. Please. It's just too hot. The National Weather Service has predicted record highs throughout the normally crisp Bay Area. (Boo!) That mean today is a Spare the Air day
SF News Cal Gets Another Green Light to Cut Down Annoying Oaks Oak tree advocates and a neighborhood group be damned! A state appeals court gave UCB the go-ahead to put up the sports training center next to Memorial Stadium, effectively hammering the final nail
SF News Halloweeen Moves to AT&T Park Area As SFist first reported back in March, Halloween in the Castro (as you knew it) is dead. But! The formerly violent celebration will be resurrected "at a parking lot near AT&T
SF News More Murders Hit the Streets of SF Last Night Just a day after Hell's Angels bigwig Mark Guardado was gunned down at 24th Street and Treat Avenue, the Mission/Potrero district again played host to two bouts of gun violence. First, at
misc Photo du Jour 214 Scene from the San Francisco Symphony opening gala. (Oh hey! We have a smurfy new contribute page. Now you can tag your photos and films in flickr, vimeo, or YouTube with "sfist." Cool,
misc From the Editor's Inbox: Invite to Sarah Palin's Woodside Luncheon Look what little SFist found waiting patiently in the inbox. Sadly, we cannot afford a seat, but, oh my God, won't someone please take us with them as their date? Behold: We are
SF News Sarah Palin, Meth Kingpin OK, not really. But while VP candidate Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, the area (specifically the Matanuska-Susitna area) won the title of Meth Capital of Alaska. (An aside:
SF News Update on Grassy "Living Shelters" So, this inane bus shelter, also known as a "living roof," is all a part of Newsom plan to get elected Governor of California. (Let's hear it for the amusement parkification of SF
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART OPENINGS: We've got two for you, right next to each other. Such convenience! First, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions opens its doors tonight. The inaugural show, "Ready Set Go," features works by Tyler Cufley,
SF News Quote of the Day: Palin Pales? Sarah Palin -- who, let's face it, governs some useless mass of land in Canada -- thinks she's more qualified than God to help run the US. According to Ralph Nader, she's isn't,
SF News Alex Smith on his way Out? A "victim of extremely high expectations as the top overall pick in the 2005 draft," the quite dashing 49ers QB, Alex Smith, might not be returning next year. Why? Because he's expensive (six-year
SF News New Muni Shelter Revealed Well, here's one of them, a preview of the new "green bus stop." They're temporary, we're told, which confuses us even more. Also, we fail to see how this will make the buses
SF News Day Around the Bay Mark Guardado, head of SF Hell's Angels, shot dead in the Mission. [CBS 5] "Republicans complain of sexism." [SFGate] The houseboats of San Francisco’s Mission Creek. [SF Citizen] Save the magnolia 22!
misc What's Going On Here, Crazy Clashing Person? This guy above, it seems, shows up at the beginning of each semester at SFSU "to get yelled at by freshmen/student activists." We think he's the bee's knees. What's more, we can
