SF News McCain VP Pick: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 44-year-old former beauty queen and current Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wins the honor of being Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate. (It will not be, as was guessed yesterday, Tim Pawlenty.) A bit
SF News Day Around the Bay Justin Juul on leather vegans in his underwear. Nice. [SFBG] We'll miss your hiked up jeans, Doug McConnell. Sob. [SFGate] Bernie Ward's wife blasts government. [Noyes] Store clerks robbed at gunpoint in three
SF News McCain VP Pick: Tim Pawlenty? Looking to steal Obama's thunder, old man McCain, who is adorably running for Prez under the Republican ticket, has picked a VP running mate. One top guess, according to the Gate, is Minnesota
SF News BREAKING NEWS: Fire Affecting Traffic On the Bay Bridge According to KTVU's Gasia Mikaelian, a fire on Yerba Buena Island is affecting traffic on the Bay Bridge. It's on the west side of Yerba Buena just under the bridge. It is not
Arts & Entertainment Bar AIDS Via Bar Hopping If you plan on falling off the wagon or going on a fatal bender, let tonight be that night. Why? Well, because some of the watering holes throughout SF plan on donating up
SF News BREAKING NEWS: Bernie Ward Gets 7 Years That's it. Former KGO radio host Bernie Ward gets seven years and three months in the clink for sending child pornography over the Internets. A former Roman Catholic, Ward sent images where "children
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight OBAMA: Wonks, wannabe wonks, and people who overestimate their importance circle jerk to the sights and sounds of the future Prez accepting his nomination tonight. Join them, won't you? Here's where you can
SF News Photo du Jour 209 Looks likes there was some sort of benign "peace march" to make people feel good. Cool. Looks like everyone had a good time. Can you spot the war protest stereotypes in this picture?
SF News Bernie Ward Sentencing Countdown First, we are loving Dan Noyes' coverage of the Bernie Ward/kiddie porn trial. It is, for lack of a better descriptive, incestuously fun. (Ward was employed by KGO before Ward's career and
misc Free Bidet for the Homeless Photo by arlen found in SFist's Flickr pool. "FREE WATER FOR HOMELESS / PLEASE KEEP AREA CLEAN / WE LIVE HERE - / PLEASE DON'T SHIT ON OUR BLOCK" How fancy.
SF News Vodka Unfairly Blamed for 101 Southbound Lane Closures You might want to call in sick to help with cleanup efforts down in Sunnyvale. See, a big rig carrying vodka -- delicious vodka! -- overturned this morning, prompting the closure of all
SF News Day Around the Bay Spots is left high & dry at Outside Lands. [Culture Blog] Bernie Ward confessed kiddie porn collection to Michael Pritchard. [Noyes] More on Del Martin's passing. [SFW, SFBG] Macaroni & cheese mistakes. [InMyHoodSF]
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Make your night an iPod commercial kind of night as !!! uses their signature dance-punk beats to get the ratty-ass kids on their feet. Sugar & Gold and DJ Jay Sonic also add
SF News Lesbian Activist Del Martin Dies Some sad news, folks. Lesbian rights activist Del Martin -- who married her wife Phyllis Lyon at City Hall this past June on the first day that same-sex couples gained the right --
SF News Oh Yeah, Burning Man is Coming What with all of the not taking synthetic drugs we've been doing as of late, we completely forgot that Labor Day Weekend is almost upon us. Yay! And with that comes that annual
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's Going On Here, Civic Center Farmers Market? This is our favorite section at Wednesday's Civic Center Farmers Market. It all looks so good! But what they really need are hot, sliced pizza rolls to taste. What to do with the
SF News Oil Spill Response Time Shortened The California State Assembly passed a bill on Tuesday "that lowers the allowable response time to an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay from from six hours to two hours." Penned by
SF News Quote of the Day: Kamala Harris On Public Safety During yesterday's Time magazine breakfast forum in Denver -- a panel discussion -ishly titled "Hot Shots Breakfast" -- our DA Kamala Harris was a featured guest. On a question regarding public safety, here's
SF News Tuberculosis Scare Hits Kaiser Permanente In SF Hey, did you give birth at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco between March 10 to Aug. 10? Well, you might want to get tested for TB. See, Kaiser is in the process of
SF News Today's East Bay Restaurant Robbery: Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant El Cerrito played host to the most recent restaurant takeover at around 9:45 p.m. last night. Two masked men entered Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant and stole cash from employees and patrons
SF News Day Around the Bay Must read: The word "progressive" banned at the Chron (and something or other about Grape-Nuts being neither grapes nor nuts. Um, yeah.) [SFBG] Somebody wants to hump Julia Allison. [Valleywag] Jen Jen at
misc FasTrak System Hackable? While we're too busy thinking about jelly beans, balls of crumpled tinfoil, and purple unicorns, maybe you tech geniuses with cars can figure out if this works or not? It seems there's a
SF News Outside Lands Hilarity Edited Boo! After we posted about "Oliver Clothezoff, visiting from New York" at the Outside Lands festival, the Chronicle went and edited it to read, "A visitor from New York..." (Pft, you guys are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC I: All the over-educated white folks pretend they're down tonight when SoCal native Ice Cube hits the stage. Listen as he croons such solo and N.W.A. favorites as "It Was
