SF News Scene from a Gay Marriage Benefit: Long Hot Summer Power couple Chloé Harris and Frankie Frankeny and the San Francisco Leadership Council of GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) held a surprisingly smashing benefit at Orson in SoMa oin Sunday night.
SF News New Public Utilities Commission Gang Announced Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a few new appointments and reappointments to San Francisco Public Utilities Commission this morning. Newly appointed? Francesca Vietor, co-founder of 1000 Flowers, a non-partisan NGO dedicated to registering and
SF News Restaurant Thieves Strike Again Two armed men struck yet another East Bay restaurant, this time in the posh Rockridge district. At least two thieves robbed a Pasta Pomodoro (someone save the butternut squash ravioli!) at 5500 College
SF News Day Around the Bay Nectarine dessert item at Zuni is, well, just one whole nectarine on plate. Which: genius. [Eater, via CH] Live-work lofts owners punished for not producing crap art? [Curbed, SFGate] Long-torsoed and dangerously hung
SF News Cops Put the Kibosh on Harrison/19th Street Taco Truck According to Flickr user maubrowncow, the above taco truck, El Tonayense, was shutdown by SFPD fuzz today due to complaints. But wait, it gets better! Taco truckers are considered "roaches." Check it: I
SF News What's Going On Here, Market Street/Aquarium of Death? OK, first we had the dead manta ray, or whatever it technically is, over at Market and Montgomery streets last week. Today, dear readers, we have this dead starfish sighting at the bus
SF News Update: Dolores Aguilar Obit Real After some debate on the authenticity of Dolores Aguilar's obit in the Vallejo Times-Herald, which if you recall was shockingly brutal, we got to the bottom of it all. Turns out Aguilar's obit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER/COMEDY: Rape jokes, tales of used condom sucking, attacks on politics, and a few poop jokes thrown in for good measure are just a few of the items that will have you
SF News State Supreme Court to Doctors: Treat Gays and Lesbians Like Human Beings This morning the California state Supreme Court ruled that doctors "must treat gays and lesbians the same as any other patient." What a novel idea, right? It all started back in 2000 when
SF News Anonymous Protesters Meet Zombie Flash Mob This weekend's Anti-Scientology protest, held by the brave kids at Anonymous, encountered some equally scary enemies: zombies. Check out some scene's of the protest in action, actual Scientologists, fake blood, amusing signage, and
SF News SFist Blotter MISSION, SATURDAY: Were you there? We were. Valencia Street barhoppers and Delfina snobs mistakenly assumed firecrackers ignited after at least five shots rang out at 18th and Guerrero streets a little after 10:
SF News Bay Meadow Rides Off Into the Sunset Home to Seabiscuit wins, San Mateo's Bay Meadows, held its final race on Sunday. Over 10,000 people showed up to the South Bay not-San Francisco Thoroughbred gambling hotspot to bid it adieu.
misc Photo du Jour 199 2007 SF Air Guitar Champion Ricky Stinkfingers. (Read SFist's Emily Cox's interview with him here.) He's Air Guitaring here at the San Francisco Giants game.
misc R.I.P., <del>Bitch</del> Dolores Aguilar Warms the heart, doesn't it? Above obit found in the Times-Herald Napa/Sonoma. Oh, and be sure to read the guestbook here. (Thanks Jameth!) UPDATE I: Cruel obit page pulled late Sunday afternoon.
misc Week Around the Ists Torontoist featured video of an absolutely insane series of explosions at a propane facility in the north end of the city last weekend. Despite an eventful week at the Olympics, Phillyist focused on
misc Film: Imperial Fleet Week (By Mike Horn at Current TV) WIll this be a part of tomorrow's terrorist attack simulation? We can only hope. Watch it....and enjoy!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: David Hoffman's Sputnik Mania - which takes a look back at USSR's Sputnik satellite, the Cold War, anxiety, and how everyone seemed to go batshit over Спутник way back when - screens
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Etiquette For those of you nerds who Twitter, and especially for those of you who Twitter drunk/high, The Morning News has come up with 14 ways to sharpen your Twittering etiquette. Such gems
misc Bigfoot Captured (Maybe) During a press conference in Palo Alto today, two men from the South, Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer, stand by their claim that they have the Bigfoot bagged and tagged next to the
SF News Downtown SF Plays Host to Awesome Disaster Drill "Unless you want to experience the pandemonium of a devastating terrorist attack, you might want to steer clear of downtown San Francisco on Aug. 16," writes the Examiner. And where will we be
SF News Manta Ray Flaps to Its Death On Market Street Oh man. This is sad. Yesterday someone from something called the Experience Project (i.e., "millions of life experiences shared anonymously through first person stories") posted on something rather bizarre: So, I'm walking
Arts & Entertainment Film du Jour: Drum 'n' Bass 'n' Jesus OK, technically there's no local connection. But so many transplants in the Bay Area have told us tales of speaking-in-tongue Christians revivals (revivals?). And we didn't believe them. Until now. (Thanks Jameth!)
