Arts & Entertainment Photos: Queer Pride Parade Party, Genitalia, Faerie Village, and More KRON 4's two bestest fag-hags (Catherine Heenan, Jan Wahl) and Donna Sachet inexplicably managed to do a decent job covering this year's LGBT Pride Parade. (Bonus points go to field reporter Henry Tenenbaum
misc What's Going On Here, Gavin? Taken by Jim Herd at Saturday's Pink Triangle party (always celebrated the day before Queer Pride Parade), a "newly sober" Mayor Gavin Newsom rips into a bottle of bubbly. How adorable! Also, he
SF News SFist Blotter Arrested edition! MONDAY, SOUTH SF: Gabino Zaragoza was arrested for slicing open a teen's neck early this morning. According the CBS 5, "officers responded to the 200 block of California Avenue at about
misc Photo du Jour 158 This natural-color image of Northern California was captured on June 26, 2008, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Places where MODIS detected active fires are outlined in
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist enjoyed watching New York City's latest big public art project--four multi-story man-made waterfalls--rise up in East River and the debate about whether it's art or folly (but they sure look pretty at
SF News Day Around the Bay Red dawn. [CBS 5] Your 2008 Mission Creek Music Festival lineup. [MCMF] Queers can no longer afford to live in the Castro, Supervisor Bevan Dufty pretends to care. [BAR] Headcheese hate. [Nature abhors
Arts & Entertainment Queer Pride Stuff to Do This Weekend (Image at right goes out to all of the female-loving ladies and real men out there. You're welcome.) What with Pride Weekend flouncing around the corner, here a few things to do this
SF News SF Crime Cameras Suck Ever since those shiny yet useless crime cameras were installed around the city's areas of concern back in '05, there has "only been one arrest attributed to the $900,000 spy system since
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The SF International LGBT Film Festival continues its week-long swish, so if you haven't seen one of their fine flicks yet, then consider yourself an upside-down pink square. Tonight's features being Butch
misc SF Murder Toll Hits 53 SF resident, father, and neighborhood car mechanic, William Amrull, 50, was found shot to death near his Bernel Heights home, on the sidewalk near Holly Park Circle and Newman Street. "This had to
SF News Scores and Highlights: Shaq Is the New Peaches (By Joe Kukura) You've seen that filthy online “Shaquille O’Neal rapping” video? The one so obscene that even Biggie Smalls would have told him to tone it down?. [TMZ.com] Spain against
misc Behold Dimitri the Stud/Stalker Sent to some bodyshot-partying Marina chick, Dimitri's desperate voicemails had us at "Greek," and "maybe you were abused in childhood." Swoon. (Update: here's an article about said stalker Dimitri, via our swell sister
SF News Black Plague In SF? You'd think the 1,000-plus wildfires blazing across Northern California would be our biggest concern. Not so. It seems that the Black Death is yet another thing we should fear, at least according
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>Eleven Minutes</i> (By SFist MiHi Ahn) Eleven Minutes follows Project Runway--season one winner Jay McCarroll for an entire year as he attempts to become a real fashion designer and not just a reality TV star.
misc Oakland Bart Station Opens After Menacing Backpack Is Found It seems an "unattended backpack" prompted the 12th Street Station in downtown Oakland to temporarily close up shop. A little after 6 a.m. this morning a curious sack was found sitting alone
misc Yelpers vs. Service Industry Workers Yelpers are unfairly critical. Or are Bay Area service industry workers notoriously rude? Really, it's the Hatfield-McCoy feud of our time. Rumors of Yelpers throwing the Y-word at servers is stuff of legend.
misc Tilt, Where Are You? (By Eyleen Tavy) Somebody amend the Constitution, already! Even as one right is affirmed, another is torn from our grasp -- the right to manufacture pre-mixed caffeinated energy drinks. That's right, "Anheuser-Busch said
SF News SFist Tonight MUSIC: Homosexuals who play musical instruments -- i.e., Pansy Division, Winsome Griffles, and gay Christian cow-punk crooner Glen Meadmore -- kickoff Gay Pride with a most rockin' night on SOMA. (Note: leave
SF News Amber Alert: Dublin, CA An Amber Alert just broke in on the talking picture box. A presumably unfit father who "has a known drug history and is known to frequent the Oakland area" took off with his
SF News Frank Chu Lands Movie Deal Well, sort of. Method actor and mentally-challenged San Francisco icon Frank Chu will appear in the upcoming flick -- brought to you by Gabriel Diamond, who brought you such household-name classics as Start
misc Behold the Google Office Toilet Made by Toto (no, not this Toto, but a swank Japanese company) , Google employees at their California offices can release their urine and evacuate their bowels like space-age kings using this ultra-modern and
SF News Was Tatiana the Tiger Just Hungry? Speculations are being thrown around that Tatiana the tiger was "underfed," possibly urging her to go on a fatal eating binge last Christmas. It seems that when Tatiana arrived at the SF Zoo
