Arts & Entertainment <em>Skatebook</em> Release Party, New SF Skate Park Grand Opening (By Travis Jensen -- welcome him, won't you? Jensen will be chiming in at SFist now and then, and we're elated to have him aboard.) Skatebook release party Celebrate the release of the
SF News Accident Shuts Down 880 In San Leandro, Kills Two All but one southbound lane of Highway 880 in San Leandro has been shutdown after a big rig accident occurred around 9:30 a.m. this morning, near the Marina Blvd. exit. it
misc Air Quality Report: Bay Area Mimics Los Angeles As particulate matter from the 850 wildfires has ruined our famously crisp and sought-after air in the Bay Area. On the plus side, though, it has made for some gorgeous sunsets.
SF News Rabid Bat Spooks Sunset District A dead, rabid bat was found in the Sunset District on Vicente Street near 32nd Avenue. Which brings up two points we must bring up. One, if any Sunset denizens fear that you
SF News Arrest In Road Rage Shooting The suspect allegedly shot the family to death, according to the Chronicle, because Tony "inadvertently blocked another car from completing a left turn onto Congdon from Maynard Street...after the elder Bologna backed
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>Ready? OK!</i> (By Joe Kukura) Ready? OK! Hey! Is that Michael Emerson up there on the right, who plays the sinister creep cult leader Ben Linus on LOST? And is that Carrie Preston on the
misc Low-Intensity Conflict Looms Holy wow. This was found today near SF MOMA "geotagged with the exact spot." As Flickr user Rubin110 tells us, it's "very official looking." And how. According to Wikipedia, which is always 100%
SF News Day Around the Bay Check out Matt Smith's delightful "Progressive Justice," starring Chris Daly and Ross Mirkarimi. [SF Weekly] What happened to Violet Blue's smutty brilliance on Boing Boing? [Aviator Ear, Valleywag] Woman found under Bart train
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Scrabbel and Greg Ashley (ex-Gris Gris) open for Plants and Animals. Just who, in heaven's name, are Plants and Animals? Well, Pitchfork describes them thusly, "like a distant Canadian cousin of Blitzen
SF News Grace Cathedral/Burning Man Arsonist Paul Addis Sentenced Mentally-estranged dreamboat Paul Addis -- you know, the guy who performed last year's premature ignition at Burning Man and most recently tried to burn down Courteney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette's chapel of love?
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>XXY</i> & <em>Japan Japan</em> (By SFist MiHi Ahn) XXY We're suckers for coming-of-age movies, so we hunkered down with a cup of coffee and bag of popcorn last night at the Castro Theatre to see back to
SF News Photo du Jour 155 Our photo editor, SFist James, received a new keyboard and felt the need to clean it before use. Can you guess under which astrological sign he was born?
SF News Scene from a Civic Center Station Muni Platform Taken at the Civic Center station, this (bloodied) gentleman came off an inbound train early this morning and collapsed. Anyone know what happened? Is he OK? Poor guy.
SF News Fourth of July Gets Even More Dull: Fireworks Sales Defused While only nine cities in the Bay Area allowed to sell "safe and sane" fireworks (i.e., sparklers, fountains, snakes, and flowers [psst, you can totally turn the latter into a mini bottle
Arts & Entertainment Women, Yogurt, and Pooping: a Love Story If you haven't been to comedy club as of late, you might be curious about the overabundance of women-and-yogurt commercials. Well, here's a delightful look at the attempts to get females to consume
SF News What's That Smell In the Air? Why, It's NorCal Burning Down! If you've noticed over the past couple of days, it's smells a bit smoky, a bit ashy in Baghdad by the Bay. It seems, according to CBS 5, Northern California is suffering from
SF News Third Road Rage Shooting Victim Dies, Sketch of Suspect Released Matthew Bologna, the 16-year-old road rage shooting victim who was alive but in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, was taken off life support last night and pronounced dead. This makes the
SF News PG&E Vault Explosion In Downtown SF Oh my, word. Did you hear it? We received a few emails mentioning it, but NBC 11 confirms: "As of 4:10 p.m., PG & E activity in the vicinity of California
SF News Day Around the Bay Is SOMA the loudest 'hood of them all? Well, is it? [Curbed] Reason no. 595785907877 to love Marcia, "from crack pipe to copper pipe." Swoon. [Tablehopper] Right-wing new media convention happens in Mountain
SF News Wimbledon Under Fire for Pigeon Murder Wimbledon, that top-drawer tennis championship played on grass way over on the other side of the pond, is currently underway. What's more, it's coming under fire for "using marksmen to shoot down dive-bombing
SF News SFist Tonight FILM: The San Francisco International Queer Film Festival continues with a Spanish bisexual (MFF) love romp XXY (dir. Lucia Puenzo) and the Israeli, coming-of-age story Japan Japan (dir. Lior Shamriz). The latter film,
misc SFist Apologizes: Too Much Skin? We've received a few curt emails this afternoon, upset over our use of the image in "Strip Club Etiquette: De-tipping?" Sexy, no? But It seems if we post a female form that's neither
misc Yvesdroppings Are Silent But Deadly (By Babe Scanlon) Holy crud! Yvesdroppings, they're back! Yay! As always, aubmissions go to editor - at - gmail - dot - com (put "Yvesdroppings" in the subject line!) Don't forget to keep
SF News Strip Club Etiquette: De-tipping? Oh my, today's Police Blotter in the Examiner is satisfying. First off, some family in the Inner Richmond Outer Sunset got into a huge, bloody fight over rice preparation, wherein the father was
misc Cody's Out/Ferrari Store In As most of you know by now, Cody's Books -- famous for its unyielding love by the literati, being fire-bombed in the 1980s for displaying Salman Rushdie's in its window, and for selling
