SF News Oats Bests Cobb During yesterday's hotly contested Muni Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, Leonard Oats beat frontrunners Ken Lunardi and Byron Cobb to snag the title of Best Bell Ringing MUNI Employee in the Universe. In
SF News And In Other Election News Prop 98? Defeated. The eminent domain reform proposition, which would have seen rent control eliminated in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, failed to win last night. It seems that about 61 percent of
SF News California Supreme Court Denies Gay Marriage Ruling Delay The 10 attorneys general who has asked the California Supreme Court for a delay in their decision to let the gay marry until after November has been denied. CBS 5 announces that "the
SF News Leno Wins Noted San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno won the Democratic primary in the state Senate throne, taking it away from incumbent Carole Migden. With 81% of the precincts reporting, according to the Chronicle, Leno
Arts & Entertainment Liz Hickok: Jell-O Artiste Preferring the medium of Jell-O as the best way of expressing herself, Liz Hickok tells Current TV exactly how she made that San Francisco Jello mold recreation thingy. She also reveals that she
SF News Day Around the Bay SF Republican party recruits in Cow Hollow, uses ironing board. Aw. [SFCitizen] Cyclists whine that Google doesn't have bike routes. [SF MetBlogs] SF's Better Streets Plan tome released. [Curbed] For some reason we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Cold Case Files meets Camelot with the documentary RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy, featuring new footage from of the night he died (see above), eyewitnesses interviews, Kennedy accents, crackpot
Arts & Entertainment Behold the Hayes Valley Exploding-Head, Rusty Public Art Sculpture Worthy of your love or a tetanus shot?
SF News Obama Takes It According to the Associated Press, "Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday." Is it done. The tally was based on public declarations from delegates as well as from another 15 who
misc Photo du Jour 141 Well, wait no more. Both ends of the Bay Area felt two quakes this morning. Minor 2.1 and 2.2 movers. That's all. But the tiny ones, of course, are good reminders
SF News Gay Marriage Ban Initiative to Show Up On California Ballot? Hold on there, June brides. The Secretary of State announced yesterday that an initiative to re-ban same-sex marriage in California has qualified for the November ballot. Uh oh. The California Marriage Protection Act
SF News Remember: Vote Today's election day, kids. Remember to get out there and vote, etcetera, etcetera, and so forth. That said, is Migden wearing a Rachael Ray terrorist scarf? Sort of? Maybe? A derivative of it
SF News Day Around the Bay No. 25 is alive. Again. [WhatImSeeing] "OMGROFL" [Jameth] Breaking news: Danielle Steel's "glazed" Stinson Beach home for sale. [Curbed] Anti-gay marriage measure qualifies for November ballot. How creepy. [Sacbee] Perfect for all you
SF News Best Comment Argument Ever Over At SFBG Oh man. Like... wow. This is entertaining, exciting stuff. Let's back up a bit: It all started last Friday after a not-so-innocent yet fraudulent slate card endorsing Migden boasting the SFBG logo (something
misc Whose Car Is This? Citizen SF snapped up this bit of automotive gold. And holy smokes! You'll never guess who was driving this, "The first Lexus LS 600h L hybrid luxury sedan to arrive in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Godfather of Goth, Peter Murphy, brings his very special brand of glam, gloom, rock, and overzealous use of eyeliner to SF. And he's playing all of his old stuff to boot!
SF News Carlos Sousa Jr.'s, Tatiana the Tiger's Autopsies Revealed Carlos Sousa Jr.'s autopsy report has just been released to the public. According to ABC 7's Dan Noyes, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office's report details the massive (and pretty graphic)
SF News Show Us Your Pink Slips: Newsom To Eliminate 450 City Employees From the Payroll While he wouldn't say whether or not Cynthia Thompson will receive a much deserved ax, today Mayor Gavin Newsom did announce that he will hack away at some 1,000 city jobs as
SF News Photo: Dude, Did You Go To the Save Rent Control Party? While we were out perusing second home possibilities in Rincon Hill all weekend long (exhausting!), a smattering of predominately white liberal arts majors had a kick-ass party on Valencia Street this past weekend.
SF News LOLCAT Responds to "CHEEZBURGER" Flyer Put to Bed Suspiciously littered around SFist HQ near South Park, these flyers (featuring a mysterious 515 area code from some far off land called "Austin, Texas" "Des Moines, Iowa") have been tacked up to lampposts
SF News Pelosi Hearts Leno Before entering a voguing competition (we can only assume) to the sounds of Seal at Saturday night's Black & White Ball, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced her endorsement for Assemblyman Mark
SF News SFist Blotter MISSION, SATURDAY: While driving along the Highway 101 exit at Mission and Duboce, with her twin toddlers in tow, 31-year-old Milika Fields was shot and killed this past Saturday night. At around 7:
misc Photo du Jour 139 Look at what some ugly person(s) did to this innocent poster at Union and Van Ness. Tsk, tsk. At least three of the above tags apply to us. How about you?Sex
misc Week Around the Ists Torontoist featured the astonishing story (and equally astonishing photos) of more than 200 cyclists spontaneously taking over the westbound lanes of the city's downtown expressway for 7 kilometers late on a Friday afternoon.
