misc Quote of the Day: iPhones and Stubby Fingers Coming from the Editor's mobile communication device, we received a text today with the following signature: Sent from my iPhone / Typed with my pinky Yes, yes -- it's funny because it's true. But.
SF News Rent Control/Prop 98: the Video Care of Current TV, here's a nifty video about Proposition 98, which, if passed, would eliminate rent control. Zoinks. It also features someone with a very thick East Coast accent. Double zoinks. Anyway,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Can't wait until Sunday? Well, check out this pre-Carnaval party, called Carnaval Fever, featuring Aphrodesia, Bayonics, Boco do Rio, and DJ Sep pumping out choice Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Latin, Afrobeat, funk and reggae
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here? We love--yes, LOVE -- this piece. It positively brims with whimsy. But what happened? Why is Cupid's Span broken? When will it be fixed? It's been like this for months now. Speaking of
Arts & Entertainment There's More Than Corn In Indiana* (By Eyleen Tavy) SFist TV writer, SFGate Culture Blogger (and, for those of you who like dead trees, her weekly TV picks on on the cover of the Chron's TV section Sunday) Rain
Arts & Entertainment Your Hand-y Guide to Sunday’s Masturbate-a-Thon (By Joe Kukura) We just got off the phone with Carol Queen, who is gripped in preparations for this Sunday’s seventh annual Masturbate-a-Thon – where good folks publicly drop trou and raise money
SF News Take Me Baby Or Leave Me Over in Oakland this morning, a premature newborn was found "unconscious and unresponsive" in a dumpster by a homeless lad looking for recyclables. The dead infant was discovered on the 600 block of
misc Working Hard or Hardly Working? (By Eyleen Tavy) After a disturbingly easy commute, no line at Blue Bottle, and 15 minutes spent deleting the zillions of Out of Office emails that cluttered our inbox, we're ready to face
SF News Scene From a Valencia Street Apartment Fire Eeps! SFist received word this morning that Valencia Street fell victim to yet another apartment fire. Sigh. Reader Jeff Cleary tells us: Aye, there was an apartment fire this morning on Valencia street,
Arts & Entertainment Memorial Day: Stuff To Do While You're Drunk We know: you're stuck at work and want to go home. Get this weekend started. Or are already dreading the melancholia you'll feel come Monday night knowing that the three-day weekend is over.
SF News Newsom Expresses His Distaste for San Diego's Most Recent Stance On Queer Marriage When did San Diego become so...? After this month's historic ruling that will allow the gays to legally wed in the state of California, San Diego County Clerk Gregory Smith let it slip
SF News Day Around the Bay Gay actors, gay films, gay audiences: Frameline Film Festival approaches. [EBAR] Have you been cooking your veggies wrong? Shame. [CHOW] Nude in SF strikes -- more like ; har! -- again. [Violet Blue] Yelp
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire Update: 0% Containment Just letting you know that the fire -- which as of late this afternoon has consumed thousands of acres since it started at around 5:30 a.m. this morning -- is "completely
SF News SFist Tonight MUSIC: SFBG describes "March Fourth Marching Band" as "a raucous, irreverent ... take on the half-time shows you hated in high school." They are also referred to as Portland's version of Extra Action Marching
SF News WSJ Expose: Bulgarians Are Stealing Our Jobs! (By Eyleen Tavy) Don't ask us what we were doing reading the Wall Street Journal this morning (aside: have you ever looked at Kevin Sprouls', the guy who does the Journal's portraits, other
Arts & Entertainment Artist In Residence Program at the Dump Before Sunday's Latin-tinged Carnaval drunkfest and the self-consciously zany Live Masturbate-a-Thon, be sure to check out San Francisco's dirty and unique Artist In Residence program happening down at the dump. DeYoung ruler/society
SF News Napa County Brush Fire Shuts Down Highway 29; Clearly, God Is Punishing Us According to CBS 5 "[a] brush fire in Napa County has shut Hwy 29 at Hwy 121 in both directions." First the Santa Cruz mountains, and now this? Way to kickoff fire season,
SF News Santa Cruz Wildfire: Animal, Human Evacuation Info For those of you fire victims with large animals (i.e., horses, emus, et al.) or even not so large animals (i.e., Sprinkles, et al.), a Capitola reader just informed us that
SF News People Really Liked Dennis Richmond, Did You? We love this tribute, which was found by Flickr user tingley at 24th Street at Osage Alley. It even lit up at night. Sniff. So, did you watch his final broadcast? Check out
SF News Brass Rail Strip Club Murder Suspect Kills Himself After Car Chase Remember the man accused of killing two strip club patrons earlier this week in Sunnyvale? Well, last night the suspect, 29-year-old Matthew Andrew O'Reilly, was spotted by the fuzz, a chase ensued onto
SF News Wildfire Runs, Well, Wild In Santa Cruz Mountains, 2,000+ Acres Torched Huge plumes of smoke can be seen mushrooming over the Santa Cruz Mountains just above Ben Lomand due to a rapidly growing wildfire. It's gone from 100 acres to well over 1,000
