misc Photo du Jour 106 Ferrari 355 Spider gets pulled over in Haight Ashbury. So if your dealer was late last night, now you know why.
SF News "Dramatic" Berkeley Suicide Car Crash Kills One An unidentified man killed himself this morning after running his car into parked cars at 80 mph at Yolo and the Alameda. Just before the fatal wreck, it seems, he was sitting in
SF News 24 Hours of NERT Earth! Oh, and here are some tips from the NERT (National Neighborhood Emergency Response Team), care of Ed Chu of the San Francisco Fire department. It's not the most entertaining bit of footage you'll
SF News Great Earthquake of '06 Commemorated Around 350 people showed up to Lotta's Fountain this morning to commemorate the great earthquake of 1906, which happened at 5:12 a.m. 102 years ago today. 105-year-old Herbert Hamrol was the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The latest incarnation of Fritz Lang's futuristic classic about the working class and city planners, Metropolis (1927), is its most complete. According to LaSalle, this version is a "new incarnation, the work
misc Flickr Donut Day Images Since Flickr give us so much, it's only natural for us to want even more. Last week SFist Dianne reported on the web's demanded for Flickr to give us donuts. Flickr's Matthew Rothenberg
SF News Fruit-Flavor Infusions Makes Cocaine Even Livelier As if cucumber- and celery-infused vodkas haven't rocked your world enough, the latest trend in intoxication is fruit-flavored blow. The DEA has come across loads of the sweet treat, most recently finding the
SF News Police Chief Heather Fong's Deleted Foot-Patrol Letter Revealed You know how foot patrol police officers in SF are far and few between? How they're pretty much only used to protect the West Approach overpass during construction, homosexual pride events, and Olympic
misc Take the Blogging Ethics Survey! J-Schoolers and other assorted graduate students, please stop clogging our inbox with shit like this, especially if you don't know our name or plan on getting us drunk beforehand. Thanks. What are we
SF News East Bay Restaurant Heists Continue at Scary, Steady Pace So far eight businesses in the East Bay have been held up by robbers in the past couple of weeks. Last night at around 9 p.m., two suspects hit Restaurant Furenzu on
misc I Lost Me to the Russian Consolate's Spying Tactics This sign was found at Geary and 21st Ave. See what meth can do, kids?
SF News Billie McGee Found Safe With Friends She's been found safe! With friends! And she's a bit of a spitfire! According to Marisa Lagos' sleuthing over at the Gate, McGee (who we reported as missing yesterday) took off from her
SF News Day Around the Bay High School Musical (the stage-itization of the twee movie musical) receives decent review from the Gate. [SFGate] The California Academy of Science's LEED loss. [Curbed] SFPD didn't take Bakers Dozen attack seriously, charges
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *BAR/EARTH: Throw a few back for a good cause at this pre-Earth Day party: Friends of the Urban Forest Fundraiser. Come learn about pretty trees, talk to other like-minded souls about being
misc Photo du Jour 103, 104 Both of these photos were snapped up somewhere in poor, put-upon San Francisco. Sheesh. Why so disillusioned and pissy, SF residents? Relax.
SF News 12-Year-Old SF Girl Missing 12-year-old SF resident Billie McGee never showed up for class on Monday, reports the San Jose Mercury News (via Bay City News), and has been missing ever since. McGee is described as "a
SF News Day Around the Bay Mortgage crisis a boon to the pharmaceutical industry? [Curbed] Emo! The Musical [Mission Mission] 50 years for idiot who bragged about killing man outside Cafe Cocomo. Way to go, dude! [SFGate] Bastard Pope
misc Why Should Taxpayers Bailout Houseflippers? As the story of Bob and Sally attest, they shouldn't. The cute and clever film above was produced by Angry Renter. Basically, they're a bunch of apartment-renters who are pissed that while they've
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: Academy Award winner Emil Jannings (The Blue Angel, The Last Command) stars as Mephisto in F.W. Murnau's (Nosferatu) (1926). this film was considered a special effects breakthrough in its time. Check
SF News Favorite Story of 2008 So Far Boing Boing's wonderful things camp up with this beauty. Antonio Patrinostro, 43, was busted by cops last week after "ramming three cars and causing minor injuries" while driving up in Marin. It seems
Arts & Entertainment Metallica to Rock Mountain View This Saturday This one goes out to all you Gen-Xers out there. The Internet-loathing band Metallica will be at Rasputin this weekend for "Record Store Day." (Also: what?) All Shook Down claims that: Wristbands will
misc Tax Day Relief at Whole Foods But for all you anal retentive types who, like, know how to balance a checkbook and look at your receipts, Whole Foods can help alleviate some of your tax-day worry. Today they're paying
SF News Besides Barack Obama and Mayhill Fowler, Who Is Responsible for His Elitist-Remark Leak? You know how political fetishists are losing their minds this week over Barack Obama's kind of awesome but kind of classist statement at the Getty manse? You know, this: And it's not surprising
