SF News Bernie Ward Officially Fired Former Catholic priest and KGO 810 AM host Bernie Ward was finally fired, ending his working relationship with the station. This stems from last year's federal indictment of child pornography charges that befell
misc Day Around the Bay Tiger attack victims "yelled" at Tatiana. [SFGate] SF Main Library re-opened its first floor. We had no idea that is was closed. Still, yay! [CCBlog] Evacuating together. Aw. (Wasn't this an SNL commercial
SF News Barack Obama Kicks It in the Mission District Today The son of a single-parent home himself, Obama chatted about his plan "to provide working families with tax cuts--to reduce the costs of child care and dependent care;" rhetoric about getting behind the
misc SFist Tonight RiffTrax Live at the Castro - Plan 9 from Outer Space: MST3K's Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett provide live commentary on Ed Wood's cult classic, the abominable and beloved Plan
misc From the SFist Inbox: Geary...? It wouldn't be SFist if it weren't rife with errors and bipolarity-tinged posts. But we got word of an especially egregious error we made today--something, we're ashamed to admit, we never knew. From
misc Fun Filipino Factoid About Frederick N. Funston Dispatches from TJICistan points out a delightful fact about General Frederick N. Funston--the apparently sensitivity-free Medal of Honor recipient known for his manliness in both the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, and
misc Pretty Sneaky, Starbucks! This tickles us ever so. Last year after 4,000+ folks in the Richmond held their breath until their faces turned blue, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban the popular
misc Photo du Jour 38 It's Devo playing some of that good time rock 'n' roll music at Macworld. You show 'em how it's done, gramps! Image credit: Steve Rhodes
misc Scenes From a Macworld Expo Jonathan Winston of Bikescape sends us this fury-inducing image he caught while wandering the catacombs of the Macworld Expo. It's a "baseball cap mounted iPhone with a handy plastic magnifying strip. Just right
misc Tiger Attack Update: You're Either In or Out In the battle to see who's going down and who gets what and how much in court, new "evidence" suggests that possibly, maybe, perhaps Tatiana the tiger was provoked. It seems that said
misc Murderous N Judah Streecar Drags, Kills Pedestrian N Judah Chronicles' Greg Dewar will not be pleased. And neither will the rest of you. Just weeks after colliding with a 90-year-old woman on the corner of 9th Avenue and Irving Street,
misc Day Around the Bay Best SF locales for a hot beef injection. [Gridskipper] "'Batter is bullshit,'" says the Waffle Truck. [CHOW] Possible Racist comments, Department of Building Inspection's Gus Fallay busted for bribery, and Will Harper.
misc Photo du Jour 37 By now our admiration for all things Vanessa Getty is well-known. Championed by the masses, we would hope. Take, for example, the above rendering SFist reader Alissa sent to us, which uses Nessie's
misc SFist Tonight Paul Auster: Sure, metafictionist Auster wrote the screenplays to Smoke, Blue in the Face, and The Brooklyn Follies, but he also penned the phenomenal collection of PoMo detective-fiction tales, The New York Trilogy,
misc Update: Hazardous Material Spill Prompts Shelter In Place Warning Poor BVHP. Can't they get a break? It seems that today's hazardous material spill snafu was due to a leaking drum at a Bayview-Hunter's Point city corporation yard. The spill "prompted a shelter
misc Recurring Neo-Nazi Flair on Stillman Street Disappears. Sort of. Save for the tagging still remaining on Obscura Digital's door--leave them be, racialists!--the Neo-Nazi public art has all but disappeared. Sigh, we hardly knew ye. The culprit of this week's spray paint
misc KTVU Doesn't Know Who Steve Jobs Is, Says TV Screen In addition to unveiling the MacBook Air, le Jobs also premiered a new look. Or not. Seamus over at Rangelife picked up on this minor broadcasting muddle over at KTVU. Dennis Richmond will
SF News Alert: Possible Hazardous Material Spill Gross. And quite possibly very scary. We'll update as soon as we know more. [Sourcee: CBS 5]
misc Larkspur Students Help Out With Oil Spill Cleanup Via Makeovers Oh, those crazy hot-tubbing, wife-swapping, Al Qaeda-loving Marin County folk. It seems that now they're scalping their own children in an effort to tidy up the remaining Cosco Busan oil spill disaster. Students
misc A Steve Job in 60 Seconds Easy and compact, check out Apple CEO Steve Jobs' 90-minute keynote speech in 60 seconds. It's like the Golden Globes, only not as pretty or deadly important. And as you all know--waking up
SF News Mt. Tam Body Confirmed as Veronica Ruiz Marin County coroner's office identified that the body found atop Mt. Tam this past Sunday afternoon as female and, yes, Veronica Ruiz. It seems that she "the Internal Revenue Service agent's service weapon
misc Day Around the Bay Tiger attack emergency 911 calls released. [ABC 7] Totally! Macworld Expo's banners blow. Hard. And not in a good way. [Curbed] MAPI is hard. [eWEEK] "Flesh-eating, sexually-transmitted bacteria" hitting SF? Oh dear. [io9]
SF News R.I.P.: Brad Renfro Troubled star of one of our (well, you editor's) favorite movies, Apt Pupil, died today. According to the godly folks over at TMZ: The 25-year-old actor was found dead at his Los Angeles
misc SFist Blotter (Tuesday Edition) You get a very special blotter today. Alas. Carrying on San Francisco's lightning-hot crime wave, a drive-by shooting occurred on the Hayes Valley/Lower Haight nexus last night. At around 6:40 p.
misc SFist Tonight Rickie Lee Jones: Easy listening-ish jazz and pop/R&B songstress ("Chuck E.'s in Love") sings tonight at 8:30 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord; $30. SOLD OUT The Assassination
