misc SF Sketchfest Ticket Giveaway: Brent Weinbach in Boomtime He's cute, 1/3 Jewish, 1/3 Filipino, and 1/3 Los Angelian. What more do you need? Oh yes, he also brings on the funny. Big time. And tomorrow night he will
misc Livermore Cockfighting Ring Busted It nice to see that the farming and ranching traditions of Livermore's past live on to this day. You see, seven men were nabbed this past Sunday in connection with a cockfighting ring
misc Photo du Jour 36 (Check out the actual chin scratching occurring, lower right, at an intelligentsia event. Har!) Here we have novelist Dave Eggers at the National Book Critics Circle nominee announcement at City Lights. We're in
SF News Tiger Attack 911 Tapes Released At the bargain price of just $35 dollars down at City Hall this morning, authorities released the emergency 911 tapes of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attacks. The attacks, if you don't remember,
misc San Francisco On High Wind Alert, Claims SFAlert We received three urgent text messages since 9 a.m. this morning from SFAlert, claiming that "the National Weather Service reports/updated a High Wind Watch for the San Francisco area." Strange. We
SF News Behold the MacBook Air! OMG! It's the Nicole Ritchie of laptops! (Ritchie before she got fat and pregnant, that is.) It seems that the new MacBook Air, just unveiled a few hours ago, features multi-touch ability on
SF News Your Macworld Live-Blog Links Good Lord, what blog isn't over at Moscone Center today, getting moist over Steve Jobs? (We would be there, too, but it's positively glacial outside today. Burr.) Anyway, for those of you who
SF News Sick Zebra Dies at SF Zoo At about 7:10 a..m. this morning, Lisa, a San Francisco Zoo zebra died. Named Lisa, the zebra was born in February of 1998. (An Aquarian? An even greater loss.) According to
misc Early Morning Bonfire Revelers at Ocean Beach Find Dead Body A group of people having a bonfire at Ocean Beach early this morning--in this weather?--came across the body of a dead man, which they found above the high tide line across from
SF News Vandalism Report Card: Recurring Neo-Nazi Flair on Stillman Well, this was unnerving. We came across these, um, public art pieces while walking down Stillman Street. Shot earlier this evening, the paint was fresh yet gooey. If we had to guess, one
misc Day Around the Bay ConJewMu set to open on June 8, 2008. [Curbed] Dinosaurs were teenage sluts, did what whatever they wanted, and you're just jealous. Whatever, you don't know them. [SFGate] The croc still lives on.
misc No Pants 2k8: the Frivolity, the Ass Shots, the Video [NSFW] Just prior to last week's No Pants Subway Ride (AKA: No Pants 2k8), a few improv-appreciating activists went on a mooning spree of the blue kind. The nerve! But don't take our word
misc Sugar Inc. Gets Political With CitizenSugar San Francisco-based Sugar Inc. (of popsugar.com, among others) has a brand spanking new site, one that will take care of all of your national political news needs: CitizenSugar. Launched last week, CS
misc Photo du Jour 35 An ancient (and, of course, alleged) shot of our favorite graduate of Standford Business School cum First Lady of San Francisco necking with Dr. Doug Ross, circa 2002. The two of them, it
misc SFist Tonight The Sound of Young America Live: Live public radio featuring Jesse Thorn, Morgan Murphy, Merlin Mann, Danny Hoch, and Bucky Sinister perform le stand-up hot. Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) provides the music.
misc Help the Budding Memorial at Capp/24th Street Bloom Here we see the start of a memorial at Capp and 24th Streets, right on the spot where a 19-year-old male lost his life in a double shooting last night. Are those bullet
SF News Body Found On Mt. Tam, Veronica Ruiz? A body turned up on Mount Tamalpais this Sunday afternoon, and authorities (as well as your favorite rabid media outlets) are wondering: is this the body of distraught Mill Valley resident and IRS
misc SFist Blotter On Saturday night, just outside the gymnasium at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, anti-violence activist Terrell "Terray" Rogers was shot and killed at halftime during his daughter's basketball game. According to the Gate:At
misc SFist Tonight Information Society: Remember these guys? No? How about now? They perform along with Tell Tale Heartbreakers, Spellbound (a Siouxsie tribute band), DJs Decay (Death Guild), Shindog (New Wave City), and Callum McGowan (Retrowerks)
misc Photo du Jour 34 As hard as it is for us, we're keeping our mouth shut on this one—because, wow—so: discuss. Image credit goes to Flickr's 37 °C.
misc Week Around the -Ists Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye. Shanghaiist was shocked to
misc SFist Tonight Whitest Kids U Know: In addition to winning the Best Sketch award at the 2006 Aspen Comedy Festival and being crowned one of "10 Comics to Watch" by Variety, these guys are, apparently,
misc Photo du Jour 33 Screw landfill reduction. Pink Plastic Bag Mafia forever! Photo credit: NY Times (via Inhabitat)
misc An Ode to Jack London While mincing down Third Street to AT&T Park to catch some tasty waves, we came across the most darling bouquet of fresh flowers, above, lying on the sidewalk. While trying to
