SF News Double Decker Action: OK. This Is It. We Swear. So, it appears like the new stacked buses are on the road as of today. Wait, scratch that -- the new stacked bus is on the road today. According to the Examiner, "with
SF News Gavin Newsom: Green, Green, Green, Green. Green. According to CBS 5's Green Beat, today the Gav proposed new building codes that will hopefully win us the title of nation's greenest skyline. Ever. In the world. Which, of course, is a
SF News Tina Turner's Abuser/Rapist/Svengali Dies at 76 Well, holy hell. Ike Turner died today. The rock et roll pioneer and hardcore curmudgeon died today in San Marcos, San Diego. He made a name for himself after discovering a young Tina
SF News How Dry I Am: Three Bay Area Cities Some of the Most Shitfaced Congratulations, Oakland (29th), Fremont (32nd), and San Francisco (34th) -- you made it on the top 50 drunkest cities in the U.S. list. At least, according to the December issue of the
Arts & Entertainment The Bold Hat Makers' Swell Sample Sale Former SFist editor Jackson West boasts that at the "last sample sale [he] came away with five hats for forty bucks." You don't get better testimonial than that, folks. Also, heads just look
SF News SFHomeless Yahoo Group Oh, this looks like fun. While hogging the Internet today, we came across this Yahoo group for the homeless, which bills itself as a "unique, independent, community based support group, moderated by anonymous
misc Update: Please Excuse Our Dust Have some of you tried commenting on one of our many fine posts today? Only to find yourselves unable to do so? With a cold, sterile error message being your only solace? Well,
SF News Last Night's Harvey Milk Club Civility No one pulled out a bitch's clump of hair. That's the big news. Oh, and some other stuff happened, ahem: The Club's membership voted tonight on the February 2008 ballot and the June
SF News Fortysomething Dies While Street Racing A grown man died during a street race in Oakland last night at around 9:30 p.m.. The unidentified 42-year-old -- that's right, 42-year-old -- was racing his 2005 Nissan "west on
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Watch out, SF. Last night's armed robbery spree shakes up, shakes down residents. [SF Crime, SFGate] -- Ding, ding: bike rally at City Hall. [Left in SF] -- Your Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Arts & Entertainment Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home We love Gridskipper's edge as of late. Take, for example, today's revealing top 8 San Francisco bars with the "crappiest crowds." Rankings 8, 7, 6, and 5 are Beauty Bar, Medjool, Swig, and
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 11 For reasons better left unsaid (and in the name of tasteful censorship), we here at SFist are enjoying ABC 7 Dan Noyes' new publicity shot. Very much so. (Even better than the old
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra)
Arts & Entertainment What Is Alex Trebek Had a Mild Heart Attack? Sure, it's not SF-related but it's world-related as far as we're concerned. Scratch that, it's soul-related. Alex Trebek, 67, suffered a mild heart attack last night. But! He's in OK condition. The attack
SF News Don't Count Gary Cloutier Out Just Yet But seriously, folks: the two-term city councilman smells treachery afoot. And with good reason. According to the Chronicle, it seems that "the vote count included at least one discarded ballot and improper supervision
SF News Migden's Gal Pal Is Also Bonds’ Shark Carole Migden's girlfriend (OK then, "wife?" We refuse to use the sterile and patronizing "partner") Cris Arguedas, it seems, now must deal with yet another San Francisco diva: Barry Bonds. According to the
SF News New Kabuki Theater to Save Planet Earth, Or Something Like That Japantown's new Sundance Cinemas Kabuki will offer the more discerning moviegoer (i.e.. people who self-consciously laugh out loud during Shakespeare comedies) something, well, more. Curbed SF has the full rundown on the
SF News Stolen Saturn Kills Two During a hot pursuit, two men in a stolen Saturn -- a Saturn?! -- went through a red light, crashing into another car and killing two men inside the latter automobile. It seems
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Smell that? It's the stench of awards season underway. And the San Francisco Film Critics Circle nominees are... [Hartlaub, Maximum Strength Mick] -- Rincon Hill? Is fit to be tied. [Curbed] --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Red Meat: God bless the Rickshaw Stop. And if (s)he existed, he totally would. Why? For many reasons. Take, for example, the fact that they often have extraordinary talent gracing the
SF News Tomorrow. Milk Club Showdown. Be There. Ever since that childish display of local politicking, all sides have been more or less civil and relatively respectful of one another. It goes without say how disappointed we are in both sides.
Arts & Entertainment Painting, Exercising, and Blending Drinks With a <del>Stripper</del> Burlesque Dancer And then things like this make us fall in like-like with Los Angeles all over again. This brings up a good point, what happened to intriguing public access shows in San Francisco? Although
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 10 This kind of image makes us fall in like-like with San Francisco all over again. Someone just ripped out an article about the passing of Robert Goulet, and taped it up to a
SF News SFist Blotter -- Really? At Union Square? Where we sit and enjoy our Border's-bought cream cheese stuffed pretzel? Let's back up a bit: according to SF Crime, a 16-year-old boy was shot while kicking it
SF News Monster Fall at Monster Park Egads. A man fell to his death yesterday at Monster Park after falling 20 feet from the upper concourse area of the stadium to the concrete mezzanine below. Scary. And sad. According to
