misc RIP: Rice-A-Roni Inventor Guy Perhaps in the traumatic stage of denial, we forgot to bring you some old obit news. Vincent M. DeDomenico, who co-created Rice-A-Roni along with his brothers, died last Thursday at 92. We tasted
SF News Sorry, Crackheads: Weeklong Crackdown in the TL Wondering why you can't get your dealer on the phone? Well, last week 103 (suspected) drug retailers were pinched in a good old-fashion crackdown in the TL and Mission/Market Street areas. Similar
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pogues: Like most music-taste education, our college roommate got us listening to these guys. And they're one of the few acts that we still dig after all these Britney-influenced years. Kudos,
SF News More Yes-On-A Merriment Harvey Milk Club President Brian Basinger addressed the crowd at today's rally in the Castro. Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Senator Carole Migden, and Supervisor Bevan Dufty also spoke out to support Prop A and
SF News Sweltering Bullshit Heat Looks like we might be stuck/blessed with this weather for most of the week.
SF News Rasheeda Would Like Better Books: SF Votes Youth 2007 Rasheeda, you can't watch HSM2 on a new textbook, now can you? But we hear you -- or hopefully, your SF Mayoral candidates do. A local YouChoose, if you will, SFGTV, Larkin St.
Arts & Entertainment Inside the SFPD Today's feature: a delightful Santos/'Twas the Night Before X-Mas parody. But the entire site seems to be coming along swimmingly, and we invite you to read and comment at your leisure. Note
SF News Non-Football Related Argument Ends in Shooting and More After yesterday's Raiders game in the McAfee Coliseum parking lot, a man was shot in the leg and groin (ye-ouch!) after a non-football related argument," according Alameda County Sheriff Dept. Sgt. J.D.
SF News SoCal Ablaze Whether you like it or not, SoCal is a part of us. So, this one is going out to our lower half: stay safe, San Diego and SoCal. Fueled by disgusting, freakishly warm
SF News Yes on A, No on H: Kicky Gap/Don Fisher Protesters Alwaysupndown has loads of choice images from last Wednesday's Yes-on-A, No-on-H protest at the Market Street Gap store. At first we thought it was over Gap's continuing efforts to shove horizontal pastels down
misc Week Around the -Ists Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Gay Geeks Saturday Night Social: "Fucking faggots," you scream? Ah, correction: "fucking nerd faggots," is more like it. Queers (not just Marys) who like to "geek out on the arts or science,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Plumpjack caves in to Lights Out SF. [CurbedSF] -- Oh snap! "...if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown
Arts & Entertainment Craig Newmark Visits Stephen Colbert Behold: Craig Newmark sits in on The Colbert Report. (We had to find out about it on Laughing Squid. Always pay your cable bill, kids!) Read more about it here and here.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Chapel/Chapter: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's modern, intricate dance revue. Starts at 8 p.m. at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum; $38-50. -- Quintin Mecke for Mayor
Arts & Entertainment Photo of a Yellow Corvette at Laguna Seca = $1,000 This is strange. And gimmicky. But, hey, it's $1,000! Here's the deal: Jalopnik is offering $1,000 to someone who snaps up and sends them an image of a yellow 2009 Corvette
Arts & Entertainment Village Voice Media Rulers Larkin and Lacey Arrested Oh my. According to the Snitch: Two executives of Village Voice Media, the parent company of the SF Weekly, were arrested in Arizona last night in connection with a story they wrote for
Arts & Entertainment Aliza Cohen's <em>Bundles & Passages</em> After living in Shanghai for several years, 27-year-old Bay Area artist Aliza Cohen returns home to boast her new series, Bundles & Passages, featuring work that reflects her feelings of time-honored culture shock
SF News Sany San Slaying Suspect Commits Suicide Luis Alvarado, 18 -- one of the two men charged with kidnapping, raping, and stabbing to death Sany San -- committed suicide in his jail cell using a bedsheet today. San, a Cambodian
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Oh noes: local homes sales are in the crapper. [SJ Merc] -- Sex assault charged against Sacto Kings player Justin Williams. [CBS5] -- More lighted landmarks to shutdown during Saturday's Lights Out
misc Twin Peaks Properties The good folks over the Curbed SF have -- at last! -- posted on the conservative genius (an oxymoron, we know) that is Twin Peaks Properties in Noe Valley on 24th Street. (Apparently,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me State Attorney General Jerry Edmund G. Brown gave the OK for SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera to sue Ed Jew today. A civil lawsuit like this would permanently remove Jew from office. What's
SF News No Halloween in the Castro PSAs OK, like, there is so going to be a party in the Castro. There just is. We all know that, right? Right. The crafty anti-Halloween PR campaign out there right now exists merely
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Interiors (1978): Woody Allen's tribute to Ingmar Bergman seems to have gotten lost in the fold over time (it came out between Annie Hall and Manhattan), but it really is one of
