misc Happy Birfday, Juanita MORE! Happy birthday, Juanita! We would come visit you tonight, but our crippling agoraphobia unfurled just in time for the holiday weekend. Drats! But that doesn't mean that you, dear readers, can't visit her
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Endless Strummer": It seems like at any moment in San Francisco, a Joe Strummer tribute is taking place. Ok look! Here's one now, featuring Clash City Rockers, La Plebe, David J, Odd
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Bridge? Closed. (They're gone! Quick, put away the bongs, and bust out the vodka, straws, and mirrors!) [Examiner] -- Near, far, wherever you are, free Wi-Fi must go on. [eWEEK] -- Two
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Benefit Show Honoring Erno "Tattoo" Szabady: Local rock bands Slowfinger, DickDusters, and the Walker Brothers get together to raise money for a burial "niche" for well-known, recently deceased tattoo artist, Szabady. Show
Arts & Entertainment UPDATE: Sara Bareilles at GAMH Tonight, Virgin Megastore Tomorrow Sara Bareilles (Bar - rell - is) -- summer's hottest, as they say, new singer/songwriter -- has gained a broad fan base throughout the U.S. via her extensive touring and #1
SF News Day Around the Bay Larry Craig's police interrogation audio -- Senator Larry Craig still a lying homosexual. [Examiner, via AP] -- Tony Hall calls it quits. [Chron] -- Jackson West's last column for now. Good luck on
Arts & Entertainment Taxis, Taxi Drivers Blessed Today was the annual blessing day for taxis and taxi drivers across SF. (Wait, magic water on Yellow Cab? No! Yellow Cab should burn in the hell!) "Twenty-six drivers" have died on the
SF News Burning Man Suicide It looks like Black Rock City visitors now have an actual tragedy on their hands. One for them to eventually personalize, of course. Today, sadly, someone hanged himself to death at Burning Man.
misc Losing the Fuzz Via Gender Reassignment: John Mark Karr God bless the Bay Area Reporter. In this week's issue, Ed Walsh reports that former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect and one-time possible kiddie porn connoisseur, John Mark Karr, "had sought gender reassignment surgery,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Veronica Klaus: High-art performer and jazz songstress croons alongside her Boom Boom Boys tonight at 9 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord, 2170 Market Street (at Sanchez); $15. -- DMX Krew: Hipsters
SF News Day Around the Bay -- John O'Neill, the man killed last week by an N-Judah a J-Church train, died while saving his pup, Cappy. If there is a heaven, O'Neill is up there. [Chron] -- Spare the
SF News Karl Rove's Car (Barely) Vandalized Karl Rove's (admittedly awesome) Jaguar gets "victimized" with plastic wrap, fake eagles, and "I love Obama" stickers while parked on a private driveway next to the White House's West Wing. Or it's all
Arts & Entertainment SFist Leanne on the Televisions Tonight! Although she won't be discussing her fine found images, Leanne will be featured on CBS 5 tonight during the six o'clock news, talking about SF's current rental market. Which we hear kind of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spinach Recalled. Again. Damnit. We love us some pre-washed spinach -- slightly wilted with bacon and cheese, especially. So this pains us: Fresh off the heels of e. coli infusions, bags of spinach are now being
SF News Get a Job Pad those resumes, folks, because these large, North Face-wearing, faceless corporations want your souls: -- Front End Lead [Cake Financial] -- Senior Graphic Designer, Web [Fox] -- VP Sales & Marketing [Fuzzi Bunz]
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers: Not only does this "Basie-esque" outfit perform lush jazz and blues tunes, but the chanteuse is pretty funny in between songs. Check them out
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Gross, sticky, exhausting, hot weather begins. But! Ride public transit for free tomorrow during a Spare the Air Day. [Examiner, SFMTA] -- Gang members, extortion, and THC.. [Bluoz] -- 12-year-old Jose Trujillo
Arts & Entertainment Luke Skywalker's Original Lightsaber at Oakland Airport, Ready for Destruction Well, it won't be destroyed so much as it will be sent into space. And then vaporized, or zapped, or something. Anyway, someone sporting a Chewbacca outfit handed over Luke Skywalker's original lightsaber
SF News Like Mika, Sen. Larry Craig Also Defies Labels "I am not gay. I never have been gay," lisped Republican Idaho Senator Larry Craig, with his beard wife, Suzanne, by his side. After getting arrested by an undercover office in a Minneapolis
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Hold Yr Horses": Vowel dismissive DJ Rchrd Oh?! spins electro, no wave, '80s, '90s, hip hop, disco punk, synth pop, and more tonight at this TL dive bar's gipster club night. Music
SF News Gucci Storefront Afternoon Robbery Some very sad news. According to Bay City News, "[t]wo men among the midday shoppers" smashed the storefront window at Gucci (Union Square) and stole an undisclosed amount of jewelry. No one
SF News Burning Man's Premature Ignition During last night's total lunar eclipse in Black Rock City, Nevada, someone set the Burning Man figure ablaze prematurely. Chortle. Hey, maybe that was their art? Their statement? Their message? Or their coke
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Total lunar eclipse starts tonight. [NASA] -- GNS doesn't care for the new progressive candidate, Quintin Mecke. But after looking him over, we want to ask Quintin out for some coffee, maybe
misc 18th Street/Guerrero Fire Hydrant/Geyser Pics Some choice pictures of the fire hydrant at 18th Street and Guerrero that popped a little before 4 p.m. this afternoon. Word on Guerrero was that someone's car brakes gave out, causing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Barefoot Nellies: "The Bay Area's finest all-gal bluegrass band" headline at one of the Bay Area's finest bars, Amnesia, starting at 8:30 p.m., 853 Valencia; free. -- Killer of Sheep
