SF News Day Around The Bay -- Berkeley Kite Festival flies up to the highest height. [Oakland Tribune] -- Another deadly weekend in the Bay Area. [Chron, Oakland Tribune] -- Giants lose; Bonds' bat breaks. [Chron] -- Eviction notices
misc Week Around The -ists Over at Chicagoist, readers weighed in with their favorite memories of a local concert venue celebrating its silver anniversary and railed about the passage of a statewide smoking ban for Illinois. The former
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars: This winner of the SF Fringe Festival has famous writers visiting a playwright on the precipice of completing his final work. Film starts at 7
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Guns-for-gift card trade today at Civic Center. [Chron] -- How will Giants' owner Peter Magowan celebrate the moment Bonds makes the hit? [Examiner] -- Rebecca Schaeffer's stalker cum murderer stabbed 11 times
misc SF's Garbage Like LA's? No! While others are pushing their dust-covered garbage cans back out onto the curb east of One Rincon, those of us west of Balboa Park are having our hands slapped for keeping ours out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Given" (featuring artists Darwin Bell, Bret Hansen, and Danyol): Winner of SF Weekly’s "Best Polaroid Artist" award, Darwin Bell, makes clever, energetic pieces from the text he finds around the city,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Ed Jew preliminary. [Chron] -- SFPD station receives a car holding a dead body inside. [Examiner] -- Bring out your garbage cans! [KRON4] -- UN Chief Ban Ki-moon comes to SF. [Washington
SF News Aquafina: Fresh From Your Tap Reuters reports that PepsiCo Inc. will now actually inform consumers what they’re shelling out their health-conscious and ever-hydrated bucks for -- bottled tap water, or, according to PepsiCo, stuff from a "Public
Arts & Entertainment Where Are You, Strips of Joy? Emergency: are these caffeinated strips available anywhere in SF? We're dying of sluggishness without them. The black-sheep Safeway on King and Fourth Streets used to carry them, but -- poof! -- now they're
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Death of a Party: Oakland art-rockers perform tonight in the Mission along with Social Studies and Master/Slave. Show starts at 10 p.m. at the Knockout, 3223 Mission; cover charge is
misc Ban Ki-moon and His Gays The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, gave a speech to the World Affairs Council at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel yesterday, but was upstaged by a few gay (or bear) activists.
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misc iDating + iPhone = iIntercourse For $25 a pop, you can attend iPhone-only iDating marketing schemes parties. "The iPhone makes speed dating more user-friendly, because you're rejecting a photo, not a real person," says iDating party thrower Niko
SF News Day Around the Bay \ -- Poll: Should MUNI's 15-Third line rise from the dead? (Hint: Yes) [Examiner] -- San Francisco sheriff deputies accuse Sheriff Michael Hennessey of gender discrimination. [BAR] -- Father won't be charged with the
misc SF Gays Are Boring: Meth Use Down, HIV Rates Stable Wired News just reported about the San Francisco Department of Public Health's finding that speed use among SF gays and SF-native Stephanie Tanner has decreased over the past three years. (Is there some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Blur, "Transgender & Gender Variant" Support Group: Pretty much what it says right there; a good place to go for 18- to 25-year-olds looking for support or just to chat with other
SF News Attacks in the Marina District We called Michela Alioto-Pier's office, and they confirmed the report of the attacks. (If you want to contact her office for more information, call: 415-554-7752.) Much of the neighborhood patrol, we hear, has
Arts & Entertainment SFFW Doesn't Want Bloggers' Coverage Beloved Jennine from The Coveted writes here about how this year’s San Francisco Fashion Week denied her and other bloggers precious invitations to cover the event or (worse) any of its VIP,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Feinstein endorses Clinton, which could very well be the start of one totally bitchin' clique. [Chron, Examiner] -- MUNI reform! MUNI reform! [FCJ] -- SF Weekly's Katy St. Clair (AKA Bouncer) talks
Arts & Entertainment Locals Help Rescue Beached Limo Potrero Hill, Connecticut and 18th Street/Image credit: Tien Chiu While not nearly as worrisome as this type of beached creature, we came across this image that helps prove why limousines and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Cribs, Sean Na Na, and the Hugs: popscene presents a surprisingly not-so-greasy group of Britrockers, the Cribs, performing along with Sean Na Na and the Hugs. (Aw.) Show starts at 8
Arts & Entertainment Crazy Old-Lady Fashions This woman of-a-certain-age sporting a colander as a hat (why not?) came to us from reader Josh. At first we were like, whatever, but it seems he snapped this while taking the bus
SF News Booze Knocks Out Some of Your Favorite Sites Chortle. Although this sucks for 365 Main (especially with an angry nerd mob at its door to compound its problem yesterday) and, sure, this is a dream many of us have fantasized about
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Power outages enrage your editor, city dwellers. [Chron, KGO] -- Bang, bang: SF Supes okay with handguns. [KPIX] -- Aging journalism fetishist and noted lover of the way old books smell, Frances
Arts & Entertainment Real People: Jeremy's Tips Its Hat to You During a necessary walk to cool off our fragile emotional state after our third outage-induced computer shutdown, we were flummoxed -- that's right, flummoxed!! -- to find the windows of Jeremy’s (wonky
