SF News BREAKING: Crane Topples While Working On New Bay Bridge Span A construction crane that was being used to remove temporary supports under the newly self-supporting, new eastern span of the Bay Bridge toppled this morning. News crews are freaking out over the news,
SF News Nevius Returns To The 'Loin To Find Feel-Good Miracle Ever a fan of gentrification and feel-good stories about the drug-addicted homeless, Chuck Nevius files a column today about a former "hellhole" at 850 Geary that was recently bought by a new owner
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Take Me Back' by In the Valley Below In the Valley Below is a duo based in Echo Park, in L.A., and consists of Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob. We like this dreamy tune, "Take Me Back," which reminds us
Arts & Entertainment Borrowed Kaftan Costs Contestant A Place On 'RuPaul's Drag Race' [Warning: SPOILERS] If you haven't been watching RuPaul's Drag Race, we have some sad news for you. (And if you still have it on your DVR, we apologize right now for the spoiler, but you
SF News Cool New Residential Tower By Skidmore Owings & Merrill Selected For Transbay District Hooray for tall buildings! A new residential tower of 400 feet (about 42 stories) designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been selected to be developed on one of the Transit Center
SF News AT&T Park Concession Workers Upset That They Aren't Cashing In on Giants' Success A friend of SFist just alerted us to this flyer, which was passed around at Giants FanFest on February 9th. It's sponsored by Local 2, the hospitality union, and it points out that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Leonardo Shills for Jim Beam, 'Lost In Translation' Style Just like Bill Murray did, fictionally, for Suntory whiskey in Lost in Translation and in the grand tradition of Hollywood stars cashing in on such things overseas, like Paul Newman in this hilarious
SF News One Dead When Speedboat Collides With Sausalito Ferry A crash on Saturday afternoon between a small pleasure craft and a Golden Gate Ferry departing Sausalito for San Francisco cost a man his life. The man was piloting the speedboat that collided
SF News Gay Porn Parody Mocks S.F.'s Nudity Ban We all should have seen this coming, but San Francisco gay porn concern NakedSword [very NSFW] is taking on the nudity ban and Supervisor Scott Wiener, in a new porn parody called The
Arts & Entertainment SFMOMA Reveals More Expansion Renderings Just heads up that, despite their vehement claims that they're truly not closing for three years, SFMOMA is really kinda closing the museum as we know it on June 2 in order to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Nunca' by Trails And Ways Oakland indie quartet Trails & Ways was featured this week among the SF Bay Guardian's 'Bands on the Rise,' and we've got to say we love them so far. They were much
SF News Peninsula Gun Lover Arrested for Making Threats on Senator Leland Yee's Life Everett Basham, 45, a noted Silicon Valley engineer who just got a personal endorsement from Steve Wozniak, was arrested Tuesday for making assassination threats on the life of Senator Leland Yee. Yee, meanwhile,
SF News Web Designer Strikes Back at Fitness SF, Hijacks Their Site [Update] Local gym outfit Fitness SF - which last year switched from being a Gold's Gym franchisee due to a certain 2010 donation to a conservative, anti-gay cause made by the parent company's CEO
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dude Who's In Love With Inflatable Pool Toys Because no matter how lonely you might feel today, you are not as bad off as this guy. Meet Mark. He's 20. For six years he's been "in a relationship" with 15 inflatable
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, The Valentine's Day Pillow Fight Is Happening Photo: Bob Horowitz Yes, kids, the annual tradition of Valentine's Day pillow-fighting at Justin Herman Plaza and clogging all the storm drains in a 500-yard radius with feathers is happening, once again, tonight
Arts & Entertainment Five Things Single People Should NOT Do On Valentine's Day, Ever If you are currently in a relationship, kudos to you, and you may stop reading now. Seriously. Get out. Okay, now that it's just us single ladies and dudes, allow us just to
SF News Overheard On The 22-Fillmore: Valentine's Edition "Yeah, you better be ready to do that thang when I get home... Mmm, you ready for your Valentine? Yeah I'm on the 22 right now but you bet I'm gonna be riding
SF News Firefighter May Have Worsened Vapor Leak At Chevron Refinery It looks like a firefighter's sharp-pointed pike tool punctured an already leaking oil pipe during last August's accident and fire at the Richmond Chevron plant, causing the subsequent blaze and toxic vapor leak
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sean Spees Skateboards Down Twin Peaks Don't try this at home kids! Seriously. Not everyone can be signed to skateboard contracts, and you may not live to see 18. But it's real pretty to watch! [SF Citizen]
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard to the
Arts & Entertainment Gay Comedian Guy Branum Goes Off On The 49ers Oh, this is funny. On the TV show hosted by San Francisco comedian W. Kamau Bell, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, staff writer, longtime 49er fan, and gay comedian Guy Branum is
SF News Women To Dance, Demand End To Violence On V-Day At City Hall, Dolores Park Eve Ensler, the playwright who brought us The Vagina Monologues, has for over a decade headed up an organization called V-Day with the aim of ending violence against women worldwide. This year, for
SF News Kink.com CEO Arrested For Coke Possession, Investigated for Firearms [Update] Just a couple weeks after the documentary James Franco produced about Kink.com premiered at Sundance, Kink CEO Peter Acworth was arrested on the premises of the Armory for possession of cocaine. What
SF News Berkeley Law Student Pleads Not Guilty To Bird Beheading As we've reported earlier, two guys who attend Boalt Hall law school at Berkeley were caught on security cameras at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, likely during a bender, chasing a bird that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The New Postal Service Track Yes, friends, many have hoped against hope for the last decade that it would happen, and it has. The Postal Service has reunited. Death Cab's Ben Gibbard and collaborator Jimmy Tamborello, a.k.
