Arts & Entertainment And Now, Let's Take Another Romp Through S.F. Neighborhood Stereotypes, Shall We? The Bold Italic makes the bold move today of giving us a mildly amusing listicle that cycles through all of the neighborhoods in San Francisco where a newcomer might find themselves looking for
Arts & Entertainment Screw Yoga, ISO Tanks Are All the Rage Again Like a scene out of Ab Fab, Bay Area residents are once again seeking the next new thing in relaxation and enlightenment, and it's actually a very old thing. Isolation tanks, also known
SF News Mother and Son Killed In Berkeley Car Crash A mother and her six-year-old son were both killed in what appears to have been a DUI accident which occurred May 18 near California Street and Allston Way near downtown Berkeley. Milanca Alicia
Arts & Entertainment Cute Newsstand/Art-Object Store Pops Up Near Sixth Street Remember that free bicycle-repair kiosk that Huckleberry Bicycles runs out of one of those newsstand kiosks at 7th and Market? Well, another adorable and hipster-ish operation has popped up down the street in
SF News Three Rowdy Passengers Fight, Strangle Cab Driver, Crash Cab In the Mission First off: Everyone was really drunk this past weekend. We're sure a number of you said and did some regrettable things. But taking the cake thus far in Memorial Day weekend rough-housing news
Arts & Entertainment Fleet Foxes Side Project, Poor Moon, Plays Brick & Mortar This Week The band Poor Moon, which comprises two band members from Fleet Foxes and local musician brothers Ian and Peter Murray of The Christmas Cards, is performing Friday, June 1 at Brick & Mortar
SF News 18-Year-Old Killed In Hunters Point An 18-year-old boy named Deon Walker was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds at 2:15 a.m. Saturday on Baldwin Court in the Hunters Point neighborhood. No arrests have been made and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Mezcal Mule At West Of Pecos The newest restaurant in the restaurant ghetto of Valencia Street is West of Pecos, and it's a southwestern affair from the family that owns Woodhouse Fish Co., the MacNivens including Tyler MacNiven, who's
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Weekend Palate Cleanser: Famous Faces In Their Screen Debuts We love a good montage! Here's one showing 36 Hollywood actors in their very first film roles, including a young Jack Nicholson in 1960s Little Shop of Horrors (the original Roger Corman film
SF News Planning Commission Says Yes to Tall Buildings!! We've made no secret here at SFist of our support for actual tall buildings in our fair city, where some dumb ordinance from the 80s created by people scared of shadows has kept
SF News New Golden Gate Bridge Visitor's Center Kinda Sucks, Says John King The big celebration this weekend also marks the unveiling of the new Golden Gate Bridge entry plaza and Bridge Pavilion, a red-painted visitor's center that's part of $6 million in improvements completed in
SF News Snorting Drugs on the Streets of Sausalito Will Get You Arrested A 22-year-old San Rafael man thought that he could claim he was snorting Ajax and get off the hook after cops found him on the street in Sausalito with a bunch of blue
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch Pretty Celebs Turn Into Ogres Here's a little optical illusion thing that might make you crosseyed by should be amusing. You're supposed to stare at the cross in the center as these unaltered photos of celebrities flip by.
Arts & Entertainment Should Castro Bars Ban Bachelorette Parties Too? Take note, gay bars, The Abbey in West Hollywood has taken a stand against the scourge of bachelorette parties, as reported over at LAist. The bar has decided enough is enough, and despite
SF News Over 100 Stolen Bicycles Recovered In Oakland [Updated] See yours? No? Well, there's a whole downloadable doc here at the Mission Police Station site where you can scan through to see if your bike is in there. Ingleside Station officers were
SF News Fidel Castro's Niece Arrives In S.F., Republicans Balk Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, was granted a visa by the U.S. government this week, causing a stir among Republicans who want to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Facebook IPO Parody Rap In the vein of Funny or Die, this new video from American Hipster is only kinda funny. But it features a fake Zuckerberg getting a piggy back ride from a fake Sean Parker,
Arts & Entertainment Justin Bieber Is Coming To Oakland! OMFG you guys! Justin Bieber just announced his tour dates for this fall AND HE'S COMING TO OAKLAND OMGOMGOMG! No seriously, though we are not enormous fans of Bieber's music, there's no escaping
SF News ABC 7 Chases Down Eliana Lopez in Venezuela Not satisfied with having only heard from her via that open letter to the Chronicle, ABC 7's Dan Noyes flew down to Caracas, Venezuela to tape an interview with Eliana Lopez, the wife
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Condom Music This was a spec ad/pitch for some sort of safe-sex organization in Sweden that was ultimately rejected. But it's such fun! Yay, condoms! [The Daily What via WOW]
SF News Murder Conviction In 2010 Shooting That Closed Suede Nightclub A 22-year-old Richmond man was convicted today of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Lawon Hall outside Club Suede on February 7, 2010. The shooting caused an uproar about nightlife safety,
SF News Another Bid for Medical Marijuana Access Rejected By Federal Court A suit brought by four disabled Orange County residents arguing that the closures of marijuana dispensaries in Lake Forest and Costa Mesa violated their rights to access to treatment under the ADA was
SF News 21-Year-Old Man Arrested in Disappearance of Morgan Hill Teen Sierra LaMar Two months after 15-year-old Sierra LaMar disappeared from near her Morgan Hill home on her way to school, investigators have finally made in a break in the case. Last night they arrested 21-year-old
SF News Pedestrian Injured at 19th and Valencia A pedestrian running across the street (allegedly against the light) at 19th and Valencia was struck by a car Saturday evening around 6 p.m., sending him ten feet in the air and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An AT&T Infomercial from 1961 We've come a long way, folks. They thought they'd come a long way in 1961 when they had things like automatic dialing phone, the first video phones, and satellite communications. But imagine having
