SF News Eclipse Blamed for Car Accident That Injures Mother and Daughter Yesterday's spectacular solar eclipse has already been blamed for at least one car accident involving a 26-year-old female driver who claims to have been blinded by the sun just at the tail end
SF News Fire Breaks Out At Marijuana Grow House In Oakland A three-alarm blaze occurred early Saturday morning, around 4 a.m., in a small industrial space at 3050 Broadway on Oakland's Auto Row. Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting 20 feet in the
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How to Go to the Park We're now, finally, wrapping up National Etiquette Week at SFist with this our sixth and final (we promise) installment. Much like bicycling, park-going is a topic that always tends to get San Franciscans
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Zooey & Siri, Continued By now you've all probably seen that grating ad in which the insufferably content (and quirky!) Zooey Deschanel spends a rainy day at home talking to her iPhone and dancing around the house.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Spotted at 4th & Market, John Wayne Gacy No joke. Photo by Joey DeRuy
SF News Obama Will Be Treating California Like An ATM This Year, Just FYI After running back to Washington with a sack of cash weighing in at about $15 million from that party at George Clooney's house, President Obama is scheduled to come to the Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Endgame' and 'Play' at A.C.T. We'll begin by admitting something that will likely color the tone of this review, and should affect how seriously you want to take our opinion: We love Samuel Beckett. The late, great playwright
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How to Conduct Yourself Like a Human in a Bar or Club As you've hopefully caught on, it's National Etiquette Week here at SFist, and so far it's prompted lively discussions about children in restaurants, backpacks on BART, and where and how jaywalking might be
SF News Guess What's Also Turning 75! The Mint. This month, in addition to the big celebrations for the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge happening over Memorial Day, it's also the anniversary of the opening of what was once known
SF News Man Flings Chihuahua Off Motel Balcony In Livermore, SWAT Team Called A 39-year-old Livermore man caused a stir at Motel 6 over there early Wednesday after another motel guest saw him hurl a tiny chihuahua off a second-story balcony. The dog landed on its
Arts & Entertainment One More Guerrilla Muni Ad: Du Beers So, here's another effort by the Muni Adbusters, tweeted by a friend of a commenter (which is kind of better than a friend of a friend). This one would suggest that the culprit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fake Ad Spotted on Muni: Fartine O, our city's underemployed youth sure do get creative! Just yesterday we got a report of this funny/offensive fake ad for, ahem, a new kind of Tums that was spotted on a
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: MENSA Toddler Really Needs to Poop Hilarious: This genius child, 3-year-old Emmy-Lynn Retger, who became the youngest person ever to be admitted into MENSA for scoring 135 on an IQ test, was on the Today Show yesterday with her
Arts & Entertainment Who Put Up This Dirty Ad On Muni?! Someone posted this ad on Muni, and while we sort of chuckled at it we have to say it might offend the more PC and sensitive among us not to mention those of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kreayshawn Joins 2 Chainz on 'Murder' Here's a musical update on the whereabouts of Oakland girl Kreayshawn. She brings some of her white-girl rapping to Atlanta-based rapper 2 Chainz new track "Murder," which maybe kind of glorifies murder? Well,
SF News Chris Daly's Face Still Being Used To Frighten Voters Though he hasn't held elected office in well over a year, Chris Daly's mug is still being co-opted by more conservative candidates to represent the "zany ideas" and "guerrilla tactics" of S.F.
Arts & Entertainment There Have Always Been A**Holes In S.F. Who Don't Want Anything Pretty to Be Built Architecture critic John King brings us a delightful look back at the vocal opposition to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge a class of people who should be grouped amongst the greatest
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How to Behave on Public Transportation To kick off National Etiquette Week here at SFist, we're going to tackle a topic which we're sure is close to many of your hearts: The unspoken rules for entering, exiting, and riding
SF News Occupy The Farm Cleared Out By UC Police One Last Time For the second time in a week, UC police donned riot gear and descended on the Gill Tract in Albany in the early morning hours today to clear out the remaining, stalwart Occupy
SF News Twitter May Be Getting Their Own Bus Line First Twitter gets a big tax break, now the MTA is going to be considering adding a new express bus route to Muni's roster at their meeting tomorrow: the 83X. The line is
Arts & Entertainment Video: Amazing Nebraska Woman's Crazy Homophobic Rant The most amazing video you'll see all day, hands down, will definitely be this footage of a woman named Jane Swoboda getting up to speak at a city council meeting this week in
SF News Site At 15th & Dolores Was Once A Church Likely Burned Down By Aryan Brotherhood You know that house at the corner of 15th and Dolores that's been totally gutted and lifted off its foundation like it's going to be moved somewhere? Well, today Curbed (and SFist commenter
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Woman Stabs Man at 24th Street BART Station The 24th Street BART station had to be temporarily shut down this morning after a woman stabbed a male victim around 4:40 a.m. Trains passing through the station filled with commuters
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: R.I.P. Baby Pygmy Hippo Prince Harry Aww. This six-week-old baby pygmy hippo, which was hoped would boost tourism at a South African wild animal park, has died. They named him Prince Harry, and he was incredibly cute. There are
SF News Yelp Claims Space in Historic Pacific Telephone Building The historic, Art Deco Pacific Telephone & Telegraph building at 140 New Montgomery is undergoing a major renovation as we speak, and they just signed their first major tenant: Yelp. As the Chron
