SF News Another Showdown Afoot Between Occupy Oakland and Police It looks like Oakland mayor and incessant flip-flopper Jean Quan is once again about to try to oust the dirty hippies from her front yard, and we can promise you this isn't gonna
Arts & Entertainment Behold the Glorious (and Occasionally Gross) Relics Hidden in the GLBT Historical Society Archives Documentary filmmaker Michael Stabile, who chronicled San Francisco's birth as the Smut Capital of America in a short film last year and who has brought us amazing archival footage of Dianne Feinstein railing
SF News Occupy SFist: Occupy Oakland Will Try Occupying Foreclosed Buildings; Former Boy Scout From Antioch Remains Jailed It's time for another roundup of the latest posted updates regarding the local, and not-so-local Occupy camps. Chron columnist and Oakland resident Chip Johnson is none too pleased with what he sees as
SF News 2.8 Earthquake Strikes Hayward Fault Overnight A modest, some might say small, earthquake rumbled along the Hayward Fault just before 4 a.m. this morning, measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale. Unlike the previous half dozen or so
SF News Accused Murderer Gary Scott Holland to Possibly Take Plea Deal Gary Scott Holland, the 43-year-old parolee and alleged Satanist who is accused of posing as a PG&E worker to invade the Marina apartment of Kate Horan and murder her, may be
SF News Medical Marijuana Patients, Dispensaries File Suit Against Feds Over Crackdown Well, the opening volley by the Justice Department going after the medical marijuana trade in California was met first with an over-net return in the form of a letter from a group of
SF News S.F. Apartment Vacancy About as Low as During Dot-Com Era Whoa. So remember how the rental market in S.F. around 1999 was at like 2% vacancy and you had to like show up to open houses with your last three bosses, your
SF News SFist Blotter: Assault and Dog Theft in Bernal Heights; Road Race Turns Deadly in Richmond Bernal Heights / Assault and Dog Theft: A gang of female "thugs" walked into a restaurant on the 3300 block of Mission Street near Bernal Heights and assaulted another female around 3:45 p.
SF News Occupy SFist: Another Iraq Vet Injured in Oakland, Sexual Assaults at Occupy Wall Street It's another roundup of Occupy-related bits, covering more than just the modest but proud S.F. camp. Over in Oakland, news has come out that a second Iraq war veteran was injured in
SF News Yet Another Mini Earthquake, a 3.2, on the Hayward Fault Is the Hayward Fault trying to tell us something? Just shivering a little because the weather turned cold? Anyway, there was another little earthquake over near Berkeley, a 3.2 magnitude, this afternoon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Piña Colada at Wo Hing General Store What do you know! There is such a thing as a piña colada that isn't thick with Coco Lopez, clocking in at 1000 calories and sickly sweet! Brooke Arthur, who's created drinks and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Race' at A.C.T. You all know David Mamet's a conservative now, right? He moved to Santa Monica a while back, came under the influence of a widely respected conservative rabbi and Bush supporter, and in 2008
Arts & Entertainment Metallica, Lou Reed to Shoot Video in Bay Area With Darren Aronofsky Metallica recently collaborated with the legendary Lou Reed to create Lulu, the recently released concept album inspired by the plays of German playwright Frank Wedekind (upon whose work Spring Awakening was based). Now,
SF News Free Public Wi-Fi to Finally Arrive, At Least for Market Street Corridor Remember all those promises of a glorious, citywide wi-fi signal that would be free to one and all, which the city kind of renegged on a couple years back? Well, now the Department
SF News Port of Oakland Reopens But Some Protesters Persist in Blocking Roadways There's currently a regathering of protesters and a new makeshift roadblock near one of the entrances to the Port of Oakland, at Third and Seventh Streets where they intersect with Adeline, according to
SF News SFist Blotter: Fatal Shooting in Visitacion Valley; Man Kicked In Head in the Richmond Visitacion Valley / Homicide: 23-year-old Bobby Jones was shot and killed last night around 6 p.m. in the backyard of a home on the 100 block of Brookdale Avenue. A second victim, age
SF News Oakland Protests Devolve Into Late-Night Garbage Fire, Chaos In signing off from our day-long coverage of the General Strike Day in Oakland yesterday, we noted the "younger and more aggressive crowds" heading into the streets just before 10 p.m. And,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me' by Weird Al Yankovic We're pretty sure this is a Weird Al original tune (correct us if we're wrong -- we know you will!) and it's kind of funny, with lyrics like "I don't need tons of
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Clip From a New Documentary About the Sutro Baths Sutro's: The Palace at Land's End is a new documentary about the historic and long-gone Sutro Baths, which is having its world premiere Friday, November 4, at the Balboa Theater. It has a
SF News Bernal Heights Totally Infested With Ugly Spiders An arachnid invasion which is likely affecting more than one neighborhood has come to our attention via our friends at Bernalwood. They report that this unidentified variety of fat, spotted spider has been
SF News CA High-Speed Rail Cost Doubles, But Is Still Doable, According to New Plan The headlines today and yesterday are all blaring the fact that, according to new estimates, the cost of the San Francisco-to-Anaheim high-speed rail line will now be closer to $100 billion, up from
SF News Occupy SFist: Occupy SF Marches, Still Dwarfed By Oakland A small but merry band of Occupy SF kids marched up Market Street this afternoon, flanked by a police detail that was about as large as they were. They appeared to number about
Arts & Entertainment Free Bike Repair Kiosk Pops Up in Newsstand at 7th and Market One of a number of clever initiatives to enliven the streetscape of dreary, pill-popping mid-Market, a free bicycle repair kiosk has opened up in an unused newsstand kiosk at 7th and Market. The
SF News NIMBY Watch: Transbay Tower Impact Report to Be Debated Thursday Let us go on the record right now as saying We Like Tall Buildings. We do. We think this city would be all the prettier with a few more actually tall structures, and
SF News Be Thankful You Don't Live at 245 Leavenworth City Attorney and mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera filed suit last week in Superior Court against landlord John Wai, owner of a 48-unit apartment complex at 245 Leavenworth. According to the public nuisance suit,
