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,
SF News Occupy SFist: John King Praises Occupy SF for Enlivening Lame Park; Joan Rivers Mocks Occupy Wall Street We're obviously going to need to start rounding up the Occupy news on the regular, at least until the rains come and drive the protest out of the spotlight if in fact that
SF News Members of Congress Pen Strongly Worded Letter About Medical Marijuana Crackdown Nine House representatives, including Alameda County Democrat Barbara Lee, penned a letter to President Barack Obama last week condemning the Justice Department's recently announced crackdown on the medical marijuana industry in California. They
SF News 'Quan Lied' Front and Center on NYT Homepage Oakland mayor Jean Quan is standing firm. She is not resigning, or so she announced on Friday, after she was booed off the City Hall stage Thursday and after she was largely responsible
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awesome Halloween Claymation In honor of Halloween weekend, here's an amazing piece of claymation from British animator Lee Hardcastle entitled "Postman Pat's Pet Sematary." It involves a dead cat, a lot of claymation blood, and spliffs.
SF News Michael Moore Visiting Occupy Oakland This Afternoon Celebrity provocateur, filmmaker, and professional liberal Michael Moore is paying a visit to the impassioned kids at Occupy Oakland today, as he mentioned on his blog yesterday. His exact words, in a P.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Hair' at the Golden Gate Theater It's amazing how the 1960s, which much of the culture has grown tired of making reference to over the years, have managed to become way more relevant in recent weeks than they felt
SF News Occupy San Jose Protester By the Name of 'Cracker' Still Atop That 36-Foot High Wall Shaun O'Kelly, 27, who goes by the nickname "Cracker" for reasons SFist has not yet learned, has spent the past four days sleeping on a five-foot-wide ledge on a wall outside San Jose's
SF News Weather Report They say there's no such thing as earthquake weather. There's also no such thing as astrology, if you ask your more rational Virgo friends anyway, and we still see too many patterns there
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amazing 1955 Ladies' Eyewear Fashions Here's a pure, polished gem from the height of cat-eye glasses mania in 1955. We're pretty sure that there is not a single pair of frames shown here that is not butt-ass ugly.
SF News Rich Local Democrat Pissed at Obama Amongst the estimated 1,000 people who showed up outside the W yesterday to protest/holler at President Obama was prominent local Democratic fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell. A good friend and major campaign
SF News Scenes From the Occupy Oakland vs. OPD Tuesday Night Melee Oakland, dude. There's hella more angry, semi-organized, semi-maybe-unemployed, restless kids over there. Well, at least a couple hundred more than there have been in the daily occupation at Occupy SF. And last night
SF News 5.2 Quake Jiggles Japan Well, since the earth has taken to shaking a bit the past five days, including those several in the East Bay late last week and the one in Turkey on Sunday that they
SF News Parole Bulletin Board: Man Whips Out a Shank Over a Mango Now that California's got to empty out its prisons and S.F. has got 700 or so new parolees on the street, trying to reintegrate into society, we expect there may be a
Arts & Entertainment Adult Slip-N-Slide Revived for One Day at Dolores Park The ridiculously summery weather yesterday brought out a legion of revelers to Dolores Park yesterday, and among the pastimes being enjoyed was something we just haven't seen enough of since moving here: a
SF News Hells Angel Killed in Hit-and-Run, Dragged Down Freeway The Hells Angels sure have been in the news a bunch lately, with that funeral murder and the suspect disappearing (and there was the whole mortgage fraud thing too). And now one of
SF News High-Speed Chase Through Marin Ends In Flames Some excitement up north late Saturday night/early Sunday: The CHP started chasing a car southbound on 101 through Petaluma around 1:30 a.m. because they believed that three armed suspects in
SF News Satirical Write-In Candidate for Mayor Says 'F**k You, Muni' and 'Ban Straight Marriage' As you know, SFist does not make a business of endorsing candidates in elections. But if we were to, theoretically, want to endorse anyone or want to encourage you, the voters, to waste
SF News SFist Blotter: Mass Arrests of Wanted Suspects; Man Stabbed In Back Citywide / Multiple Arrests: SFPD chief Greg Suhr conducted a major sweep Wednesday, rounding up and putting cuffs on 60 suspects wanted for 47 felonies and 13 misdemeanors, in the span of 10 hours.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Zombie Gameboy Here's a little non-video palate cleanser that should cheer you up. This custom Zombie Gameboy, which can actually be yours for purchase if someone hasn't already snapped it up, was created by a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Kevin Spacey in 'Richard III' at the Curran Theater Kevin Spacey makes a great villain. We were remembering this recently when some basic cable channel was playing Se7en, and he of course won his first Oscar for playing Keyser Söze in The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Treat Yo Self From last week's episode of Parks and Recreation (it's on again tonight, yay!), which we're still chuckling over, and which has had us declaring every day this week a Treat Yo Self day.
SF News More Petty Theft in the Excelsior As Elderly Woman Is Robbed, Injured We're getting word of the second semi-violent petty theft in a couple of days in the Excelsior District -- and the third or fourth in the city in recent weeks involving a gold
SF News Look Out for Falling German Satellite Debris This Weekend Broken up pieces of a retired German satellite are expected to plummet to earth, pretty much anywhere, sometime between Friday and Monday. The satellite, which is the size of a minivan, was launched
SF News SFist Blotter: Hells Angel Funeral Shooter Disappears; Marijuana Grow Sparks Fire in Oakland Hills San Jose / Missing Person: Steve Ruiz, the man believed to have shot and killed fellow Hells Angels member Steve Tausan at the funeral of another fellow member last Saturday, has disappeared and may
