Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup' at Berkeley Rep It's not often in this life that you get to see someone who has EGOT'd (that's someone who's won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, for those who don't watch
SF News SFist Blotter: Pedestrian Killed Near Duboce Park, South S.F. Rape Duboce Triangle / Vehicular Manslaughter: A 59-year-old man who lives in the Mission but frequents the Castro was hit by an SUV at the intersection of 14th and Noe on Tuesday. He later died
SF News Pregnancy Postpones Accused Murderer Giselle Esteban's Court Appearance As we discussed yesterday, the murder trial of the year is set to take shape after Giselle Esteban, former friend of missing nursing student Michele Le, was arrested Wednesday in connection with Le's
SF News Twitter Hits 100 Million Users; Still Waiting On IPO, Profit Five-year-old sentence-degradation engine Twitter has reached a major milestone of 100 million active users, which they say is an 80 percent increase since the beginning of the year. (They had previously cited 200
SF News Obama Fave Solar Company Solyndra Declares Bankruptcy, Gets Visit From FBI Remember Solyndra, the Fremont-based solar panel manufacturer who got a $535 million low-interest loan guarantee from the Obama administration in 2009, and whom Obama visited on one of his last trips to the
SF News Arrest Made In Michelle Le Murder, And It's Her Friend Giselle Esteban Yesterday morning Hayward Police finally made an arrest in the disappearance and presumed homicide of nursing student Michelle Le, who has been missing since May 27. The lone suspect is the same person
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Human Centipede 2,' the Trailer OK, we're really sorry. This is hardly a cleanser, as it were. But it's "the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film in the
SF News Yahoo Canned Their CEO Too Fast on the heels of the news that front-page editor/vice president Liz Lufkin got a pink slip yesterday from Yahoo!, blogger All Things D (who clearly has an inside source) reports that
SF News Muni To OK Back-Door Bus Boarding Despite the fact that every ne'er-do-well and elderly lady with a pink plastic shopping bag already does this, back-door boarding on Muni busses is still illegal, and that one Muni driver in twenty
SF News Judges Inclined to Allow Prop 8 Appeal to Move Forward Today was another big day in court for the backers of Prop 8, who remain unhappy that federal judge Vaughn Walker did not agree with their view that homosexual marriage constitutes a horrible,
SF News Woman Who Brought Us SFGate Ousted From Yahoo Liz Lufkin, who's most recently been the vice president responsible for front-page editorial programming at Yahoo and who once upon a time co-founded SFGate, has been ousted from Yahoo in a reorg. Editor-in-chief
SF News SFist Blotter: Third Mission Shooting In A Week; Man Dies In Fire Mission / Murder: A shooting on Camp Street (near Guerrero and 16th Streets) marks the third Mission homicide in a week. An unidentified man in his 40s was shot several times and killed by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Jalisco Cobbler at Harry Denton's Starlight Room Harry Denton's Starlight Room reopens at the top of the Sir Francis Drake after a brief renovation next Tuesday, and for this week's Friday cocktail we bring you a new creation from newly
SF News 'Pooplets' May Soon Take Over Street Parking Spaces, Providing Toilets for Homeless A plan which the Bay Citizen says is still in "early development" would take street parking spaces in neighborhoods where the homeless tend to defecate (the T-loin, alleys in SoMa) and turn them
SF News PG&E Just Might Kill Us All Did you hear that a leaky gas pipe destroyed a home in Cupertino the other day? Just a day after the Feds slapped PG&E up the side of the head with
SF News The NYT Profiles a Couple of Bougie Burners from L.A. True to form, when the New York Times decides to devote column space to Burning Man, it has to be a style piece focusing on a pair of well-off designers from L.A.
SF News Your Corner Mailbox? It Might Disappear Soon One very visible symbol of the shift from snail mail to email and all forms of electronic communication: Those blue mail boxes are disappearing! San Francisco's lost about 800 in the last couple
SF News City Hall Intern in Santa Ana Charged In Bathroom Stall Video-Making Scandal This is a little out of our jurisdiction, but we love a good techie-perv-news item: A 24-year-old intern at the Santa Ana Public Works Department has been charged with using his cellphone camera
SF News Bystanders Rush to Grab Free Weed Spilled From a Crashed Truck in San Jose It goes to show you: Everybody smokes weed! A truck loaded with bags of kind bud crashed near the Oakridge Mall yesterday in South San Jose, and, not wanting to get nabbed by
SF News We Read the Weeklies: August 31, 2011 It's, remarkably, almost the end of calendar-summer, and the symbolic end of East Coast summer when people throw big bashes at their summer shares, but here in S.F. summer has barely begun.
SF News Fort Bragg Suspect Wanted in Second Murder, Was Growing Opium Poppies Aaron Bassler, suspected of shooting Fort Bragg city councilman Jere Melo last Saturday, remains at large, and now his father has come forward to tell reporters that his son is schizophrenic, and that
SF News SFist Blotter: Shootings in the Mission, Counterfeit Money on Fillmore Mission / Multiple Shootings: The Monday night shooting we mentioned yesterday outside Hog & Rocks critically wounded 22-year-old Gaspar Puch-tzek, a line cook at the restaurant. The shooter is suspected to be a Norteño
SF News Construction Accident in Dogpatch Sends Four to Hospital [Updated] An accident at a construction site near 3rd and 19th Street this morning at 8 a.m. has sent four injured workers to the hospital. AlertSF warns to steer clear of the vicinity
SF News San Jose Becoming Hooker Hot Spot Not only is Vallejo having a problem with prostitution lately, San Jose's up to their ears in hookers too! Police blame budget cuts and the related cuts in enforcement, and they say that
SF News New Dolores Park Plan Features Huge Kids' Soccer Field, Slightly Smaller Gay Beach So, after multiple community meetings and sub-committee meetings which SFist did not exactly make it to, the first-draft plan to renovate Dolores Park has been unveiled, with what Dolores Park Works describes as
