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
SF News PG&E Gets Slapped Up the Side of the Head By Feds for San Bruno Blast The results of the federal probe into the San Bruno gas line explosion of last September were finally presented yesterday, and the NTSB has placed all the blame for the tragedy on PG&
SF News SFGate Commenters Up In Arms Over David Chiu's $700,000 Wheelchair Ramp The most popular story on the 'Gate right now? That would be Matier and Ross's column about the wheelchair ramp to the Board President's chair, currently being constructed in the Board of Supervisors
SF News City Councilman in Fort Bragg Shot and Killed After Stumbling Onto Marijuana Farm Fort Bragg City Councilman Jere Melo, 69, was shot and killed Saturday morning as he and another man hiked into the woods about four miles from town, near Highway 1. They were investigating
Arts & Entertainment Sigh: 'Thriller' Flash Mob Invades Ferry Plaza, Dolores Park S.F. sure loves a flash mob -- especially one involving Michael Jackson, on the King of Pop's birthday (yesterday). And even if we find the flash-mob thing a little yawn-inducing at this
SF News Driving Down Market Street Might Now Get You a $176 Ticket Surprisingly, it's already been two years since the city started testing out this traffic-calming measure, forcing all private vehicles to make right turns at Tenth and Sixth Streets. It's a complicated thing, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fishy Fishy', a Parody of Kreayshawn's 'Gucci Gucci' Yes! For this fine parody of local rap star Kreayshawn's mega-YouTube hit 'Gucci Gucci,' World Star Hip-Hop director Jeremy Burke found a girl who looks a lot like Kreayshawn, who they're calling
SF News This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 10 We return again for an installment of this ofttimes confusing feature, in which we ask those of you ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner
SF News SFist Blotter: Home Invasion in Richmond, Botched Armored Car Heist, Saggy Pants Kerfuffle in the Sunset Richmond / Home Invasion, Murder: One woman was killed and another family member was shot and injured in a home invasion in Richmond around 4 a.m. this morning, near the San Pablo border.
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vintage Homophobia Humor With Don Rickles Proof positive that the 70s weren't all that awesome... but you gotta love that nurse's outfit! [via Everything Is Terrible]
SF News Nevius Weighs In On BART Protests; He's Unsurprisingly Dismissive Local curmudgeon columnist C.W. Nevius weighs in on the recent BART protests today, and and it should come as no surprise to anyone who's ever read him that he finds all these
SF News Fresh & Easy Opens Today in the Bayview, Will Give Away Free Stuff Today, a new grocery store blooms in a neighborhood that's been known as a 'food desert" for at least two decades. Fresh & Easy opens today at the 5800 Third Street development, offering
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shut Up Little Man,' the Trailer Have you heard about this new documentary, Shut Up Little Man, based on the much-distributed audio-tape brawls of two old drunk guys in the Lower Haight in the 80s? (It's actually being advertised
Arts & Entertainment Marin Gays Really Have It Rough, You Guys A charming gay couple, recently transplanted from New York City to San Rafael -- in part for economic reasons, in part because the gays have got to start to think about their golden
SF News Drunk Woman Takes Daughter To See Smurfs Movie, Crashes Car Oh dear... a 41-year-old woman, so intoxicated that she couldn't even stand up, crashed her car in Daly City Friday night after taking her daughter to see The Smurfs. While we may sympathize
SF News Prop 8 Update: Judge May Allow Recording at August 29 Hearing In what could be a minor blow to the cause of gay-marriage haters, U.S. District Chief Judge James Ware has notified lawyers in the ongoing Prop 8 battle that he'd like to
SF News SFist Blotter: Man Vandalizes City Hall, Four Shot in Oakland, Woman Raped in Oakland City Hall / Vandalism: A "very intoxicated" man, likely escaped from the nearby Tenderloin, smashed in a bunch of windows and some glass lamps at City Hall this morning. Sheriff's deputies were watching it
SF News Scary Joseph Naso Tries to Get Murder Hearing Delayed, Might Want a Lawyer Now We haven't heard much lately about the case of suspected serial killer Joseph Naso -- who's in jail in Marin County for the murders, spanning three decades, of four California women who all
SF News BREAKING: Earthquake Shakes Whole East Coast [Updated] We're getting reports that an earthquake just shook a huge swath of the East Coast, from as far north as Boston south to North Carolina. Ooop - our cohorts at Gothamist HQ report
SF News Weather Report: 'Heat' Wave How would you describe this summer? It's been pretty typical, as they say. Lots of dense morning fog that becomes afternoon fog and sometimes burns off at 3 p.m. and sometimes doesn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Candida' at CalShakes The California Shakespeare Theater's four-play season always includes at least one non-Shakespeare work, and in both last season and this one that work has been by the great George Bernard Shaw. Last year's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sandra Lee Swears a Lot, Gropes Herself The Food Network's Sandra Lee may seem all wholesome well, unless she's talking about how much drinking she does but this video proves otherwise. Watch a series of outtakes in which she gropes
SF News David Foster Wallace Blamed for How We, Like, Talk on Blogs We couldn't help but read this piece in the NYT Magazine over the weekend in which writer Maud Newton points the finger at the late David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) and Dave Eggers
SF News Bay Area Schools Considering Less Homework, More Coddling of Stressed Out Kids School districts around the Bay Area are mulling changes to their policies regarding homework assigned to students, because new evidence is emerging that we're raising a generation of over-stressed over-achievers who can't sleep.
SF News Berkeley-Grad Hikers Convicted and Sentenced to Eight Years Well, it looks like all that talk of Ramadan and forgiveness may have been a load of false hope, and the Iranian judiciary remains as kooky and unforgiving as ever. Josh Fattal and
