Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hipsters Are Roaming the Campus' Today's palate cleanser comes to us from a strange little place called NYU, where this music video was produced for a campus reality show. Yes, we know, bemoaning the annoyance of hipsters and
Arts & Entertainment John King Critiques S.F.'s Downtown Plan, Written in 1985 On the cover of yesterday's Chron, architecture critic John King had a piece critiquing the San Francisco Downtown Plan, following on a recently released report detailing the plan's successes and failures over its
SF News NIMBY Watch: Peninsula Denizens Win Small Victory in High-Speed Rail Battle The California High-Speed Rail Authority says it was caught by surprise this week with a letter from the Bay Area Council and regional transportation agencies calling for a revised high-speed rail plan on
SF News Oakland Man Shot In Head While He and Family Were Trying to Feed Homeless Just to give you an idea of the tenor of things in East Oakland this summer: An Oakland man and his family were shot at just after midnight last night while trying to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bjork's New Trippy Video With Michel Gondry So, Bjork's got a new album coming out September 27 called Biophilia, and much of the album was composed and recorded using several iPad apps. The first video from the album, for the
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Scam Artist, Arrested 14 Times Before, Arrested Again So there's this guy named Fofana Mbemba, and he's well known to police and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi for working Fisherman's Wharf over the years to scam tourists out of money through various means.
Arts & Entertainment No Burning Man For You! (Unless You Already Bought Your Ticket) We suppose that only the most JV, flaky, and virginal among you Burners would wait until late July to buy your Burning Man tickets, but if you did, sucks for you! For the
SF News Citizens In Richmond to Gather This Evening to Discuss Gang War We mentioned earlier today that Saturday's homicide in Richmond brings the murder rate on par, for the first seven months of the year, with the city's total homicides in 2010, totaling 21. Much
SF News SFist Blotter: Man With Coke All Over Face Arrested in Mission, Richmond Murder Marks Number 21 Mission / Gun Possession & Narcotics Possession: A man was arrested during a routine police check at a bar on the 3700 block of Mission on Saturday night. We're thinking this is one of
SF News Phil Bronstein Notices How Awful SFGate Commenters Are, Scolds Them We ourselves tend to avoid doing too much scrolling on SFGate for fear that our eyes will fall upon the shrill, vitriolic, frequently ALL-CAPPED stupidity that is their commenter pool. Today, Phil Bronstein
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Mayhem at Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem You may have heard about this vaguely (but not explicitly) Muppet-themed bar that just opened in Mission, in the old Baobab space at 19th. It's called Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. They
SF News Someone Please Get the Winklevoss Twins a PR Agent Perhaps because of their ongoing litigious efforts in a Massachusetts federal court, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss simply could not stay silent about some recent public remarks by former Harvard president Larry Summers in
SF News Arrest Made in Shocking Succulent Thievery in Bernal Heights Over in Bernal Heights, though people still sometimes get robbed while walking home from Glen Park BART, the crimes that have been on everyone's minds lately in the 'hood are a recent spate
SF News Castro Valley Has So Many Gays Their Pride March Has Become a Rally Quiet little East Bay burg Castro Valley was scheduled to host their first ever Pride march tomorrow afternoon, but greater-than-anticipated interest in the event -- at least 300 (!) people have said they're coming
SF News Pentagon to Say OK to Gays In Military Tomorrow Speaking of gay things, the breaking news this afternoon is that defense department officials are planning to certify, on Friday, the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. The WSJ reports that they'll be
SF News The Chinese Are Totally Building Knock-Off Apple Stores Now This seems totally inevitable, but the country that brought you many millions of knockoff Louis Vuitton purses and fake Rolex watches now features multiple fake Apple Stores. As the AP reports today, the
SF News Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Would Prefer Another Bridge Over the Bay Than Seeing High-Speed Rail on the Peninsula [Updated] As we've discussed earlier, wealthy Peninsula communities like Palo Alto and Menlo Park have been seething for years about the plan to bring the LA-SF high-speed rail line through their pristine environs. They've
SF News We Read the Weeklies: July 20, 2011 (Slightly NSFW Edition) It's so sunny out. Why would you want newsprint all over your fingers when you have sunblock to apply? Please accept, as a token of our love for you, this roundup of links
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Patti Smith Covers 'Rolling in the Deep' File Under Awesome: You know you've made it when the legendary and revered Patti Smith decides to cover one of your songs in a concert. And even though she didn't remember all the
SF News Two Men Arrested in Oakland in Connection With Burning Body Last week's disturbing case of a burning female body that was dumped in the middle of a quiet Rockridge Street early one morning appears to be heading somewhere. First, the victim was identified
SF News San Francisco and Oakland (?) Both Rank in List of Top 10 Walkable Cities An annual ranking by this site called WalkScore, which provides detailed, neighborhood-by-neighborhood scores of various cities based on their walkability and access to public transit, has put San Francisco as the second most
SF News Possible Roofie Rapist/Kidnapper on Loose in the Mission? Today we get the disturbing tale of a 19-year-old woman who narrowly escaped getting kidnapped and roofied on Sunday while walking along Mission Street. She was walking near the corner of Mission and
SF News Online Tour Site Hawking 'Homeless for a Day' Tour in S.F., Led By Homeless Man Remember how the NYT told us the Tenderloin was becoming a tourist attraction? New online activity and tour purveyors Vayable.com has a terrific idea! They want to give tourists to San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Lesbians Told They Can't Hold Hands at Gertrude Stein Exhibit This morning's grab bag of delights from Chuck Nevius includes the amusing story of a lesbian couple who were holding hands while browsing the Gertrude Stein exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum recently
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Picking Up V-Nasty From Jail, Plus Kreayshawn's New Song Last month we pointed you to the fashion critiquing being done by Kreayshawn for New York Magazine, following on the success of her song "Gucci Gucci," which is basically a dis of all
