SF News SFist Blotter: More Richmond Shooting, More Oakland Shooting, Suspect In Burning Body Case Richmond / Shootings: A turf/gang war appears to have reignited in Richmond with two more consecutive shootings Sunday night that left two dead and two injured. [CBS] Richmond / Drug Bust: After a traffic
SF News Blame the Board of Supervisors for Fatal Octavia Street Crash? We thought it a little odd that the day after the tragic accident at Octavia and Oak that took the life of a UCSF professor Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi made sure to praise Octavia
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Thai Basil Lemon Martini at E&O Trading Company Some of the best drinks are the simplest, and while the artisanal cocktail thing has tended to leave vodka drinking to the amateurs, the fact remains that it's an easy way to to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Verona Project' at CalShakes CalShakes continues their season exploring another of Shakespeare's earliest works, Two Gentlemen of Verona, which is thought to be the first play Shakespeare wrote, around 1590. (See also our review of Titus Andronicus,
SF News Victim In Yesterday's Octavia & Oak Crash Identified; UCSF Shuttle Bus Driver May Have Run Red Light The single fatality in yesterday's early morning collision at Octavia and Oak has been identified as 52-year-old UCSF professor Dr. Kevin Mack, a psychiatrist, who was on his way to work. Mack was
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'Tales of the City' Breaks Box Office, Attendance Records The American Conservatory Theater's world premiere production of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, the musical we reviewed last month, has turned out to be a great success for the theater and has
SF News SFist Blotter: Burning Body in Rockridge, Water Rescue In Marin, Murder in E. Palo Alto Rockridge / Burning Body: A burning female body was dumped in the quiet, wealthy Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland around 4:40 a.m. this morning at the intersection of Ivanhoe and Chabot Streets, and
SF News Big Rig Accident on Octavia Kills at Least One, Snarls Morning Traffic A major accident at 6:30 a.m. this morning at the intersection of Octavia and Oak Streets has closed the area to both vehicle and Muni traffic, causing headaches for Haight/Nopa/
SF News Oh, and HuffPo SF Launched This Week In What's Likely A Search Engine Optimization Play Yes, it's mostly SEO bait and not always the most informative, but we're keeping an open mind about the launch of Huffington Post San Francisco. They're already profiling the candidates for sheriff, calling
SF News S.F. to Get All Kindly About Felons Now; Cue Fox News' Special Report OK, so, to be clear, we're all for having criminals do their time, regret their crimes, and we believe that many of them can be rehabilitated and return to society as respectable citizens
SF News Mitchell Brothers Heir Convicted of Murder Just a week after he took the stand in his own defense and told a crazy story no one had heard before about two men whom he had to fight off to save
Arts & Entertainment Late Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bon Iver's 'Calgary' Video, Feat. an <em>ANTM</em> Contestant So check it out. This is the official video from one of the first releases off Bon Iver's new album, Bon Iver, and it's called 'Calgary.' The video features one-time America's Next
SF News This is Rich: The SFMTA Would Like Your 'Feedback' In Re: Nat Ford's Replacement Former Muni executive director Nat Ford has finally left the building with his $384,000 golden parachute, and with this news we were both relieved and disgusted. Debra Johnson, meanwhile, who was formerly
SF News Media Says It's Time to Stop Doing Cocaine, Everyone You've likely seen or read a news report in recent weeks discussing the issue of "flesh-eating cocaine," and the widespread contamination of the U.S. cocaine supply with an animal de-worming agent called
Arts & Entertainment Guy With Enormous Personal Junkyard Outside Santa Cruz to Be Featured on 'Hoarders' Tonight Menlo Park resident Roy Kaylor, who owns a 150-acre parcel of land in Boulder Creek, north of Santa Cruz, where he keeps hundreds of rusted out vehicles, is going to be featured on
SF News SFist Blotter: Triple Homicide in Richmond, Santa Rosa Girl Dead at Slumber Party, and More Richmond / Triple Homicide: In the city of Richmond's deadly and scary Iron Triangle neighborhood, an apparent drug deal went really wrong on Saturday, resulting in three men being shot and killed inside a
SF News Jaycee Dugard Speaks to Diane Sawyer, UC Berkeley Cop Who Helped Save Her Reacts Now that Phillip and Nancy Garrido's trial is over and they both pleaded guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive for eighteen years, Jaycee was finally free to give her
SF News Serial Killer Ted Bundy Being Investigated As Possible Suspect in Early 1970s Sonoma County Murders A series of unsolved murders in Sonoma County, all involving women who were hitchhiking on country roads during the trusting, hippie era of 1972 to 1973, has a new suspect in the mix:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Modern Negroni at Bottle Cap Brand new North Beach eatery Bottle Cap (1707 Powell Street), with food from a former chef at Sens and a former chef at Blue Plate and drinks from Bourbon & Branch alum Pete
SF News SFist Blotter: Seven People Shot In East Oakland, Man Possibly Kills Girlfriend, Calls Cops Himself East Oakland / Shootings: Seven people were wounded in four separate shooting incidents last night in East Oakland, starting around 8:30 p.m. No one was killed, and police are still trying to
SF News Fan Falls Over Railing, Dies at A's-Rangers Game A Texas Rangers fan, leaning over a railing to catch a ball tossed to him from the outfield by a player, fell to from the stands in Arlington, Texas last night in front
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Connected States of America Some kids at MIT (in connection with some sponsorship from AT&T) have put together this visualization project using cell phone data and the ways in which it travels around the country.
SF News Elderly Woman Killed By Skateboarder in Capitola 83-year-old Maryann Slettehaugh was struck by a 17-year-old kid on a skateboard Tuesday afternoon as she crossed a street in downtown Capitola, just south of Santa Cruz. Police say the kid, who was
SF News Nevius Goes After the Haight Again, This Time Over High Rents? Chuck Nevius continues his tour of the slowly gentrifying corners of the city this week, now focusing on the Haight. He devoted his Saturday column to acting shocked that there were any decent,
SF News Man Tries to Outrun Train In Martinez, Collapses in Custody Something we continue to find charming about old-school print media: They don't like to talk about drugs, or speculate about such matters, using terms like "acting strangely" to describe perps who are clearly
