Arts & Entertainment Hugh Jackman Coming to San Francisco to Sing Showtunes. We'll Say No More. Undeniably straight [*cough* - site NSFW] and proud actor Hugh Jackman just can't shake the Broadway bug, and he'll be coming to San Francisco in May to do a one-man revue of sorts!
SF News Muni Metro Train Collides With Semi, Six People Injured At least six people were injured when a Muni KT-line train collided with a flat-bed semi truck this morning at 10:30 a.m. in Dogpatch, at the intersection of 23rd and 3rd.
Arts & Entertainment Charlie Sheen Bringing His <strike>Sh*t</strike> Road Show to S.F. Would you like to experience a bit of pop cultural history so fleeting, confusing, and mildly gross that you'll walk out of the auditorium unsure what year it is or if you're really
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Tournament Shandy at Long Bar Up at Long Bar in Pac Heights (2298 Fillmore), new owner Reza Esmaili is preparing for a big change. The bar star took over the place last summer, with ultimate plans to give
SF News A Whiff of Radiation Arrives, Psychological Impact Deemed Worse Than Anything Else Be prepared for a ton of radiation news, if not an actual "plume" of harmful radiation, in the coming days and weeks. For now, President Obama, Berkeley scientists, and everyone who knows anything
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'California Earthquake' by Cass Elliot That would be Mama Cass, of the Mamas and the Papas. We'll say no more.
SF News Earthquake Prediction Guy Gets Very Excitable About Impending West Coast Quake We do not want to cause any alarm, and other earthquake prediction folks have been wrong plenty of times in the past, but one prominent dude in the suspect science of earthquake prediction,
SF News There Will Be a Sobriety Checkpoint, Somewhere, Tonight Starting at 6:30 p.m. and extending throughout the evening the SFPD will be doing a sobriety checkpoint at an undisclosed location to look out for drivers who partook too much of
SF News Surfer Dies at Mavericks Even though the formal Mavericks surf competition got scuttled this year, about a dozen well known big-wave surfers gathered yesterday to surf the break anyway, and one of them drowned. As the Santa
SF News Anti-Capitalist Dude Charged In Corte Madera Bank Takeover The mentally unstable guy who stormed a Corte Madera Bank of America on Monday, waving around a pellet gun, raving about unfair bank practices, and holding nine people hostage for six hours, has
SF News We Read the Weeklies: March 16, 2011 Changing the lining in those bird cages was likely a much higher priority today than actually reading the alt-weeklies, right kids? Thus, we've done you the favor of scanning through them for the
SF News Major Meth Bust in the South Bay... in a PT Cruiser Cops seized almost 40 pounds of crystal methamphetamine on Friday, hidden in concealed compartments of a PT Cruiser they pulled over in Gilroy. The stash was worth $430,000, fresh from Mexico, and
SF News Remember How Nice January Was? ... You knew you'd be paying later, right? Today, gray and drizzly with a 70% chance of depression. Tomorrow, some middling relief on the horizon with partial sun still a chance of rain, though!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Homecoming</em> at A.C.T. We consider ourselves intelligent people. We went to a good college, majored in English, read a lot of plays in our day. We even did some theater, and know our prosceniums from our
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Something Is Not Right With Me' by Cold War Kids On April 9, Cold War Kids come to the Fox in Oakland, and tickets are on sale now. Above, an "alternate" music video for the song 'Something Is Not Right With Me,'
SF News Two Bank Heists (One Only Sort Of) Yesterday in Corte Madera and Gilroy So, a desperate-seeming and possibly mentally unstable Asian dude walked into a Bank of America in Corte Madera around 4 p.m. yesterday waving a gun around and raving about the corruption of
SF News Fairmont Hotel In Trouble, Mayor Tries to Give Them Extension for Condo Conversion You'll recall how the Fairmont Hotel wants to take that semi-ugly tower at the corner of Stockton and California and build a new condo tower, demolishing the famed Tonga Room in the process?
SF News SFist Blotter: Stabbing on Fillmore, Child Murder in San Leandro, Shooting in Bayview Stabbing / Western Addition: A 19-year-old Asian man, stumbling out of a bar (underage alert) at Fillmore and O'Farrell Streets early Sunday was stabbed twice in the torso. He does not remember what the
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Audio Time-Lapse of a Baby Learning the Word 'Water' This presentation from the 2011 TED conference last week has been going around, featuring MIT researcher Deb Roy describing "the ultimate memory machine," a data set containing some 90,000 hours of video
SF News Tales of Wrongful Autism Diagnoses and Other Curiosities About the Gettys' Exclusive Private Preschool Did you know there was an invitation-only preschool for two dozen kids in one of SF's biggest and most monied mansions? The NYT busts open a controversy happening quietly in the rarefied environs
Arts & Entertainment Archival Video Moment: Nightly News Explores Gay S.F. Circa 1981 We just got sent this video in connection with a party happening tonight at Public Works called SPKR: Evolution of the Queer Dancefloor -- it's a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Shipyard Mule at Plate Shop Sausalito's newest restaurant, Plate Shop, is a cute little gem of a place with excellent, modern food, good wines by the glass -- including a nightly, $6, "inoffensive" white and red house special
SF News N.Y. Mayor Mike Bloomberg in Town to Meet With Mayor Lee Two big-city mayors are pow-wowing today in S.F. to "learn a lot from each other" -- which we think is a bit of an overstatement by mayoral spokesperson Christine Falvey given that,
SF News Live Coverage of the Tsunami Wave Impacts on Our Coast ABC 7 is showing the relatively undramatic live pictures from Santa Cruz harbor of the tsunami-related surges, including a dock and a pier floating loose, and a boat loose from its moorings. Not
SF News Protesters Would Like China Out of Tibet, Please This was the scene several minutes ago at 7th and Market where 70 or so people were marching for Tibetan liberation, screaming, "Shame on Chinese government," etc. Bringing up the rear: a Tibetan-flag-draped
