Arts & Entertainment Transbay Site to Get Big, Awkward Sculpture Made Out of Transbay Terminal Scraps Before we see anything else on the site of the former Transbay Terminal and the future Transbay transit hub/spectacularly tall tower, we may be seeing a piece of public art made from
SF News Haight Dogsitter Steals Puppy The Snitch brings us the tale of a man desperate for a dogsitter for his German Shepard puppy who turned to an unknown friend of a friend for help. Said friend of a
SF News Rich Lesbians Sought to Help Bankroll Dyke March Organizers of the annual Dyke March are putting out the (probably empty) threat that they might have to cancel the parade/rally this year unless someone coughs up $30,000. The march traditionally
SF News Guy Fieri’s Yellow Lamborghini Stolen from Van Ness Showroom A cat burglar with climbing equipment broke into British Motor Car Distributors at 999 Van Ness early Tuesday and made off with a $200,000 Lamborghini Gallardo belonging to TV chef Guy Fieri
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Ruined</em> at Berkeley Rep We knew from the title we weren't likely in for a cheery good time, but we went into Berkeley Rep's newest production, Ruined, without having read anything about it. The subject turns out
SF News iPhone 5 Coming By Summer, Will Likely Be Silver Here's a little bait for all the Apple-hating commenters: That little company down in Cupertino that used to just make funny looking computers is planning on releasing the next generation of iPhone, the
SF News Santa Clara County Gets New Area Code... Could We Be Next? In the land of the 408, there will soon be a lot of 669s running around. And for those who already have a claim on a 408 number, they may just find it
SF News Stabbing at Jones and Market Police are still on the scene as at least two victims were injured in a fight near the corner of Jones Street and Market around 6 p.m. tonight. One victim, an African-American
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks (Video Edition): The Torii Toddy at Burritt Room For this week's cocktail, we're feeling a little chilly, and we're going to let Thrillist pinch-hit on this one since they went to the trouble of making a whole how-to video for making
SF News State Dems Take Key Vote to Kill Redevelopment, Oakland Scrambles to Tie Up Funds The fight over redevelopment in California is still far from finished, but Democratic lawmakers on a key state legislative committee took a step that could hurry the death knell along yesterday. The conference
SF News Ed Lee to Possibly Get Screwed Out of His Admin Job? Interim Mayor Ed Lee, as many of you know, only took the job on the promise that the law could be changed allowing him an exception from the rule that says that mayors
SF News Bernal Coke Sign Will Be Saved Supervisor David Campos has done an about-face as only a politician can, and according to the Examiner he's now declared that the vintage Coca-Cola sign that was causing that NIMBY-generated stir is, indeed,
SF News Oakland/Emeryville Target Now Open for Business Oaklanders have a new place to shop for discount housewares and Justin Timberlake fashions as Target opens a new store on the Oakland/Emeryville border, at 1555 40th Street. The big ribbon cutting
SF News Atherton Student Calls 911 On Teacher, Gets Him Suspended An allegedly frightened student at Selby Lane School in Atherton called 911 from the girls' bathroom after a teacher freaked out on his students and dropped/threw a desk. The 13-year-old girl, Maria
SF News We Read the Weeklies: March 2, 2011 We know the important role the print weeklies play in creating that pulpy mush that gathers in gutters and clogs storm drains in wet weather like this, so we wanted to make sure
SF News Gas Pipeline Under San Bruno Was News to Fire Chief At the NTSB hearing in Washington today at which PG&E is having to answer for what went down in San Bruno on September 9, 2010, San Bruno fire chief Dennis Haag
SF News Also in Vallejo: 5th Graders Eat Pot Cookie, Don't Know What Hit Them Because we can't let a children-ingesting-drugs story go untouched, we bring you word of another of a near epidemic of incidents of grade-school kids finding a tasty dessert treat, eating it, and falling
SF News Eastern Bay Bridge Span Tower to Get Much Taller This Week One of the final sections of the Self-Anchored Suspension Span (SAS) Tower of the new eastern Bay Bridge section is getting hoisted into place this week, and is sure to create some distraction
SF News Two HIV Treatments By Local Companies, One a 'Functional Cure,' Get Press and Market Attention Today we find news about two local companies with HIV drugs that are receiving some fresh attention. Richmond-based Sangamo BioSciences Inc. has developed a cell therapy that is being billed as a "functional
SF News SFist Blotter: Four Shootings and a Stabbing Mission / Shooting: A 27-year-old man was shot while sitting in his car on the 1500 block of Alabama Street near Cesar Chavez around 10:30 p.m. last night. The shooting is believed
SF News Say It Ain't So!: Home of Parents of Dead Walnut Creek Teen Burglarized While They Were At Memorial We had no idea Walnut Creek life could be so brutal: While attending the memorial service last night for their teenage son Matthew Miller, who was killed last weekend while rafting with friend
SF News Novato Lady Might Have Murdered Husband, Missing for Months, Found Buried in Yard The suburbs are getting gruesome this week as we learn the tale of Evelyn Smith of Novato, who might have possibly murdered her husband Dale (age 75) and buried him under some brick
SF News Livermore Molester Lady Pleads No Contest to Charges of Sex With Teenage Boys Remember Livermore mom Christine Hubbs who was arrested last summer on charges that she liked 13-year-old boys a little too much? She pleaded no contest yesterday in Alameda County Superior Court, and she's
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: OMD's 'Electricity' Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, who may be most famous for a certain John Hughes movie anthem, are coming to the Fox on March 26th so that Gen Xers and the younger segment
SF News The Chauncey Bailey Murder Trial Will Not Move Out of Oakland An Alameda County judge has denied a request by accused murderers Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey to move the trial out of the County, as the Oakland Tribune is now reporting. Bey
