misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Whole Lot of 'Noooooo!' This runs a little long, but we're suckers for a good montage. [Laughing Squid]
SF News NIMBY WATCH: Sidewalk Gardens Under Fire on Sanchez, Mission Brewery Goes Forward Sanchez and 16th: Poor little Sanchez Street just wants to be as cool and pretty as Noe Street between Duboce and Market, and one homeowner's been making a go of it, putting some
SF News Wiener Wants to Do a Food-Not-Cash Thing for Bottle and Can Redemption Supervisor Scott Wiener has had quite enough of the 'unsavory' characters who congregate around the Castro Safeway with their cart-loads of bottles and cans, headed to the recycling center. He's been aware of
SF News Will the Redevelopment Cuts Stand, and Are They Legal? We know most of you are probably not on the edge of your seats waiting to see how Jerry Brown's threats to kill redevelopment in California shake out, but we thought we'd keep
SF News Still Detained Berkeley Grads in Iran Finally on Trial Eighteen months after their ordeal began, after they mistakenly hiked over the Iranian border in northern Iraq, detained U.C. Berkeley grads Joshua Fattal and Shane Bauer finally saw a courtroom yesterday in
SF News Man Takes Taxi to Freeway Overpass In Livermore, Jumps Off This is a gruesome and sad tale: A man in his 30s or 40s took a taxi at 9:30 Saturday morning to a freeway overpass along I-580 at Airway Boulevard in Livermore,
SF News 36-Year-Old Man Dies Sunday at Finish Line of Half-Marathon A 36-year-old man collapsed and died right after crossing the finish line of the Kaiser Permanente Half Marathon Sunday morning. The man has just been identified as 36-year-old Peter Hass of Orinda. Witnesses
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Clybourne Park</em> at A.C.T. We take back everything bad we've said about A.C.T.. Well, almost everything. Clybourne Park is a great choice of play, for its edginess, contemporary-ness, and wit, and the current production up
SF News Serial Arsonist on Loose in Castro as Fourth Blaze Breaks Out in Two Days Just a week after a homeless man was arrested for screaming that he was going to set the whole neighborhood ablaze, Castro residents are freaking over the fourth suspected arson in the area
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Justice Sonia Sotomayor Tours Around, Eats at Chez Panisse Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor paid a visit to the Bay Area yesterday and today, and apparently never left Berkeley. She seems to have been here to judge a mock court competition at
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fleet Foxes' 'White Winter Hymnal' (and Concert Announcement) Indie darlings of 2009 Fleet Foxes have announced some tour dates, and their much anticipated second album Helplessness Blues arrives on May 3rd. (Hear the lovely pre-released title track below, via Soundcloud.) They'll
SF News City of Oakland Warned By Feds About Marijuana Law It shouldn't come as a shock that Oakland's recently enacted ordinance allowing for large-scale medical marijuana grow-houses violates federal law, but now a U.S. attorney has written the City a strongly worded
SF News We Read the Weeklies: February 2, 2011 It's Wednesday, and we thought we'd save you both the ink-dusky fingers and the trouble of scanning the print weeklies yourselves, and provide you with this tidy paperless summary (with appropriate and inappropriate
SF News PG&E Scrambling Around The Clock To Figure Out Their Pipeline Paperwork You know PG&E is pretty much being blamed for killing those people in the September 9 San Bruno inferno and not really knowing what kind of pipes they even had underground
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'What Is Internet?' Today Show 1994 - What Is Internet? - Watch more Funny Videos Picture it: 1994, the Today show. Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel don't know what the @ symbol means, let alone what is
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Robert Hays, <em>Airplane!</em> Star, Who'll Be In S.F. Tonight Robert Hays, who played Ted Striker in the perennially quoted Airplane! movies, is making a special appearance this evening at the Castro Theatre at 7 PM as part of Sketchfest, where he'll be
SF News Old Korbel Winery Garbage Dump Exposed, Starts Washing Down Russian River An abandoned dump site along the Russian River that belonged to the Korbel Champagne Cellars has recently become exposed due to erosion, unearthing old trash like champagne bottles and plastic sheeting that's been
SF News Sit/Lie Law, Not Yet Enforced, Already Changing the Upper Haight? The controversial Sit/Lie law, a.k.a. Prop L, won't be enforced until mid-February, but it already has had a chilling/gloriously cleansing effect on Haight Street, depending on how you see
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fake Tales of San Francisco' by Arctic Monkeys You know this one? Good tune. Just for good measure.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Quince Martini When the weather warms (like it was doing before today), we tend to gravitate back toward the clear liquors. And since we've never been fans of plain and simple martinis (and don't even
SF News Local Native Plant, Once Thought Extinct, Now Bears Hundreds of Babies About a year ago we shared the news that a wild specimen of the plant known as Franciscan manzanita had been discovered on a center freeway divider in the Presidio near the Golden
SF News Cal State Math Professor Pees On Another Professor's Door Professor Tihomir Petrov, who teaches math at California State University, Northridge, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of urinating in a public place after he was caught on video relieving himself on
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kevin Smith Likes Poop VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip Noted filmmaker and airline obesity-rules crusader Kevin Smith, when he gives a lecture, says "'n shit" or the alternate "n shit like that"
SF News Here We Go: District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim Refuses to Recite Pledge of Allegiance Reinforcing the public's perception of the Board of Supervisors as a group of whiny liberal high school kids who go to battle, and occasionally try to one-up each other with how forward-thinking and/
SF News Brown's Budget Kills the State's Juvenile Justice System Too Another line item getting nixed in Jerry Brown's proposed budget is the state's Division of Juvenile Justice, potentially saving the state some $242 million but potentially costing some pain at the county level,
