SF News America's First Gay Museum Opens In Castro The GLBT Historical Society, whose home is in S.F., just opened the nations's first GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th Street, in what was formerly a retail and laundromat space. The Society
SF News And Yes, Moonbeam Redux Nixes Redevelopment As we mentioned last week, redevelopment funds looked to be on the chopping block in Jerry Brown's budget, and it was. The governor is looking to save $2.7 billion by cuttting off
SF News S.F. Zoo Welcomes Baby Anteater, New Hippo And today in cute baby animal news: The S.F. Zoo welcomed their first newborn baby anteater in 10 years on December 22. Giant anteaters can live up to 26 years in captivity,
SF News Deleted Comments from Sarah Palin's Facebook Wall Re: Giffords Shooting We must give credit where credit is due, and the kids over at The Awl put together a terrific and upsetting collection of screengrabs of comments that were deleted off of Sarah Palin's
SF News Potentially Fatal Shooting in Dolores Park; Fatal Shooting in Western Addition Mission / Shooting: A 20-year-old man is in critical condition following a shooting in Dolores Park around 11 p.m. on Friday night. The victim was standing at the corner of 20th and Dolores
SF News The Suspected Arizona Gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, Has a YouTube Channel The events today in Arizona were horrific and disturbing to say the least. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims, including federal judge John Roll, and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Rusty Rake at 15 Romolo We're going to let the Examiner pinch hit on this week's cocktail, because we're still hungover from New Year's and can't think about mixing a drink just yet. But, in theory, this drink
SF News Marin Gets Slapped For Not Having Any Minorities, Agrees to Find Some You know how Marin County is pretty much entirely white? Well, HUD (the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) actually has a problem with this, because they've been giving the County
SF News Rose Pak Doesn't F@%k Around “Now you know why they say I play politics like a blood sport.” Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, in the culminating quote of a new Bay Citizen/NYT piece that provides a complete
SF News SRO Art Thief Gets One Year In Jail Terry Helbing, a 53-year-old resident of a Tenderloin residence hotel, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he stole $15,000 in paintings from the horticulture library at the S.F. Botanical Garden. In
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Brief History of the Future A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo. Oh, this is marvelous. Can you name all (or any) of the B-movies featured herein? [Courtesy of the brilliant minds at
SF News Is Jerry Going to Kill Off Redevelopment to Save Education? No doubt, Jerry Brown's got big problems to work out in Sacramento to deal with the state's $28 billion dollar deficit. But word on the street is that he's contemplating ending redevelopment, the
SF News Muni Ends Hiring Freeze; About Half of All Muni Drivers Aren't Working Each Day Of the 2,100 Muni drivers currently employed by the SF MTA, some 900 or so are unavailable for work on any given day due to sick leave, long-term leave, or days off.
SF News Ship Shows Up Beneath Sand at Ocean Beach, Mysterious Tar Balls Showing Up In Marin Winter weather exposes some old stuff at the coasts, and some mysterious tar balls, hundreds of them, appearing on beaches in Marin -- with a large number on Limantour Beach at Point Reyes.
SF News SFist Blotter: Six Wounded in East Oakland Shooting, a Manhunt in Point Reyes East Oakland / Driveby Shooting: Six men were wounded last night in a shooting near 89th Ave. and D Street in Oakland -- including a man who lay in bed watching TV in a
SF News Little Known City Admin Ed Lee Looks to Be Our New Mayor, and Daly is Super Pissed Yesterday's eight-and-a-half-hour meeting of the Board of Supervisors regarding the vote for interim mayor -- a drama which, as we noted, riveted at least several dozen non-blogging, non-journalist San Franciscans -- culminated in
SF News Pioneering Environmentalist Kay Kerr, Founder of Save the Bay, Dies at 99 We'd like to bring your attention to an obituary of particular local importance: Catherine "Kay" Kerr, wife of a one-time chancellor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the early environmental activism group Save
SF News Updated: S.F. Sees <strike>2nd</strike> 3rd Homicide in First 2 Days of New Year Mid-Market / Stabbing: The city's second homicide victim of 2011 (the first was 20-year-old Larry Lacy, shot Saturday in the 'Loin) was stabbed to death by his roommate at a residence on Market Street
SF News Facebook Gets Big Investment From Goldman Sachs, Russians Zuckerberg has yet another reason to celebrate today as Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm fork over $500 million in a deal that puts Facebook's current valuation at something like $50 billion
SF News The <em>NYT</em> Hears About High-Speed Rail, And the 'Ghost Town' Terminus We heard early in December about the decision to build the first leg of the California high-speed rail line between Bakersfield and Corcoran, in the Central Valley, with a terminus in a place
SF News We Read the Weeklies: December 29, 2010 In these colder months, it may be tempting to leave the weeklies where they lie in their street corner bins so that the homeless might fashion blankets out of them. Should that be
misc Morning Palate Cleanser: 'B4 The Mission Was Clean' B4 The Mission was Clean from patrick gleason on Vimeo. Skate culture maven Patrick Gleason compiled this video, which contains High8 footage of skateboarders shot in the Mission between 1994 and 1997, set
SF News Snowboarder Goes Missing in Tahoe 25-year-old Shawnte Marie Willis of Tahoma went missing yesterday afternoon while snowboarding with friends at the Alpine Meadows Ski Resort. Willis' boyfriend reported her missing after she became separated from her friends, and
SF News Fiona Ma Backs Down a Bit on Anti-Rave Bill, Will Hold Some Meetings You'll recall how State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma was looking to define what a "rave" was so that she could write a bill that would ban raves from occurring on public property? Well, now
SF News Autopsy Results, Victim's Name Released in Oakland Woman's Death The woman whose nude body was found Friday at the entrance to a bike path off Skyline Blvd. in the Oakland Hills has been identified as Jill Marie Abbott, age 40, of Richmond.
