SF News SFist Blotter: Attempted Robbery Victim Holds On to Wallet, With Gun to Head Excelsior / Attempted Robbery: Always the bearer of the best crime stories, the Examiner's Mike Aldax today tells us about the victim of an attempted robbery on Friday who despite a beating, a ripped
SF News Discharged Gays Sue Government Over DADT in S.F. Federal Court Three veterans who were all discharged under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy have filed a new lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming that the policy violated their
SF News Vacaville Teen Allegedly Sexually Assaults and Stabs 13-y-o Neighbor 30 Times The most sordid and sensational story to come out over the weekend is the brutal stabbing and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl by her 14-year-old neighbor, who broke into the girl's house
SF News Casual Carpooling In Crisis After Toll Increase Even though Bay Bridge drive-time tolls increased in July for both regular cars ($6) and carpools ($2.50), the fact that carpooling no longer means a free ride has meant fewer drivers queuing
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: The City Council Wants to Declare the WikiLeaker an American Hero So, Berkeley really enjoys getting under the craw of Fox News and their ilk, much like San Francisco does, but we'd like to think our Board of Supervisors would think twice before declaring
SF News Broken Parking Meters to Stay Free Thankfully, the SF MTA board deadlocked in a vote to impose a one-hour limit on parking in spaces with a broken meter, meaning the old rules are going to continue to apply. A
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Time-Lapse Molds and Fungi This is from the BBC's amazing documentary series Planet Earth, narrated by David Attenborough. And it's NSF you if you're squeamish about yellow slimy things growing before your eyes, time-lapse-style. But otherwise, lovely.
SF News Two Sides of the HIV-in-Porn Debate, One from an L.A. Porn Star, One from a Local Gay Producer "Making $10,000 or $15,000 for porn isn't worth your life," says porn actor Derrick Burts to the LA Times, calling for mandatory condom use on porn shoots and saying, "Performers need
SF News Assessing Gavin's Record on Homelessness According to the Chron, Gavin may be well known around here for his bold moves on behalf of gay marriage, but among other mayors nationally he's recognized for major achievements in the area
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awww, Let's Love S.F. This little celebratory video about our fair city comes from the still-in-alpha-stages site In the Mo, which is a socially-networked travel site of sorts, featuring a lot nice video content (3,500 video
misc This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 7 After a hiatus, we return for an installment of this mildly confusing feature, in which we ask those ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner
SF News Operator in '09 West Portal Muni Crash Had Been Suspended Four Previous Times As if it weren't abundantly clear that 30-year Muni veteran Henry Gray probably still shouldn't have been behind the joystick of a train when he caused that crash in July '09, a new
SF News Preservationists and Castro Gays Battle Over Rainbow Banners Those rainbow flag banners that hang vertically off the tops of lampposts along Market Street in the Castro? They're apparently illegal according to historic preservationists, who say that nothing but temporary banners are
SF News Jury Exonerates Dude Who Was Just Trying to Sell Another Dude a Cigarette We find this story odd and disturbing: 28-year-old Matthew Martinez, a local chef, was walking near 8th and Mission when a staggering man holding a beer can came up to him and asked
SF News WikiLeaks Hit With Denial of Service Attacks Just as It Publishes List of Key U.S. Sites WikiLeaks has unveiled what may be one of the most controversial and U.S.-damaging documents to date: a secret diplomatic cable listing locations abroad that the U.S. considers vital to its
Arts & Entertainment Tiara Sensation Brings a Little Pageantry Back to S.F. Drag The Miss Trannyshack Pageant is on permanent hiatus, but a new generation of drag queens with a somewhat more alternative bent are presenting the first ever Tiara Sensation Pageant tonight at 8 PM
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Lemony Snicket's <em>The Composer Is Dead</em> at Berkeley Rep It's been a season for whimsy and old-fashioned clowning in local theater, with Bill Irwin bringing his adaptation of Molière's Scapin to A.C.T., and now with Berkeley Rep's new theatrical adaptation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Moulin Rouge from Brick & Bottle Don't get up to Corte Madera much? Neither do we. But if you're up there for a spot of holiday shopping and need a place to get a drink, might we recommend the
SF News Pat Burrell Signs Back on for 2011 Giants Season; Get Some Cheap Seats for Next Season Today we get news from The Examiner that the Giants have signed a new 1-year, $1 million deal with outfielder Pat Burrell, who still technically remains a free agent. Perhaps the wacky roommate
SF News Supervisor Eric Mar to Get Mocked By <em>Daily Show</em> Re: That Happy Meal Toy Ban The Daily Show has already spent some time mocking San Francisco's Happy Meal toy ban (in particular Lewis Black's tirade against our Nanny State legislating), which the Board of Supervisors passed last month
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Klaxons' Freaky Orgy (NSFW) Klaxons 'Twin Flames' from Trim Editing on Vimeo. For your afternoon viewing pleasure, please enjoy this little music video for the Klaxons' swell song "Twin Flames," which was directed by Saam Farahmand and
SF News A Meth Lab Bust in S.F.! In Laurel Heights! Five people have been arrested in a meth lab bust in Laurel Heights. Neighbors interviewed by ABC 7 and other news orgs expressed suspicion about the late night "activity" and "carrying on" happening
SF News Man Walks Into Oakland PD, Says He Was Shot At, Admits to 30 Armed Robberies 21-year-old Walter Sayles went to speak with the Oakland police about being shot at around 5 a.m. yesterday morning. Cops started speaking with Sayles about some robberies that were happening in the
SF News We Read the Weeklies: December 1, 2010 It's Wednesday, and the Weekly kicks things off for us this week with a grand cover article by Lauren Smiley about the ever growing band of gay nudists who have shown up on
misc News Websites Re-Post Fake News Story About An S.F. Man Orgasming During a TSA Pat-Down If only because it sounds like something that really might happen here, and not unlike a scene from the Folsom Street Fair, a fake news item went around yesterday about a sexually dysfunctional
