SF News Theresa Sparks, Other Transgender Candidates, Make the <em>NYT</em> The NYT/Bay Citizen notes several transgender candidates running for elected office this election season, including local examples Theresa Sparks (running for District 6 Supervisor) and Victoria Kolakowski (running for Alameda County Superior
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (at Michael Mina) Michael Mina, the eponymous restaurant from chef Michael Mina that was formerly at the Westin St. Francis (that space has now become Mina's steakhouse concept Bourbon Steak) has relocated to the former Aqua
SF News Exotic Erotic Ball Canceled One Day Before It Was Supposed to Go Down In Richmond The Exotic Erotic Ball's choice to relocate from Cow Hollow the Cow Palace [Ed. Note: sorry, typing too fast] to Richmond's Craneway Pavilion may have been a mistake. The Contra Costa Times reports
SF News Head of SF's Gay Pride Steps Down Amid Allegations of Mismanagement San Francisco Pride Executive Director Amy Andre vacated her post this week after it came to light that multiple non-profit groups who ran booths at this year's Civic Center celebration were owed $46,
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep Presents Unprecedented Three-Part Epic Play Cycle on Afghanistan Starting tomorrow, Berkeley Rep is presenting the ambitious, unprecedented collective work called The Great Game: Afghanistan. Originally premiered in London, the cycle is presented in three parts, comprising a total of 12 short
SF News Don't Be Alarmed By That Alarm... ... which is starting in ten minutes, at 10:21. It's just the earthquake drill, the Great Shakeout, that we told you about yesterday. During the drill, BART trains will stop for about one
SF News Homeless Woman Burns Tourist's Face With Cigarette at Fisherman's Wharf In a new endorsement for S.F. as America's number-one tourist destination (18th year in a row, boyeee), two "transients" attacked a tourist couple near Fisherman's Wharf last week. As Mike Aldax reports
SF News CNN Discovers Just How Easy It Is to Get a Medical Marijuana Card Oh, this is amusing: CNN does some hard-hitting reporting today on the topic of how easy it is get a medical marijuana card, and whether we should all be outraged that "90 to
misc Daly's Dive: Not Gonna Happen Well, ladies and gentlemen, Supervisor Chris Daly's deal to take over Buck Tavern on Market Street has fallen through, and there go his plans (at least in the near term) to become a
SF News 41-Year-Old Cold Case Solved Near Monterey A Texas man has been arrested in connection with the 1969 murder of Chris Lopes, a case which remained unsolved until now. The death of the 19-year-old basketball star and Monterey Peninsula College
SF News Five San Bruno Families, One Burlingame Lawyer, Bring New Suits Against PG&E Five new lawsuits were brought against PG&E in San Mateo County Superior Court yesterday, with five families affected by the September 9 inferno suing the utility for unspecified damages as well
SF News Major Muni Underground Delays Happening We just received word from a friend of SFist of an hour-and-a-half ordeal this afternoon trying to get from Church Street to Embarcadero. This friend reports, "Muni cars are going backwards. Everyone being
SF News New Civic Center Hostel Will Nearly Double the Number of Hostel Beds In City A proposed "upscale hostel" at 7th and Market with a restaurant, basement nightclub, and two large rooftop terraces was approved by the Planning Commission last week, and once completed in 2012 it will
SF News Bill Clinton Stumps In Napa and San Jose, Warns That Not Voting Will Wreck Everything The Big Daddy of all Democrats, Bill Clinton, was here over the weekend, giving his 83rd stump speech of this election season and trying to convince the Democratic base that there's reason for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Bourbonmela at Perbacco This week, though it's been a warm one, we discovered a delicious new fall cocktail on the menu at Perbacco. It combines several of our favorite flavors -- bourbon, basil, apple -- into
SF News Coit Tower Attackers' Descriptions and Police Sketches Released You'll recall the brutal attack on a South Bay couple on their second date at Coit Tower back in August, in which the male victim was brutally beaten and both were mugged? The
SF News Two Spanish-Speaking Cockatiels Go Missing in the 'Loin A $250 reward is being offered for the return of two Spanish-speaking cockatiels, both males, who recently went missing in the vicinity of Leavenworth and Eddy. As Tenderblog dutifully reports, the birds are
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Porn Tech Support See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. This video stars Kunal Nayyar of The Big Bang Theory. Courtesy of College Humor, via Laughing Squid.
Arts & Entertainment A Love of Omelets Brings an Actress and a Car Dealer Together to Open a Comedy Club A new comedy club is opening November 4 on the mezzanine level of the AMC Van Ness building at 1000 Van Ness (actually called the Don Lee Cadillac Building and built in 1921)
SF News Did a Gas Line Pressure Spike Cause the San Bruno Blast? The first report from federal investigators on September 9th's San Bruno explosion came out last night, and though it gives no clear answers about the cause of the blast, it does give some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Author Michael Cunningham on <em>Forum</em> Today on KQED's Forum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours, Specimen Days, At Home at the End of the World) talked with Michael Krasny about his new novel, By Nightfall, which tells
misc Watch a Time-Lapse Video of the J-Church Rail Replacement Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo. Streetsblog just posted this fun time-lapse video of three days worth of rail replacement work on the J-Church line at
SF News Fairfield Woman Kills Twin Girls, Botches Suicide A 28-year-old Fairfield woman stabbed her twin three-year-old girls to death last night and then attempted both to kill herself and set fire to her apartment. Firefighters discovered the gruesome scene, with the
SF News Lacking (Viable) African-American Candidates for Mayor, Black Churches in Oakland Rally Behind Jewish Lesbian In a twist that is so very Bay Area, the candidate for mayor who's increasingly becoming the favorite among black churches in Oakland is Rebecca Kaplan, a Jewish lesbian City Council member who
SF News Marin Sees Second Teen Suicide In a Week A 13-year-old boy was found early yesterday morning having apparently killed himself in Marinwood, in San Rafael. He was in an exposed public area along Grande Paseo, and was found by another student
