misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Belle & Sebastian's "I Want the World to Stop" Beloved moody crooners Belle & Sebastian are coming to the Bay this weekend for a Sunday headliner set at the Treasure Island Music Festival. This new ditty is from B&S's new
SF News SFist Blotter: Stabbing at 18th & Capp, Details About Bayview Cop Shootout Mission / Stabbing: A fight broke out at the door of a residence at 18th & Capp on Saturday evening that resulted in a stabbing. Someone was arrested but details are sketchy. As Mission
SF News Muni Ridership Down 4%, But Bottom Line Is Fine The SF MTA reports that for the fiscal year that ended June 30, Muni ridership decreased by 10 million riders last year, a total of 4.4%. The biggest decrease was seen on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: WhiskyFest Edition Tonight, at the Marriott, a few hundred people will gather to taste 260 different whiskies, and may or may not all live to see tomorrow. JK! But tonight is WhiskyFest, and for the
SF News Doctors Prepare to Perform First Ever Reconstructive Surgery on Shot Sea Lion's Face Veterinarians at the Marine Mammal Center in Vallejo and a plastic surgeon who usually works on people are set to perform the first ever reconstructive surgery on a sea lion that was found
SF News Third Suspect Charged In Bayview Murder; Drama Erupts at Courthouse After Arraignment SFist's favorite crime reporter Mike Aldax over at the Examiner brings us an update today on the case of last month's home invasion and slaying of Dennis Wayne Dixon. In the earlier Chron
SF News No We're Not Under Attack That's just the Blue Angels. Remember how we mentioned them. It's their annual Fleet Week "maneuvers." Yeah. Our nerves our shot too.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Four Kittens On a Roomba Watch as four adorable kittens take a ride around the kitchen, and slowly fall off, one by one, to the soundtrack of "The Sacrificial Dance" from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. [via BuzzFeed]
SF News Brown Still Has Plenty of Money Left in Campaign Coffers; Whitman, Not So Much According to new campaign finance reports, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is swiftly running out of money, while Jerry Brown still has plenty with which to run attack ads between now and November
SF News California May Proceed With Executing People In a court filing yesterday, the State of California (Jerry Brown's office to be exact) said they had obtained a fresh supply of twelve grams of the lethal injection drug sodium thiopental with
SF News Federal Jury Believes Oakland Police Planted Gun on Rapper A federal jury awarded $175,000 to a parolee who spent 22 months in the clink after police found him illegally in possession of a handgun. Local rap star Lorenzo Hall has maintained
SF News Pat Cody, Co-Founder of Cody's Books, Dies at 87 Patricia Cody, who with her husband Fred co-founded Cody's Books in Berkeley in 1956, died Thursday at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. She was 87. The Codys settled in Berkeley after meeting at Columbia
SF News Peninsula Wealthy Don't Want No Stinkin High-Speed Rail The cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Atherton, along with five environmental and citizens groups, filed suit Monday to stop the proposed high-speed rail that will rip through their quiet enclaves, if
SF News 'God Hates Fags' Case Goes Before Supreme Court Today's the day that Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are standing before the Supreme Court in a First Amendment case relating to their military funeral protests. The justices appeared to
SF News Starbucks to Get Trans/Gender Neutral Bathrooms (Should've Happened Here First) Washington D.C. area Starbucks are caving to pressure from LGBT groups and converting their gender-specific restrooms to gender neutral ones. The D.C. Trans Coalition led the push to convert the single-occupancy
SF News That Alcohol Tax? Still Possibly Not Dead. Even though Gavin vetoed that alcohol "fee" (or "tax" if you prefer), there are apparently rumblings still on the Board of Supervisors, likely originating with John Avalos, about trying to override Gavin's veto.
SF News Hot Weather Brings Surge of Bedbugs Cases of bedbugs in San Francisco rental housing are on the rise, and a recent surge may be blamed on the recent hot weather we experienced -- bedbugs thrive in temperatures of 70
SF News One Man Stabbed, Woman Kidnapped in San Jose Home Invasion A bad dude named Brian Adrong (a.k.a. Tony Fam) stormed into a home in the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose early Sunday morning, stabbed a 28-year-old man and kidnapped 18-year-old Judy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Mean Streets at Foreign Cinema This week's cocktail, which is meant for warm weather (we know, today doesn't quite count) is named after Martin Scorsese's seminal film, Mean Streets. It was created by Foreign Cinema's bar manager Bryan
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "The Impact Bag" "You don't stuff it with the wrong material. Use soft cloth, never sand or those little little light peanuts." Also: "The only time you want to hit the bag hard is if you're
Arts & Entertainment What to See at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010 Hey y'all! It's the 10th anniversary of the free concert that Warren Hellman built in Golden Gate Park, and the stars are coming out to celebrate along with, easily, half of San Francisco.
SF News Mother Charged With Endangerment After Kid Eats Pot This morning SFist returns to one of our favorite beats: local children consuming marijuana and other drugs by accident or on purpose. 19-year-old Marisela Guadalupe Barraza of South San Francisco pleaded not guilty
misc San Francisco Was Once Lovingly Called 'The Smut Capital of America' Were you aware that the birth of hardcore pornography happened right here in San Francisco? Feel proud, kids. During the brief period of 1968 to 1972, the barriers fell for both strip clubs
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day From E.L.: "I think Whitman forgot to take out her retainer for the debate."
SF News Dead Bear Found Outside Strip Mall in San Leandro A dead black bear, apparently shot, was dumped outside a taqueria at a strip mall in San Leandro on Sunday, and this all happened during business hours. ABC 7 has the story, and
