misc This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 6 Once again it's time 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 C.
SF News Homeowners and Tree Advocates Battle Over New Zealand Christmas Trees You'll likely recognize this species of tree, with the pretty, fuzzy red flowers, of which there are apparently almost 5,000 across the city. It's called a New Zealand Christmas tree, or Metrosideros
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Macbeth</em> at CalShakes We can't stop being impressed with CalShakes. No matter how many productions of Shakespeare they churn out (on average, two per season, with two 50+-year-old, non-Shakespeare works in repertory as well), they
SF News SFist Blotter: Sad and Angry Edition North Oakland / Murder: A woman jealous that her crack-addicted, homeless boyfriend was seeing another woman stabbed him in the neck on August 19, while the two sat in a parked car at San
SF News Case Dropped Against Mentally Ill Guy Who Falsely Confessed to Bomb Threat Our favorite crime reporter, Mike Aldax over at the Examiner, brings us news today of the case against Pacifica resident Antonio Santiago III, age 26, whom authorities accused of making a bomb threat
SF News Coldest Summer in 40 Years Produces Hottest August Day on Record Talk about global weirding: How about that heat yesterday, huh? Tuesday was the hottest August day ever in San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service, tying the all-time high for the month
SF News Whoa: Voracious Oil-Eating Bacteria Swiftly Cleaning Up Gulf Spill So you know how BP and various others have been trying to sell us on the idea that the gargantuan oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico had somehow magically disappeared? Well, now
SF News Teensy Earthquake Hits Piedmont/Oakland No one was likely to feel it over here, but a 2.2 magnitude quake just struck along the Hayward Fault, in Piedmont about a mile from Oakland. You've heard about the Hayward
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cee-Lo Green's "F**k You" It's already been hailed as an "instant classic," and judging from the immediate internet buzz-a-thon it received upon leaking over the weekend that's probably accurate. The song is called "Fuck You," from Goodie
SF News Montel Williams Looks to Open Pot Business in Oakland Celebrity talk show host Montel Williams, whose TV show ceased production a couple years ago but who can still be seen on CBS and BET in syndication, met last week with Oakland City
SF News Cycling Also Turns Deadly in Milpitas Following on last week's horrific collision that killed cyclist Nils Linke at Masonic and Turk, a 17-year-old boy was struck and killed by a vehicle last evening in Milpitas near Capital Avenue and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Italian Boilermaker at Gold Dust Lounge Because it amuses us, we're going to let the Examiner's Mixologist column pinch-hit on this week's cocktail, entirely because they traveled into the Gold Dust Lounge, which despite Prohibition (see Footnote) has been
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vegan Boys Are the Worst Tenderblog points us to this ukulele jam from local artist Jam Hands, and as the artist herself writes, "I'm vegan! I like vegans (mostly)!... I realize these lyrics are stereotypes, quite a few
Arts & Entertainment Exotic Erotic Ball Moves from SF to Richmond Bad news for all polyamorous bisexuals into S&M gear (and speaking of kooky local conventions): the Exotic Erotic Ball this October is relocating from the Cow Palace to the new Craneway
SF News Would Anyone Use a SF-LA High-Speed Rail Line? Is It Practical? Everyone touts Europe and Japan as being so awesome for their high-speed rail lines, and America as being backwards for having only one (the Acela line between Boston and D.C., and even
misc This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 5 Snuggle up next to your laptops again for this week's installment of a mildly confusing feature in which we ask those ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back,
SF News Some Russian Billionaire Parks $300 Million Yacht Off Sausalito An enormous yacht worth $300M was parked off of Sausalito yesterday (and may still be there), and gawkers came in droves. The Marin Independent Journal reports that it belongs to Russian billionaire Andrey
SF News Oakland's City Walk, Abandoned by the Developer in 2007, Resumes Construction City Walk, the big, unfinished white elephant in downtown Oakland perhaps the most visible development casualty in the inner Bay Area of the recent credit crisis looks like it's finally getting a second
Arts & Entertainment More Awesome Photos From Outside Lands, Including Al Green Obviously, we couldn't be everywhere at once at this year's Outside Lands. So now, a couple days after the fact, we give you this awesome new collection of photos from blogger Kata Rokkar
SF News NIMBY Watch: Ike's Still Fighting, Pelosi on Ground Zero Mosque, and More There's an update on Ike's Place and owner Ike Shehadeh's fight to stay put despite upstairs neighbors trying to force him out and the recent revelation that he never really had the right
SF News Turn Down Your Music Or Go Deaf, Says New Study of Teens A new study apparently says that teenagers are losing their hearing at a rate 1/3 higher than in years past, however very little data or backup information is given in this ABC
Arts & Entertainment POV Cam Shot of Rushing the Fence at Outside Lands We mentioned the industrious youths who bum rushed the fence outside the Chromeo show Sunday at the Speedway Meadow, and thanks to the magic of YouTube (and some entity called meshculture), we have
Arts & Entertainment <em>American Idol</em> Returns to SF For Auditions Thursday The show that has ruled all television media for the better part of the decade but which may finally be showing signs of age is returning to San Francisco this week to audition
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Outside Lands 2010 We didn't make it to everything at this year's Outside Lands, but you know what? We had a good time! Especially yesterday, when the sun came out and shined on Chromeo's set in
Arts & Entertainment At Outside Lands, Janelle Monae and Phoenix Rocked We'll have some photos for you in a bit, but for now, please enjoy this little clip from 7x7 of the amazing Janelle Monae, who by many accounts was one of the major
