SF News Shootout With Heavily Armed, Crazed Right-Winger Shuts Down I-580 for Most of Sunday A parolee hellbent on killing San Francisco, or something, began a shootout with CHP officers Saturday night in Oakland that shut down I-580 through most of Sunday. The freeway was shut down in
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: "Sing Me Spanish Techno" by New Pornographers The New Pornographers (the band which, btw, still includes Neko Case) play the Fox on Sunday, and JFYI, there are still tickets left. They have a new album out called Together, and in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Root of All Evil at Blackbird Ever since opening last summer, Blackbird (2124 Market Street) has been a welcome and busy addition to the Castro / Church Street environs, and one of the only truly mixed scenes in the neighborhood
SF News Apple iPhone 4 Announcement LiveBlog Apple haters and schadenfreude-holics are all rubbing their hands with glee because, starting at 10 a.m., Apple is going to be hosting a very special press conference/come-to-Jesus moment in re: the
SF News Conviction Upheld for Late 90s SoMa Rapist A 52-year-old man convicted of raping two women in 1998 had his conviction upheld by a state appeals judge yesterday. Larry White was convicted in 2005 of the crimes, via DNA evidence, of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Mrs. Warren's Profession</em> at CalShakes The Bay Area, sadly, does not have the same vibrant, well supported stream of new work on its theater stages as New York does Off-Broadway, but then again no American city really does.
SF News Oil Stops Spewing Into Gulf for First Time Since April BP successfully stopped the gushing oil well from gushing just now, choking off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April. About goddamn time, people. This
SF News Pelosi to Make Obama Her Bitch This Year, Refuses to Lose Control of House Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is coming out swinging after White House spokesman Robert Gibbs' comments yesterday about the Democratic Party's slim chances of maintaining control of the House in the November
SF News Those Three Hikers in the Iranian Prison? They're Still There Almost a Year Later The mothers of the three hikers detained in Iran after accidentally tip-toeing across the border while hiking in Northern Iraq last summer have just sent a new letter to the head of the
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Old Spice Guy Responds to Tweets As far as web-related brand-extension exercises go, we're fans of the latest stunt by Old Spice, in which their hyper-masculine and hilarious mascot, now known as The Old Spice Guy, is responding to
SF News ACLU Trying to Fight State's DNA Collection Policy We want to like the ACLU, really we do, but sometimes they have to take difficult positions in order to secure legal precedents like privacy rights, as in the case they're arguing now
SF News Two Oakland Councilwomen Under Investigation for Mehserle Protest Night Despite the teenage-titter-worthy quality of the Matier and Ross headline ("Oakland cops probing two councilwomen at protest"), this isn't actually a story about sexual assault. The OPD is going after council members Jean
SF News Transbay Parking Lot Getting Sifted Through By Archaeologists As some of you familiar with urban construction projects may know, one of the first steps in building something new in a city like ours is bringing in the archaeologists. Today, digging begins
SF News SFist Blotter: A Picnic Robbery in McLaren Park, a Market Street Beating, Etc. Robbery: A group of male coworkers who were picnicking together in McLaren Park on Saturday were robbed at gunpoint around 12:20 p.m. Though the place may seem like a nice place
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest Lineup Announced, Includes LCD Soundsystem, Belle & Sebastian The lineup for this year's Treasure Island Music Fest was just announced, and once again it looks pretty good! This cozy little fest in the middle of the bay has been touted by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hop Toad Cocktail at Comstock Saloon Comstock Salooon, the new throwback-to-1907 bar in North Beach from former Absinthe bar guys Jeff Hollinger and Jonny Raglin, is a great place to get a stiff drink. If you're feeling adventurous, ask
Arts & Entertainment The Levi's Thing on Valencia: Not As Shill-y as You Think So, the new Levi's pop-up thing (they're reluctant to call it a 'store,' and it's kind of not) in the former Slanted Door location on Valencia Street between 16th and 17th, is
SF News Plan for CityPlace Mall on Mid-Market Moves Forward, Might Include Target Yes, eager shoppers, you may soon be able to get Giada DiLaurentiis bakeware and other Target bargains right in the heart of S.F. The Planning Commission yesterday voted 5-2 to approve the
SF News Justice Department Stepping in to Investigate Mehserle Case The federal government has decided to intervene following yesterday's verdict in the trial of Johannes Mehserle. The Justice Department's civil rights division, along with the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco and
Arts & Entertainment This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 1 The weekly scene outside the 16th and Mission BART station at about 11 p.m. last night, where a crowd was gathered for an impromptu vigil of sorts a 'peaceful' protest, if you
SF News Dumpsters Burn, Foot Locker Looted, Not Much Else Goes Down In Oakland Here's some raw footage, shot by ABC 7, intended to make you believe Oakland was just a big chaotic bonfire following the Mehserle verdict. In actuality, these were just a few fiery dumpsters
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Night Shows Announced For all those of you who don't want to spring for the full weekend We just figured out that these shows are only available to Outside Lands ticket holders... you need a password
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Café Gratitude Spreads the Good Word Down South Raw/vegan eatery Café Gratitude is spreading the love down to SoCal, with a new location opening in Hollywood, as Grub Street LA and NBC are reporting. The often odorific (both in food
SF News Fake Friar Brought Up on Molestation Charges Anthony Thomas Falco, who went by the made up moniker Brother Tom, is in custody in South San Francisco on $1.6 million bail after he was found (via Google) to have a
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Double Rainbow Song This little bit of wonderful comes from the brilliant minds behind Auto-Tune the News (remember them?), who also received some accolades recently for this Obama Kickass Song, featuring President Obama, Matt Lauer, Tinky-Winky,
