misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day [Ed. Note: Ruby is a six-month-old Boston Terrier] Via J.H. in the Mission: "Just had a very only in SF moment. I was walking Ruby in the mission and I stopped to
Arts & Entertainment Win Free Tickets to Juanita MORE!'s After-Pride Party There's a scavenger hunt going on today, sponsored by GayCities.com, in which local drag impresario Juanita MORE! is checking in (via iPhone app) at various locales throughout the city and dropping off
SF News Mehserle Said 'F*ck This' Before Shooting Oscar Grant In the Johannes Mehserle trial yesterday, a witness testified that a frustrated Johannes Mehserle shouted "Fuck this" before reaching for his gun and shooting Oscar Grant in the back that fateful New Year's
SF News 2-Year-Old Found Wandering Streets of Petaluma, Mother Clueless A possibly drugged up mother fell asleep last night in Petaluma and lost track of her two-year-old daughter, only to have the tyke end up wandering the streets of town by herself, unable
SF News Today In Absurd Budget Problem Solutions: Electronic Ads on License Plates The State Assembly is considering a measure to begin researching the technology and implementation of electronic license plates statewide, a move that hopes to help close the $19 billion budget gap we're currently
SF News Pot Dispensary to Possibly Open Way Downtown A new medical marijuana facility is looking to open at 527 Howard Street, between First and Second, and the Examiner points out that this would make it the closest weed place to downtown
SF News Zennie Explores Oil Eating Bacteria Citizen journalist and onetime e-friend of SFist, Zennie Abraham (we hope he's forgiven us for that Oscars incident, but we digress), was taking a break from World Cup mania and walking down the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Black Rose from The Burritt Room Kevin Diedrich, a bartending vet who previously worked at Bourbon & Branch and Clock Bar, recently opened an awesome little bar in what was once the lobby of the Crescent Hotel. The entrance
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Super Mario Bros. Beatboxing Hat tip: Laughing Squid. PREVIOUSLY: Super Mario Galaxy Spec Ad
SF News Updated: Explosion at Le Meridien Hotel We're getting reports of a loud explosion and major siren action in the Financial District. SF Appeal is saying the location is the Le Meridien Hotel at Battery and Sansome. UPDATE: ABC 7
SF News Another Wealthy Peninsula Enclave Hosts Homicide A Woodside man, Pooroushasb "Peter" Parineh, was arrested yesterday in connection with the shooting death of his wife Parima in April, originally believed to be a suicide. Mr. Parineh had reported upon calling
SF News Gavin, DiFi, 78 Others Kick Off China Tour An 80-person entourage including Newsom, former mayors Willie Brown and Frank Jordan, Nancy Pelosi, Di Fi, and BART board of directors president James Fang, begins a tour of China today in celebration of
SF News They're Still Talking About Saving Those Dangling Buildings In Pacifica Despite the fact that to any rational human being the situation looks totally untenable, the property owners at 320 and 330 Esplanade Ave. in Pacifica have not yet completely given up on saving
SF News Three Alarm Fire Blazing at Turk and Taylor A six- or seven-story blue building, presumably an SRO, at the northwest corner of Turk and Taylor is currently on fire. Much smoke is filling the streets around mid-Market, and the traffic situation,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sissy Nobby's "Runnin Booty" It's mesmerizing, ain't it? Shake that booty, ladies (and gentlemen). This has to count as aerobic activity. [via WOW]
SF News Muni Drivers Reject Contract Concessions, Muni Head Not Giving Up Despite Gavin's threats of "real consequences" if they didn't vote his way, Muni bus, metro, and cable car operators voted 747 to 548 yesterday last Friday to reject the proposed contract concessions aimed
SF News Don't Expect to Get Back From Sonoma Quickly on Sunday If you're thinking about a casual, bucolic Sunday drive up to Sonoma this weekend, please be advised that the now annual Father's Day installment of NASCAR will be descending on Infineon Raceway, complete
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 2010: A Guide to the Gay Film Fest Film festivals, for all but the unemployed and the truly film-obsessed, can be overwhelming. Who has time to see like a hundred movies in a couple of weeks? We suppose it's never the
SF News Suck It Santa Clara: You Still Have To Take Shorter Showers In what will probably become one of the new fun regional rivalry games of the future, today we can all gloat and throw taunts in the direction of Santa Clara County who, despite
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Juanita MORE! Moves Her Pride Party to Dogpatch Knowing that Bambuddha Lounge was closing (you've heard, right?), drag queen and party promoter Juanita MORE! had to find another place for gays of all stripes to congregate after the Sunday Gay Pride
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alembic, Cantina, & Toronado Return to <em>Esquire</em>'s Best Bars List Esquire just revised and published their annual list of the Best Bars in America, and the long list of S.F. spots remains intact from last year including Alembic, Cantina, Toronado, Bourbon &
SF News BART Spending Oodles of Money On Semi-Useless Public Meetings Remember when BART effed themselves out of that $70 million in federal stimulus money because they failed to document how higher fares and a possible "major service change" would affect low-income and minority
SF News Woman Has Seizure, Smashes SUV Into Samovar Tea Lounge Multiple news outlets this morning are reporting on the Mercedes SUV that rolled into Samovar in the Castro yesterday, injuring both the driver and a woman sitting outside who was pinned to the
SF News Melissa Huckaby to Be Sentenced This Morning Melissa Huckaby, the 29-year-old Tracy woman who you may recall kidnapped and murdered that 8-year-old girl last year, will appear in court this a.m. and is expected to receive a life sentence
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Tosca Project</em> at A.C.T. The latest production at A.C.T. is less a theater piece than it is a dance piece, and it's not quite the experimental, genre-blurring work that it aspires to be as it
