Arts & Entertainment Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket Headlining Outside Lands 2010 Outside Lands organizers have been sitting on the full lineup and waiting to release it on June 1st, but yesterday some eagle-eyed music fans noticed that an ad a sidebar in the new
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chinchilla Dust Bath Since you may soon no longer be able to legally procure a market-grade chinchilla in these parts, you will have to be consoled with only virtual, YouTube chinchilla entertainment. Cheers.
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Books to Maybe Possibly Shutter? The Adobe bookshop (3166 16th Street), that beloved, cozy, second-hand shop on 16th Street with a backroom gallery, is facing some hard times. They have an alarming sign up in the window for
SF News The Rain This Month Is Allegedly Unremarkable Has this not been the most dismal and chilly May you can remember in the Bay Area, like, ever? It is in SFist's opinion. But some meteorological nerd today tells us, via the
SF News Carpoolers Likely to Have to Pay $3 to Cross Golden Gate No more free rides for carpoolers, kids. Crossing the Bay Bridge and other spans, if you've got three or more passengers, will be going from $0 to $2.50 on July 1, and
SF News Are You Losing COBRA Coverage Next Month? The Chron today has a helpful little public service tidbit for those who may be losing their subsidized COBRA health coverage on Monday, which is when the federal COBRA subsidy ends for those
SF News Soon, You May Not Be Able to Buy a Chinchilla in S.F. You know how pets here are officially called "companions" and not "pets"? Well now the city is considering a proposal to ban not only the sale of cats and dogs, but also rats,
misc Even the Homeless Hate Muni Overheard on the Muni underground while idling in the tunnel between Church and Van Ness for 5+ minutes. The speaker was a possibly home-challenged fellow in his mid-fifties, dirt under the fingernails, shaggy
SF News Old Dude Sues Google Over Age Discrimination Brian Reid, 60, claims that he was laid off from Google in 2004, at the age of 54, because he was too old. He was told at the time of the layoff that
SF News Obama Visits Solar Panel Firm in Fremont The Obamas are only in town for another hour or so, taking off from SFO at about noon. The President spent this morning at Fremont solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, which the San Jose
SF News Don't Eat the Brown Acid (In Humboldt) Authorities have been seeing multiple cases of dudes having very bad trips up in Humboldt, prompting them to believe that there's a bad batch of acid going around. It all started when paramedics
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>In the Wake</em> at Berkeley Rep On paper, we'll admit, this was not a play we were necessarily excited to see: multiple lesbian characters, one woman's struggle to choose between a man and another woman set in New York
SF News Crime Declined Overall in '09, Despite Crap Economy Bucking conventional wisdom about how crime rises as incomes fall and unemployment rises, the FBI's latest report on nationwide crime statistics for 2009 shows an overall decline in both violent and non-violent crime.
SF News Oakland Police: Too Bad-Ass For Boxing The International Boxing Association has banned the Oakland Police Department from future fights in the "Badge vs. Badge" police boxing series pending an investigation of the causes of an audience brawl Friday night
misc SFist Drinks: The Caribeño at Smuggler's Cove In light of the Chron piece this week in which several preservationists and a Fairmont Hotel neighbor dissed the Tonga Room as both unprofitable and out of date, we turned to our friend
SF News NIMBY Watch: Noe Valley Merchants Want to Be YIMBYs; Ike's Neighbors Willing to Settle... for $1M! There's a roaring battle afoot between the Noe Valley Merchants and Professionals Association who came out in support of the Pavements to Parks initiative to create a trial parklet at 24th and Noe
Arts & Entertainment SFist Mini-Reviews: 'Rhino' at the Boxcar Theater It's a truncated play, and we figure we'll give it a truncated review, despite the fact that our enthusiasm for this new work playing at the Boxcar Theatre (Natoma near 6th) is huge.
SF News Gay Couple in Malawi Sentenced to 14 Years for 'Unnatural Acts' A homosexual couple, Tiwonge Chimbalanga (pictured, right) and Steven Monjeza (left back) were sentenced today to 14 years in prison for gross indecency and unnatural acts in court in Blantyre, Malawi. The two
SF News DNA Backlog at SFPD Includes 23 Murders, 86 Rapes The backlog at the SFPD's crime lab includes evidence that could convict murderers in 23 cases, as well as evidence in 86 sexual assaults and 187 burglaries, some dating back to 2005 and
misc Happy Birthday, Grace Jones Today is Grace Jones' 62nd birthday, and as a sort of supplemental palate cleanser today, because you did have to suffer a bomb threat and all, please enjoy this clip of her as
SF News Counter-Terrorist Sea Lion Nabs Fake Terrorist You can't make this shit up, folks! Two specially trained sea lions and a dolphin succeeded in "identifying" a suspicious device attached to a concrete pier piling as part of a counter-terrorism exercise
SF News Porta Potties Coming Permanently to Dolores Park! Well, everyone, this is our last, pre-renovation summer of Dolores Park fun (how fenced off it will be by next summer remains uncertain), but the good folks at Dolores Park Works are claiming
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Discusses Oil Spill on <em>60 Minutes</em> UC Berkeley professor Dr. Robert Bea is an expert in off-shore oil rig accidents, and he was asked by the White House last week to analyze the BP disaster in the Gulf. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Plaza Cocktail from Wexler's This week's drink is a special creation from Wexler's bar manager Kate Bolton, to be featured at CUESA's "Swing into Spring" event next Wednesday. The event is focusing on gin-based, seasonal, farmers' market
SF News NIMBY Watch: Ike's May Be Forced to Close, Café Du Soleil Wins Music Permit Some of you may have heard the news, via the Chron's Inside Scoop yesterday, that Ike Shehadeh, owner of the ever-popular Ike's Place, has been served with an eviction notice. The owner of
