SF News Muni and BART Receive State Funds Muni received $4.8 million and BART $2 million in state funding for capital projects this week. BART is said to be using the money to fund the Warm Springs extension in Fremont,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Round and Round the Garden</em> at A.C.T. A.C.T.'s latest production, which falls generally into the annual slot they seem to reserve for an English drawing room comedy or similar, is Alan Ayckbourn's 1973 play Round and Round
SF News Today in SF History: 'Black Friday' at City Hall On May 13th 1960, a group of Bay Area college students gathered outside the Supervisors' chambers at City Hall on the second day of hearings by the House Un-American Activities subcommittee, which was
SF News Muni Cutting Back on Fare Enforcement The recent glut of Muni fare enforcement officers on metro trains and platforms is slowing down, at least temporarily, after immigrants' rights advocates have been raising concerns about profiling by the officers. They
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: New "Bloodbuzz Ohio" Video from The National Music world darlings The National, whose second fifth album just came out following a boatload of buzz, are doing two shows at the Fox on May 26th and 27th. The second show is
SF News Epic Beard Man Profiled We really must draw your attention to today's Weekly, in which Lauren Smiley pens a thoughtful profile of Thomas Bruso, a.k.a. Epic Beard Man. One choice quote: "Bruso is not one
SF News Should the Mentally Ill Homeless Be Forced to Take Their Medication? Laura's Law so named after a mentally ill man shot college student Laura Wilcox in Nevada County in 2001 allows a judge more quickly to put a severely mentally ill person under supervised
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Musical Protest Style A flashmob of (mostly) ladies descended on the Westin St. Francis over the weekend to call attention to the boycott of the hotel. The protesters were all of the LGBTQ community, and we're
SF News Mothers Will Be Allowed to Visit Detained Berkeley Grad Hikers in Iran When we last checked in regarding the three UC Berkeley grads who are currently being detained in Iran, they were still doing OK and their siblings had launched a probably hopeless YouTube campaign
SF News <em>The Amazing Race</em> Season 16 Runs Final Leg in SF The sixteenth season of The Amazing Race wrapped up last night, with the final three teams (including Brent and Caite, Caite being the Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 of "the Iraq...and such
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The White Manhattan at Nopa If you're like us, you reserve your Manhattan drinking for colder nights which in SF would mean either mid-winter or mid-summer. Something about the woody, caramel-ness of bourbon makes it either a cold-weather
SF News A New Name in the Your Black Muslim Bakery Case: Gary Popoff New recordings have come to light of conversations between Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV, from the Santa Rita jail where he's being held, and his "Number One Soldier" Gary Popoff
SF News Deer Seeks Revenge for Fallen Brethren A Berkeley woman was attacked by a deer yesterday while walking her dogs. Actually, the dogs, Chihuahuas, were attacked first, and the owner, Sarah Lopus, was only kicked by the deer after she
Arts & Entertainment 'Whistler's Mother' Lands in SF The painting officially known as "Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother" (1871) by James MacNeill Whistler, which is the fourth most recognizable painted image in the world, landed in SF at
SF News Dow Jones Plummets, Kind Of Recovers, Over Greek Crisis We don't own any stocks, ourselves, but if you or someone you love is an i-banker or day trader you may have heard about today's flurry of panic on Wall Street, in which
SF News Morgan Hill: The New Breeding Ground for Racist Teen Tea Party-ers Five teenage boys showed up at school yesterday at Live Oaks High in Morgan Hill wearing American flag t-shirts in order to express their "patriotism" on Cinco de Mayo. The school principal called
SF News Four Jobs Opening Up in Planning Dept. Following Porn Probe Matier and Ross share some juicy gossip today about the possible firing of veteran zoning administrator Larry Badiner and three other higher-ups in the planning department over the circulating of porn in inter-office
SF News For Cinco de Mayo, Sacramento Smells Like a Piña Colada A tanker truck filled with 7,000 gallons of coconut oil crashed and flipped over last night around 2 a.m., spilling the stuff all over the roadway and stinking up half of
SF News Tonga Room's Fate to Be (Possibly) Decided Today The fate of the Tonga Room, that beloved but not often crowded Tiki bar in the bowels of the Fairmont Hotel, is on the docket at the Historic Preservation Commission's meeting today. Though
SF News Sixth Street May Be Getting Its Own Police Substation The City is in negotiations with the landlord at 72 6th Street to create what could become a new mid-market station for the SFPD called the Sixth Street Substation. As the Examiner reports,
SF News Richmond Sinkhole Gets Worse We haven't so much been covering this story over in Richmond about the sinkhole that appeared along the residential road Via Verde, but now that it's been ongoing and getting worse we'll give
Arts & Entertainment Recapping the <em>All About Evil</em> World Premiere at the Castro Theatre For those just tuning in, the SF Int'l Film Fest is still happening and runs through this week. One of the centerpiece premieres at the festival, on Saturday at the Castro, was a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Three Mint Juleps from Rickhouse It's Kentucky Derby weekend, and in honor of that and because we love bourbon we feel compelled to feature these three mint julep recipes (a standard, and two variations) from Rickhouse barman Erick
SF News New SF-Based Collective to Try Again to Revive the Print Mag Idea The successes and limitations of McSweeney's Panorama experiment have been duly noted and recorded, and now a new gang of print media die-hards are trying something different to bring some 21st century speed
SF News Cosco Busan Pilot Lawyer Representing iPhone Taker HA! The latest development in the grand scandale that is the Gizmodo G4 iPhone exposé debacle, is that the attorney who represented that Cosco Busan pilot who crashed his boat and dumped all
