SF News Murderer Convicted Despite Witnesses Saying They Were Completely Eff'd Up That Night Anyone who thinks SF isn't tough enough on violent crime, listen up: Silas Byers, 44, was convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday in San Francisco court for the June 2009 slaying of Douglas
SF News Jon Stewart Weighs In on the iPhone G4 Scandal The Daily Show last night got in on the game about the Gizmodo/iPhone G4 prototype scandal. Stewart: "Here's how I think the crime went down. 8PM Nerdlington J. Techsupport walks into a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jónsi at Amoeba, 4/17/2010 Jónsi, the lead man from Sigor Ros who's recently been traveling solo, played this little set at Amoeba records in SF on April 17th, just prior to hopping down to Coachella. Please enjoy.
SF News So, Who Stole the G4 iPhone That Got Chen In All That Trouble? According to KCBS, police know who stole the G4 iPhone that was supposedly "found" in a Redwood City bar and subsequently sold it to Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen for $5,000. As we
misc <em>Project Runway</em>'s Fourth-Placer, Jay Sario, Gets Touched By Strangers 7x7 sat down with Project Runway almost-finalist and Gap Kids designer Jay Sario last week, and they chatted over coffee at Four Barrel just hours before the show's finale aired. Takeaways from the
SF News Just How Big Is the Tea Party in the East Bay? On April 15th, the various Tea Party factions of the East Bay organized an event at the Alameda County Fairgrounds that allegedly drew 10,000 people. Skeptical of what this meant, East Bay
Arts & Entertainment The <em>Amélie</em> Guy Would Love to Make a Movie Here French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie, Delicatessen) was here last week for the SF Film Fest premiere of his new film Micmacs. Sonny Angulo of VidSF catches him on the red carpet and asks
Arts & Entertainment <em>Wicked</em> to Close, Finally, in September The reign of tourist terror at 8th and Market will finally end, or at least ebb, come September as SHN announces the closing date of Wicked. The musical, centered on the friendship between
SF News Newsom Convenes Black and Asian Leaders to Discuss Tensions Following three recent, violent attacks on elderly Asian-American people by young African-American men in both SF and Oakland, Gavin is holding a conference today to discuss growing tensions within the two communities. Tomorrow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Escapology at Burger Bar Sometimes, especially as the weather warms, we crave a no-nonsense sort of cocktail that's maybe a little different from a margarita but not very. Given that the elderflower liqueur St. Germain has come
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Girlfriend</em> at Berkeley Rep Following on the success earlier this season of American Idiot (which just premiered on Broadway this week to a NYT accolade of "thrillingly raucous and gorgeously wrought"), Berkeley Rep returns with another rock
misc YouTube Turns Five View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. Where have our lives gone? Oh, right, we've spent half of them watching shit on YouTube for the last several years. The site
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Girls' April Tour Video It's a little on the long side, but please enjoy this video from hometown boys Girls, as they tour around, go bowling, and play Coachella. [via The Bay Bridged]
SF News New Case Pits Lesbians and Straight Men Against Gay Softball League We hate it when gays and lesbians fight, but now the SF-based National Center for Lesbian Rights has taken on a discrimination case on behalf of three straight plaintiffs, Steven Apilado, LaRon Charles
SF News More High School Kids Get Way More High Than They Bargained For From Pot Brownies Seriously, one of our favorite beats here at SFist is the kids-eating-marijuana-baked-goods-and-ending-up-in-the-hospital beat. (See also: the story of the fifth graders and the Fruity Pebbles bars.) The latest case of some high schoolers
SF News Final Design for Transbay Terminal Unveiled Here's the new rendering, folks, and today the architects at Pelli Clarke Pelli present their final designs for the terminal portion of the Transbay project to the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. The 1,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Earth Dancer (semi-NSFW) EARTH DANCER OF THE EARTH! from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo. It's almost Earth Day, so here's a little video of a strange older woman, a dancer/artist of some kind (any background
SF News Man Struck By, Then Trapped Under 14-Mission Bus Yikes. A man was struck by and subsequently trapped under a 14-Mission bus this morning at 11 a.m. near the corner of Mission and Beale Streets downtown. Emergency responders had to come
SF News Meth-Head Mom Charged In Infant's Death Apologies in advance for yet another sordid and tragic story involving the death of an outer-Bay-Area infant, but 25-year-old Livermore resident Jessica Adams has been arrested and charged in the March death of
SF News Father Beaten in Random Downtown Oakland Attack Dies Tian Sheng Yu, 59, was badly beaten on Friday right near the Fox Theater, in broad daylight, on the 1800 block of Telegraph Avenue. There was no apparent motive for the attack, and
SF News Protesters Accuse Alcatraz Cruises of Being Anti-Gay and Anti-Union Protesters gathered at Pier 33 yesterday to draw attention to the firing of longtime Alcatraz Cruises employee Vincent Atos, who was suspended last year over a sexual harassment complaint for being "too gay.
SF News Some Euro-Bound Flights Resume Out of SFO The Icelandic volcano that no one can pronounce and that has paralyzed European air travel for the last five days continues spewing ash into the air, but some airlines like KLM and Air
Arts & Entertainment Coachella 2010 Dispatch: Days 2 & 3 Were Better We got over our trauma of getting there and getting in, and started enjoying ourselves more by Day 2, when several of our favorite acts came on, including SF's own Girls and Faith
Arts & Entertainment Coachella a Holy Mess, But Passion Pit and Jay-Z Were Good Unlike in previous years when the enormous desert music fest felt relatively organized, if chaotic, Coachella 2010 feels like an overcrowded nightmare and it's not just because we're getting older. A lot of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes Deep, Deep, Deep Into Coachella Well folks, at least one of your trusty editors is venturing out into the SoCal desert this weekend to bring you back some news and a few photos of the wonder that is
