misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dog Hates iPad There is of course a challenge across the internet to come up with more and more "____ + iPad" memes, and today we have this video in which a dog goes from being curious about
Arts & Entertainment MGMT Unveils New Material at the Fillmore Just prior to their appearance at Coachella this weekend, hipster wunderkinds MGMT unveiled music from their second album, Congratulations, last night at the Fillmore. NBC Bay Area's Ben Russo draws comparisons to T.
SF News An Average Year for Earthquakes? There have been six large earthquakes so far in 2010, including Haiti, Chile, last week's 7.7 magnitude quake off Sumatra, and Tuesday's devastating quake in western China. Seems like a lot, no?
SF News Crime Lab Technician Madden Says Everyone "Laughed" About Drug Discrepancies According to Deborah Madden's statement to police which ultimately led to her forced resignation and the great shaming of the SFPD, she was only doing what everyone else did, swiping cocaine that was
SF News Pavement to Parks Eyes Vallejo Street in North Beach You guys have all heard about the Pavement to Parks initiative right? It's something the City's been doing for over a year, transforming sections of streets and intersections into car-free plazas and parks.
SF News Yay! Another Neighborhood Abbreviation: SoCha Fresh on the heels of SOMISSPO and Brock's nomination of LORI (Lower Outer Rincon Hill), the Chron today tells us about a brand new neighborhood abbreviation. And it's not just any new neighborhood,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Opera" on the Muni What happens when you start acting drunk kooky on Muni? Others join in the fun! Why? Because this is a town that loves wackiness and loves to interact on public transportation. Please be
SF News Is It Over Yet? About a year's worth of rain fell last night outside SFist HQ, and we even noted at least one lightning flash. Allegedly the Peninsula saw some hail. We have a low-pressure system from
SF News The Tenderloin Takes Center Stage in the <em>NYT</em> OK, this is awesome. We clicked on the New York Times yesterday and front and center on the front page was this story about how some people are trying to turn The Tenderloin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Smoke Screen at Lafitte If you haven't already heard, Lafitte just opened this week on Pier 5. It's the first non-underground venture, now two years in the making, from chef Russell Jackson of Sub-Culture Dining fame, and
SF News Fare Evasion Police Descend On AT&T Park Warning: Muni fare evasion police are on high alert as folks from the outer reaches of the region (we'll avoid the use of "B&T" here because we know how some of
SF News Another Supreme Court Justice Retiring Well, folks, it's been in the cards for a while, and Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, at the ripe old age of 89, is finally throwing in the towel this summer, setting
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mayer Hawthorne's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Los Angeles-based jazz crooner Mayer Hawthorne, whose voice has quite a lot of Mel Tormé loveliness to it, plays his last U.S. date before Coachella and his European tour next week at
SF News Parkmerced to Get 7,000 New Apartments The folks at Parkmerced, the big suburban-ish development out by the ocean near Lake Merced, are looking to add 7,000 new units, effectively adding 10,000 or more people to the city's
SF News Man Who Threatened Pelosi Faces Federal Charges What's that Gregory Lee Giusti? Ye of the molestory mug (and glasses) who had so much time on his hands and so few rational instincts that you had to go calling up Nancy
misc John Waters Says Big Four Is 'Sooo <em>Sunset Boulevard</em>' In a new bit over on KQED's generally long-winded food blog (this is the web, people!), brilliant food scribe and former SFist contributor Mary Ladd stalks John Waters at all his favorite food
SF News Murderer *Probably* Won't Walk Due to That Whole Crime Lab Scandal Remember the story of Dopey Debbie the Coke Whore whose shenanigans may have cost the SFPD like a hundred drug convictions? Well, prosecutors in the case of Dennis Cyrus a former member of
SF News Hilton Hotel Workers Protesting Again ...Or maybe it hasn't been them all these times, but anyway, the hotel workers' union started protesting outside the Hilton on O'Farrell at 4 a.m. Their beef now has to do with
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A Rainy Easter's Hunky Jesus and Easter Bonnet Contests Yesterday's contests didn't quite draw the crowds that they would have had it been a lovely spring day in Dolores Park. But the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence moved the show over to the
SF News Activists Storm Vacant Mission Duplex, Declare It Public Property Certainly in times of such crazy rental rates (which are lower than they used to be but not by much) it's frustrating to see perfectly nice residential properties sit vacant while people remain
Arts & Entertainment Benjamin Bratt and His Brother Take Promotional Cruise Through the Mission Benjamin Bratt and his filmmaker brother Peter Bratt toured around the Mission with a NYT reporter for a Style section piece this weekend. They're pimping Peter's film La Mission which premiered here last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Western Edition at Jardinière Pull up a stool to enjoy this week's cocktail, kids, from Jardinière's bar manager Brian MacGregor, and its name is a play on both the neighborhood the restaurant calls home, The Western Addition,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Vigil</em> Starring Olympia Dukakis at A.C.T. Oh, we are starved for celebrity around here, aren't we... so much so that the A.C.T. will probably see a great turnout for their latest play Vigil, despite word probably already
SF News Twin Peaks Beats T-Loin in Census Response Promptness The 2010 Census is certainly way more tech-savvy than any other in human history, and they've put up this fancy interactive map (the real purpose of which we don't quite get) to show
misc Video: Stephen Colbert Demos the iPad The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Stephen Gets a Free iPad www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform It gets released to the public
