SF News Caltrain Kills Another Pedestrian Has another train line anywhere else in the country been so frequently homicidal as our little Peninsula-bound rail? Caltrain struck and killed someone in San Bruno this morning around 6:30 a.m.
misc SFist Style: The <em>Chron</em>'s 'Personal Style' Picks Are Hardly Hurting for Spending Cash The Chron kicked off a new feature this past Sunday called "Personal Style," and their inaugural picks for the column are two museum dudes who writer Franklin Melendez suggests are a "pair of
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Muppets Do "Stand By Me" Just in time for Easter, a dark little video from the Jim Henson folks featuring one of the lesser known Muppet monsters, and a bunch of bunnies. All we can say is YES!
SF News SF + Google Sittin' In a Tree... We may not be quite as ass-kissy as Topeka, but a response by SF's Department of Technology to Google's request for information about their fiber-to-home network plans says, "We believe that Google could
SF News Which Bar Has the Meanest Bartenders? City Brights blogger Harmon Leon (ahem) poses the question of where to find the surliest and most outright rude barmen and barmaids around town. His answer: Zeitgeist wins, hands down, but he has
SF News LGBT Center Gets Its Loan From City Hall The Board of Supervisors voted 9 to 1 yesterday to approve the $157,500 loan to the LGBT Center to address their aforementioned mortgage renegotiation issue. Supervisor Sean Elsbernd was the sole dissenting
misc Photo du Jour 603 "Taylor Street." From the 2007 series The Streets of San Francisco... But Flat by Dan Ng
SF News Potheads to Descend En Masse on Cow Palace The International Cannabis & Hemp Expo comes to the Cow Palace for the first time on April 17th and 18th, featuring a multitude of booths to educate you as to the wonders of
SF News St. Mary's to Get New $22 Million Cancer Center St. Mary's hospital is breaking ground this week on a new cancer center which will, among other things, include new technology that allows chemotherapy to be targeted at specific organs, and a vascular
SF News Container Goes Plop Into Oakland Estuary The Coast Guard is currently broadcasting warnings and preventing some vessels from entering the Oakland estuary until a container that fell off a ship Saturday night can be located underwater. The container got
SF News Photo du Jour 602 As Mission Mission's Vic Wong puts it: "Misguided '90s angst lives on in the Dolores Park men’s bathroom." Yeah everyone, they might take away your PBR playground for a little while in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Vesper Cocktail at Heaven's Dog Though the cocktail menu at Heaven's Dog is always fantastic (and we dare say more notable than the food, though Charles Phan recently took over the kitchen at his Chinese restaurant after the
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Announces Their 2010-2011 Season, Incl. the Premiere of the <em>Tales of the City</em> Musical The American Conservatory Theater announces their upcoming season today, which includes a couple of exciting highlights: master clown Bill Irwin brings his adaptation of Molière's Scapin first thing in the fall; and come
SF News Ha Ha... Rich People In Piedmont Pilfer City Funds The tale of a project to put power lines underground in the Piedmont Hills goes very, very wrong: "So this company got to work on the undergrounding, and were shocked when they started
Arts & Entertainment Aqua Teen Hunger Force Doing Live Show at Regency Ballroom Adult Swim hit Aqua Teen Hunger Force, is coming to the Regency Ballroom on April 25th (tickets go on sale tomorrow morning). How is a 12-minute animated series about a shake, some french
SF News Foundry Square and Piers 1½, 3, and 5 Get Honored Foundry Square and Piers 1½, 3, and 5 are among 17 finalists on the short list for an award from the Urban Land Institute. The 74-year-old institute gives these excellence awards in order
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sean Hayes' "When We Fall" Local musician Sean Hayes (not to be confused with the Will & Grace actor who bizarrely waited to come out of the closet until just recently) performs in Oakland tonight at The New
SF News 6-Year-Old Shot in His Backyard in Salinas More horrific child mortality news for you: A six-year-old boy was shot and killed while playing in his backyard last night in Salinas. It appears he was struck by a stray bullet intended
SF News Muni Bus Unable to Get Out of Way of Parked Car A 10-Townsend bus crashed into a parked car at 25th and Dakota this morning around 6:20 a.m., injuring one passenger. Newly installed Muni spokeswoman Kristen Holland (Judson True recently gave notice
SF News KQED's 'Forum' Discusses the Census and Why It's Good Forum's Scott Shafer has a lengthy discussion today about the 2010 Census with regional director of the Census Bureau Ralph Lee and AP reporter Julianna Barbassa, answering such fascinating questions as "What kind
SF News Couple Swindles Safeway & Nordstrom Out of Beaucoup Cash San Leandro residents Amanda Mata, 20, and her boyfriend Lamar Cotton, 27, allegedly bilked Safeway out of $232,000 in an elaborate (and admittedly clever) scheme involving phony credit cards and Nordstrom gift
SF News J-Church Tracks Get Ripped Up and Replaced at 18th Street A reader over at Muni Diaries sent in a few photos of the major track replacement project begun on Friday on the J-Church line at 18th and Church. The work ended around 4
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Juan E. Appleseed from Rye You guys all read Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, right? In case the answer's no, he talks in the book about the source of the legend of Johnny Appleseed, who didn't roam
SF News Gascón Promotes LAPD Buddy to Assistant Chief In the wake of that whole crime lab cocaine brouhaha, SFPD chief George Gascón is shuffling some staff, and promoting his recently hired buddy from L.A., Jeff Godown from commander to assistant
