SF News Explosion Causes Power Outage in SOMA, on Bay Bridge An underground vault fire and/or an explosion caused a power outage Sunday evening starting at around 6:30 p.m. which affected 1,400 PG&E customers in SOMA and shut
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Spencer Manhattan from Trademark Grill Trademark Grill, nestled on Belden Place, features a cocktail program that Camper English would likely classify as Neo-Classic. Today's cocktail of the week, created by Franz Meis, was named to honor a long-time
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tick Tick Boom from Theatre Rhinoceros The nation's oldest queer theater organization, SF's Theatre Rhinoceros, is celebrating its 32nd season this year without a permanent space to call home, having left their space on 16th Street due to lease
SF News 9/11 Truth <strike>Crazies</strike> Enthusiasts Return to SF for Press Conference The Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth packed into Marines Memorial Hall today to discuss their "latest" findings in the conspiracy theories now supported, they say, by a legion of architects and
misc Photo du Jour 577 The innocently named T&A Market (we believe the name comes from the initials of the two proprietors), a small convenience store on Market Street between 6th and 7th, recently tried to
SF News Oakland Seeks Injunction Against Street Gang Oakland City Attorney John Russo is seeking a court injunction against an unnamed North Oakland street gang that has "terrorized" the neighborhoods bordering Berkeley and Emeryville. As the Tribune reports, "The injunction is
SF News 15-Year-Old Arrested in Richmond Church Shooting You probably heard about the ungodly and totally uncalled-for shooting that took place during Sunday services at a Richmond church this past weekend an act which, because it's so fucked up, may just
SF News Day Around the Bay • Looking for new music? Secret Seven Records releases a new compilation of SF bands on March 2nd. [The Bay Bridged via SF Weekly] • Drunk crashes, flips SUV on San Mateo bridge, dog escapes
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band Say what you will about Yoko, she's an artist dammit and she's still making music and art. She comes to town along with son Sean Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, next week,
SF News Critical Mass Ruling in NY May Have Implications Here While Critical Mass isn't quite the city-crippling force in New York as it is in SF, Bicycle Coalition types on the opposite side of the country have been in a court battle that
SF News Man Leaps to His Death Off Forever 21 Building A man wearing only underwear got out on a ledge yesterday afternoon at 10 Cyril Magnin (the building at the base of Powell that was formerly a big Bank of America and now
SF News Crazy Car Chase Ends on Octavia Bay City News (via the Appeal) tells us this morning about a mad crazy car chase that started in San Jose, with a driver who wouldn't pull over for Santa Clara County sherriffs'
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Great Pillow Fight, 2010 Edition Yay! San Francisco's so kooky and whimsical and fun! Forgive us our cynicism, ladies and germs. Maybe we've been doing this too long. But the big, annual Valentine's Day pillow fight flash mob
SF News SF's Famed Early Adopters To Be First Wave of Electric Car Buyers Are you a frustrated Prius owner with money to burn and a strong desire to be the first on your block to own the next big, environmentally conscious status item? Then perhaps you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: La Lambretta at Quince This week's cocktail which we could really use one of right now, can I hear you say YEAH, SFist readers? TGIF! comes from the bar consultants at Quince, Scott Baird and Josh Harris,
SF News Vallejo Is for Vigilantes The Solano County sherriff's office say there's been a 25% uptick in the number of permits for concealed weapons, following on a crime wave in Vallejo which has included the shooting of an
SF News The Winter Olympics Claims Its First Life An Olympic luger from the Republic of Georgia died after an accident during a training run today. As the AP reports: "Nodar Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled near the finish Friday, went
SF News The Garridos Still Trying to "Control" Jaycee Lee El Dorado County prosecutors filed papers today to bar all contact between the attorneys of Philip and Nancy Garrido and their former kidnapped ward, Jaycee Lee Dugard. According to the documents, the Garridos
SF News Mavericks Is ON for Saturday! The 2010 Mavericks Surf Contest is on for this Saturday, and 24 international surf champions now have 48 hours to hop planes and the get their asses to Half Moon Bay, as the
SF News Bill Clinton Hospitalized With Chest Pain, Has Two Stents Put In Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized today at NY's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital after experiencing severe chest pain which may or may not have been a full heart attack. The AP is reporting that
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: T-Shirt War Made using 222 shirts made by Rush T-Shirts... [Hat tip: Laughing Squid]
SF News Checking In Regarding Those Hikers Still Held Hostage in Iran It's now been over six months since those three Berkeley grads were taken hostage by the Iranian government after mistakenly crossing the border into the country while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan. A couple
SF News South San Francisco Owes Back $1M+ In Red Light Camera Goof Have you ever gotten one of those tickets from the red-light camera robots and been completely pissed off at the 1984-ish world we live in where a live cop doesn't even have to
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Beaker's Ballad" Another stroke of genius from the Jim Henson people. And for those of you obsessed with your YouTube popularity (we're looking at you Sarah Austin), you should be able to relate.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: L.A. Electronic Star Nosaj Thing by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce As we discussed last Monday, Mighty lined up one of LA's rising electronic stars over the weekend, Nosaj Thing. We had a chance to catch up with the
