SF News Prop 8 Trial Judge Is Gay; Should This Matter? On Sunday, Matier and Ross carefully stepped into some potentially controversial territory in pointing out the open secret that federal Judge Vaughn Walker is gay. Walker will be delivering a decision concerning the
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 2/8 - 2/14 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. There are a plethora of
SF News One Dead in Fisherman's Wharf Nightclub Shooting Early Sunday morning a 20-year-old Richmond man allegedly shot three people outside Suede nightclub, at 383 Bay Street, near Fisherman's Wharf. One of those shot, 19-year-old Richmond man Lawson Hall, is dead, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Recoil at Bloodhound We recently had a simple and delicious drink at Bloodhound that's kind of like a cross between a whiskey sour and a bourbon-and-ginger (does that drink have an official name, btw?) with the
SF News Buddhist Sect Soon to Ply Their Wares at Mid-Market 'Museum'? For some time now we've been following the progress of the amusingly titled Superb Art Museum of America, which remains papered over but with an impressive new, neo-classical facade at 1025 Market (between
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Reveals Identity of the Real Timothy McSweeney Assuming you've given any thought at all to such things, you may have believed, as we did, that the Timothy McSweeney who figures in the name of Dave Eggers' ten-year-old literary journal and
misc A Guide to Urinals, Both Locally and Nationally Renowned Though it looks like it's nothing new to the internet (there are some press mentions dating back to the early aughts) we thought we'd call some attention to Urinal.net, a handy guide
SF News Another Quake Strikes Off Eureka Coast A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck at 12:20 p.m., 35 miles west of Eureka, in the waters off the Humboldt coast right in the vicinity of the quake that hit on
SF News Surfers Totally Mad About Ocean Beach Bluff Plan Speaking of surfers, SF Weekly talked to some surfers this week who are pissed about Public Works' plan to dump some boulders along the fast eroding bluffs along Ocean Beach. They're in favor
SF News Day Around the Bay Dufty calls for a public hearing on street food in order to quell nerves of business owners annoyed that the carts and trucks don't have to cough up the taxes and fees they
Arts & Entertainment Notable Kids' Book Author Reading in Laurel Village For those who have kids in SF and we're guessing a lot of them are the precocious types who read a lot and collect vintage LPs you may want to take note of
SF News East Bay Couple Offering $1,000 Reward for Two Lost Toy Bears You might have seen some of their 'Missing' posters around downtown, but an East Bay couple is offering a large reward for a pair of palm-sized stuffed bears purchased in Japan for $10,
SF News [Our Old Friend] Zennie Has No Love for SFist Those of you who have become loyal followers of Zennie Abraham's City Brights blog at SF Gate might have noticed that he called us out over the weekend. Zennie is upset about a
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 2/1 - 2/7 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. An absolutely packed week of
SF News Ferry Building Lease Shenanigans Cause Foodie Drama SFoodie dug up some dirt on Friday about leases not being renewed at the Ferry Building for places like Lulu Petite and Mastrelli's Deli, and found out that a few other tenants are
SF News Suspects in Home Invasion Caught on Tape You'll recall the home invasion robbery we mentioned last week, which happened in a Sunset district home, and in which one 40-year-old man ended up dead. As SFist commenter Joel was quick to
Arts & Entertainment Closing Sale at Pearl Paint, Free Leather Jacket, and More Pearl Paint, the big art supply store on Market between 5th and 6th frequented especially by Academy of Art, Art Institute, and SF Art Institute students, is closing up shop and having a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The B Line at Range This just in from Brooke Arthur, bar manager at Range where the cocktail selections are some of our favorite in town: While having coffee yesterday and looking over some old cocktail books, I
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Birthday Cake! He'd be too embarrassed to tell you all himself, but today is the birthday of your beloved SFist editor, Brock Keeling. In his honor, I bring you this live appearance by Cibo Matto
SF News Crazed Teen Driver Crashes Car 3 Times Before Getting Arrested An unlicensed 19-year-old driver was arrested for felony hit and run yesterday after trying to flee from cops after being pulled over in the Oceanview neighborhood. Within a minute the kid had driven
SF News Man Shot, Killed In Sunset Home Invasion An entire familyA possibly unrelated group of people was tied up and one man was murdered in a home invasion robbery on Moraga Street last evening. As the Appeal reports, two suspects, both
SF News Arrests Made in Union City Drug Brownie Case, And Yes, They Only Had Pot In Them Two arrests have been made in the "heroin" brownie case that's been rocking Union City's world this week. As a number of SFist commenters suspected when we first posted the story being the
misc Twitteration of the Day @Mike_FTW: The iPad will have 10 hours of battery life, enough to watch video on a flight from SF to Tokyo or Muni ride from Church to Embarcadero.
SF News Big Boom on Embarcadero? We're getting reports that a PG&E transformer blew (or something like that) with some kind of explosive noise, causing a power outage at the Ferry Building and some flickering around the