misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Angelina Jolie's Tribute To Her Mom On the third anniversary of their mother's death, Angelina Jolie and her creepy brother James (remember that weird kiss?) have released this tribute video to YouTube. It features some lovely shots of the
SF News Would You Rather?: A National News Recap Would you rather be the graduate student who has to dig out Leonardo da Vinci's skull so it can be scanned for likeness to the Mona Lisa (art historians now believe the painting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fully Legal Food Carts Coming to Dolores Park Speaking of street food, Rec & Parks has given the OK to La Cocina (the non-profit incubator of such vendors as Estrellita's Snacks, Onigilly, and Zella's Soulful Kitchen and the organizer of last
SF News Man Swept Out to Sea in Humboldt County The Coast Guard called off the search for a man swept to sea in Humboldt County. He had been walking on the shore north of Trinidad with two companions. All three were pulled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FASHION: The finals of "Fashion Feud," a local competition in the Project Runway style will be held tonight. Designers Julia Meeks, Gail B. Shrive, and Alexandria Von Bromssen will be
SF News School Board Voting to Cut Summer School If our demographic oracles are correct, hardly any of you have children. But for those who do, and whose kids go to public school and might need a little extra help, listen up:
misc Our Old Pal Zennie Is Flabbergasted That He Can't Get a Press Credential for the Oscars City Brights blogger and SFist fave Zennie Abraham (who, inexplicably, is no longer a featured City Brights blogger and whose blog now must be dug up about six links deep) can't figure out
SF News Union City High School Students Getting Sick From Heroin-Laced Brownies Some kids at James Logan High in Union City have been buying and eating what they thought were pot brownies, going to class, and then succumbing to some crazy mini-seizures and nod-offs and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Phèdre</em> at A.C.T. Classical theater is tough on many levels. It's tough on actors, who have to allude and emote using words that are often much more heady and complicated than they're used to; and it's
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 1/25 - 1/31 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. This week gets off to
SF News Big Delays on Muni This A.M. As per usual, the Muni underground has experienced some breakdowns and delays in the rain. We're hearing of people getting put off of trains at Van Ness. And per the Twitterverse: @MoonWillow516 "Another
Arts & Entertainment <em>7x7</em> Scored Tickets to Brian Wilson Show, We Did Not On Saturday, former Beach Boy Brian Wilson performed an intimate concert at SF's Art Exchange to promote his new album, That Lucky Old Sun. As Allie Pape at 7x7 writes, "As was to
SF News Machete-Wielding Old Man Shot, Killed By SFPD A 65-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday night on Maynard Street in the Ingleside district, after he approached officers with a machete and failed to respond to their verbal commands. The man's
SF News Go Snowy Plovers! According to a new study, the threatened species of small, white, dune-dwelling birds known as snowy plovers were especially lucky in surviving the major oil spill by the Cosco Busan in San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: La Perla at Fifth Floor Jacques Bezuidenhout is responsible for the new cocktail program at Fifth Floor, which includes a lot of interesting twists on clean, classic cocktail fare. Today he offers us the recipe for a drink
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Dirty British Kids' Show This particular spoof episode of the 1970s British children's show "Rainbow" is real (not over-dubbed, like so much of such similar material on YouTube), but it never went on air for the public.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Lymbyc Systym by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce Prior to their show at Café du Nord a couple weeks back, we had a chance to catch up with sibling duo Lymbyc Systym's Jared Bell via phone,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Waiters in SF Are Very Expensive The Wall Street Journal today takes note of how expensive it is to staff a restaurant in San Francisco. Certainly having a living wage and health care benefits are important for servers and
misc Today In Graffiti: The Hibernia Bank Tagger Yay! It's the 80s again! And not just in fashion. The historic Hibernia Bank building at Jones and Market, built in 1892, got tagged in a big way in the last couple of
SF News BART About to Eff Themselves Out of $70M We've been seeing something like this coming, but apparently BART's plan to use $70M in stimulus funds to build that Oakland Airport tram has just hit another snag. The Federal Transit Administration sent
SF News WRAP Marches Up Market Street For Affordable Housing Carrying signs that said "House Keys Not Handcuffs," an advocacy organization for homeless people called WRAP (Western Regional Advocacy Project) had a hundred or so couple hundred people marching up the uptown lanes
SF News Soon You May Get a 60-Second Earthquake Warning Scientists at U.C. Berkeley say they are close to completing work on the first earthquake early warning system in the U.S., which could give us anywhere from a few seconds to
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Lineup Announced! This year's headliners: Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz. Apparently Thom Yorke, as a solo act, is a possibility for Day 3. Other highlights: LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Passion Pit, Hot Chip, Tiesto, and Pavement. Oh,
SF News The iSlate is Coming Next Wednesday Apple has announced that its next big junket will be on Wednesday, January 27th at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. All they're saying is "Come see our latest creation," but it's pretty
