Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 12/28 - 1/3 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 Feinstein Opposes Solar Panels in Mojave Desert by Amy Crocker Senator Dianne Feinstein proposed legislation that would block solar panel development in the Mojave desert in order to preserve a million acres of wildlife. This move highlights a rift between
SF News UPDATED: Salvador Rodriguez Jr., Richmond Gang Rape Witness, Goes Missing The brave kid who talked to news reporters and described to authorities the graphic scene of the homecoming dance gang rape in Richmond last month, has now gone missing. KCBS reports that Salvador
SF News Look Out for Wood Fire Ban on Christmas Eve/Day Light winds and cool, dry air predicted for the end of the week may be a bad, smoke-trapping combo with the addition of wood burning fires. So the Bay Area Air Quality Management
SF News Newsom Rewards Campaign Staffers with City Hall Jobs Filling the ranks in the Mayor's Office are several young guys who Mayor Newsom calls "superstars" who were part of the inner circle of his gubernatorial campaign -- hires that are likely to
SF News Apple Looking to Make TV Deal Apple is looking for bites on a new television subscription service. According to the Wall Street Journal, CBS and Disney are considering participation. The service would offer television access to channel's programming over
SF News 'Operation Chihuahua' Airlift Delayed The operation to fly San Francisco's overflow of abandoned chihuahuas to New York has been delayed, due to the high demand for space on flights to the East Coast after this weekend's blizzard.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: In Scrooged, Bill Murray plays a heartless TV executive who, with supernatural help, learns to appreciate Christmas. The 1988 film also features Mary Lou Retton and Robert Goulet appearing
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Big Cat Christmas! Courtesy of Big Cat Rescue comes this adorable holiday video featuring tigers, lions, and a baby leopard chewing open some Xmas gifts! Let's just try to enjoy these lovely animals and put that
SF News SPUR and La Cocina Look at the Economics of Street Food It's been a big year for food trucks, nonstaurants, and street food in general. In addition to the buzz around things like the Crème Brûlée Cart and the Chez Spencer truck, this summer
SF News Toilet Torcher Strikes Again! We're receiving word that the porta-potty arsonist otherwise known as the Toilet Torcher (or a copycat) lit another porta-potty on fire last night around 10:20 p.m. in the Laurel Heights neighborhood,
SF News Yahoo! Forcing Vacation on Employees Christmas Week During the week between Christmas and New Year's, Yahoo! is furloughing most of their 13,000 employees or forcing them to use remaining vacation days, in order to trim costs on their end-of-year
SF News WiFi/Cell Service Now Available in Transbay Tube Hallelujah. This Xmas week we're happy to share the news that you can now send texts and surf the web continuously all the way from Balboa Park to West Oakland Station, thanks to
SF News Health Care Bill Clears Hurdle in Senate, No Thanks to Olympia Snowe Yes, everyone! It's the big news this pre-Xmas Monday morning. The U.S. Senate wanted to give everyone a present this week, and in the wee hours of this morning a whopping 60
SF News Yelp Walks Away from Google Deal That's right, folks. According to TechCrunch, Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman walked away from the all-but-signed deal to sell the company to Google for a reported $550 million. Given that there is no other
SF News Newsom Evangelizes About Recycling, Composting in <em>Sacramento Bee</em> Mayor Gavin Newsom took his message about mandatory recycling programs to the Op-Ed page of the Sacramento Bee yesterday, aiming in particular at so-called "high temperature disposal technologies" which he calls "just glorified
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 12/21 - 12/27 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. Not going to lie to
SF News R.I.P. Brittany Murphy Seeing as 2009 has been unrelenting in its taking of famous types, we can't ignore the death of one of Hollywood's younger third of movie stars: Brittany Murphy, who died at the age
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Piccadilly at Absinthe Newly installed bar manager at Absinthe, Carlos Yturria (formerly of Range, Bacar and Rye), has come up with several specialty cocktails for the board in his first weeks on duty. Our favorite is
SF News SF City Attorney to File Suit Against Oakland A's? City Attorney Dennis Herrera is hinting that he might file suit against the Oakland A's to keep them from moving to San Jose, which is technically part of SF Giants' territory, reports the
SF News Google to Acquire Yelp? Google is apparently in serious talks to acquire Yelp, the user-generated, local-business review site so beloved by Humphry Slocombe and certain antique and book store owners. The deal would do good things for
Arts & Entertainment Spoof of Hitchcock's <em>The 39 Steps</em> Opens at Curran Theater A theater piece spoofing Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps, which played on Broadway earlier this year and was nominated for several Tony Awards, opens at the Curran Theater this week. The
SF News We Are Not Alone In Our Transit Woes The NYT is reporting on the "punishing slate" of service cuts by the New York City MTA, which is facing a $400 million budget shortfall. They're eliminating two train lines, reducing service on
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christmas Light Hero This video's already gotten around the past couple of days, but just in case you missed it: It's a kid, playing "Guitar Hero," but the screen is made of Christmas lights. Is this
