SF News 40 Years Ago Today, the 60's Died at Altamont Today marks the 40th anniversary of Altamont, the infamous free concert thrown at the the Altamont Speedway, east of Livermore near the junction between 580 and I-5. The concert was billed as Woodstock
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Joey DeRuy, Local Artist 32-year-old painter and friend of SFist Joey DeRuy has lived a lot of places before settling in San Francisco. In addition to pursuing a career in fine art painting, Mr. DeRuy takes classes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Yuletide Moon from Elixir With Xmas swiftly approaching, we could all use a drink. And in our quest for seasonal libations, SFist brings you this holiday spin on sangria from H. Joseph Ehrmann at Elixir. In his
SF News Man Shot 8 Times Outside Home in Hercules With at least fifteen shots fired, a Hercules man was gunned down outside his townhouse at about 10:30 p.m. last night. It appears to be a gang-style hit, with the suspect
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drag <em>Golden Girls</em> It's becoming a holiday (and June) tradition for a quartet of San Francisco's finest drag talents to tackle, on the live stage, word-for-word, a selection of old episodes of The Golden Girls --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Morrissey @ The Paramount, Oakland Last night old Moz paid a visit to the Bay Area, and he didn't cancel the show or collapse on stage. That's the good news. Also for good news, he played a ton
SF News Goodbye, 26-Valencia... ...and farewell, 4-Sutter, 7-Haight, and 20-Columbus. You were hardly friends, mere acquaintances perhaps, but your presence was always appreciated. 53-Southern Heights and 89-Laguna Honda, we barely knew thee, but rest in peace. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Elyse Winery Having made about a hundred and nine trips to wine country, we're definitely over the big name, flashy, tchotchke- and gift-laden tasting rooms serving up merely drinkable wine at high-end prices. Give us
SF News Rare Sea Turtle Washes Up on Stinson Beach A rare and endangered olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) washed up on Stinson Beach last week at the Seadrift gated community, far from its preferred habitat in warmer Pacific waters. Due to El
SF News House of Family Killed By MINI Cooper Was Robbed Yesterday Adding insult to tragedy, and making us curse this coarse and immoral world we live in, the home of the Maloney family -- who were killed this weekend in that fatal collision with
Arts & Entertainment Local Drag Legend Vicki Marlane Makes the <em>New York Times</em> We feel truly remiss in not catching this sooner, but since when did the Grey Lady start covering the San Francisco drag beat anyway? Local legend, national treasure, and at age 75 possibly
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Can We Still Be Friends?" We can't get it out of our heads now that we mentioned it in conjunction with the Todd Rundgren show tonight at the Palace of Fine Arts. It's a good song, and it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Todd Rundgren wrote some of the classic soundtrack songs of the 70s, including "Hello It's Me," "I Saw the Light," and "Can We Still Be Friends." In the last decade or so
SF News Dead MINI Cooper Driving Teen Had Previous DUI Here at right is the dumb, now dead kid who is responsible for the vehicular manslaughter of that family of four on their way home from a Thanksgiving vacation on Saturday. It turns
SF News Drag Queen Anna Conda (a.k.a. Glendon Hyde) Running For District 6 Supervisor Glendon Hyde (who performs under the drag name Anna Conda and won the Miss Trannyshack competition in 2004) filed paperwork today to become a candidate for SF Supervisor in District 6 in 2010
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Vic Chesnutt, Performing Tonight at the Great American by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce 2009 has been quite the year for Vic Chesnutt. The prolific singer-songwriter released two albums (At the Cut and the Jonathan Richman produced Skitter on Take-Off), appeared on
SF News Oakland Marks 100th and 101st Homicides The bad news is, the post-Thanksgiving weekend brought Oakland's 2009 homicide count over the 100 mark -- with 52-year-old Enoch Reed shot on Friday in East Oakland, and Jermel Holloway on Sunday night,
SF News Sonoma Family of Four Killed After Being Broadsided by MINI Cooper Because no holiday weekend would be complete without a spate of tragedies on the local news, we'll start with this one, which is awful: a family of four, on their way home from
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 11/30 - 12/6 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. Plenty of post-holiday options this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: John Ortved, Author of <em>The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History</em> Looking for a gift idea for the Simpsons fan in your life? Reporter John Ortved has written an unauthorized, uncensored history of the still popular, still witty, longest running prime time TV series
misc Builder of Oakland's Fox Theater Once Imprisoned For 'White Slavery' On this relatively slow local news day in which most everyone is out of the office, the Oakland Tribune is running this amusing scandal from the archives about Maury Diggs, the builder of
SF News <em>NY Times</em> Singles Out Vallejo As Battleground Between Gays & Christians Last week, the NYT wrote this rather provocative piece about the collision between evangelical Christians and transplanted LGBT people in Vallejo -- which as you should know is right in our backyard and
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Crash Causing Closure, Major Traffic A big crash involving a turned-over car and at least four other vehicles in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge has put traffic at a near stand-still in both directions, with only
SF News Gavin Cans Film Commission Head Stephanie Coyote Head of the SF Film Commission Stephanie Coyote -- who makes $132,000 a year to lure film companies to shoot their movies in our fair city -- got wacked fired yesterday. While
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An All-Muppet Version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" This one's making the rounds today, as well it should. It's a brand new, all-muppet version of Queen's classic "Bohemian Rhapsody," featuring 70 different Muppets and, our favorite, Animal asking for his mama.
