SF News Lodi Family Hospitalized For Eating Poisonous Mushrooms A family of three is hospitalized and in serious condition at California Pacific Medical Center after eating "death cap" mushrooms that they found growing in the wild. Let this be a reminder to
SF News Woman's Body Found in Berkeley Aquatic Park A woman's body was found in the parking lot along Berkeley's bayside Aquatic Park this morning. And we quote, via SF Gate: "The area is known for drug use and prostitution, but [police]
misc Concert Preview: The Gay Blades at The Independent The eye-wrap-sunglass effects or whatever you want to call them are kind of cool in this vid from Brooklyn band The Gay Blades , who'll be opening for The Electric Six (who happen to
SF News East Bay Gas Pipes to Be Extra Stinky Today A batch of natural gas coming down a Pacific Northwest pipeline was mistakenly produced with too much odorant -- the stuff called mercaptan that smells like sulfur that they add to the usually
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Playboy</em> Names Orphan Andy's in Castro One of Nation's Best Late-Night Diners As many San Franciscans know, getting food after midnight in this town is no easy feat. We still have our share of late-night diners though, like the Grub Steak, Sparky's, Lori's and Mel's.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wednesday Wine Tasting: Good Trader Joe's Wines Under $8 Not that long ago, the idea of respectable non-jug, non-box wines for under $10 -- the kind of wine you could bring to a foodie dinner party without feeling like a cheap asshole
Arts & Entertainment Punk-Drag Party Charlie Horse Killed By Neighbor Noise Complaints The expanding War on Fun has taken another life, ladies and germs. Marke B. over at the SFBG reports that punk-politico drag queen Anna Conda has decided to call it quits on her
SF News 6 Richmond Gang Rape Suspects Arraigned; 2 Witnesses Speak ABC 7 News spoke to one anonymous witness who says he watched, for twenty minutes, the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at a homecoming dance two weeks ago -- he says he
SF News Pirate Cat Radio Fined $10,000, Off Air For Now We noted it in the Day Around the Bay last week (via SF Appeal), but some of you radio fans may have noticed that Pirate Cat Radio (89.7 FM) has completely disappeared
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Tiny Kushner</em> at Berkeley Rep The production currently playing on the thrust stage at Berkeley Rep -- while American Idiot finishes out its raucous pre-Broadway run in the Roda Theater -- is Tiny Kushner, a collection of one-act
misc The Cruise-Holmeses Moving In to Sea Cliff? Stranger things have happened, but we sort of doubt these rumors about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes having maybe possibly been the top secret buyers of one of the most expensive properties in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink "Greatest Tiki Bar on Earth" to Open December 8 Martin Cate, the man behind Smuggler's Cove, has announced that the long awaited grand opening of his Hayes Valley Tiki experience will be December 8. The bar's going to feature cocktail recipes from
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 11/9 - 11/15 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. Yet another stacked week with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dinosaur Jr.'s "Over It" With the new album, The Farm, J Mascis and the gang return to mid-nineties form in sound and song writing. They're performing at The Fillmore tonight and we believe there are still some
misc Verizon Droid: Big Deal? Or Just Another Late Arrival Rival? According to this woman, who was in line at 3 a.m. this morning at a Verizon store in order to be the very first owner of a Motorola Droid phone in SF,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino As we noted last week in the New School Cocktail Glossary, the bar program over at Camino in Oakland, just like the food, is focused entirely on local, seasonal, sustainable, organic ingredients and
SF News Murderous Crazy Edward Wycoff May Get Death Penalty in El Cerrito Murders We feel compelled to update you on Edward Wycoff, the Sacramento County truck driver who killed his sister and brother-in-law, Paul and Julie Rogers, in their El Cerrito home in 2006 because they
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kristen Wiig Reading From the Early Poems of Suzanne Somers This was part of the Celebrity Autobiography series. What more do you need to know? [Hat tip: Le Fag site semi-NSFW]
SF News Retail Spending Recovery Driven By Cheap Shit Good news, all! Retail stores saw their second consecutive month of sales increases in October, which amounted to retail's best overall performance in over a year in this here Great Recession. But for
misc Interviewing at Google = Death By Brain Teasers A slew of alleged Google interview questions have been floating around the internet, and now we know for certain that we simply are not equipped to work for the giant who lords over
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Upright Citizens Brigade's "Obamacare" Ad We know we're preaching to the converted here (for the most part), and we probably should have caught this semi-gruesome spoof ad by NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade (which once gave birth to Amy
SF News August Coppola, Brother of Francis, Creator of Tactile Dome, Dies at 75 August Coppola, who served as dean of the College of Creative Arts at San Francisco State and who created the famed Tactile Dome at the Exploratorium, died last week at his home in
SF News Carsonist Moves East? ABC7 is reporting on a string of 10 car fires that broke out early this morning, beginning with multiple locations along San Pablo Dam Road in Richmond (that's the City of Richmond, not
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: It's NaNoWriMo Everyone! Yes, it's that time of year again when aspiring and/or hobbyist writers -- as well as those creative souls who feel their lives slipping away year by year with nothing to show
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef: Las Vegas</em> Will Finish Season In Wine Country For the final couple of episodes, the cast of Bravo's ever so popular chef showdown relocated from Sin City to our neck of the woods, staying at the Le Mars Hotel in Healdsburg
