SF News Toyota To Close Assembly Plant in Fremont, Slash 4,600 Jobs Toyota has announced that it will cease production at the Fremont-based assembly plant known as NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.), effective March 2010. This follows on GM backing out of the same
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Loop Station! Oakland's own Loop Station! comprises the classically trained duo of Sam Bass and Robin Coomer, and their unique mix of cello and raw, lyrical emotion has earned them a gaggle of Bay Area
SF News San Francisco Home Prices On the Rise Again While places like New York and Miami continue to see sale prices on new homes sliding downward, San Francisco was one of the top three cities in the country to see a rise
SF News Burning Man '09 to Feature Texting, Cell Phone Service Gone are the days of the technology and currency-free oasis of drugs, dust and art both whimsical and questionable. In a development sure to be heralded by many as the final shark to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Slow Show' by The National Your cleanser du jour comes to us from one of the bands we're most looking forward to seeing this weekend at Outside Lands, Brooklyn's own The National. They'll be playing on Friday at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Beckett's <i>Happy Days</i> at CalShakes If you're a theater nerd, you might already know the most famous aspect of Samuel Beckett's two-person play Happy Days, which is currently being performed at the California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda. This
SF News Castro Bar Owner Dies of Swine Flu In a truly sad note this morning, Doug Murphy, co-owner of Moby Dick and, most recently, Blackbird, died Friday due to complications from the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu. He was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Street Food Fest: Crowded, Pricey, Yet Delicious & Drunken The first annual SF Street Food Fest went down on Saturday, and pretty much half of San Francisco showed up to the one-block-long festival. The thing got a ton of buzz, a piece
SF News Update RE: Police Cracking Down on Dolo Park Drinking We made it a personal mission to check out the sitch in Dolores Park this past Friday afternoon, following on reports of a police crackdown on "illegal" drinking in the park, and we
SF News Bonny Doon / Lockheed Fire Now Fully Contained After eleven days, firefighters in the Santa Cruz Mountains completed their containment line yesterday afternoon and have announced officially that the Lockheed Fire (which we were calling the Bonny Doon Fire) has now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Cline Cellars in Sonoma We're taking a break from the regular cocktail column today to highlight one of our favorite wineries in the Greater Bay Area, Cline Cellars. Situated at the south end of Hwy 121, just
SF News East Bay Afghan Community Riveted to Election in Afghanistan The East Bay is home to over 40,000 Afghan-Americans, and the big news back home in Afghanistan over the past two days has been the country's second national election since the end
SF News Man Stops Car In Middle of Highway, Struggles With Cops, Dies A 350-pound man with an alleged history of drug use was found wandering amidst the traffic on Highway 4 in Pittsburg at about 3:30 a.m. today. A couple of off-duty security
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser, 420-Style In light of yesterday's revelation (via the SFBG) that high school kids in SF aren't smoking nearly as much weed as they did a decade ago, we offer up this palate cleanser, featuring
Arts & Entertainment French-Themed Gathering Outside City Hall Features Free Paté, Pétanque A charming French lady by the name of Meshá Mongé-Irizarry is hosting a little event outside City Hall right now featuring free grenadine, bread, paté, and pétanque. The event functions both as a
SF News City of SF In, Gay Groups Out in Federal Prop 8 Lawsuit The gay marriage case that Hollywood made will be heading to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on January 11th, and the City of San Francisco will be included as a party to
SF News 62-Year-Old Woman Is Suspected Carsonist, Also Toilet Torcher As KRON4 is telling us, a 62-year-old homeless woman named Fafa Chan, who police recognized at a bus stop after seeing her starting a fire on a surveillance video, is the prime carsonist
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: David Eagleman, Author of <i>Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives</i> Neuroscientist David Eagleman's new book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a series of fictional explorations of the afterlife that range from downloading one's consciousness to a computer to meeting God (both
SF News <i>SF Bay Guardian</i> Does Drugs The Guardian's Drug Issue is out, and it's laced (that's editor Steven T. Jones' word, not ours) with "good shit" ranging from a piece about women's meth use on the rise in SF;
SF News Report Released Re: New Year's Shooting By BART Cop Most of you should recall the name of Oscar Grant, who was shot late on New Year's Eve at the Fruitvale BART station by a certain BART cop named Johannes Mehserle. Said shooting
SF News Day Around the Bay Bay Area men all "rich, metrosexual brainiacs"? What about all the poor bartenders, and the 25% who are gay? (NBC Bay Area) Free couch. (Sex Pigeon) 4-alarm brush fire raging in Vallejo. (ABC
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Alcohol-Loving Pets Whether your beagle is super fond of beer, or you just like to pose your puppy (or kitty) next to empty bottles of Jack Daniels, the internet never tires of adorable pet pics.
SF News VIDEO: Union Square Kiss-In Protests Anti-Gay Kissing Bias For those of you not aware of the current rumblings in the SF gay community, Prop 8 is so five minutes ago and everyone (especially local drag star Anna Conda) is UP IN
SF News Walnut Creek Freaking Out Over First Pot Club Permit The fine folks in the Walnut Creek City Council scheduled an emergency meeting (!) this morning to deal with their very first permit request to open a medical marijuana dispensary. It seems their city
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Blackberry Shrub We thought we'd keep with this shrub thing after last week's Strawberry Gin Shrub recipe, since it's new to us (and probably you) and is actually quite delicious. At this week's CUESA farmers'
