SF News BART Strike Update and Poll We're chagrined for downplaying this BART strike business earlier this week, but there's just been so many strike threats at this point (going back to mid-June) it's hard not to feel like the
SF News Gay Couple Dissed By Utah Paper A California gay couple who were legally married in San Francisco last summer have had their wedding announcement rejected by a southern Utah newspaper that claimed to be friendly to gay wedding announcements.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Do It In The Dirt" by Enrique Anyone who was around the local music scene in the 90s may remember these guys. Enrique was an SF-based, ironical-satirical pop-rock band in the vein of the B-52s and the Scissor Sisters whose
SF News Market Street Flooding With Brown Water @ Jones BREAKING: Right outside the recently crumbling Hibernia Bank building at Jones & Market, a flood of brown water has erupted either out of a storm drain, or out of the building itself, or
SF News *Double Yawn* ... Hey Everyone, BART Strike Still Might Be On We don't know if this is just a lot of grandstanding by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 -- the sole holdout union who rejected BART's latest contract offer -- but in what
SF News Battle Over Casino Development in Richmond The citizens of Richmond and its City Council are battling over the proposed development of a new casino at Point Molate, a former naval refueling station, by what one activist calls a "rent-a-tribe"
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" The silence, as it were, will be deafening tonight at Shoreline Amphitheatre after Depeche Mode's abrupt cancellation of their show due to Dave Gahan's exhausted vocal chords. As some small consolation to those
SF News Equality California Decides to Wait 'Til 2012 for Gay Marriage Fight In a decision that is probably wise and shouldn't be too shocking, Equality California announced today that they will put off the ballot fight for gay marriage until 2012, rather than going for
SF News SF Public Access TV To Be Taken Over by Non-Elderlies A new piece by Lauren Smiley in SF Weekly chronicles the demise/transitioning of our local public access TV org, Access SF. The upshot is that Comcast doesn't cover operating expenses anymore, and
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "San Francisco Polyphony" by György Ligeti Off the tops of our heads, we can't think of too many classical/chamber pieces written in honor of our fair city. This one, 1973's "San Francisco Polyphony," is by Hungarian-born composer György
SF News *Yawn*... One BART Union Rejects Contract So, um, this strike thing still looms. Or does it? Wake us when it's over.
misc Straight Dude Blogger Struggles Over Finding Women in SF, and the Age-Old NY vs. SF Debate NBC Bay Area has pointed us today, for reasons not entirely clear to their news gathering mission, to this blog via a brief piece titled "Where Have San Francisco's Beautiful Women Gone?" The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tickets on Sale for Summer Farmers' Market Cocktail Event If you were envious back in May when we talked about the farmers' market cocktail event at the Ferry Building during Cocktail Week, and you didn't make it to the SF Chefs. Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Strawberry Gin Shrub from NOPA Last night marked the kickoff of this SF Chefs. Food. Wine. event in Union Square, a weekend-long orgasm of culinary grazing, seminar-ing and drinking meant to rival the annual Food & Wine Classic
SF News Zoo Elephants Becoming Mayoral Campaign Wedge Issue As SF Appeal is reporting, the San Francisco Zoo has no plans to build (and cannot afford to build) any new sanctuary that would humanely house elephants, following on a 2005 decision by
Arts & Entertainment Julia Child, Noted Homophobe, Once Blackballed Gay San Franciscan In honor of the opening of Julie & Julia today (a movie which Robert Wilonsky calls "half of a great movie" in the Weekly), gay blogger JoeMyGod points to a 2007 Boston magazine
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Two Months Off" by Underworld These fine British gents are coming to the Fox Theater in Oakland tomorrow evening, so we thought we'd offer up one of their more popular tracks, "Two Months Off" which was featured on
SF News Squeaky Fromme Paroled After 34 Years in the Clink Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme, the weak minded yet lovable would-be assassin of Gerald Ford, is scheduled for parole from federal prison at the end of August. She's 60 now, failed to escape prison in
Arts & Entertainment Ang Lee Appears at Frameline Sneak Preview of <i>Taking Woodstock</i> Director Ang Lee, along with screenwriter/producer James Schamus and star Demetri Martin appeared last night at a preview of Taking Woodstock at Embarcadero Cinemas. The film is a gorgeously shot and executed
misc ...And Then There Were Skydivers We didn't see a hundred skydivers, but T-Mobile completed their big mid-day product launch for their hopeful iPhone rival, the myTouch 3G, featuring planes, free-falling, freelance skydivers, colored smoke, mimes, stilt-walkers, BMXers, loud
SF News Tom Ammiano Makes A Political Funny From the weekend answering machine of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, after helping deliver the finalized state budget: "What do Green Acres, the Roseanne show, and the governor's mansion have in common? A pig named
SF News Plane Crashes In Napa A small prop plane bound for Bakersfield, a Cessna 182 to be exact, crashed shortly after takeoff from Napa County Airport this morning at around 4:30 a.m. The pilot, who was
misc Our Old Friend Zennie Has Some Advice for Twitter Remember our old old pal Zennie? He of the controversy and Giants game meanderings? Some of you may know him as a SFGate City Brights blogger (a title shared by those eloquent Getty
SF News Mistrial In Case of Meth Heads Who Killed Meth Head Landlord Some of you may recall the case of two methamphetamine addicts, Richard Carelli and Michele Pinkerton, both now 39, who were accused of murdering of their landlord, Leonard Hoskins, in December 2007. It
SF News Oakland Police Defend Officer Who Shot Hatchet-Wielding Handyman A handyman in an East Oakland neighborhood was shot by a female police officer at Tolin's Liquor Store Saturday night after (possibly drunkenly) harassing other customers and refusing to drop his "weapon," which
