misc Unauthorized Trader Joe's Commercial Forgive us if you're one of the almost 500,000 who've seen it already... we hadn't, and it was shot in our very own Trader Joe's on Masonic on some guy's Palm Treo.
SF News Radio Shack to Call Itself "The Shack" and Have Promo Event on Embarcadero We guess this gets filed under KFC-like re-brandings without totally throwing out the company name, but Radio Shack want us to start calling it "The Shack" while still holding onto that R-inside-a-circle logo
SF News Drive-By Freeway Shooting on I-80 This Morning What is this, Los Angeles in the 80s? A man driving in his Prius around 4:30 a.m. on I-80 near the 580 split at around Golden Gate Fields in Albany, was
misc Man Describes "Nightmare" of Living at Civic Center Hotel ca. 1979 This man, whose name we believe is Bob, grew up in Vallejo and moved to San Francisco in 1979 to pursue his dreams of being a postal clerk and (possibly) becoming a liberated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Naughty Sun Dress from Bourbon & Branch Joel Baker, bar manager at the three-year-old speakeasy Bourbon & Branch -- which has already landed twice on Esquire's Best Bars in America list -- and bar consultant behind Future Bars, gives us
misc Critical Mass Tonight; We're Taking a Poll We here at SFist HQ always want to know your thoughts on the marquee issues facing our fair city. And today, seeing as it is another last Friday and therefore another occasion for
SF News Commuter Train Heroin Trafficking Ring Intercepted A heroin smuggling ring that involved transporting hundreds of kilos at a time hidden in train engines and compartments has been busted up by federal authorities, as announced yesterday by Acting U.S.
SF News Baggage Handlers Convicted in SFO Theft Ring Back in September, a certain baggage handler by the name of John Emil Victoria, age 21, fucked with the wrong man's luggage. A retired San Francisco police officer checked his custom-made handgun in
SF News Berkeley Daily Planet: "We Are SO Not Mean to the Homeless" You may recall this study that was released a couple weeks back by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in which San Francisco was named the 7th meanest city to the
SF News L Train Has Another Accident Near West Portal Just when you thought Muni PR couldn't get any worse, it seems that an L Taraval train had another collision with a vehicle today near 19th and Taraval. No injuries have been reported
SF News So, Uh, BART Strike Anyone? Believe us when we say we are just as sick as you are of this story/non-story that won't goddamn go away, but ONCE AGAIN, this weekend, there looms the threat of a
SF News Daly Move Watch 2K9: Daly and Wife Paid $545K Cash for Fairfield Homes The man who has spent his local political career championing the rights of the Tenderloin poor, the SRO-dwelling, and the owners of property more likely to be made of cardboard than of concrete,
misc <i>Guardian</i>'s 35th Annual 'Best Of the Bay' Released; We're Not On It Not that we're pouting... certainly the good folks at Muni Diaries deserve some recognition, and we did take the Weekly's readers poll this year, so we're not sweating it either. But the SFBG
SF News The Sunset: A Great Place to Grow Pot (Indoors) Did you know that in the past five months officers have busted 20 major marijuana grow operations in the Sunset and Ingleside districts of San Francisco? Yes, and a man was arrested yesterday
Arts & Entertainment Get Free Tix To An Advance Screening of <i>Julie & Julia</i> For the lucky ones of you who happen to have Citi Visa Signature credit cards in your wallets, you can go to this Fandango page here to get a free pass, good for
misc Schwarzenegger to (Probably) Make More Cuts to Social Programs View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. The cruel, cruel Governator is expected today to use his line-item veto power to make further cuts to social programs--particularly those serving the
SF News Woman Sued Over Libelous Twittering Be careful what you say about corporations and public entities on Twitter, dear readers! This is not your personal IM and someone might just try to sue your ass. Case in point: a
Arts & Entertainment Pics from Up Your Alley (Dore Alley) Street Fair - SOME NSFW! Amdist threats of a crackdown on fun (and nudity, and lewd behavior), the fetishy gays and their fetishy friends gathered under an unseasonably warm sun on Folsom Street on Sunday for the annual
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Noel Coward's <i>Private Lives</i> at CalShakes A play by Noel Coward is like a great champagne: bubbly and bright, leaving you intoxicated and laughing with a layered finish. Taking up the torch from Oscar Wilde, Coward was a master
SF News Update on Federal Prop 8 Lawsuit: Should SF, Gay Legal Groups Get Involved, Or Not? The City of San Francisco has moved to intervene on behalf of the gay Burbank couple and the Berkeley lesbian couple who are the mascots in a huge federal lawsuit to overturn Prop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Gitane's Castillan Cup This week's recipe is a decidedly summer libation based on the classic Pimm's Cup, and it comes to us from Carlo Splendorini, bar manager at Gitane (6 Claude Lane). The original Pimm's Cup
SF News DiFi Among Those Putting Breaks On Obama Health Plan Call it what you will, but hometown gal Nancy Pelosi's push to get the President's health care initiative through Congress before their August recess appears to be failing, and among those stalling it
Arts & Entertainment Video of Diane DiPrima Reading a Poem in the 70s San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane DiPrima -- who is co-hosting the San Francisco International Poetry Festival that kicks off tonight with a party on Jack Kerouac Alley in North Beach -- provides us
Arts & Entertainment More Kicks Than Pricks: A Dore Alley Preview Attention all gays and super-fetishy others: It's Up Your Alley (a.k.a. Dore Alley) fair weekend, and despite threats of a police crackdown on nudity, we're pretty sure it's going to be
SF News Online Prostitution Ring Busted Five men from Alameda and Santa Clara Counties have been taken into custody after a 10-month investigation into an online prostitution ring. All were charged pimping and pandering and are being held in
