misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Alice in Wonderland' Teaser & Pics UPDATE: Disney's apparently got their panties in a bunch about the leak of this teaser ONE WHOLE DAY EARLY, and a lot of the embeddables have been yanked down. If this one--our second
Arts & Entertainment Attention Poetry Fans: The San Francisco Int'l Poetry Festival Starts Tomorrow Like a comet, or a certain Venetian art fair, the San Francisco International Poetry Festival only comes around every two years, and the second biennial fest kicks off tomorrow with a party in
SF News County Official: "Budget Will Mean More Mentally Ill On Streets" You've probably heard that some California counties are fuming over the new state budget, which borrows $4 billion from county budgets and will mean major cuts in local services from health care to
SF News Study: Hands-Free Cellphoning Not The Answer Hundreds of pages of research on the risks of cellphone use while driving, conducted in 2003 as part of a long-term study that was never given the go-ahead by the government, have been
SF News Suspect in 2004 Jenner Murder Killed in Shoot-Out Remember that young Christian couple who was found shot to death on the beach near Jenner in 2004? Well, the case remains open, however there was a person of interest named Joseph Burgess
Arts & Entertainment The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: Giveaway! Your afternoon palate cleanser today -- "Everything With You" by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart -- comes along with a GIVEAWAY!! Yes, these spunky kids with an ear for late 80s
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Goes Back to His Journalistic Roots One of San Francisco's favorite writers in residence, Dave Eggers, was on KQED's "Forum" this morning discussing his new book Zeitoun. It's a non-fiction work, just out from McSweeney's press as of last
SF News Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Imminent; VCs Spending Again Could the wheels of techie commerce once again be spinning? Two news items today suggest that yes, the powers that be are opening their wallets. First off, that long talked about Microsoft-Yahoo deal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Tales of the Cocktail Last week in New Orleans, bartenders and cocktail journalists from around the country gathered for a particularly booze sozzled conference known as Tales of the Cocktail. Highlights included the History of Saloons in
SF News 2007 Oil Spill Culprit Faces Sentencing You may recall that container ship, the Cosco Busan, that plowed into one of the Bay Bridge supports back in November '07 and dumped 53,000 gallons of oil into the Bay, and
SF News <i>SF Weekly</i> Gets All 'To Catch a Predator' on Airplanes Not sure if any of you caught this story in the Weekly this week, but just in case you didn't, and just in case you have kids, make sure to train them in
misc Really Bad Wax Figure Likenesses We're not sure there is such a thing as a *good* wax figure, but we're sure the people at the Fisherman's Wharf Wax Museum would like us to think so. In any event,
misc Gay Gamers Treated Badly by Kids in Gaming Universe It's probably not news to anyone who's played an internet-enabled, multi-player video game in the last few years (or anyone who's ever met a teenage boy, for that matter) that LGBT gamers often
SF News Two Studies Conflict Over Number of Millionaires in San Francisco DISCLAIMER: The following post is aimed at statistics wonks and math nerds and those who want to mock certain newspapers only. Two studies produced by the same organization seem to present conflicting numbers
Arts & Entertainment Live Musical Interlude: Blonde Redhead's "In Particular" The trio comprising twin brothers and a Japanese girl one of them once dated known as Blonde Redhead is playing their second and last show tonight at The Independent (get tickets here), and
SF News Phony Dentist Con-Man, Or the Robin Hood of Root Canals? You Decide Mario Pacheco, whose makeshift home dental clinic in Oakland was raided by authorities, guns drawn on Friday, tells CBS 5 today that he was "just doing what [he] could to help people." As
SF News McLaren Park Body Tied to Your Black Muslim Bakery Lunatics The big tabloid-crime news story of the day is the connection being made between a body found last week in a McLaren Park homeless encampment (which was apparently once attached to this severed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Previews Pop-Up Restaurant Before Eating There In his new column, Chron foodie Michael Bauer sounds more than titillated by the concept of Saison, a new restaurant from partners Joshua Skenes and Mark Bright that is set to begin service
Arts & Entertainment DJ Jeffrey Paradise: 1992 Is the New 1984 The Weekly's All Shook Down blog has this new interview with local DJ Jeffrey Paradise (the artist formerly known as Jefrodisiac), who along with DJ Richie Panic started Frisco Disco at Arrow Bar
SF News Closing Arguments Heard in William Ayres Trial And speaking of South Bay molesters, the Redwood City trial of psychiatrist William Ayres -- a prominent child psychiatrist who stands accused of molesting several of his male patients, not to be confused
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest Ticket Giveaway! It's time for another haiku contest, dear and loyal readers! You so consistently impress us with your poetic prowess and wit, so we look forward to rewarding one of you with a pair
SF News Anti-Abortion Protester Interrupts Sonia Sotomayor Hearing During opening remarks by Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Judge Sonia Sotomayor this morning, an anti-abortion protester stood up, shouted something about genocide and the unborn, and was
SF News City of Richmond Bans Smoking in Apartments These smoking bans aren't anything new in California, but the City of Richmond -- which, arguably, has bigger law enforcement fish to fry -- has just joined the ranks of cities that ban
SF News Woman Driver Re-enacts 1909 Cross-Country Journey in 100-Year-Old Car Somehow we missed this late last week, but Emily Anderson of Seattle arrived in San Francisco on Thursday after completing a cross-country trip from New York in a reconstructed 1909 Maxwell D.A.
Arts & Entertainment Pics from 'Sand By The Ton' Party, Saturday 7/11 in West Oakland Apparently if you weren't at this enormous grand opening party/fundraiser at the American Steel warehouse in West Oakland on Saturday, then you missed something pretty huge and fun. We, alas, were not,
