misc SFist Interview with Julia Angwin, Author of <i>Stealing MySpace</i> Wall Street Journal Senior Technology Editor Julia Angwin recently took an investigative look at the back-stories of MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, who prior to founding the social networking and glitter-gif
SF News Two Women Murdered in Oakland Hooker Hotel KCBS is reporting on the discovery of two women's bodies last night in a room at the Value Inn on West MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, one of a strip of motels frequented by
SF News Google Maps Misspells "Dolores Park" This goes out to all the commenters who get up-in-arms about copyedit errors: Burrito Justice & Mission Mission point us to the fact that the folks at the helm over at Google Maps
SF News Mommy Blogger Fakes Pregnancy For Commenter Attention This story may not beat the Napa gal who faked her cancer so that she could collect donations and disability, but it comes close! We find today, via SFGate's Mommy Files, that a
SF News Dog Dies in Postal Truck Inferno on I-880 Last night around 2AM near downtown Oakland, an empty U.S. Postal Service truck slammed into another truck that had pulled over along I-880 in order to assist a woman who was having
Arts & Entertainment Nick Cave's Sound Suits in Motion In case you missed last weekend's Big Idea party at Yerba Buena, or in case you still haven't made it over to see the amazing exhibit "Meet Me at the Center of the
SF News Analog-to-Digital Switch Impacting Elderly, Poor and SFGate Technology Writer After more than 60 years of broadcasting in analog, television stations across the nation made the switch to digital today -- following on an Obama-mandated six-month delay so that more outreach could be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Range's Vicious Circle The recipe for this week's twist on a classic cocktail comes to us from Brooke Arthur, Bar Manager at Range: I came across a recipe for the Algonquin Cocktail, a classic from the
misc <i>Guardian</i> Blogger Says Hand Jobs Are Over Juliette Tang, writing for the SFBG's sex blog asks the all-important question this week, "Hand Jobs: Are We Having Them?" Now, while we at SFist fully support the concept of a sex blog
SF News Idea for Commercial Airlines: Fly in Formation? Five Stanford doctoral students are flying to Paris this weekend as finalists in a competition sponsored by Airbus for the best fuel-saving idea for commercial airlines. Their idea is for the passenger jets
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 'What's the Big Idea?' at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (6/6) Last Saturday night, the YBCA opened its doors for a large-scale, mixed, queer-friendly, *very* San Franciscan party called "What's the Big Idea?" featuring food from the Mission Street Food "taco" truck, galleries open
Arts & Entertainment Interview With San Francisco Drag Legend Juanita MORE! The Sword recently did this interview with SF drag queen Juanita MORE!, who's been DJing and hosting at parties (like Booty Call Wednesdays at Qbar in the Castro, Shits & Giggles in L.
Arts & Entertainment Cops Relent; Pink Saturday Is ON, Kids Good news for the gays: Negotiations between the police and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence moved forward last week and after agreeing to a reduction in the number of beer concessions (from 8
SF News Soon It Could Cost $5 To Cross Bay, Dumbarton, San Mateo Bridges State-owned bridges like the Bay and San Mateo Bridges may face a toll hike of a dollar (from $4 to $5) in the next year in order to cover costs for retrofitting bridges
Arts & Entertainment "My Life on the Craigslist" Opens at The New Conservatory Theatre Internet-famous gay Jeffery Self, of the comedy duo The VGL Gay Boys (link semi-NSFW), brings his one-man show about the woes of gay dating and Craigslist hookups "My Life on the Craigslist" to
SF News City of Oakland Considering Bankruptcy The state and our fair city have their share of budget woes, but Oakland is now considering pulling a Vallejo and filing for bankruptcy in the face of $100 million budget deficit in
SF News Board of Supes Threatens Fines for Not Recycling, Composting The San Francisco Board of Supervisors yesterday enacted the toughest law in the nation with regard to mandatory recycling and composting, and within two years business owners and landlords could have pay fines
misc The <i>VICE</i> Guide to North Korea; and Shane Smith on <i>The Early Show</i> In case you missed it when it arrived on the web scene last year, VICE Magazine went inside North Korea and did a 3-part series in which head bad boy Shane Smith took
Arts & Entertainment 7x7 Correspondent Tries to Get Garrison Keillor To Admit He's a Perv Leilani Labong, conducting an interview for the most recent 7x7, tried her damndest to get Garrison Keillor (who was just at City Arts & Lectures on Saturday) to admit that his new collection
SF News San Francisco Assessor Wants to Raise Property Taxes on Corporations San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting is starting a campaign to amend Proposition 13, the 31-year-old ballot measure that limits the increase of property taxes statewide to 2% a year. He argues that corporations
SF News Current TV Reporters Sentenced to 12 Years in N. Korean Jail Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two Current TV reporters nabbed by North Korean border guards while they were doing a story about human trafficking on the Chinese-North Korean border, have been sentenced
misc Paula Abdul Punked by Sacha Baron Cohen We don't know about you, but we're seriously looking forward to the July 10 release of Bruno, the latest Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary about a gay Austrian fashion correspondent creating Borat-like confusion around
Arts & Entertainment New Film With Script by Eggers and Vida Gets Scathing Review The new film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and with a script by local literary it-couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, received a gut-punch of a review by A.O. Scott
SF News WTF, June Rain? In the topsy-turvy, globally warmed San Francisco we seem to be living in, all rules about the rain ending in May are apparently out the window. There were some sizable handfuls of rain
Arts & Entertainment Scribe at Chron Baby Blog Thinks He Found the 'Up' House We've heard the new Disney/Pixar movie Up is fantastic, and we're not going to knock it or sing its praises here because we haven't seen it, and, well, we don't usually do
