SF News Coverage of Protests Outside CA Supreme Court KRON4 has this coverage from earlier this morning of protesters at the ready outside the court where the Prop 8 announcement is set to be announced in just over an hour. They also
SF News Obama Picks Sonia Sotomayor For Souter's Supreme Court Seat Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a self-described Newyorican who grew up in a housing project in the Bronx after her parents moved from Puerto Rico, has been tapped by President Obama to be the next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vote, Baby, Vote... For Your Favorite Restaurant in SF The SF Weekly Best of 2009 Readers Poll, while clearly accurate in such categories as Best Blog, was perhaps skewed by a campaign to vault Pasta Pomodoro to the lofty position as the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Black Lavender from Elixir For those of you amateur mixologists who aren't afraid of muddlers and strainers, we bring you our weekly artisanal cocktail recipe from a San Francisco bartender. This week's cocktail was something concocted by
SF News Two Men Arrested in I-680 Pellet Gun Shootings A couple weeks ago we mentioned this disturbing-though-not-deadly situation on I-680 where drivers were getting shot at, apparently by an air rifle and maybe by a teenager, and getting their car windows shattered.
SF News Bay Area Home Prices Still Sliding For all you real estate data wonks and renters who like to feel smug: the median price of homes sold in the nine-county Bay Area is down 41% over last year, to $304,
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Insists Print Not Dead San Francisco's favorite writer Dave Eggers was honored the other night in New York City for his charity work at 826 Valencia -- the organization that tutors kids in writing skills and now
SF News Wax Obama to Arrive At Wax Museum Today A wax statue of President Barack Obama will arrive, via the F Market, at the Fisherman's Wharf wax museum today around 3PM. The first 100 patrons at the museum after Wax Obama's arrival
SF News Miss CA Carrie Prejean's Mother a Secret Lesbian? You heard it here first, folks. Well, actually, you might have heard it here, if you read that sort of thing. An "openly gay sales rep" named Valerie has come forward to say
misc SF Windsurfing Segment from Good Morning America, ca. 1981 Good morning! We came across this just-uploaded segment on San Francisco Bay windsurfing from Good Morning America in 1981 and thought we'd share. It was shot off of Fillmore Street, Redwood Shores Estates
SF News File Under Expensive Environmentalism: AC Transit's Hydrogen Buses A new piece in the East Bay Express tells the tale of AC Transit's decision to move forward with a $28 million purchase of 12 zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell buses -- that's just
SF News Pedestrian Plazas and Street Closures All the Rage in SF & NY Two new urban planning documents in two major American cities -- our own and New York City -- are being released this week that reflect a growing a trend toward creating pedestrian-friendly environments
SF News Ta-Da: Results of a Very (Un)Special Election Not sure how much this budget-by-ballot blitz just cost us, but with 17% of precincts reporting, five of the six ballot measures in today's special election appear to have failed, with 60%+ of
SF News Napa Police Dispatcher Faked Her Cancer, Got Donations From Friends A crazy story just surfaced from the Napa Valley Register about Dannille Vanderpool, a police dispatcher who claimed to have both ovarian and brain cancer and subsequently scammed her way into free childcare,
SF News Mother of Cal's 'Naked Guy' Gets $1M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit The man who gained national fame in the early 90s for attending classes at U.C. Berkeley wearing nothing but a G-string, Luis Andrew Martinez a.k.a. The Naked Guy, met his
SF News The (Un)Special Election: What Happens If Everyone Votes 'No' John Myers at KQED's California Report did a report about this very unspecial Special Election we're having today, in which some TBD tiny percentage of the state's population is going to arrive at
Arts & Entertainment More Pics from Bay to Breakers 2009 The weather was hot and nice and a good time was had by all -- except those in heavy gorilla suits -- new regulations be damned. (Some pics semi-NSFW!) Check out earlier Bay
SF News Kenyan & Ethiopian Runners Win Bay to Breakers So, the actual running part of Bay to Breakers generally gets forgotten about by the majority of hard-partying participants. But JFYI: Kenyan runner Sammy Kitwara set a new men's record in the race,
SF News 4.7 Magnitude Quake Hits Los Angeles A moderate earthquake rattled greater Los Angeles for 10 to 15 seconds last evening around 8:40 p.m., and it was felt as far south as San Diego. No major damage has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Barbary Flip This is a special Cocktail Week edition of our weekly drink column, featuring a recipe from the same bartender of our inaugural column, Duggan McDonnell. Duggan is one of the organizers of the
SF News Stimulus Funds Make Oakland Airport BART Connector (Almost) A Reality So, this is sort of a math problem: Take a $130 million project; sit it on it and discuss for many years; watch costs rise to about $500 million; receive a $70 million
SF News Decision on A's Moving to San Jose Comes in November A ballot proposition on relocating the Oakland A's to San Jose could be up for a vote as early as November, reports KCBS, following a meeting between A's owner Lew Wolff and San
SF News Cops Looking Also to Put Damper On Pink Saturday Much like the aforementioned heterosexual pride parade of Bay2Breakers, and the dirtier street fair known as Dore Alley, this year's Gay Pride Eve celebration in the Castro is facing some possible restriction from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks... and Drinks, and Drinks at Cocktail Week Your stalwart correspondents have been enjoying the opening events of SF Cocktail Week, and in particular last night's farmers' market drink event at the Ferry Building, co-hosted by the non-profit Center for Urban
SF News Are Cops Serious About Bay to Breakers Keg Crackdown? You've probably already heard that the fine citizens and business owners along the route of the annual heterosexual pride parade known as Bay to Breakers were pissed last year about all the pissing
