misc Guerrilla Movie Marketing: Still Relevant? Has anyone else been peeved by the "Angels & Demons" graffiti marketing effort that's recently decorated the paths in Dolores Park? Doubtless some clever marketing firm who specializes in "non-traditional" or "guerrilla marketing"
SF News KRON4 Makes Jay Leno-esque Argument For Eradicating the Ballot Measure System At the risk of sounding un-democratic, we hate the whole voter-approved proposition system and we think you do too. Even the most educated voters don't tend to know enough about both sides of
SF News Oakland Marks Oldest Homicide Victim Ever The body of Ivarene Lett, age 97, was found beaten to death two nights ago in her 6th floor apartment in the Adams Point neighborhood of Oakland, near Lake Merritt. She was a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Cocktail Week Kicks Off; Startenders About Town More Hungover Than Usual Last night marked the opening gala of the third annual San Francisco Cocktail Week celebration -- a week in which Bay Area barmeisters mix and mingle with mixologists and cocktail enthusiasts from around
SF News David Geffen In Line to Purchase <i>The New York Times</i>? As everyone is well aware, print news is dying a slow death, and news organizations everywhere -- like our very own Faded Floozy -- are changing hands or closing up shop completely. Fortune
SF News Some Kid Using Cars on 680 For Target Practice A sadistic teenager / psychopathic "gunman" has been shooting at cars as they pass between Washington and Mission Boulevards on 680 near the Fremont-Sunol border (i.e. boonies adjacent). No one has been hurt,
SF News James Kilgore, Patty Hearst Kidnapper and Convicted Murderer, Paroled The last remaining captured member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, James Kilgore, was released from prison yesterday on parole for a federal explosives and passport fraud charge. He evaded capture longer than any
Arts & Entertainment Sunday Streets Comes to Bayview Bayview business owners offered Mother's Day specials and saw visitors from other neighborhoods rolling in on bikes, skates and scooters. Watch out for the next two Sunday Streets events in the Mission on
Arts & Entertainment Our Old Trekkie Friend Zennie Finally Gets To See <i>Star Trek</i>, Questions the Film's Diversity Quotient You may recall Zennie from his complaints about the "outsized" proportions of the futuristic San Francisco shown in the trailer for J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek film. Well, the movie's out, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Strawberry Rhubarb Manhazarac at Thirsty Bear It may sound girly at first, but there's nothing frou-frou about this seasonal, rye-based, culinary cocktail creation from Alex Smith, bar manager at Thirsty Bear Brewing Co. And if you only know Thirsty
SF News BART Cars to Finally (Maybe) Lose All Those Stinky Seats and Carpets In several new designs -- which are coming out of BART's planning stages for a $3.4 billion project to add 700 new BART cars by 2024 -- the urban and suburban commuter
SF News Los Altos Man Seeks Answers in Mysterious Death of Fiancé in Thailand Los Altos native Brian Kells reached out to local news stations this week after his fiancĂ© of three weeks, Jill St. Onge, died very suddenly at a guesthouse on Phi Phi Island in
misc Drag Queen Spoofs Those Pro-Corn Syrup Ads LA-based drag queen Jackie Beat, who was recently up here for Lip Service at the Castro, just made these three spoof ads of those Corn Refiners Commercials in which one mother gives another
SF News Muni Prez Rejects Fare Hike For Now; BART Tests Pay-By-Cellphone City supervisors yesterday rejected the proposed Muni budget that would cut service and hike fares to $2 come July. Muni Board President David Chiu pointed to several programs that look like a blatant
misc Nerd Alert! It's Odd Day Nerds the world over are reveling in the fact that today, 5/7/09, is the third of 6 days this century in which the date happens to be made of three odd
misc Pics from the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon C/o SF Weekly, please enjoy (or balk at) these NSFW photos from the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon which went down last Saturday at the Center for Sex and Culture. Among the celebrity, um,
SF News Oakland Mayor Seeking Federal Grant to Avoid Laying Off Police Officers The latest Oakland City Budget document dropped yesterday, and in it Mayor Ron Dellums is proposing laying off 140 of the city's 803 police officers in order to help meet an estimated $80
misc AutoTuning the News, Obama Edition This guy, Michael Gregory (who previously gave us this charming clip that wended its way across the webs and onto Rachel Maddow's show, among other places) has a great talent for making monotonous
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Sara Houghteling, Author of <i>Pictures at an Exhibition</i> Berkeley-based writer Sara Houghteling has a debut novel on the shelves called Pictures at an Exhibition, which tells the story of Max Berenzon, son of a Jewish art dealer in Paris and his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Chefs Among James Beard Award Winners The Oscars of the food world were held yesterday in New York, and among top honorees were San Francisco's Nate Appleman of the restaurants A16 and SPQR, who won Best Rising Star Chef
SF News No More San Francisco Edition of <i>The Onion</i> It's a sad day, area men and women: Today's editions of the The Onion in San Francisco and Los Angeles will be the last. The paper was said to be laying off editors
SF News BART Delays This A.M. There was an an electrical problem in the transbay tube connecting Oakland and San Francisco, and there are now residual delays, which means you may be eff'd this morning if you need to
SF News Bay Area Piggy Flu Panic Reaching Fever Pitch There are multiple stories from multiple news sources this gray Monday morning concerning all the Bay Area school closures that have been announced due to swine flu fears, and a few scattered cases.
SF News New Obama Tax Plan to Crack Down on Tax Evasion President Obama announced a plan this morning to revise IRS policies and to crack down on individuals and corporations using loopholes and off-shore "headquarters" to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. He
misc Fear Not, Everyone: We Will Have The Good Weather Back Soon An afternoon in Dolores Park from Aaron Fagerstrom on Vimeo. Please remember in these difficult, rainy times, that we are relatively spoiled living in this rare Mediterranean climate, and that the pretty Dolores
