SF News Somali Pirates Gone Apeshit: 4 More Ships, 60 More Hostages ... and this morning in world news: With their middle fingers (and machine guns) raised high to the rest of the world, Somali pirates have hijacked 4 more ships and taken 60 more hostages
SF News Phil Spector Found Guilty of Murder After a lengthy legal battle including a deadlocked-jury mistrial in 2007, famed record producer and hair model Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 death of B-movie actress Lana
Arts & Entertainment <strike>"Livestock Jesus"</strike>Brokeback Jesus Wins Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park UPDATED: In case you weren't around for all the Sisters-sponsored shenanigans in Dolores Park yesterday, behold the winner of the annual Hunky Jesus Contest: Livestock Jesus, who beat out MC Jesus, Larry Magdalene
SF News Family of Sandra Cantu Slaying Suspect Can't Stop Calling Her "Churchgoing" The family of Tracy's own Melissa Huckaby -- who we mentioned earlier is the prime suspect in the slaying of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu -- can't stop talking about how "churchgoing" and "good" she
misc One More Reason You May Never See Your Abs We don't mean to derail your Spring diet plan, or gross you out early on Monday morning, whichever the case may be. But it's flying around the internet and we may as well
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: DOSA's Batsman Cocktail This weekend's spring-y addition to our cocktail column comes to us via DOSA on Fillmore, where consulting bartender Johnny Raglin (of Absinthe) created this refreshing libation featuring lemon, ginger and gin as well
SF News South Bay Outage Points To Vulnerability of Communications Network Not exactly a newsflash, but did you know that our phone and internet infrastructure operates on "a wing and a prayer?" Yes, with a snip of a few wires, as some vandals/"terrorists"
SF News Non-Profit Groups Moving Homeless Squatters Into Foreclosed Homes More recession creativity: The New York Times is reporting on non-profit groups like Take Back the Land who, as acts of civil disobedience, are brazenly, in daylight, moving homeless families into foreclosed homes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Impromptu Poem to a Beloved SOMA/Mission Grocer From our new favorite photo-rich micro-blog, Sex Pigeon [line breaks ours]: "FoodsCo is hella cheap because they import everything from the past."
SF News Oakland's Uptown Apartments 60% Vacant; Get One Cheap, If You Dare One of the biggest gambles (or corrupt city investments, depending on how you see it) in Oakland Redevelopment history, the 665-unit mixed-use development known as the Uptown Project, remains only 37% occupied more
misc New Public Plaza Going in at 17th & Castro SF Appeal pointed us to this: local architects-for-the-people Public Architecture designed a pedestrian-friendly public plaza for the cable car turnaround at the intersection of Market, Castro and 17th Streets, which is set to
SF News Chia Obama Pulled From Shelves for Being Offensive Chia Obama, the brainchild of original Chia Pet creator and San Francisco resident Joe Pedott, is being pulled from shelves at Walgreen's despite strong sales in test markets, as KTVU is reporting. The
misc A Video Post In Which Our Old Friend Zennie Goes to the Giants' Opening Day You may recall avid YouTube enthusiast Zennie from this post regarding the "outsize" buildings in the futuristic San Francisco skyline shown in the upcoming Star Trek film. Well, as it happens, the East
misc Jack Wrangler, Early Gay Porn Superstar, Dead at 62 The rugged everyman who arguably became the first big star of the once underground gay porn industry is dead due to complications from lung disease. After starring in films like Night at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Wine Still Recession-Proof, At Least the Cheap Stuff Americans drank 467 million gallons of California wine the past year, up 2% from the previous fiscal year, despite the deepening recession/depression gripping our great, drunk nation. Retail value of CA bottles
SF News SF-Based Gay Grifter Crew Being Held for Murder In case you missed this fascinating tale of con man Kaushal Niroula in the current issue of SF Weekly, grab it before it's swapped out or read it online here. Niroula is a
misc A Transit 'Tree' and an Optimistic 30-Minute Trip Map The SF Streets Blog has given us this cool Transit Tree, based on the Bay Area's transit "circulatory system," as well as a map of how far a person can get -- presumably
SF News Marina-Bound Passenger Trapped, Dragged Under Muni Bus After possibly a long night of carousing, a Muni passenger stepped off the 91-Owl bus at 4 a.m. Sunday morning at the corner of Francisco and Richardson and became somehow trapped (caught
Arts & Entertainment Local Pediatrician Mark Sloan Writes Book About Childbirth Santa Rosa pediatrician Dr. Mark Sloan has written a book called Birth Day, in which he delves into some of the mysteries of childbirth, and the history of the process itself from Aristotle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Beretta's Jeepster It's Friday, and therefore time for the next installment of our cocktail column, this week brought to you by the fine mixologists at Beretta over on Valencia and 23rd (in the old Last
Arts & Entertainment Perhaps Fearing Being Canned, <em>Chron</em> Film Critic Mick LaSalle Already Doing His Decade Best List It's April, the eve of 150 pink slips over the old Faded Floozy (a.k.a. The Chronicle), and film critic Mick LaSalle has decided to get a jump start on his critic
SF News Dolores Park to Get Even More Eff-ing Kid-Friendly Not that we have anything against kids -- they're great, for realz, we just don't have/want one -- but in a city with possibly the lowest percentage of families with children of
Arts & Entertainment First Thursday Spotlight: <em>Kin</em> - Works on Paper by Dana Harel It's that time of the month again when the art kids come out in force to drink free wine and hit up as many gallery openings as they can before 9. We here
misc Greenpeace Stages "Fossil Fools Day" Protest SF Weekly has a slideshow of pics from yesterday's theatrical Greenpeace demonstration, where the basic idea was "fossil fuels are from the stone age." We think some of the participants took their slogan
