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Lost Highway

This all started around 5:40 on Friday when police were called in on reports of a body found at Indiana and Cesar Chavez. The body has not been identified yet, but police

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Trapped In The Closet Sing-Along

We said it was awesome, didn't we? Yep, sing a long to all twelve chapters of Kelly's hipoperia-- all with the video itself playing in the background. But wait, there's more! The night

Mumia's Not Going to Free Himself, You Know

The big thing was the "Die-In" which blocked traffic on Market Street when a bunch of protestors feigned death in front of DiFi's office and lied in the streets. They then went into

Everyone is A-Otay

Not that we'd want to give him any ideas, however. In the not-so-happy side are homelessness, crime, and housing, all of which were listed as concerns. According to the pollsters crime wasn't even

From the Editor's In Box

"I had the most satisfying experience the other night...a huge-ass SUV with an over-sensitive car alarm that had been tormenting us for hours...GOT TOWED!! I'd never seen that before...so immensely

Here Comes Da Judge

For those who don't know how these things work, essentially if someone gets a citation for any number of "quality of life" type issues, they'd be sent immediately to a community court. At

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SFist Goes to the Anti-War Protest

As previously reported, SFist Jim went to the anti-war rally and took these pictures. More after the jump

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SFist Goes to the St. Patrick's Day Parade

Before the mayhem began, SFist Jim checked out the St. Patrick's Day parade. After the jump, more photos including Carole Migden getting into it.

What's With These Homies Dissing My Girl?

So Gavin is proposing setting up community courts to help do something about those "quality of life" things. The problem being is that nothing is really done about people pissing in the streets

Your San Francisco Giants Preview Part Three

And away we go.... SFist: Okay, here's the next question-- if this team doesn't do well, should Sabaen take the fall or should Magowan take a measure of blame? Also, what do you

It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is?

But that's the easy part. What needs to happen after that is clean it up with one giant anti-toxic Swiffer and find the money to pay for all of this. Gavin says he's

Your San Francisco Giants Season Preview Part Two

Yesterday, we tackled the issue of what to expect of this year's team. Today, we'll take a look at whether we should be happy with the expectations of this year's team. SFist: So,

War is Over if The Board of Supervisors Want It

And look, it might be working too-- today the Senate is actually considering a resolution on having a phased withdrawl starting in 2008. We wonder if Harry Reid was finally moved to get

GleeGate Goes Legal

The main reason for the lawsuit is because, well, no justice, no peace. Junior was the one most seriously beaten and as of yet, there were no charges filed to what happened to

Bad Day to Be Commuting

While we were stuck in some really bad traffic this morning, we turned on the radio to get a traffic report and heard that we weren't the only ones having a rough commute.

Naked People to Speak for the Trees

This Saturday, between 10 in the morning and noon, Fine art photographer Jack Gescheidt will take pictures of naked people in the trees. But done artistically, of course so don't expect glossy photos

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Your Cute Video of the Day

Ordinarily, we don't want to get viral with commercials and post them because we don't like playing corporate shills, but this video is kind of cute and San Francisco is kind of the

Thank You For Smoking

The ordinance, however, isn't going down easily. Many people, including non-smokers, are thinking the measure is a little too harsh. Says a flak for the California Apartment Association, “we are in no way

Your San Francisco Giants Season Preview

To help make sense of this season, SFist turned our cluttered minds to our two favorite Giants bloggers, McCovey Chronicles and El Lefty Malo, to help us make sense of this season. What's

Call Me

One name that has already been bandied about is noted toe-sucker and Fox News suckup Dick Morris. Palfrey dropped his name but Morris denied it, even though he supposedly admitted to it in

It's All Right Now

Looks like the Stanford Men's Basketball team (and the women too) will have some support out there in Tourney land as the Stanford band were cleared of allegations for breaking all sorts of

Can You Take Me To The Bridge?

For those who do drive that particular section, Caltrans is going to reroute you to an entirely new set of lanes and supposedly, you won't notice much in the way of a difference.

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What’s There to Love About the East Bay: Lots! Next Up: The Troubled Tale of the Speakeasy Theaters

But apparently all is not well in the land of discount movies and cheap beer. The Contra Costa County Times is reporting that the new Cerrito Theater is having some trouble trying to

Nobody Walks in L.A., but Everyone Walks in San Francisco

The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Silly Walks and based their findings on such things as "air quality, the percentage of people who walk to work, access to parks, number of