SF News Kaboom Yeah, so, a building in the Mission was totally just on fire. Near 17th and Shotwell. Crap! We're following the story and we'll have more news as soon as someone throws a heavy
Arts & Entertainment Slightly Frightening Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Female: So I Googled myself the other day. Male: ....and? Female: It was a to give that reporter my name at
Arts & Entertainment Uncle KRON Wants You Have we got a job for you! KRON-4, the Bay Area's ostensible news station, just posted a help-wanted notice for a reporter! How cool is that! Oh, to stand on the shoulders of
SF News Good Enough for Government Work Hey, did you know that the San Francisco County Transportation Authority is thinking about speeding up transit on Van Ness by putting in dedicated bus boulevards? BUT WAIT DON'T CLICK ON THAT LINK
SF News Word Has It That Brenda Sometimes Says Yes How is it that our lives have come to resemble a Capital One commercial? "Be able to say 'No' clearly and easily, so that others are grateful and happy to honor your 'No,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Girl with lampshade on head: "I feel like I need more balance in my life." -- The 33, upper Haight Ms. Safeway: "Would you like to give a dollar for the breast cancer
SF News Patience Is a Virtue, Sure, But So Is Not Sucking Ted W forwarded this NextBus screengrab to us this morning, and can we just say, holy crapdamn, MUNI, a half hour wait for a J? During ? On a MONDAY?! You can imagine us
SF News Begone! Begone! Begone!...It's So Much Fun to Say Other highlights: in Sacramento, the church is selling a posh retirement community to pay off sex-abuse victims, and the retirees are miffed. Lots of propaganda for Prop 73, which would require parental notification
misc Make Us Pretty Everybody wins: you get your work looked at by folks in other cities; our logo looks less beige, and everyone feels all fancy and artistic. What's not to like? Banners must be 728
Arts & Entertainment Please, Sir, Can We Have Some More Production Companies? Remember three years ago, when all your media-employed friends had to suddenly go from pulling down a dot-com salary to working retail and collecting unemployment? We spoke to a manager at a North
Arts & Entertainment Criminal Yvesdropping Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Street bum: Do you have some change please? Dude: I don't, sorry. Street bum: Don't be sorry, die. -- SFist Cedric
Arts & Entertainment Income Doesn't Get Any More Disposable Than This Did you know there are craptards out there willing to lay down hundreds dollars for a ? Apparantly it's true. We just got an invitation to "an evening of watches and Patrón margaritas" --
misc We're Here, We're Queer, Get Away From Us Happy Coming Out Day! Today's your extra-special chance to finally admit what we've all known about you for years. Though reading the term "blind item" makes us want to poke our eyes out,
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Economy of Art Labors on A mute boy in love with a blind girl! Marionettes! Butoh dancing! A swordfight! Attempted acting! Minnesotan hip-hoppers! Relentless artistic integrity! Sounds like another San Francisco film festival to us. The Foggy Eye
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on Troubled Youth Middle school girl #1: I wish I was skinnier than my boyfriend. Middle school girl #2: We all feel that way. -- Yvesdropped on by Jackson, on the 22 Fillmore at Chestnut Tween
SF News Muni Fare Strike an Overwhelming Success The strike was organized -- magificently, we might add -- by socialstrike.net. But we can't thank only them; according to their whois info, they received support, and this is true, from riseup.
Arts & Entertainment It's not a Party Until Someone Pukes on the Powermat "It's just something about the NES that does it for me like no other system has. I started this club because I had a feeling there were others out there that felt the
SF News A STERN Rebuke, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA So ... hmm. Could it be, political games still plague MUNI? No, surely not! That the MTA's board is appointed, rather than just voted on, was supposed to finally put an end to political
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches <i>Serenity</i> and <i>Mirrormask</i>; or: Why Weekends Were Invented Both are mandatory viewing, but we recommend ever-so-slightly higher, due to its having a bit more mass appeal. Romance! Intrigue! Stunning fight scenes! Sexy love scenes! Sparkly dialogue! Surprising fatalities! It's pretty much
misc At Least He's Consistent Today Arnold officially added homos to his list of vulnerable minorities to push around when he vetoed AB 849, which passed the state legislature and would have granted marriage equality to gay couples.
Arts & Entertainment Still Yvesdropping We know it's not as good as overheard in new york. Send us some better quotes if you don't like the ones we've been using. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail
Arts & Entertainment Serenity Now, Insanity Later "The screening is overbooked," hollered a media rep to a long line in the lobby. We'd estimate that about 200 people were waiting with free-sneak-peek passes; without blogger credentials, they were made to
Arts & Entertainment The Role of a Lifetime. ...Deathtime. Whatever. Interested corpses may proceed relentlessly to Pier 48 and ask for "Boz," or call Elaine "Zelda" Krumlauf (whose fantastic name we will be endlessly singing over and over in our head) at 408-829-6545
SF News Service Cuts: The Only Thing MUNI's Good At Don't get us wrong: we love NextBus, especially the new integration with Google maps. NextBus is the only thing about MUNI that seems to work, and when you consider that it's actually run
