SF News That Smell Yum! Did you smell something nasty in downtown SF yesterday? Some people described it like raw sewage, and others like rotting meat. Turns out it was from the sewage holding system, which was
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next, the SF Weekly. [For some reason, they haven't updated the website at the time we're writing this. We'll try and add the links in when they update their site. Does this have
SF News Your Commute: Did You Spare The Air? And for those of you commuting by car today, don't you you spared the air? A truck overturned right at the 92/101 S interchange (those ramps are pretty steeply banked) around 4
SF News Step Right Up! Gawk At Public Housing! We're not even really sure what to make of this article on the front page of today's Chronicle. Apparently Gavin Newsom has now so given up on being able to fix the city's
SF News Another Earthquake! As we only learned from reading the comments on our whiny post about the weather, there was just an earthquake in Berkeley about 30 minutes ago. It was a 3.0, centered near
SF News Where We Whine About The Weather So it's going to be stiflingly hot for the next few days (yes, we know, it's not as bad as it is in every other part of the country, but ) -- but in
Arts & Entertainment Abu Ghraib Art At Cal Oh, Berkeley law professor and torture-sanctioner John Yoo's not going to be happy about this (or maybe he will be!) -- Cal has tentatively agreed to accept a controversial collection of paintings by
SF News SFist Blotter Remember the Jamba Juice hepatitis A scare? And remember how we said there were gymnasts competing in a national meet in San Jose a few weeks ago? Well -- you guessed it --
SF News Now Boarding Group A.... Out Of SFO Southwest has gone a little nuts about the news themselves -- are you also getting emails where they're giving you triple Rapid Rewards credit if you book a ticket online out of any
SF News The Latest Progressive Hope Man, this dull-as-dishwater mayoral "race" is getting us in the blogging doldrums. Someone do something funny, quick! Meanwhile, we'll pass along the news of the latest progressive hope for the Newsom mayoral steamroller
SF News Lunar Eclipse Of The Heart It's a day of relatively-unusual natural phenomena -- first the earthquake this morning and then, less than 24 hours later, there's going to be a total eclipse of the moon. The lunar eclipse
SF News Shaking This Morning Earthquake! There was a small (2.4) quake centered in southeast Berkeley this morning at 3:13 a.m. No reports of injuries or damage, and, as you can tell from the light
SF News Your Commute: BART Delays; Fire In Embarcadero Just in time for the Friday commute -- a MUNI fire has closed the Embarcadero station. BART trains are going through without stopping, the Chron doesn't know what's going on with MUNI. The
Arts & Entertainment A Bi-Transgender Fight Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary
SF News SFist Blotter Samson Wong, the editor of Asianweek, reports that a local Asian media group has rejected an apology from the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation for screening in Dolores Park a few weeks ago,
SF News Follow Ups On Blotter News In response to allegations by deceased Stanford engineering grad student May Zhou's father earlier this week that his daughter's death was a homicide and not self-inflicted, the Santa Rosa police released additional information
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Symphony What's better than picking up a Beard Papa cream puff across from the Metreon over your lunch break? Eating that Beard Papa cream puff while catching the free symphony concert at Yerba Buena
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
SF News Peskin's Out (State Senate Race, And Politics In General) We've gotten word that everyone's favorite tough guy, Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin has made it official that he's not going to be running for the State Senate, declining to get in
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the SF Weekly: Matt Smith mocking the frivolity of San Francisco political concerns. The nudist mayoral candidate (sorry, Spotswood, not Gavin). Cover article: something's not quite right about the City Attorney's
SF News Blowing Up Acid In Hayward Dry picric acid is apparently very sensitive to shock and friction, and can explode like dynamite. This one article we found says it blows up when you drop a 2 kg weight on
SF News Your Second SFist Blotter Of The Day First up, remember May Zhou, the Stanford graduate student who was found dead in her car trunk in Santa Rosa? Well, her father remains convinced it was not a suicide, and cites a
SF News Water Main Break In Bernal Four blocks of Bernal Heights have no water service right now: a cement truck doing repairs on Folsom Street tipped over earlier this morning, injuring the driver and damaging the water line. Two
Arts & Entertainment <i>American Fusion</i> Even though there's no film fests in town, we stopped by the movie theater and checked out American Fusion, which opened this past weekend at the Sundance Kabuki. This film totally reminded us
SF News SFist Blotter [sorry we're late today!] Close call! A truck driver careened off the San Mateo Bridge yesterday afternoon, but managed to miss both the bay and a shed full of explosive material right by
