SF News SFist Blotter Sorry we missed this story the first time around -- the cops are still looking for the assailants in a stabbing on 19th and Castro back in June. Two gay men were walking
SF News Purple Glove Man's Back! Hey, remember Gavin Newsom's stalker, Han Shin? He's back in the news, appearing in court today to answer the charges that he tried to run over the roommate of a friend of his,
SF News Gang-Style Killing Of An Oakland Journalist Chauncey Bailey, a local journalist with the Oakland Post [no online site] and who had previously worked at the Oakland Tribune, was shot to death at around 7:30 a.m. this morning
SF News Less Than Jake (McGoldrick) Well, at least he lives in the Richmond, right? (Some) affordable housing advocates and ethicists are shaking their heads over District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's poor party timing this week. Remember that lot
SF News Megabus Megacheap The big draw are the $1 tickets (yes, you read that right, one dollar to go to LA) -- if you're one of the first four people to book on a particular bus,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the East Bay Express: Letters about the bloggers fighting in small claims court. A Berkeley activist opposed to B-Town Dollar Stores, moves, says it's reverse racism. A fun-loving amputees' group called
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: We're Back! In other Ed Jew court news, Ed Jew's father worked out a deal where he wouldn't have to testify despite receiving a subpoena from the DA, and Ed's lawyer says "Ed has not
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Sidewalk</i> SFist Mihi warns you that this preview clip above may be dull. Sidewalk, the documentary we saw at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday for the SF Jewish Film Festival, was billed
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Day One Ed Jew Preliminary Hearing, Day 1 San Francisco Criminal Court (sorry, we can't find out what courtroom he's in) Picture by SFist Jim, who was at the plastic bag event taking pictures and
SF News News From The Animal Point Of View They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one
SF News Your Commute: Meltdown! (Sorry, We're Not MattyMatt) Well, first and most importantly! -- SFist MattyMatt's started a new job so he's been pretty busy at work and hasn't had time to post lately, for all folks asking about him in
SF News Tsk, Tsk: The Latest On The Board Of Supes Code Of Conduct Proposals As you may remember, Alioto-Pier (or MAP, as we like to call her) is spearheading the push to institute a code of conduct for supervisors, after the flap about Chris Daly saying that
SF News SFist Blotter Those activists living in the trees at UC Berkeley admitted that okay, maaaaaaybe they cut off the tops of the trees they were complaining about the university damaging. The leader of the tree-sitting
SF News A Brutal Murder In San Jose Last Sunday, San had walked a mile from her home in East San Jose at 6 a.m. to catch the bus to her job as a janitor at a doughnut shop in
SF News Unhappy Local News Involving Cars There was a huge crash on South 280 this morning just after 7:30 a.m., when a car speeding over 100 mph from Los Altos to San Jose lost control. A witness
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Hot House</i> Filmmaker Shimon Dotan spent about a year interviewing various imprisoned Palestinian political terrorists about their lives and their crimes. We were a little startled that even people serving multiple life sentences in a
Arts & Entertainment The Photo Of The Taxi Beast Bless you and may the Lord keep you, SFist readers! Look what turned up in the SFist Flickr stream (tag your pictures too!): a picture of the cursed 666 taxi medallion!!! Thank you,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian. You know why? Because we were voted readers' favorite local blog!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! We're pleased to be in such good company as
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>My Fuhrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler</i> The premise of the movie is that a famous Jewish acting professor, Adolf Grunwald, sent to a concentration camp in World War II, is summoned by Joseph Goebbels to coach a depressed and
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>The Chosen Ones</i> No, not these Chosen Ones (white Christian gospel choir) or these (psychic powers): this Chosen Ones is a documentary about the Jewish music scene in New York by a German filmmaker/tourist, which
SF News Shootings Heard Around Town --Shots at Page and Buchanan around 8 p.m. last night. --Shots in the Lower Haight (from SFist Dan -- not sure if this is the same as the Page/Buchanan incident listed
SF News Dirty Golden Gate Park Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's come out swinging at the lackadaisical response from Mayor Gavin Newsom on the state of Golden Gate Park, after public outcry that the city was more concerned about two dogs
SF News Random Local Tech News A lot fewer people activated their iPhones than expected. Apple stock drops about 5% on the news. That guy who started Netscape just sold his new company to HP for $1.6 billion
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Gorgeous! (Comme T'y Es Belle!)</i> We headed to the Castro on Sunday evening for the SFJFF's Gorgeous! (exclamation included in the title), sort of a Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City, featuring four women, some single, some
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi)</i> Who woulda thought. . . . we weren’t the only ones not completely immersed in isolation with the final Harry Potter book this weekend... although we did see a couple books neatly tucked under the
