Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Oil Spill = Death at Fisherman's Wharf See what we are dealing with on the closed beaches of S.F., after the jump.
SF News Ew: 58,000 Gallons of Spilled Fuel Close SF Beaches After yesterday's fog-induced Cosco Busan/Bay Bridge crash -- resulting in 58,000 gallons of fuel and 8,000 gallons of "heavy-duty bunker fuel oil" spilling into the Bay -- Baker Beach, Crissy
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Chicken John hosts the Loser's Ball. Which a lot progressives did. Lose, that is. [Politics Blog] -- Although Prop A might pass due to prog efforts. (See where horizontal pastels get you,
SF News Photos: Cosco Busan Oil and Water Don't Mix But, and we hate to admit it, they sure do look pretty together. (The image above has been set as our desktop background!) But as attractive as oil and water looks on rain-soaked
SF News Thwap: Bay Bridge Hit By Container Ship Egads! The west span of the Bay Bridge was struck this morning by a container ship, the Cosco Busan. According to the Chronicle, "Coast Guard officials said the incident was not serious enough
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: San Francisco's Icer Air 2007 at AT&T Park You should know all about Icer Air by now. We've followed this event from controversial beginnings in 2005 and some growing pains last year in 2006. Skiing down Fillmore was awesome, but Icer
Arts & Entertainment Muni's Guide to this Weekend As previously noted, one of the best weekend guides in the city is produced by Muni and sent out exclusively to the press. (The PresidiGo, meanwhile, extends that courtesy to its riders.) So,
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out SF This Saturday On this night, we invite the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. No. No! We cannot condone
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Explanation for last night's brief Bay Bridge light outage. [Oakland Tribune] -- Need a home in the Mission? And you're a web ninja and/or hacker? And a bit of an arsonist?
SF News SFist Blotter The latest weekend murder in SF: At around noon on Saturday, a 66-year-old Asian man was shot to death after a road rage incident in Viz Valley. Witnesses say the man was arguing
SF News Day Around The Bay -- RIP: Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank dies. [Chron] -- Busted water pipe downtown = Bay Bridge entrance difficulties. [ABC 7] -- What a good idea! MUNI cop ride-alongs. (Oh, you know you also love
SF News Bay Bridge Approach Closed A big ol' sinkhole broke out today on First Street between Mission and Howard due to a water main rupture, resulting in the closure of a major artery out of SF and onto
SF News Happy Birfday BART Tomorrow BART celebrates 35 years of hauling your asses around. Revenue service began on 9/11 in 1972. Since then, according to BART Board President Lynette Sweet, BART has continued to "carry the
SF News Day Around the Bay [NSFW] -- Crank (prank?) calls to 911. [Chron] -- Wildfire still wild -- 7,000+ acres wild. [CBS5, San Jose Merc] -- Death, death, death, death... [Chron, Examiner] -- Fines to go up
SF News Your Commute: The Bay Bridge Is Back! Was it just us, or did you also think, as soon as the Bay Bridge closed, that the only things you wanted to do over Labor Day Weekend were on the other side
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Benefit Show Honoring Erno "Tattoo" Szabady: Local rock bands Slowfinger, DickDusters, and the Walker Brothers get together to raise money for a burial "niche" for well-known, recently deceased tattoo artist, Szabady. Show
Arts & Entertainment Time to Double Check DVR Lineup This is all on KPIX tomorrow (8/30), kids. If you're excited about the big game between the 49ers and the Chargers, that all gets under way at 7 p.m. Go 49ers!
SF News Muni Alert: Get Out of Town, and Stay Out Not only is Muni adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on one of the days. On Monday, Sept 3rd, a bunch of lines will be suspended
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Paranoia, feeding faux stories, and NYT's Laura Albert (AKA Miss Leroy) article. Depressing is right, Rita. [CultureBlog] -- Newsom defends Halloween shutdown. [BAR] -- San Francisco's other (but not nearly as stellar!
SF News 511.org: Still Incompatible with San Francisco In their August newsletter (sent out after a third of August has already passed), 511 is pushing four bulletins, all of which are useless unless you use a car: - There's new FasTrak
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Michelangelo Antonioni dies; Mick LaSalle suspects Eric Rohmer will fade to black next. [Chron blogs] -- Chronicle wanted Gonzalez in the mayoral race. Alas. [BeyondChron] -- A baseball trader "shocker" happened involving
SF News Sanitizing Warm Water Cove We can't say that we enjoy graffiti as our favorite medium of public art; it seems dated and seizure-inducing. But then again, we also secretly love Cupid's Span -- it's cleverly corny and
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
SF News Your Commute: Slowest Drives Bless the Chron's heart, they know kvetching about traffic is going to move a lot of papers on the newsstand -- so they go above the fold with their article about the twenty
