SF News Another Berkeley Tree-Sitter Arrested, Standoff Continues While police have tried to starve and cutoff supplies to the few remaining protesters up in the UCB oak grove, another tree-sitter was arrested yesterday afternoon at around 5 p.m. Performing yoga
misc Sports Facility Plans Put On Hold, Trustifarians Feel Like They've Accomplished Something UCB's plans to mow down an oak grove and put up a sports training facility were put on hold. It seems a judge halted the plans until "the university can prove the project
SF News UC/Berkeley Uses Force to Oust Tree-Sitters The battle to save an oak grove on the UC-Berkeley campus turned even uglier yesterday. Protesters sang bizarre Native American-ish sounding songs (seriously, check this out) and threw buckets of urine at police
SF News Save the Oaks Protesters at UC/Berkeley Plucked? Five remaining tree climbers over at the University of California at Berkeley -- you know, the ones who have been protesting the school's plan to tear down the Memorial Oak Grove to put
SF News Murder Near Top Dog A man was fatally shot near Top Dog hot dog dining establishment in Berkeley last night. According to the Oakland Tribune, "[t]he name of the man in his late 20s was not
SF News It Really Makes You Think: UCB Celerates Nakba In a continued effort to fetishize the "game of chess" that is Palestinian/Israeli relations, UC Berkeley students staged a harrowing--harrowing!--border checkpoint commemorating the anniversary of the Nakba (i.e., "Arabic for
SF News SFist Blotter Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that magic recording device
SF News "Dramatic" Berkeley Suicide Car Crash Kills One An unidentified man killed himself this morning after running his car into parked cars at 80 mph at Yolo and the Alameda. Just before the fatal wreck, it seems, he was sitting in
misc 'We Hate You ____' Takes Off You know that movie we're not talking about whose marketing campaign sucks? The one that some fine folks of SF parodied on 24th Street? That we reported on over a week or so
misc Fun Flash Mob Friday Footage Yes, yes -- most of you are so over the whole flash mob thing. But for those of you who aren't jaded and bitter old turds, check out today's flash mob froze over
misc Size Does Matter: Transbay Terminal Is So Big The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While the Library
misc Berkeley + <i>Daily Show</i> Segment = Hee In case you missed The Daily Show last night-- not that any member of the self-respecting Bay Area intelligentsia would dare to admit missing a second of sparkling political satire -- check out
SF News Day Around the Bay For your viewing pleasure, more Pelli Clarke Pelli Transit Bay Terminal renderings -- now with birdies! [Curbed] More memories. [WhatImSeeing] Alt-Weekly Death Watch explains it all. Also: ouch. [AWDW] Cyclists mourned. [SFGate] Technical
Arts & Entertainment <i>Girls Rock! The Movie</i> Premieres Tonight at Embarcadero The film also opens at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley today, with a grand opening event tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m., featuring performances by campers As Ifs and Shattuck Cinemas' band Kitties,
SF News Day Around the Bay Kicking it at the Days-Inn on Lombard. [Butter Retriever] Twitter explained in plain English. [Laughing Squid] The very hot Tyler Florence to take over the very gay Plush Room. Intriguing. [Eater] More on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival kicks things off with by director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran. This is followed by a reception with the Consul General of
SF News Berkeley Sees Its Third Murder Of The Year An unidentified person was shot and killed on the 1600 block of Russell in Berkeley last night, brining the city's murder tally to three. (The much larger city of San Francisco, BTW, is
SF News Day Around the Bay Did you hear? Matt Gonzalez was in the news today. [SFBG] Which seawall lot plan do you like best? [Curbed] Set in SF, ABC's uses faux cable cars. The nerve! [SFGate] Frozen yogurt
SF News UPDATE: Greenpeace and UC Berkeley Students to Hold the Most Disgusting Protest Ever Tomorrow Deep breath. Wow. Jesus. Okay, here we go: Well, it seems that Greanpeace and UC Berkeley student organizers will host an, um, "Toilet-Trees" event on Sproul Plaza on the UCB campus tomorrow, Thursday,
SF News SFist Blotter What a care- and crime-free life SF is living right now,right? And we don't believe any of it. According to local media outlets, SF is safe and sound. But according to a
SF News Un Film Du Move America Forward Over at The Snitch, we came across this fury-inducing commercial conceived by heart-warming conservative group Move America Forward. (You know, the one chaired by KSFO 560 AM's Melanie Morgan?) Anyway, in it moms
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up Beaut pic Delights and Prejudices; hey, thanks! Our votes for the best food blogs this week are.... Best reason to visit Tiburon: to taste the cauliflower soup, octopus or tripe at Cottage Eatery.
Arts & Entertainment Blow My Sackbut The shows' themes are "1508," as in 500 year ago, which is when Heinrich Isaac composed. Heinrich was also Franco-Flemish. (And it's for guys like that that Belgium was invented.) He and Josquin
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 63 Awesome. (Also, a few Crest White Strips will go a long way, people. Just saying.)
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin vs. the GayVN Awards According to the fine folks over at The Sword (NSFW), the GayVNs (NSFW) will be held here on Saturday -- you know, those homosexual pornography achievement awards, which led to Mayor Gavin Newsom
