SF News Your Commute: Sucked Like It's Never Sucked Before We were about a hundred feet from the Millbrae station this morning when the train stopped. Then started to go back to the airport. The conductor announced over the loudspeaker that there was
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
SF News Cancel That Macchiato He's still scheduled to appear in court again on the bomb charges this Friday, but they're now calling it a "burglary" charge. Hmmm. Well, this should be an entertaining story to read in
SF News Bomber? Bomber? Your Macchiato Is Up! We mock the SFPD, but only because we love! The Foggy Lady's finest have released photos of a "person of interest" that they want to talk to about yesterday's Starbucks pipe bomb incident.
SF News Starbucks Is The Bomb It's a triple espresso shot in your crime Blotter/coffee Trimethyl latte -- the SFPD were called in this afternoon to the Starbucks on Van Ness and Bush after an employee found a
SF News Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFisting: Shake that Fruitcake, Don't Break It Feeling a bit nervous about squeezing into that rubber catsuit for any City Hall Getty-esque holiday fund-raising affairs we're to be invited to this weekend, we're so ready for a little bump and
SF News Bay Bridge Shut Down Thomas Hawk shares this picture of a very, very quiet Bay Bridge from the Oakland side. According to the Mercury News, there were two closures during the day due to a suspicious package:
SF News American Football Spectacular: Vermeil's <i>Shun Goku Satsu</i> Gambit. Pain. Both of our Bay Area NFL teams fell last Sunday, beneath the weight of a precious few key plays falling to the opposing teams' favor. For our San Francisco 49ers, the game
Arts & Entertainment Web Two Point Oh? So, of course, we were busy yukking it up with funnyman Merlin Mann last night at the Web 1.0 confab. Silly us, making fun of the 'monetizing,' 'paradigm shifting,' 'game
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Dr. Atomic The opera focuses on the last days leading to the explosion of the first atomic test bomb, in June and July 1945. It is centered about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientific director
SF News Explosion at the Crocker Galleria There's been an underground explosion at Post and Kearny, right outside the Ralph Lauren store at the Crocker Galleria. At around 10 a.m., people said they heard an explosion and saw the
SF News Is That a Suspicious Package, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? And if you tinfoil hat-wearers think it's more than a coincidence, since last time we were at City Hall there was a bomb scare, none of us were anywhere near City Hall today.
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban at One Bush Plaza? Oh boy, here we go again. Friend of SFist Thomas Hawk was happily snapping away yesterday when he was accosted by a security guard. His heinous crime? Taking pictures of the building at
SF News London Public Transportation Evacuated For the second time in as many weeks, our pals at Londonist have provided minute-by-minute reporting on what is presently being reported as another terrorist attack on London. Described as "not a major
Arts & Entertainment Simnuke Report The directions read: Take the next left at the shot-out sign that used to read "Susanville" (the not as badly shot out cross sign reads "Gerlach"). The car hurtled across desert paths, over
SF News Where's Chris Tucker? Only the Gavster Knows So if you tuned into KRON this morning to catch Phil Matier (and really, who doesn't love that moustache?), you might have noticed that he was a bit cranky, since a certain be-gelled
misc Bay Blogger Thursday Special Edition Okay, we all know what the internet is best at -- porn, porn, rants and porn. Sure, blogging is nice, but it doesn't really pay all that well. There was certainly a point
SF News Yahoo Hands Over Marine's Email To update a story previously reported on SFist, Yahoo, Inc. has complied with a court order handed down by an Oakland County, Michigan judge to allow the family of Marine Lieutenant Corporal Justin
SF News Irony Thy Name Is City Hall Since we hear that the SFPD is issuing passes on the basis of how "breaking" the news is that is covered by the respective organizations, we'd like to remind everyone that you heard
Arts & Entertainment Has Ribity Gone Too Far? Art critic and photographer Claudine, who has been something of a modern-day Chalfant or Ahern by cataloging photos of graffitti pieces throughout the city, left a comment in our Get Ur Geek On:
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
SF News SFist Gift Guide: Packard Jennings We read BoingBoing, even though they give us no love in response. So we saw this great collection of international-style illustrations done by Michael Durham, aka Packard Jennings (we're not totally sure which
Arts & Entertainment Interview: David Paul Like many of us, the first hip-hop song David heard was Rapper's delight. Unlike most of us, this led David to begin DJ'ing in 1985. In 1991 he founded Bomb Hip-Hop. With everything
