SF News Thief Nabs Huey Lewis' Laptop And Rental Car In Mill Valley This story, which happened in February, is just coming to light because the suspect is in court. But it seems that one Hugh Anthony Cregg, 62, a.k.a. Huey Lewis, jumped out
SF News Jeremy Irons Worries Gay Marriage Could Lead To Fathers Marrying Their Sons Jeremy Irons revealed something shocking last night during an interview with HuffPo Live. Namely, that some thespians, no matter how acclaimed, shouldn't think and speak at the same time. More to the point,
SF News Sean Penn, Rev. Jesse Jackson Attend Hugo Chavez's Funeral Noted thespian Sean Penn attended the state funeral of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on Friday, who died this week due to health-related issues. Penn was joined by Reverend Jesse Jackson, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Arts & Entertainment A Joyful Noise: SFJAZZ Center Opens To Raves Though often viewed as a dead form of music, jazz had a breath of fresh life pumped into it when the wildly anticipated SFJAZZ Center opened on Wednesday in Hayes Valley. The $64
SF News Frank Ocean Busted Twice For Speeding, Pot Possession Near Nevada Border Not to get all up in your Frank Ocean news today, but the noted "Sierra Leone" crooner was stopped twice for doing over 90 mph on remote highways in the Eastern Sierra Nevada
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Home-Cooking Revolutionary Marion Cunningham Dies Marion Cunningham, a woman who championed home cooking in America, succumbed to complications from Alzheimer's Disease this morning at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. She was 90. Some of her most
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Jarvis Cocker Has Entered The Building Friend of SFist, Veronica de la Mora, has been on the scene at the Warfield in anticipation of tonight's epic Pulp concert, which sold out in minutes when tickets were released in February.
Arts & Entertainment Jeremy Lin, James Franco: Palo Alto High Boasts Impressive Alumni Jeremy Lin, now a member of the New York Knicks, played on the 2006 Palo Alto High School basketball team before attending Harvard. While at Palo Alto HS, he helped his team win
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Deemed 'Communist' By Cuban Ex-Pat If you live in San Francisco, you're more or less guaranteed to run in to Sean Penn at least once during your tenure. It's a rite of passage like drinking your first Fernet
Arts & Entertainment Gerard Butler Almost Drowned at Mavericks, You Guys The local webs are abuzz this a.m. with news that movie star and convincing Greek warrior Gerard Butler got held under water and maybe could have drowned yesterday while filming a scene
Arts & Entertainment Kristi Yamaguchi Tweeting About Traffic For KQED Today Today in celebrity What the Eff news: famous figure skaters Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi are taking over KQED's twitter feed to tweet about... something. So far it's been mostly Boitano retweeting his
SF News American Airlines: Alec Baldwin Threw A Famous-Person Tantrum On Flight (By Christopher Robbins) In the midst of the most important story of our time, Alec Baldwin's spokesman wants us to know that getting the boot from an American Airlines flight was just Alec
SF News Bill Gates, Bono, Rupert Murdoch Attend Steve Jobs Memorial Service On Sunday in Palo Alto, several noted folks attended Steve Jobs' memorial service at Stanford. Among the list of attendees? Rupert Murdoch, notes Gawker—Rupert, if you recall, was in San Francisco on
Arts & Entertainment Watch Jane Kim, Drew Altizer, Twitter Employees Get Tossed Into a Pool The annual Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation’s (TNDC) charity pool toss happens tonight. What does that mean, exactly? It means local notables get pushed into a pool for money. Weren't you paying attention?
SF News The Mayoral Candidate Celebrity Endorsement Tally You know what are great? Celebrities. This country practically runs on them and their soft, latte-holding hands. So if you're one of San Francisco's many mayoral candidates, looking for a way to stand
misc Who Stopped By Twitter HQ This Week? Photographer Troy Holden (member of the award-winning Caliber SF) has always been kind enough to share shots of notables who visit the Twitter offices on Harrison Street. This week, he brings us two
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from the Red Carpet at the GLAAD Media Awards Local celebrities and non-local celebrities joined many besuited gays, lesbians, and their admirers at this past weekend's GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott. The S.F. edition of the awards, which also take
SF News Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's Fictitious Childhood Home for Sale by Amy Crocker The house featured in the opening credits of "Full House" is for sale for $4 million. Built in 1896, 722 Steiner is on Alamo Square's "Postcard Row." It should be
SF News Cagney & Lacey Reunite In SF While we enjoy poking fun at the Chron, make no mistake that our love for Leah Garchik runs deep. Very deep. Take, for example, this story she broke on what could possibly be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Literal Palate Cleansers at SFChefsFoodWine This weekend San Francisco hosted its first ever SFChefsFoodWine bash -- put on by the (controversial) Golden Gate Restaurant Association -- a "foodie" event that saw industry bigwigs (Paolo Lucchesi of Eater, Marcia
SF News Sharon Stone "Wanted to Botox Her Kid," Says Court Docs During the contentious court trial between (former) Bay Area married couple of note, Ginger McKenna (AKA Sharon Stone) and the Chronicle's Phil Bronstein," the former, it seems, was described as an "alarmist" who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Segway Traffic Jam in the Marina The commission that said no to the Panhandle Bandshell a while back, has just said yes to Segways in Golden Gate Park. Enjoy the Channel 7 video but try not to chuckle at
Arts & Entertainment Sail Away With Frau Blucher "What will Grandma say next?" the press releases asks, and "is she single?" WHAT? And then there is also a section entitled "GRANDPARENT INITIATION." We can't even begin to imagine what a "grandparent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Shining (1980): "Honey, I'm home," "Here's Johnny!" etcetera, etcetera, Kubrick, and so forth. (No one wields a baseball bat like Shelley Duvall. So awkward. Also, what ever happened to her?) Screens
