misc SFist Rants: When the Olympics Committee Comes A-Calling We’re considering booking our dream vacation now if the Olympic Games will be in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles or Chicago in 2016. Maybe it's a chance to try apartment or
Arts & Entertainment Journalist Josh Wolf Jailed for Video Screw getting Dooced, Josh Wolf has set the blogger bar a bit higher than getting fired. He's been jailed. Judge William Alsup, presiding over a federal grand jury case investigating the attempted burning
Arts & Entertainment Wanted, Dead or Alive: BNE While we'd like to be able to sympathize with grumpsters who foretell of the fall of Western Civilization at the hands of taggers, we just can't. Graffitti is as old as the first
SF News The Tonga Room We can't stop reading these articles about the drag racer who killed the Tongan royals! (and yes, you've seen that picture before; our pictures continue not to load on this server.) Today's news:
misc Craigslist Encounters: Craigslist Review Board We were getting ready to write yet another post about using Craigslist as a scapegoat for the evil Internet while blatantly ignoring all the good it serves. So we began the arduous task
SF News Miss Murder Maybe you should have voted for Prop A this election cycle after all -- at the halfway mark for 2006, there've been 45 murders this year, putting us on pace for 90 by
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Rachel Howard's <i>The Lost Night</i>! Rachel's reading at Oakland's A Great Good Place for Books (6121 La Salle Ave) tonight at 7, and Thursday at 6 at the Cody's in Union Square (2 Stockton), and you should totally
SF News Wharf Rat While the owner, Kevin Reed, promises everything will be on the up-and-up and that he's learned his lessons from his previous club, neighbors aren't so sure. Among other things, there's the whole fact
Arts & Entertainment The Legal Reader Takes A Bite Out Of Crime Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that
SF News Welcome Back Blotter The South SF police and Humane Society had to intercede for an unfortunate man overwhelmed by 80+ rabbits last Friday. He had apparently bought two rabbits two years ago for his son's school
SF News Our Afternoon Web Surfing Those of you who read this site regularly probably think you have a good sense of what this particular correspondent is interested in -- traffic, Chris Daly, heartwarming tales about animals, general schadenfreunde.
Arts & Entertainment SF Rolls Out the Punk Rock Red Carpet to Host Benefit Auction for the West Memphis Three In 1994, three teenagers – Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols – stood trial and were convicted for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Ark. Many believe
Arts & Entertainment Straight from Death Row: Damien Echols’ Art Auctioned at 111 Minna Tonight To give you some background: Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were once three young boys in rural Arkansas who happened to listen to heavy metal and wear black. Shortly after three
SF News Adventures In Babysitting We must admit we're kind of fascinated, in the bad way, by people who steal babies and pretend the babies are theirs. It intrigues the same part of our brain that reads stories
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Le Petit Lieutenant</i> We woke up again today with a strange kink in our neck, which we immediately recognized as the curse of our height challenge. Ahhhh . . . . It must be those darned subtitles we were straining
Arts & Entertainment Three Gorges Project At The Asian Art Museum Chinese artists have been painting the Yangtze River valley and its famous Three Gorges canyons for millennia, adhering to the tradition of painting not just what the valley looks like physically, but also
SF News Righteousness Is Its Own Reward How to get money, how to get money...hey, we'll solve some crimes! Arnold has offered rewards for information leading to the arrests and convictions in three Bay Area lukewarm cases. Apparently, if
SF News Political Junkie: Itchy and Scratchy Is Daly Itchy or is Newsom? You guys pick! The eternal conflict between the cat and the mouse flared up again today as Newsom called up the Chronicle editorial board all special, just
SF News Your Commute: Road Rage Kills Folks, you've just gotta learn to let it go: today's fourth-runner-up in the Great SFist Blotter Crime News Gathering (i.e., a frantic search of all the area news sites to find something
SF News Newsom Pile-On (Post 2 of 2) Newsom's beleaguered this week! So beleaguered we broke it down into two posts! While the Chron calls up all the supervisors to get an explication of their beef, the Examiner reports that representatives
SF News Cal State Day Care The nonprofit group Fight Crime Invest In Kids has released a study showing that it costs more, on average, to send your child to a private preschool ($4022/year) than it does to
Arts & Entertainment The Masculine Adventures of the SuperFisters Romp's got a good heart -- he wants to fight bullies and protect the little guy, his limblessness notwithstanding -- and being all urban and everything, he doesn't do much thinking about it.
SF News CSI: Plumpjack (Enter the Naming Contest!) We've got Gavin-Sofia fever! Thanks, SFist Jackson, for the bang-up Photoshop job showing what the union of Mr. Newsom and Ms. Milos might look like! (Scientology Sea Org cap added by Jackson.) And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sofia Milos Newsom? Gavin'll try anything to lower the crime rate around here! Leah Garchik triumphantly reports that Gavin was seen kissing CSI: Miami detective Sofia Milos goodbye at a North Beach cafe last Monday morning,
