SF News SFist Blotter (Barry Bonds is on SFGate's Crime page. Ha!) -- A 19-year-old woman was shot -- "in the back today...at 5:39 p.m." Huh?-- during an attempted street robbery in SF's
SF News 6 a.m. Oakland Drug Raid: One of the Largest Busts Ever Although a press conference happening this afternoon will tell us all of the gory details, this morning an Oakland drug bust went down. It was one of the largest of its kind in
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Halloween in the Castro, or lack thereof. [The Snitch] -- 50K a year and living in SF? How vulgar. [SFGate] -- Jarring and attractive LSD-y visuals. [SFBG] -- Marquee preservation. [CurbedSF] --
SF News Marijuana Is Disgusting We couldn't get though this article about today's bust of the East Bay operation Tainted Inc., which produced "marijuana-laced candies, cookies, ice cream, peanut butter, barbecue sauce, granola bars and brownies," without gagging.
SF News Bonds' 756th Ball Gets Asterisk Tramp Stamp Oh, this is so mean. And yet so funny. The guy who purchased Bond's 756th home run ball, Marc Ecko (a fashion designer, so girl doesn't really need a baseball), set up a
SF News Weekend Blotter You know we usually try to hoard up all the crime-type news for the Tuesday and Friday blotters, but there was enough vaguely unsettling news this weekend to warrant a post a little
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Jonathan Coulton: "Code Monkey" has gained a heavy, cult-of-nerd following. Yay! Join the club tonight at 9 p.m. at Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell; $18. -- The Legend of Billie
Arts & Entertainment A Bi-Transgender Fight Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary
SF News Tsk Tsk: Sex. Drugs, And Good Attendance With Chris Daly It's the latest in the Tsk Tsk Supervisorial codes of conduct battle front! You've got sex, you've got drugs, all you need now is some rock and roll: Supervisor Chris Daly went and
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Dodgers 6 Giants 4- Before we begin the fun, we'd like to draw your attention to a pretty interesting article by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke who writes how that two game series
SF News SF Doc Charged In Donor's Death San Francisco transplant surgeon Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was criminally charged on Monday with "dependent adult abuse." He's accused of prescribing way, way too man drugs to speed up the death of a developmentally-disabled
SF News Cycling: Feed Your Head American sports fans, do you know what you're missing right now? The magical, the legendary, the completely captivating Tour de France. Yup. In fact, the Tour has already reached its first rest day
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Jesse Jackson "Keeps Hope Alive" "Jobs/ and schools/ not drugs/ and guns." Repeat x2 "Hope/ alive/ keep hope/ alive. Let me hear your scream!" CLAER Project representative and SFSU student Kevin Bard was on hand to remind people
SF News Ted Nugent Helps Us Remember The 1960s The Wall Street Journal ran this piece by Ted Nugent yesterday. If you're at all inclined to check it out, do so soon, because the password protection will kick in at some point.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Geek out! At Ask a Scientist SF, a monthly lecture slash happy hour with a guest speaker on some sciencey topic. This month's meet-up touches on everything you ever wanted to know about
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
Arts & Entertainment Caption Action --> Ashley Olsen: "Victoria, your bangs are amaze." Victoria Traina: "Huh?" Ashley Olsen: "You know, an abbreved version of 'amazing.'" Victoria Traina: "Whatev, I don't abbrev words that end in -ing." Dude
SF News Carole Migden's Driving: The Medical Update Migden held a tearful press conference with her long-term partner, criminal defense attorney Cris Arguedas where she detailed her battle with the disease and how she hid her treatments from the other legislators
SF News Carole Migden's Health Revelations After poking some good-natured fun at State Senator Carole Migden for her driving mishaps last week, we now feel obliged to tell you guys that she's revealed that she was diagnosed with leukemia
SF News East Bay AIDS Program For Kids Suffers From Its Own Success The Oakland Trib has an extremely depressing story about a pediatric AIDS study that's had its funding cut. A combined effort of UCSF and the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland had been
SF News Update on the School Kids The driver involved was 70 year-old Mauro Yan of Redwood City. Eyewitnesses say he either looked asleep or in a state of shock but Yan's wife said that he was having trouble with
SF News Baby Bull Busted The Baby Bull and the man who gave us AT&T Park's ChaCha Bowl has had drug problems throughout his career, even spending some time in the slammer in 1975 for trafficking
SF News No Booze, No Justice Due to complaints about all the drunken mayhem often associated with the fair, fair organizers had hoped to make the neighbors happy by installing beer gardens where drinking would be allowed. It didn't
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