Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Parker Posey Pictures! Drew Altizer is on ! He passed along these adorable pictures of adorable Parker Posey, who was in town yesterday for the screenings of her two (count 'em, two) indie movie extravaganzas last night
SF News Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the
SF News Maze Collapse Update Update: All Bay Area public transportation will be free tomorrow -- but does that means all public transportation, including MUNI and Caltrain and SamTrans? We think so, anyways. People who drove to Oakland
Arts & Entertainment Honoring the 1906 Earthquake As usual, there was a bit of a commemeration of the '06 quake, although much smaller than last year's gala Earthquakepalooza. Instead of the thousands who showed up last year, there were only
misc Benefit for Irene McGee McGee has had a pretty rough time of it lately. First she got let go from her show on Free FM amongst rumors of all sorts of sexual harassment. And then her apartment
Arts & Entertainment Creativity Explored's Portrait Auction This Thursday It's the third annual San Francisco Notable Portrait Auction, to benefit Creativity Explored! We love this event. Creativity Explored is dedicated to promoting works by local developmentally disabled artists, and they invite a
SF News Mass Mess Day II- The Reckoning. According to bikers who saw the whole thing going down, Susan Ferrando, the driver of the mini-van didn't just slowly glide towards the intersection but hit the pedal to the medal and ran
SF News More SHOCKING Photographs of Something You See Every Day Case in point: reader Jerry has helpfully supplied us with a host of photos of hydrant-hugging cars outside a fire-prone SRO hotel. (Thanks, Jerry!) Check out his Flickr stream for a slew of
SF News At Last, a way to Devote Even More of your Free Time to Transit First up: an update on Muni's Transit Effectiveness Project, tomorrow (Wednesday) at 312 Sutter Street (at Grant), Fifth Floor, from 12:30 to 1:30. And then the very next day (Thursday), a
SF News Gavin Wants To Hear From You We checked our e-mail this morning and saw that OH MY GOD we got an e-mail from Gavin! And what does the Gavster say? That there's much more to governing than "making our
SF News Fire Down Below After a competition featuring thirty entries, various organizations in support of keeping bonfires on Ocean Beach have selected five winning entries. The contest was held after park authorities were convinced by the Ocean
SF News Treasure Hunt: Claymate of the Month Tucked away in the Yerba Buena Gardens, the multimedia arts and technology museum with the sweet name of Zeum (pronounced "Zee-uhm") is a heaven of creativity and fun. Its digital studio, music production
SF News RagoneWatch (A Day Late) Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of John Nelson), Peter
SF News Your Commute: On Fire. Seriously There was an evacuation of trains on the Fremont and Dublin-Pleasanton BART lines after a fire at a substation knocked out power to part of the system. The fire started at about 10:
SF News The Latest From Richmond: So Much More Than the Last Stop on a BART Line Not too surprisingly, Richmond residents are still a little testy about the whole thing. In particular, residents are upset that the plants' much-hyped warning system failed to notify them. Most residents slept right
SF News And Here's a Sad Story Michael Keenan, a 43 year old artist is in critical condition after rushing into a fire to save a dog. The dog isn't doing much better. What makes the story particularly intriguing is
SF News The Twisted History Of The Mission Armory The Armory's got an only-in-San-Francisco history: It was built in 1912, after the original armory burned down in the 1906 earthquake, for the National Guard. In 1976, when the National Guard moved to
SF News Today in <em>As the Gav Turns</em> As SFist Rita mentioned, Gavin has figured out that the best way to not have there being any sort of impropriety regarding Alex Tourk's severance using city coffers is by agreeing to pay
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Gets Caught on Tape Anyways, there's some somewhat juicy stuff in there, mainly Mr. Positive saying not so very nice things about Democratic legislators. You know, the guys he's all buddy buddy with. Everybody is saying it's
SF News Shooting in the Richmond Tonight Are shootings even news anymore? Lately it seems like a day can't go by in this city without gun violence. We're getting unconfirmed reports that there was a shooting at Kragen Auto Parts
SF News Treasure Hunt: Hot Tongue Action Nothing gets our treasure hunting heart pounding as fast as a crowded taco truck tucked away on a parking lot. Unfortunately the delicious meal we wolf down sometimes makes our stomach heave just
SF News Fair Warning Apparently, whenever something is going down at the Chevron refinery, residents near the refinery are supposed to receive a phone call letting them know what's up and what to do. The action residents
SF News And It Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire The fire rings would be designated places where bonfires could happen. There would be signs letting everyone know what the deal is with the hope that people would only build bon fires in
SF News Stars Almost Die In Fire!!!!!! Apparently, they were among the dozen or so people who were staying at the lodge when it caught on fire. And, believe it or not, stars evacuate buildings when they're on fire too
SF News Did You Feel That? At around 10:50 p.m. tonight, there was a second earthquake almost in the exact same spot on the Hayward Fault (3 miles ESE of Berkeley) and at almost the same intensity
