SF News Incommunicado: Noyes Uncovers Botched Rescue Tapes Anyway, our point with this old item? It seems Wyrsch turned his radio off -- possibly in an attempt not to scare said jumper -- which effectively cut off all possibly effective communication
SF News blah blah blah MUNI blah blah PESKIN blah MCGOLDRICK Here's a condensed version of what the amendment would do: give Muni more money (it's currently underfunded by millions and simply can't afford to meet its service requirements), make it easier to fire
SF News Day Around The Bay --Local photog Thomas Hawk gets assaulted for taking pictures -- again. [Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection, via the SFist tips line. update: From last year! Sorry! Keep those tips fresh, folks!] --C.W. Nevius
SF News Schools, Airports, And Garbage Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Eve And The Fire Horse</i>! Passes! Passes! We got movie passes! Wanna see , a movie about a high-spirited Asian-Canadian girl whose older sister is going through a Christian religious conversion, and whose family is learning to assimilate in
SF News Day Around The Bay --We're up to 130 Galaxies now. [picture from the Fillmore Jazz Fest this weekend by megac0rp, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Huge fire on University Avenue in Palo Alto; officials suspect arson. [Merc
SF News Your Commute: Fire Near The BART The fire started around 4:19 p.m. and spread to some eucalyptus trees, so they stopped train service. The firefighters are in the station putting out the flames, and a bus is
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Mark Twain torched Lake Tahoe? The wildfire raging up near Lake Tahoe reminded us of our dear old cousin Mark. Mark Twain, that is, and what we remembered was his own brush with accidental arson up Tahoe way.
SF News SFist Blotter Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina,
SF News Day Around The Bay --This is an awesome picture from the Pride celebration yesterday. [37°C (we learned how to make the degree sign! Thanks, commenters!), from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Left in SF's Robert Haaland had
SF News A Murder And A Fire There was also a one-alarm fire by Fifth Street and Market around 6:00 a.m. One person was hospitalized. Picture of the crime scene in the Mission from KTVU.
SF News Your Commute: Fire On Treasure Island One firefighter's been injured, but not seriously, and since it's not posing a threat to anyone, crews are staying outside of the building, waiting for it to collapse, rather than going in and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Bother Learning About Wine--Use Technology! We're all for technology that simplifies and informs, but sometimes we see a new service that sounds a little silly to us. eWine Match, a service of Foster's Wine Estates in Napa, allows
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Superfreak</i> After the soft focus melancholy of , we trotted over to The Victoria on 16th Street for some hard core lesbian porn at the Frameline film fest. We though we were all bad-ass but
SF News Day Around The Bay --...and as promised, here's the back of the Ed Jew calendar, from reader Jake. Thanks, Jake! Irony alert! Can you guys see the "please contact me if you have problems or if
SF News Day Around The Bay --Beer and wine are okay for the North Beach Festival next week, but no hard alcohol. --More folks are getting laid off from the Chronicle. The Chron has launched a Portraits In Grief-like
SF News Day Around The Bay --Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca
Arts & Entertainment Arcade Fire Show, 6/1/07 Good God, it was cold out last night. On our trek up to the Greek Theater in Berkeley to see Arcade Fire in the first of their two gigs in the area, we
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we squeezed into 330 Ritch to see Spoon, one of our favorite bands of all time. We'd just helped celebrate former SFist Eve's birthday at Tempest Bar and picked up
SF News SFist Blotter One person is dead after a dramatic shooting in the Sunset early Monday morning -- the shots were fired at a moving car, which then flipped over and crashed. The Chron has some
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Arson You know, maybe Tapioca Ed wouldn't have problems with fire if he had running water. Bobagate heats up -- literally! Matier and Ross report today on some issues regarding yet another house that
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
SF News Day Around The Bay --They took away the hazmat license of the company whose truck blew up the Macarthur Maze. We can't really disagree with that. --Oh no! Puddles the hippo has died. He leaves his bereaved
SF News Day Around The Bay --They're raising water rates in the city. Guess who doesn't care about that? --The Macarthur Maze is set to reopen tomorrow. --15 goats (used to reduce fire risk) were shot in the Oakland
SF News SFist Blotter There was a shootout by the ocean over the weekend -- a man stealing a bicycle at around 1 a.m. Saturday morning near 48th and Taraval fired shots at the cops, hitting
