Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Jennifer Granick and Annalee Newitz are co-hosting a Nerd Salon at 111 Minna (x Mission/2nd). There'll be a demonstration of GNU Radio and a challenging puzzle to solve. 6-9 p.
SF News Republicans Also Want You To Cut Your Hair, Hippie Associated Press' Scott Lindlaw reports that at yesterday's federal building grand opening, as Nancy Pelosi was in the middle of playing the time-honored role of ribbon cutter, "anti-war protestors" audibly chanted such gems
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The workers united -- have a whole month to celebrate! July is Laborfest month, and you can celebrate today at a poetry reading about growing up working-class at City Lights (5
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Nan Kempner's Closet at the de Young [Update: Gentle readers may wish not to click over to SFMIKE's Civic Center Blog for his take. Next time, tell us how you really feel, Mike! And take a video tour of the
SF News SFist Blotter Authorities are worried that the violent weekend is a harbinger for a bad July 4th. With 12 people dead (two more people were shot after the articles about 10 people killed went up)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Deathtrap Intersection at Fell and Masonic The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk SF held a news conference a few days ago concerning this intersection in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Is this crosswalk part of a Class 1
misc Week Around The -Ists From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Island for Sale... Who knew that one of the five islands in San Francisco Bay was privately owned? Even stranger, "Red Rock Island" is now up for sale, for a paltry $10 million. The last time
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Panhandle Bandshell - It's On! It's on! Find out more after the jump.
SF News The (Carbon) Prints Of Tides Well, isn't it interesting that this is happening right after the Board of Supes votes to leave PG&E and pursue Community Choice Energy? Today, Gavin (Representing the City and County of
Arts & Entertainment Gorilla Suits Okay, we're lame, but we are deeply enjoying the description of the race in this Chron article: "I wanted to be Al Gore-illa, but the Al Gore mask didn't work over the gorilla
SF News Your Commute: Yet Another Truck Overturns The most memorable Bay Area overturns we recall, off the top of our heads: The truck with the ostrich on the Golden Gate, and the truck spilling 500 gallons of a septic tank
SF News SFist Blotter A lot of weird car accidents in the news yesterday: an impatient guy trying to pass around congestion on the road killed a pedestrian on 19th Avenue in San Francisco, a drunk off-duty
misc No Whale News Is Good Whale News The authorities noted that a number of other dead whales have beached in the area recently, so it might not necessarily be our directionally-challenged cetacean friends -- and searches this morning have turned
misc Whale Watch Update: Mean! Aw, mean! Someone hacked into the telephone hotline that the whale rescuers set up for you to leave messages on how to help directionally-challenged Delta and Dawn get back to the Pacific Ocean,
Arts & Entertainment At Least Today They're Being Shot with Cameras Could it be that our lost little whale pair have finally had their sonar set to rights? And wouldn't that be nice. Makes us hark back to 1914 when the brutal "golden era"
misc Whale Watch So here's the progress report: they've got around 30 miles to go before they hit the ocean, and as the water gets more saline, their health and mood seems to be improving. (Probably
SF News Day Around The Bay --Carnaval went well! --Jack Daly for mayor! Quote of the day: "Daddy, this party is no fun. Let's go to another party." Don't the progressives say that? Bonus tidbit: Sarah Daly says there
SF News Day Around The Bay --The Golden Gate Bridge opened 70 years ago today! The Golden Gate Bridge RULES. --Hilarious cartoons of vacations gone awry by Don Asmussen. (Even more in the print edition!) --M&R admit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Well, you could either go to Carnaval this weekend -- or you could go to the State Green Party Convention. Ross Mirkarimi (seen here going into the dunk tank) is giving the keynote
Arts & Entertainment Park in the Park Parking won't be free -- but then, it never is. The city hasn't worked out the exact prices yet, but between the rent they'll pay to the state's DMV and the fees paid
Arts & Entertainment Don't Jump There's skeptics who don't think a barrier will help; but mental health pros, like The Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California, are in favor of a barrier. We'll hear more this week, when the
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Photo: San Francisco Bay to Breakers results Yes, it's another Bay to Breakers. Pretty good weather and a good time for all. But, first of all kids, they've been lying to you all these years. Is the highest point of
