Arts & Entertainment Cosco Busan Posts a $79.5 Million Bond, Crew Detained The Busan now has a new master, chief mate and chief engineer for the long journey home, but six of the original crew members will remain in the United States "apparently to assist
SF News Migden's Gal Pal Is Also Bonds’ Shark Carole Migden's girlfriend (OK then, "wife?" We refuse to use the sterile and patronizing "partner") Cris Arguedas, it seems, now must deal with yet another San Francisco diva: Barry Bonds. According to the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Cinewhores Present Midnight Cowboy (1970): Although tame by today's smut-filled standards -- oh, you heard right! -- Midnight Cowboy has the distinction of being the only X-rated film to have ever snagged
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Exxon Valdez Doppelgänger Visits SF Bay Why is it that the single-hulled 980-something-foot-long Exxon Valdez is effectively banned by the government from hauling petroleum from southern Alaska to the west coast, while the very similar single-hulled, 980-something-foot-long S/R
SF News The Board Of Supervisors Date The Boss Monica Lewinsky's interest level in working for SF city government just went up a notch, as the SF Board of Supes overwhelmingly voted down Chris Daly's proposal to ban office affairs between supervisors
SF News Surf's Up! Beaches Reopen The sands of Marin and San Mateo have officially reopened to the public. (We recommend hitting the beach in the fall. There's something luxurious about walking on the beach, bundled up in winter
SF News It's Got to be the Indictment After Bonds' attorney issued a statement, calling malfeasance on everyone involved, except his client, and now wants to go after the Justice Department for doing all sorts of bad things to his boy. Bond's
SF News Yahoo Settles With Journalists They Threw In Prison Weep no more, my lady. After handing over an apology to the sobbing mother of a Chinese journalist that they helped imprison, Yahoo now must hand over an undisclosed amount to the scribes.
misc Wiretapping Immunity (Again) The secret room at AT&T's Folsom Street facility is in the news again. Staffers from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation are in DC this week and next, trying to convince
SF News Yahoo to Jailed Journalist's Mom: "Um, Sorry" House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos threw down some serious shade today. "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," he cried, shaming two senior Yahoo officials. Why? Because
SF News Toilets, They Have Arrived Well, well, well. According to Alix Rosenthal (Citizens for Halloween), ahem: Word has arrived from a credible source in city government. The City has rented 120 toilets to be placed in the Castro
SF News No Snoop for You: SF Dishonors Dogg, Exotic Erotic Ball Founder Yesterday, we got a press release touting the fact that the city was going to issue a proclamation to Perry Mann, founder of the Exotic Erotic Ball, and Snoop Dogg. Our reaction? Get!
Arts & Entertainment In this Metaphor, the Mayor is Jafar, and the Proposed Events Office is the Lamp, and Halloween is Aladdin (and Bevan is Jasmine) And those answers are: Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, you're not surprised? Well excuuuuse us, Amazing Kreskin. Anyway, the report has a whole slew of very specific instructions (but they're barricaded behind a stupid
Arts & Entertainment Economics 101 with the SF Bay Guardian's Steven T. Jones This reading list is the result of a conversation that started innocently enough on the SFBG's blogs, in a post about homelessness in Golden Gate Park and, tangentially, the Spanish American War. When
SF News He Will Win, But He Wants To Win By More We want to turn out as many voters as possible on election day, so that Mayor Newsom can continue to make government more responsive, effective and accountable. But, we need your help. There
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Say G'Bye to All These Phone Chargers But that will change soon. Our corporate overlords have teamed up with the government of China to standardize cell phone chargers. Say hello to your little friend - it's called micro-USB. Cho kawaii!
SF News American Football Spectacular: "Momma Said Knock You Out" After staunching out the Arizona Cardinals last week, the Niners head to St. Louis to try to get ahead at the expense of the reeling Rams and bolt further ahead in the race
SF News SFist Blotter Remember the Jamba Juice hepatitis A scare? And remember how we said there were gymnasts competing in a national meet in San Jose a few weeks ago? Well -- you guessed it --
misc Don't Let Them Increase Your Property Tax Payments We know we're treading in slightly dangerous territory here -- while we're fairly sure a good chunk of our readership are homeowners (condo, single-family, multifamily, whatever), we know an even larger chunk are
misc See Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner in <em>The Kingdom</em>...Free! Forget that Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Chris Cooper star in The Kingdom. The divine Jason Bateman also appears -- reason enough to check out this action flick. IMDB tells us that it's
SF News August Muni Payout: $131,695.06 The biggest payout is $47,500 to a guy who broke his ankle when the bus lurched forward before he could sit. Ouch. The driver in question was Daniel Johnson, driver number 1324.
misc Wow, a Whole $100,000. Gracias, America! We can only hope that every single news outlet has printed a typo when reporting the amount of cash the United States is sending Peru, which is still experiencing severe aftershocks. As the
misc Week Around The -ists After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts bridges could use a little help. But Bostonist brightened up considerably when they discovered they could drink themselves silly
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: Reassigned! Chris Daly was finally reassigned to a new committee today, in a total step down. After getting removed from the "powerful" budget committee chairmanship Chris was totally lonesome, floating in a committeeless void.
misc Week Around The -ists Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into
