SF News Gunshots or Fireworks? What with Fourth of July just around the corner, police departments all around the Bay Area tend to get flooded with calls mistaking gunfire for fireworks. How can you tell the difference? Well,
SF News Wimbledon Under Fire for Pigeon Murder Wimbledon, that top-drawer tennis championship played on grass way over on the other side of the pond, is currently underway. What's more, it's coming under fire for "using marksmen to shoot down dive-bombing
SF News Early Morning Shootings Rile SF The second shooting occurred at Fifth and Market streets, "where at least one victim was removed from a Muni bus." (So...a shooting happened on a Muni bus, then? Great.) And the third
misc Photo du Jour 120 We're going all the way to Texas for our photo of the day where this yoga studio has an "NRA-inspired bumper sticker prominently displayed on the front door." That's two kinds of peace!
SF News SFist Blotter Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that magic recording device
SF News Anonomyous Tip Speculation Time: Mayhill Fowler Speaking of backlash, the Mayhill Fowler assault is percolating at a gentle boil. You paranoid wheels-within-wheels political fans out there will be happy to know that, apparently, stellar journalist and master of the
SF News Besides Barack Obama and Mayhill Fowler, Who Is Responsible for His Elitist-Remark Leak? You know how political fetishists are losing their minds this week over Barack Obama's kind of awesome but kind of classist statement at the Getty manse? You know, this: And it's not surprising
SF News SF Handgun Bill Killed By State Supreme Court Yesterday, the state supreme court flicked away San Francisco's feeble attempt to bad handguns. Or, in the words of CBS 5, the court "unanimously rejected the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: the Color Guard Coach This is not pirates and cowboys, OK? It's music set to guns, flags, sabers, and color. Or something fantastically bombastic like that. Do check it out. If you're reading this via an RSS
SF News Early Morning Gunfire Hits Three in SOMA UPDATE: according to one eyewitness who went to the police station after the drive-by to make a report, "all of the gunshot victims died." However, after talking to SFPD, all victims are listed
Arts & Entertainment The Gallant Pussycat. Well, we won’t spoil the story, but thanks to the performance of the Merola program apprentices, the light comedy did fire, and on all cylinders. We found it gutsy for these aspiring
SF News <i>Yelp!</i> Guns Drawn In Front Of Yelp's Offices? Friend of SFist Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp's CEO and co-founder, just shot us this note: Guns drawn in front of Yelp office... Jeremy (That would be Mission & New Montgomery.) According to Jeremy's comments
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Guns-for-gift card trade today at Civic Center. [Chron] -- How will Giants' owner Peter Magowan celebrate the moment Bonds makes the hit? [Examiner] -- Rebecca Schaeffer's stalker cum murderer stabbed 11 times
SF News Attacks in the Marina District We called Michela Alioto-Pier's office, and they confirmed the report of the attacks. (If you want to contact her office for more information, call: 415-554-7752.) Much of the neighborhood patrol, we hear, has
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Braves 7 Giants 5- Man, can you believe it's the 20th Anniversary of Guns n' Roses' "Appetite for Destruction?" Twenty years. We can still remember when that album (yes, album) came out and
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
Arts & Entertainment Think This Way Celebrate independence by celebrating mind-control! Go check out the one-day-only "PROPAGANDA III WORLD TOUR" (it's capitalized in all of the PR materials, so you know it's legit). They've collected hundreds of political posters
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Gone Fishin' And the hits keep on coming! The Chron reports that when they stopped by Ed Jew's City Hall office yesterday, some wag had taped a "Gone Fishing" sign to the door. Fish do
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
SF News SFist Blotter As discussed in the SFist Contributes tips page, what people heard in Ingleside Heights early yesterday morning was a mysterious car explosion. Witnesses saw a man park a car, get out of the
SF News SFist Blotter A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kevin Robinson Photo by Joey Bellville Best Show ever and what made it great? The last one we played - because it WAS great. Every show trumps the one before it. Best venue? Tie between
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated for its Excellence There's a heated and productive conversation happening over in our earlier post about Muni's dangerous plan to get bus-mounted cameras with optional bayonets and gatling guns. One of the best comments (and we
SF News I Can't Drive 55 Here comes the numbers: while the number of collisions are down, the number of pedestrian fatalities are up. So, in other words, drivers don't hit other cars anymore, they hit pedestrians. The number
Arts & Entertainment Green Dragons And Purple Gloves The Green Dragon first: A reader passes along the tip that the publishers of Kenneth Eng's sci-fi masterpiece (about dragons armed with machine guns) have pulled his books off the shelves (scroll down)
