SF News Weekend Blotter You know we usually try to hoard up all the crime-type news for the Tuesday and Friday blotters, but there was enough vaguely unsettling news this weekend to warrant a post a little
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 We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: You know we love Tim Redmond, but we had kind of a hard time following his non-market-based argument about the SF housing market. Can't we get the Freakonomics
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Norman Nsu to return to Redwood City. [ABC7] -- Beth Spotswood writes in real-time about this year's Macy's Passport, with SFist aluma Eve Batey as the Virgil to her Dante. [Chron] --
Arts & Entertainment We're Awash In Almonds Don't just read words -- read good words, accurate and specific, tasty and gratifying and placed in sequences that make you shake your head in disbelief that anyone could possibly have ever used
Arts & Entertainment Das Klagende Lied Das klagende Lied is a three movement cantata, in which two brothers set out to find a flower that we'll allow one of them to marry a princess. The kind brother finds it,
misc Approved and Veto-Ready: Homosexual Marriage Gays of the Golden State: rejoice! For a few moments! State legislators approved "gender-neutral marriage" for the second time. And for the second time it bites its nails, waiting for Governor Schwarzenegger to
misc Losing the Fuzz Via Gender Reassignment: John Mark Karr God bless the Bay Area Reporter. In this week's issue, Ed Walsh reports that former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect and one-time possible kiddie porn connoisseur, John Mark Karr, "had sought gender reassignment surgery,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Hold Yr Horses": Vowel dismissive DJ Rchrd Oh?! spins electro, no wave, '80s, '90s, hip hop, disco punk, synth pop, and more tonight at this TL dive bar's gipster club night. Music
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Jonestown and the Summer of Love The first, and best, is Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Through interviews with former members and survivors of the Jim Jones cult, along with loads of archival footage, you get
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.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: A Rather Persistent Missed Connection Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
Arts & Entertainment MANicure Madness We got in the car and headed over to our favorite, most reliable salon, where the instruments are clean, the prices can’t be beat, and there’s always some funny Asian soap
SF News SF Almost the Best Place for Yuppies Coming in at a respectable number two, Forbes Magazine named San Francisco the second best spot to park your yuppie ass. As if you didn’t already know that. (Although we’re puzzled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Hula Hunks This delightful photo is another great find from crow soup, finder of last week's Prom Stud photo. Found at Church and 17th. The details in this photo are just, wow... The mankinis, the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Craig Billmeier US Air Guitar Tour (tour bus and all) June 27 • San Jose CA • The Blank Club (21+) or June 28 • San Francisco CA • The Independent (21+) When did you first begin to air
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 --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
SF News Help Find Nam Lee AlertSF just sent out a bulletin about a missing person. Please keep your eyes out for this gentleman (click on the picture to enlarge): Nam Lee has been missing since Wednesday the 30th.
SF News Don't Hate Esther Because She's Beautiful Hwang claims that she was outside the North Beach bar Dolce last week, celebrating the end of her law school finals and waiting for her boyfriend when she saw some police officers. She
SF News Carole Migden's Health Revelations After poking some good-natured fun at State Senator Carole Migden for her driving mishaps last week, we now feel obliged to tell you guys that she's revealed that she was diagnosed with leukemia
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --Bowling for Rhinos! It's like the name of some kind of ska band, but it's actually a benefit for the zoo. $25 gets you two hours of bowling and pizza at
Arts & Entertainment Are They Running Out of Candidates? As far as we know, our mom is NOT behind this movement. But we're totally flattered that blogswarm at Calitics thinks we should run for mayor. We're even more flattered that our CrackBerry
Arts & Entertainment Going Smashing With the Pumpkins So we're not sure what to think of the announcement today that the Pumpkins 2.0 are going to play eight shows at the Fillmore from July 22 to August 1. On the
