SF News Home, Home on the Range \C.W. Nevius continues his Homeless Encampment 2007 Tour with a visit to Corona Heights. His verdict? Not so good. He found twenty possible separate campsites as well as broken bottles and needles.
misc Blocker: 1400 Montgomery Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 7: Montgomery St.
SF News Society Snaps (So Send Us Your Society Shots) San Francisco socialites have been fellated for far too long by such hard-hitting glossies as 7x7 Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. Hell, even the pages from new society (excuse me, “philanthropy”) rag Benefit
misc Blocker: 500 Head Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 6: Head St.
misc Blocker: 800 Divisadero Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 5: Divisadero St.
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 Day Around The Bay --A source passes along these pictures of Gavin Newsom and Carole Migden at a Pride event some time back. We saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus! --Steve Jobs speaks at the Apple Conference today.
SF News Quark Crime Mark Pope, the guy who co-founded Quark Software, was working in his Pac Heights mansion last week when he heard some weird noises and looked out the window and saw a car (a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Presidio Terrace, S.F.'s Gated Community The specific reason at the time was the prevention of members of the "Mongolian race", meaning people of Japanese or Chinese heritage for the most part, from "invading" the area. Racial covenants might
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
SF News Dog Maul Case Back In The News We are deeply, deeply regretful that the cityblog format had not been launched back in 2001 and 2002, when we were totally obsessed with the Diane Whipple dog mauling case. For those of
misc Blocker: 000 Fair Oaks Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. Blocker, No. 1: Fair Oaks
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Insane in the Membrane The famed Hayes Street Hill that's so tough to run up when jogging is a piece of cake to go down when cycling. Unless you have no brakes, as here. Dude has a
SF News Swells by the Numbers SFist Rita is out of town for work, so we are donning our tiara and gown for this weeks Swells analysis. Tra-la-la! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column:
Arts & Entertainment Real Estate Crunch More Evil Than Napster: Metallica Guitarist Reduces Mansion Price Playing the role of Shawn Fanning, minus the curls, the real estate retraction appears to be stealing theoretical dollars from the pockets of a member of Metallica. According to The Wall Street Journal
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 Living Legend Lets Loose At Laurel Lounge No, not the Laurel Heights familiar to San Franciscans, with its chain stores and baby strollers, but Oakland's Laurel District, home to personable purveyors of down-home cooking, musical instruments and lessons, locally-penned books,
Arts & Entertainment Blog Heaven! Okay, so let's see, what do we have here... a 1) Catherine Bigelow-penned blog entry featuring 2) Britney Spears's bald head grafted onto the bodies of 3) local politicians and 4) Pac Heights
Arts & Entertainment McLaren Park: It's Time Us Full-figure Girls Get Noticed To Little Miss Golden Gate Park, princess of the City, Honey, I'm sick of you and your flat-ass panhandle getting all the attention. You think you're the only park in the whole City
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
SF News Ohmeed Popal Fit For Trial Ohmeed Popal, the hit-and-run SUV driver who rampaged through Pacific and Laurel Heights about three months ago, has been deemed sufficiently sane to be tried for 18 counts of attempted murder in San
Arts & Entertainment It's Icer Air, Dude Remember last year when they did the ski-jump in Pac Heights and there was some big fracas because some politically connected lady was having her reception nearby and it could ruin her wedding?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: David Kiddoo Who are you, what do you do, and where do you live? My name is David Kiddoo, and I live in Laurel Heights. I currently work as a project manager for a nonprofit