SF News Cafe Worker In SF's Mission District Springs Into Action to Stop Petty Thief A cafe worker in the Mission District is being hailed as a hero for jumping out from behind the counter to pummel a would-be backpack thief Friday morning and hold him until police arrived.
SF News Teen Saves Family From Path of Folsom Train This story, which occurred in Folsom (east of Sacramento), reads like something right out of a movie. On Monday evening, 17-year-old Todd McHugh of Citrus Heights saw a car swerve, veer off the
Arts & Entertainment This Just In: Fall Out Boy's Van Not Invisible It looks like one of San Jose's most trusty traffic cops was also in a giving mood. The Invisible Children van got a parking ticket. They were parked illegally (see the red curb
SF News RIP: Mr. Whipple Chastises His Final Squeezer Born Riccardo DiGuglielmo, Wilson changed his name while working as an actor in efforts to avoid typecasting as an Italian-American. Little did he know that he would be typecast as America's favorite, um,
SF News A Tale of Two Quarterbacks If there's anybody in the city taking more heat than Mike Nolan, it's his quarterback, Alex Smith. Smith stands accused by the Faithful of not very being good. The evidence? Overthrowing Receivers. Underthrowing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Wednesday Fall TV Premieres Tonight's big premiere is the quirky comedy "Pushing Daisies" which premieres at 8 p.m. on ABC. There are a lot of big names associated with this dramedy, including executive producer Bryan Fuller,
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>My Fuhrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler</i> The premise of the movie is that a famous Jewish acting professor, Adolf Grunwald, sent to a concentration camp in World War II, is summoned by Joseph Goebbels to coach a depressed and
misc <em>Dreamgirls</em>' "Family" Via NBC's Family in the '80s Here are some of your favorite NBC stars from many, many years ago, singing one of the weaker ditties from Dreamgirls. Who knows? Maybe this will jumpstart cast members from The Office and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
Arts & Entertainment Con Us Once, Shame On You... Unfortunately, this year was just as lackluster as last year, maybe even more so. And yet, we had a better time. Go figure. None of the big-name panels we attended offered us anything
SF News Bags Redux Luckily, we might not have to ponder these things anymore, something for which we are entirely grateful as it'll allow us more time to ponder more meaningful questions such as whether to watch
