SF News Sacramento Tent City Coming Down With coverage on Oprah, followed by countless other media stories on the Third World-ish homeless camp, Sacramento's 'Tent Camp' will officially close over the next few weeks. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who's clearly
SF News Dead Body Found at SF Bloomingdale's The body of a 44-year-old man was discovered inside a bathroom at the San Francisco Bloomingdale's complex on Friday. Patrick Callahan, who was homeless, "was found in the morning when employees opened the
SF News Newsom Announces 2009 Homeless Count In an effort to "help establish a more comprehensive accounting of the extent of homelessness in San Francisco," Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco's City’s Human Services Agency (HSA) announced plans to
SF News Scene from a Tender Moment Photo by Manny Ortez. Deborah Samuel and her cat, Princess, receive a little bit of help from Project Homeless Connect on Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Food Bank Needs Your Help This Holiday Season With Thanksgiving a little over a week away, and before we list the top restaurants for turkey dinners, remember that the SF Food Bank needs you help. With over 300 tons of food
misc Photo du Jour 178 Yesterday a commenter asked for a PDJ with "a little humor, class, and grace," an image "representative of the better side of this town" Well, we tried. Each time we attempted to save
SF News Beating Death Arrests Two men were arrested in this week's savage beating death of Richard Weiland over at San Francisco's least favorite intersection, Turk and Taylor. Robert Hannah, 57, and Michael Cooper, 44, were nabbed by
SF News Homeless Man Beaten to Death at Turk & Taylor The City's 57th (58th?) homicide happened yesterday morning in the infamous Tenderloin hood. Over on Turk and Taylor, Richard Weiland, 53, was found beaten to death. According to reports, Weiland was robbed and
SF News Oh Sh*t! While SFist is much to dainty to post such vile images of something so natural, fearless LiveJournal blogger Jameth isn't. See, ever since he's been working on Stevenson Street a few weeks ago,
misc Photos: Scenes from Stevenson Street At the risk of stepping on Blocker's toes, SFist James spends much of his time on the infamous Stevenson Street (near Market) near Civic Cente, and he's taken some images with his phone
SF News Reason Why the Homeless Totally Rule We like the homeless, and we loathe talking too much shit about folks without homes because (arguably) it's like kicking a dog while it's down. Homeless people not only fill out the other
SF News Homeless Encampments: Yes/No? This cozy one-bedroom encampment was found at a dog park in (Cole Valley?) San Francisco. People need to sleep, and since not everyone has a home in SF, why not just allow a
SF News SF Homeless are Cooler Than the Homeless in Other Cities Perhaps in our over-cellular phone'd society, we overlooked the importance of having a way for people to reach us. Google recognized the need for the homeless to have some connection to loved ones
misc Ask SFist: City-Funded Homeless Showers? Someone reports, asks the following about city-enforced personal hygiene of the homeless population: I saw a city water truck soak a homeless guy and all his stuff this morning. The guy was camped
misc Homeless Death Memorial We interrupt your holiday frivolity, wild binge drinking, and high stress levels to bring you the following event: Tomorrow night the annual Homeless Death Memorial March takes place. A Day of the Dead,
misc The Week in Nevius Chucky appears to be back on the homeless beat this week with two stories about it. One is something that might piss people off, the other something that might not piss people off.
SF News Newsom Calls Chu "Naïve" -- Well, Sort Of No, not Frank Chu -- although a Gav versus a crazy would be most fascinating, indeed -- Carmen Chu. Let's back up a bit here: In her first hickory-bold move since taking over
misc Haight, Homeless, and Dogs...Continued! What would Animal Control do in that situation, where a homeless kid owner lets his dog bite someone? There are a few ways that this situation could work itself out, depending on the
SF News SFHomeless Yahoo Group Oh, this looks like fun. While hogging the Internet today, we came across this Yahoo group for the homeless, which bills itself as a "unique, independent, community based support group, moderated by anonymous
misc Haight, Gutterpunks, and Dogs As we passed by, the dog lunged out and clamped its jaws on our friend's leg. The bite broke no skin, but it scared the hell out of our friend. She told us
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Today is Yelp Day. How did you celebrate? Yeah, same here. (With all due respect to Yelp, Newsom will declare anything _____ Day these days, won't he?) [Eater SF] -- Ooooh! Those apartments
SF News Grasshopper Receives Nine-Month Jail Sentence Sigh. The popular kids are at it again. No stranger to playing fast and loose with the law, noted homeless taxi driver Grasshopper Kaplan -- you remember, that guy who ran for mayor
