Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Barefoot Nellies: "The Bay Area's finest all-gal bluegrass band" headline at one of the Bay Area's finest bars, Amnesia, starting at 8:30 p.m., 853 Valencia; free. -- Killer of Sheep
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- hey willpower at Glitterbox: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), local pop/R&B/dance band performs. DJs Javier Natureboy and Junkyard spin funk, punk,
SF News We Have a Weiner! So why Brooklyn? Well, it's a little bit of a non-sequitor and we like non sequiturs. Also, because baseball is about tradition and the passing of baseball lore from father to son and
Arts & Entertainment Selections from <em>LA Times</em>' Critical Mass Article Too much ink has been spilled and too much bandwidth used to praise/bury Critical Mass in length. Now the LA Times gets in on the action. We'd love to break it down
SF News Day Around The Bay What a day, what a day, what a day... -- Man who killed cop in 2005 receives death sentence. [Chron] -- Dow Jones down. [Chron] -- Police raid Your Black Muslim Bakery, arrests
SF News Megabus Megacheap The big draw are the $1 tickets (yes, you read that right, one dollar to go to LA) -- if you're one of the first four people to book on a particular bus,
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Dodgers 6 Giants 4- Before we begin the fun, we'd like to draw your attention to a pretty interesting article by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke who writes how that two game series
misc New SFist Giants Contest Hey Giants fans, hate the Dodgers? Like, really, really, really hate the Dodgers? Wanna have some snarky yet juvenile fun at their expense? Hell, what else can you do considering they're in first
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: We're Back! In other Ed Jew court news, Ed Jew's father worked out a deal where he wouldn't have to testify despite receiving a subpoena from the DA, and Ed's lawyer says "Ed has not
SF News SF Doc Charged In Donor's Death San Francisco transplant surgeon Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was criminally charged on Monday with "dependent adult abuse." He's accused of prescribing way, way too man drugs to speed up the death of a developmentally-disabled
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Tigers 5 A's 2- All you need to know about the A's season is this wonderful little stat: since June 15, the A's have lost 28 out of 40 games. Consider this loss
Arts & Entertainment Free Passes To See <i>The Ten</i>! Hey, wanna see ? No, not the LA freeway, a movie of ten short films illustrating each of the Ten Commandments, featuring such of-the-moment actors as Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd (yay!), Adam Brody (pictured
Arts & Entertainment Bauer On LAist On Bauer? Food Flap! You know how sometimes we point out when an out-of-town publication takes an outside-in look at our fair city? We've pointed to such pieces in the L.A. Times and the Economist even
misc Week Around The -ists Over at Chicagoist, readers weighed in with their favorite memories of a local concert venue celebrating its silver anniversary and railed about the passage of a statewide smoking ban for Illinois. The former
SF News News From The Animal Point Of View They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 4.2 tremor slightly moves the Bay Area, donuts. [Chron, Yahoo, Examiner, FCJ] -- Ron Russell on Chron business writer David Lazarus' new LA Times gig. [The Snitch] -- One Rincon Hill
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight But brace yourselves for tonight's edition: an "honest" look at the (dying? dead? necessary?) state of print publishing. Such inky icons as Ben Fong-Torres (from Rolling Stone), Lynn Peril (publisher of Mystery Date)
SF News SFist Tossup: Who Ya Got? We got in an interesting debate about this over dinner -- which is worse? LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa screwing over his wife, or Gavin Newsom screwing over his campaign manager? Family or friends?
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week! The Top 5 for last week, as selected by SFist's editors, were: 1, and 2) There were a bunch of great comments on the story titled "Surprise: Parking Garage Company Wants to Build
misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
SF News Day Around The Bay --Hey! Did you ever do coke with Gavin? [Fog City Journal.] --Chris Daly explains himself. [SFGov.org.] --What's fun doing for Pride Weekend? [SFPartyParty, Bay Area Reporter, SF Weekly's All Shook Down.] --They
Arts & Entertainment Interviews: Colma! The Musical Colma opens at the Embarcadero Cinema June 22 Introduce yourself in one sentence: H.P: Hi, I'm HP and I'm a Pisces with a Virgo rising which means I don't put any stock
misc Week Around The -Ists Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the
SF News Day Around The Bay --Gavin Newsom had another Project Homeless Connect event. Reader Elihuh2001 sends along this picture, along with the note that Gavin refused the free coffee provided, in favor of a more corporate flair. --A
