SF News Brace For More Rain, Possible Thunderstorm Tonight The winter storm that brought us a smattering of rain on Sunday is going to dump a fair bit more on us tonight and into tomorrow, and it will bring with it some
SF News Fire Watch: Lightning Possible In East Bay Tonight A low-pressure system off the Northern California coast is creating a strong possibility of lightning strikes Monday night, exacerbating wildfire fears particularly in the East Bay. Late Monday and early Tuesday morning lightning
SF News Weather Report: Thunder! It's time to discuss, for everyone who's new here, why this thunderstorm we're having today is a really rare occurrence. The geography of our part of the West Coast, you see, tends to
SF News Epic Lightning Storm Strikes San Francisco, In Photos Lightning storms are so unusual that you may have thought it was just your imagination. But no: last night marked a rare and exciting electrostatic event. Behold, last night's lightning strikes captured on
SF News Lightning Strike Blows Out Transformers in Noe Valley About 100 households lost power in Noe Valley last night when a freak lightning strike took out five transformers near 24th and Hoffman Streets. Some of you who were awake around 1 a.
SF News Lightning Struck A Plane Leaving SFO Last Night! An outbound flight from SFO to London was forced to land shortly after takeoff last night after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. That storm wasn't playin' around! The United plane
SF News Amazing Photos: Lightning Strikes San Francisco David Jones snapped the first incredible photo here that shows lightning striking the city during tonight's tumultuous storm. (Did your building shake as well? Ours sure did.) He snapped the pic from his
SF News Photos from Lightning Strike Some photos from the lightning strikes this morning that took out transformers at Octavia & Grove and at Broderick and Sacramento, as well as the aftermath. And commenter Zac points us to a
SF News Things That Go Boom Excuse us if we're a little groggy -- but yeah, how about that thunder this morning! Turns out there was at least one lightning strike (that enormous boom everyone near downtown heard around
misc Photo du Jour <del>666</del> 55 While it's not very Bay Area-ish, Jesus is allegedly in all of our hearts. And now look what happened? We blame the sodomites. And Code Pink. Read more about Rio de Janeiro's wonder
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After This weekend in sports brought us victories by the Warriors, the Raiders and a color. In the defeated column-- and by defeated we mean severely-- are the 49ers who lost to a team
SF News Bedlam at Milk Club: Migden Upstages Leno Migden, Leno, Peskin, Daly, Herrera all were on the scene at one point or another, and tempers flared. Why? Because Carole Migden stole the show (along with a hefty vote, not an official
SF News Warning: Bay Area Booty First off, we feel a tad icky for the following post. On one hand, we're playing into his game of profiting of his abuse of women. (For argument's sake, let us presume his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony
Arts & Entertainment What the Puck? Another <i>Real World</i> Tryout Coming To San Francisco Hey check THIS out. Tryouts for MTV's are nigh. You guys have until Monday, May 7th to see if you'll be the next to fill the shoes of Pedro, Puck, or Judd . . . and
Arts & Entertainment Hail Fellow Well Met Check out the hailstone that SFist Jim captured on film at around 9:07 p.m. in the Haight! In his poetic phrasing, "bigger than a bb, smaller than a lemon drop." This
SF News The Warriors: 2006-2007 season preview, part two Yesterday we reviewed the team's offseason futzing, its new identity, and the numbers game heading into the 2006-2007 season. The roster is set, and there is an energy and a spark and a
Arts & Entertainment The Sticky Adventures of the Superfisters You can't go two panels without reading a swear, so some folks label this series "mature." But we don't know about that -- aside from bad words, the book's pretty light-spirited and gentle.
misc SFist Rants: Couldn't Stand the Weather It's not that it's rainy. We can handle the rain, or at least be okay with it. It's always rainy this time of year. No. What's getting to us is the whole schizo-ness
SF News Wetter Than a [Fill In Tasteless Reference to Aroused Female Genitalia] SFist Rita (always looking out for the staff) was worried about flooding in North Beach earlier this week, and now we can report the corners of Powell and Columbus on Union are now
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
SF News And Now For Some Wet Hot Juicy Religion It was almost a year ago that someone put our names on the mailing list of "Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter," and it's been an eye-opening couple of months. For example,
SF News 2pm - Did You Hear That Thunder??? So far there have been at leat 2 LOUD thunder rolls, the air has a distinct mid-fall feel to it and rain is still possible if not imminent in SF and around the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Porchlight Third Anniversary Good thing we got to the Swedish-American early for Friday night's Porchlight Third Anniversary storytelling evening -- even 45 minutes before the show, the rush ticket line was snaking all the way down
