Arts & Entertainment Couple's Rad 'Star Wars' Engagement Photo Shoot In related Star Wars news, photographer Michael James recently took part in an engagement photo shoot, one that breathes new life and (ahem) force into a stale tradition. Specifically, these pre-wedding photos of
Arts & Entertainment Scene from an Occupy Oakland Tender Moment A couple cuddled in front of City Hall during the Occupy Oakland general assembly on Monday, resulting in this delightful shot. While it lacks the chic coolness of the Vancouver riot's kissing couple,
SF News Grindr Goes Straight Grindr, the wildly popular location app site for gay men, plans to go straight this week. What is Grindr, you ask? Created in 2009, Grindr uses GPS technology to find other gay men
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Brokenhearted Sofa? Photographer Erik Wilson (famous for his abandoned sofa oeuvre) snapped this shot of a message from brokenhearted Pappy to his very special Bugaloo. Pappy wrote similar pleas here and here. Here's to hoping
Arts & Entertainment "San Francisco\Amsterdam" Tips Hat To Long Distance Relationships Ivan and Elizabeth, two long-distance lovers living in Amsterdam and San Francisco, respectively, came up with a public way of showing their love for each other. "San Francisco\Amsterdam," billed as "a collaborative
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Top Five Least Schmaltzy Valentine's Events Valen-tiny Idea Night: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts a night of "mingling, mating, and music," featuring live performances, dancing, and lots of art and activities, including postmodern elevator peepshows and Infatuated,
SF News Daisy Does the 49ers: Losing to the Saints by Daisy Barringer Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” After watching the 49ers lose 25-22 to the Saints in last night’s
misc Why Is Dating In S.F. So Difficult? Mission Mission has a thought-provoking comment thread in progress today. It's all about dating in San Francisco, and why it's so damn difficult. Which, yes. It is. Prompted by a post about a
SF News New Dating Site Helps Mac Brethren Find Love Did you breakup with your girlfriend because you, an iPhone user, couldn't handler her Metro PCS lifestyle? Fear not, Apple zealots, because Mel Sampat, a noted Microsoft employee (!), created a site just for
misc Nob Hill Gazette Releases Annual Singles List What with Valentine's Day around the corner, Nob Hill Gazette (a local publication whose motto, "...an attitude, not an address," lets you know that Nob Hill is the neighborhood in SF) released its
SF News Did Cop Sex Play a Role in Oscar Grant's Murder? According to Matier & Ross, an interoffice romance, if you will, between two BART officers might have played a part in the shooting death of Oscar Grant. M&R report: According to
misc It Not Me, It's You: Post Your Breakup Stories Before we post a few festive Valentine's Day events -- you know, fun ones with other lonely single folks; parties that will, hopefully, keep you from taking the final Nestea plunge over the
SF News Nob Hill Gazette Releases Annual Singles List Society rag Nob Hill Gazette -- who, sadly, let the divine Catherine Bigelow slip through their fingers last year -- came out with its annual list of coke heads and homosexuals. And at
SF News Prop 8's Forced-Divorces Will Break Our Hearts "Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo. We dare you to watch the Courage Campaign's Fidelity video and not get all weepy. We were able to keep it together until it got
SF News Obama Tips His Hat to SF While this shouldn't be news, it is. President Barack Obama mentions San Francisco in his most recent blog post honoring Chinese New Year. Eeee! See, it's been, let's see, about eight years since
misc Chance Meeting on the Cable Car Turns into Ephron-ian Tale of Fate While it seems too sugary to be true - and we doubt it is - this story has touched our cold, selfish hearts. See, Muni Diaries has a story of fate and romance
misc Only 8,444 of you Have Donated to No on 8 -- What Are You Waiting For? And it's not just individuals; four SF companies have have launched attacks on local families, too: - Blackford Construction gave $200 - Visionary Electronics gave $99 - Large Format Computing gave $1500 -
SF News Once Again, Only You Can Save Marriage California, Please Vote No On Proposition 8 from Stop8.org on Vimeo. While Sarah Palin held her own last night during last night's debate, more or less, and Joe Biden shed an effeminate
misc Only You Can Save Marriage Hey gay couples! You're in terrible danger. Fortunately, we can help. Well, not exactly -- SFist_Matt, to be specific, has taken a break from writing stern emails to Muni, and is now
SF News Tree Sitters Lose Yet Another Round More time is being wasted over in Berkeley over those damn oak trees. This time the Berkeley City Council voted last night that they it "will not seek a stay of a judge's
SF News No Matter What, Berkeley Tree Sitters Lose After a judge ruled that the University of California can cut down those cumbersome old oak trees, the kids still stuck up in the grove aren't coming down. What else is new, right?
SF News Another Berkeley Tree-Sitter Arrested, Standoff Continues While police have tried to starve and cutoff supplies to the few remaining protesters up in the UCB oak grove, another tree-sitter was arrested yesterday afternoon at around 5 p.m. Performing yoga
misc Sports Facility Plans Put On Hold, Trustifarians Feel Like They've Accomplished Something UCB's plans to mow down an oak grove and put up a sports training facility were put on hold. It seems a judge halted the plans until "the university can prove the project
SF News UC/Berkeley Uses Force to Oust Tree-Sitters The battle to save an oak grove on the UC-Berkeley campus turned even uglier yesterday. Protesters sang bizarre Native American-ish sounding songs (seriously, check this out) and threw buckets of urine at police
SF News Save the Oaks Protesters at UC/Berkeley Plucked? Five remaining tree climbers over at the University of California at Berkeley -- you know, the ones who have been protesting the school's plan to tear down the Memorial Oak Grove to put
