Arts & Entertainment Giveaway! Win Tickets To See Gunther! We love the Eurotrash!!! Wanna win tickets to see Gunther, the Swedo-pop source of the delightful "Ding Dong Song (You Touch My Tralala)"? (YouTube clip from his show in LA above.) The mulleted,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a
SF News Cry of the Fishmonger Special Report: Sartorial Splendor The new kits are part of an NHL-wide switch to Rbk's (nee Reebok, for you old timers who love vowels) Edge "uniform system". Compared to the old sweaters and pants, the new ones
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #1 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 1. Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time in the West: They have already conquered the #1 spot on
Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
misc Week Around the -Ists Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant -
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Jonathan Coulton: "Code Monkey" has gained a heavy, cult-of-nerd following. Yay! Join the club tonight at 9 p.m. at Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell; $18. -- The Legend of Billie
SF News Shooting Outside The Lex Almost Startles Patrons It was kind of startling — everyone wanted to know what was going on,'' said Melissa Scott, a customer at Lexington Club, which is located near the site of the shooting. "But then
SF News Day Around The Bay -- RIP: Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank dies. [Chron] -- Busted water pipe downtown = Bay Bridge entrance difficulties. [ABC 7] -- What a good idea! MUNI cop ride-alongs. (Oh, you know you also love
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, a completely not soaked with alcohol East Bay Express: Hey, we just picked our issue up with the classifieds side up and you can go to LA on a Price Is
Arts & Entertainment Chris Black's Dance Project: <em>Pastime</em> Local, Izzie Award-winning choreographer Chris Black takes nine dancers and breaks down the game of baseball into nine different parts, with strong footwork representing varied aspects of the game: sliding into home, making
SF News Shakedown 1979 h, 1979…"I Will Survive" topped the charts and Bette Midler gave us "the Rose" (love, it is a river, you know). ESPN came into existence, the kids were into "Captain Caveman," and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Is this a fair pricing scheme? After pumping she figured things out, calculating she lost about five bucks due to the car wash discount scheme. Then, after raising a fuss she was offered ... a further discount on a car
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After You know, we meant to get into the whole "It's Got to Be the Morning After" thing earlier but forgot to do it in all the sports hurly-burly. So, yes, the title comes
SF News SFist Blotter Do you have any information? A Fremont family is trying to get some answers about the circumstances of their father's mysterious death. The father suffered a heart attack at Van Ness and Market
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Zombie Prom": Halloween approaches, and soon Walgreen's and Rite-Aids will start stocking fun-size 100 Grand and Lik-M-Sticks. But until that glorious day arrives, check out this Zombie-themed dance club night in SOMA.
Arts & Entertainment And Speaking Of The Dangers Of Posting.... Wonkette did something we find most awesome: commenter-cleansing. Hee: Oh, hi everybody. A lot of comments have been fun & good & whatever, but a lot of comments have also been painful to
Arts & Entertainment Think Before You Post PSA Silence thyself, woman! Whatever, you know that Sara is a total slut, and for that, we love her. Also, the ticket taker should have inquired about the shader of her "panties," not her
misc Approved and Veto-Ready: Homosexual Marriage Gays of the Golden State: rejoice! For a few moments! State legislators approved "gender-neutral marriage" for the second time. And for the second time it bites its nails, waiting for Governor Schwarzenegger to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Andy Vogt Where is the best place to see art in the area? Hard to pick one since they all have something different to offer. I always enjoy shows at Ampersand International Arts, Gregory Lind
Arts & Entertainment Red Sun Haze We were busy at our day job all day today, so we're just now getting to posting something about the crazy red sun this morning! Blamed on the smoke from two wildfires in
Arts & Entertainment SF to Represent at the Emmy Awards Wait, what? The San Francisco cast of Jersey Boys is performing at the Emmys? Whoop-dee-do. How are we supposed to get excited about that? Sorry to be a tease, but we do have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Weathered Wish List Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies And next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond and the Guardian editorial board go in with both fists swinging about Newsom's latest two begging-from-the-rich schemes. Yeah! We love it!! Guess that banner about
Arts & Entertainment Matt Smith Draws! Who knew he could control a pen (charcoal? Sharpie?) the same way he does a keyboard over at the SF Weekly offices? We sure didn't. And although we love Newsom -- we do,
