SF News MacArthur BART Adjacent Shooting Kills One And a day before BART Rider Appreciation, no less? Sad. Yesterday, at around 1:20 p.m. near Apgar Street and Martin Luther King Jr. in Oakland, a 20-year-old man was shot and
SF News Day Around the Bay Merry Martin Luther King Jr. Day. [Examiner, Nature abhors a vacuum, SF Bay View, Beyond Chron] The TLDR spat between SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly continues at a steady, confusing pace. [SFBG,
misc See You at the Anti-Abortion Protest, Ladies! This year's abortion bash, Walk for Life-West Coast, will take place tomorrow, Jan 19, on the lawn area of Justin Herman Plaza down by the Embarcadero from 10:30 a..m. to 1:
SF News Late Night Shooting in Golden Gate Park Oh dear. Just days after Brian Austin was stabbed to death at 47th Avenue and Fulton Street, a (homelss!) man was shot yesterday in Golden Gate Park. According to the fuzz, he took
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Sunny Weekend: Thai Brunch in Berkeley (Yet Another Reason to Visit the East Bay) It can get pretty crowded in the cafeteria-style seating area, but on warm weekends it’s nicer to sit outside on the lawn outside of the temple anyway. While the lines to get
misc Bay Area Wanderer: Welcome Back, Sun. * Bay Area Wanderer: Near Martin Luther King Drive and Lincoln, San FranciscoAhh, it is nice to have the sun back with us.Couples holding hands. Kids frolicking underneath eucalyptus trees. Picnics.Springtime... is
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
Arts & Entertainment Review: Comedy Death-Ray at SketchFest SFist was excited to hit SketchFest’s Comedy Death-Ray act last night at Cobb’s. The line up (full of Mr. Show and I LOVE the ‘80’s alumns) looked promising. After the
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
Arts & Entertainment MLK Day in S.F.: A Day On, Not A Day Off Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows off her new gavel at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast in San Francisco this morning. This was Pelosi's first time back in her home district after
Arts & Entertainment Martin Luther King Day Events There's a whole bunch of events going on today, most of which are either happening now or have already started. We would have gotten to this post earlier, but like a lot of
SF News Treasure Hunt: A Touch of Huitzilopochtli What were we thinking? With Martin Luther King day approaching, it dawned on us that we missed our big chance, that blessed time between Christmas and New Year when we can actually take
SF News Debate the Power Special props go out to Berg who in giving his comments about there being no debate, compared the whole thing to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march from Selma to Birmingham. He then
misc Keep Your Hands to Yourself Testifying for the proposed rules was members of the Commission on the Status of Women, currently residing in the top five of our "Things We'll Slash Out of the Budget for Being a
SF News Why Does Google Hate America? You know what this means, of course? That while the rest of us think Google is a once cute tech company now about to take over the world, full of fresh faced engineers
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Does Some Party Crashing Arnie decided to go at the behest of BFF Willie Brown, despite the fact a labor-sponsored event in SF isn't exactly a locale for Team Arnie. Why? Nothing like speaking in front of
Arts & Entertainment The New de Young Building The original museum was built as the Fine Arts building for the California Midwinter International Exposition. The exposition made a profit, and the building and money were donated to The City and named
SF News Pave Paradise, Put Up a Parking Garage Unlike previous campaigns, activists at the rally held last week stressed that they were not trying to oppose the parking garage (which would be hard to do since they're more than half-way done)
Arts & Entertainment Eyes on the Rightsholder's Prize Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes
misc He Had A Dream We're on a lighter posting schedule today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. -- we hope you have the day off to spend at a number of Bay Area celebrations scheduled for
SF News An SFist Cameo on DCist ...or is it a DCist cameo on SFist? Our sister site notes that one of our local boys, Adam Werbach, and his new group, the November 3 Theses, have invaded their town to
Arts & Entertainment Krugman Benefit for KPFA Tonight Tonight, economist, columnist, and professor Paul Krugman will speak in conversation with longtime journalist and KPFA radio host Larry Bensky in a benefit for KPFA and Pacifica Radio. The event is at 8pm
