SF News Weekend Blotter You know we usually try to hoard up all the crime-type news for the Tuesday and Friday blotters, but there was enough vaguely unsettling news this weekend to warrant a post a little
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Arcade Fire: LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light open for this white-hot -- that's right, white-hot, or so we hear -- Canadian indie-rock band. Music starts tonight at 7 p.m. at
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
SF News SFist Blotter ...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For ooma's Andrew Frame Andrew Frame was recently named by BusinessWeek as a "top entrepreneur under the age of 30"--one of the next generation's best and brightest in the tech world. He's aiming to fulfill that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- All About Eve: Brutal, drunk, rapid-fire dialogue; famous lines ("Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night," etc.); and a backstage story told so, so, so well make this '50s
SF News Day Around The Bay --Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.] --An Oakland Tribune sports columnist apologizes for
Arts & Entertainment All Kwik-E-Mart Managers Must Be Skilled in the Deadly Arts Here's your chance -- we never thought it could happen, but the magic of the Kwik-E-Mart has landed, temporarily, in the real world. It's a place where you can buy KrustyO's, pink donuts,
misc Ranking Bay Area High Schools So Newsweek's come out with its rankings of "the top public high schools in the country," and the Bay Area has 9 10 schools in the top 300: Magnet school Lowell High in
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Interview: There Has Got To Be A Twist, S'got Such A Supple Wrist. Still, he keeps coming back to his roots here in the Bay, and will perform this Friday, May 11 at 8pm at the Florence Gould theater and the day after, Saturday, May 12
SF News Walnuts McCain Goes To Google! From the Daily Show to the Googleplex -- Republican presidential hopeful Walnuts John McCain, struggling in the polls and in fundraising, gamely stopped by Mountain View yesterday afternoon for an hourlong forum with
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News Your Commute: Friday Woes Officer Cakebread is all over the news today -- earlier, he came to our attention when he was reporting that a sideswiped moving van flipped over on the westbound lanes of Highway 92
SF News Another Pedestrian Killed by Caltrain The rise in fatalities in recent years has caused people to call for better safety measures. The fact that most of the fatalities are due to suicide will probably call for other types
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars. Francis Jue (recently on Broadway
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
SF News Your Commute: (408) 850-6125 Caltrain service is delayed in both directions this morning after a suicidal man jumped in front of a northbound train at Mountain View around 7:15 a.m. today. As of around 9:
Arts & Entertainment Authors Go On Tour - Why Can't You? We'll start with SFist Peninsula headquarters in Menlo Park at Kepler's: The kickoff to their travel series comes from Frances Mayes (warning, there's sound at that link), on Saturday, April 1, 7:30
SF News Googling Gavin Go Chronicle! We were so pleased to see a piece of investigative local journalism on the front page of today's paper, as Verne Kopytoff digs into the relationship between Mayor Gavin Newsom and
SF News Earthquake Alert Man, not only did we not see Tom Cruise in our work place today, we also missed the earthquake. The USGS is reporting a 3.7 quake centered in Moraga at about 1:
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Million-Dollar Bake-Off We love those Food Network cookoff challenges! Make a birthday cake for Elvis! Decorate the best gingerbread house! Who can make the tallest ice/pastry sculpture? So we can't wait for Food Network's
SF News SFist Tech Labs: What's Inside the Google Cube? But as it turns out, all the excitement has been going on here in our very own idyllic backyard of Mountain View. As adventure-seeking tech writers sought to unlock the Mysteries of the
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 25th Anniversary 26 years ago there wasn't a single Film Festival celebrating the Jewish experience -- 25 years later, there are hundreds of them! As with so many things, San Francisco's was one of the
Arts & Entertainment Blah...Blah...Harry Potter...Blah... In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point
