SF News All We Hear... Is Video Gaga ....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in
SF News Four Out Of Five Unsolved We've gotten kind of into this show on A&E called "The First 48," which follows homicide detectives during the first 48 hours of a murder investigation. As the narrator intones over
SF News SF Murder Rate 2005 Well, the 2005 body count in SF is now up to 92, after a man was found strangled to death in a SoMA hotel, making this the worst year in SF for murders
SF News Recall Gavin Chief of Police Heather Fong, bless her heart, says she's doing the best she can and has authorized more hires for the PD, and her deputies keep emphasizing that there's only so much
SF News SFist Blotter Special Edition We usually run the blotter crime roundup on Tuesdays and Fridays, but we're sorry to say that there's been enough breaking news in the area that we're running a special edition today. Everyone's
SF News Political Junkie: I'm Chris Daly, Bitch! Beef -- it's what's for dinner! Here's the full contents of a letter from Supervisor Chris Daly to the Sentinel, in response to Pat Murphy and Luke Thomas's editorial about the CitySafe program:
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Steve Jones Snark aside, Steve has kindly submitted himself to the SFist interview process. Despite the fact that we’re thrilled that Steve was kind enough to answer some real questions, we promise that his
SF News North Bay Mayhem SFist Amanda, presently on maternity leave, calls in with this report: Breaking news from Marin! Apparently, there was an attempted murder in Kentfield today, as two men in their 20s wearing white football
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: <i>Cold & Dark</i> High school crush and gristly supernatural murder (two great tastes that go great together) after the jump!
SF News Araujo Retrial Under Way As we predicted in our earlier post, the defense is indeed switching strategies in the retrial. When we spoke with Bill DuBois, defendant Jose Merel's new attorney, back in January, he hinted that
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head - <em>Satan's Playground</em> We were thinking a lot about that snake during the short "Human No More," mainly because the film tested our nerves after the first eight minutes or so, and our minds began to
Arts & Entertainment Bummer, Dude After thirty-five years, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have finally closed the murder of Meredith Hunter at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert 35 years ago. Apparently, they’ve been looking for the semi-mythical "second
SF News Behold, the Power of Ambivalence "There is something to be said about coming from an 'apathetic' or non-judgmental viewpoint," he told us via email-interview -- too often, he says, discussions of important issues become "either a shouting match
SF News Fat Tone Killed in Possible Retaliation So far, the most popular post here on SFist has been, by far, our coverage of Mac Dre's funeral. Fans and well-wishers have left dozens and dozens of comments full of praise and
Arts & Entertainment <i>I'd Kill For A Parking Place</i> Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets,
Arts & Entertainment Feeling Guilty About Not Feeling Guilty Abortion is one of America’s last major, messy taboos. It’s been called the “A-word;”; it’s also been called murder, and a right, and a luxury, and a choice. It’s
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: An Imposter This Week The movie in question is Murder at the Presidio, which premieres on USA Monday, May 2nd, at 9 p.m. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a member of the "Criminal Investigation Division" investigating
SF News California Recall: Where Are They Now? So whatever happened to those 135 people who ran for governor in the 2003 recall election? Well, a bunch are in the Bay Area news today! Cue up the end-of-the-movie montage music! Arnold
Arts & Entertainment Watch Deadwood, You F**king C**ksuckers Of course SFist is of the opinion that The Sopranos is the only good thing that's been on television in the last decade or two. Sure, there's stuff that's entertaining all over TV
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Whodunnit TV SFist celebrated a birthday yesterday and was unable to post. Apologies. But the little gap in posting also gave us time to think some about the current state of television, and the conclusion
SF News SFist Blotter Did you hear sirens last night? There was a high speed chase starting from Turk and Gough in San Francisco around 12:15 a.m. that went for 30 minutes, reached speeds of
SF News Week in SFist SFist would like to point out that if you haven't had a chance to give for the Tsunami effort, you still can. We know it's hard in the weeks following Christmas, what with
SF News Gwen Araujo Murder Trial Update Last we'd heard, in June of last year, the jury ended in a deadlock on all three defendants, resulting in a mistrial. Though a number of subsequent developments were reported in the Chron
SF News 'Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost Nothing like cashing in on the hype surrounding the murder of your adulterous lover's wife to restore your karmic balance. Of course, only the cosmos can apportion karma, and we're sure there's a
SF News SFist Cheshire Remembers 2004 Like SFist Emily, I'm bad at lists. So I'm just going to relish the chance to write in the first person singular for a moment and break down the highlights and lowlights of
