misc Bernal Heights Fire Leaves Two Homeless A two-alarm fire at Bernal Heights home caused the displacement of two elderly folks. The blaze happened at 266 Nevada Street around 6:30 p.m. this evening. According to the Gate, "[f]
SF News Tony Hall's Old Red Garter Maybe Tony Hall needs to put a yellow sticky on his campaign credit card and label it "FOR CAMPAIGN USE ONLY" -- the SF Ethics Commission has decided to proceed on charges against
misc Week Around the -Ists The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: One More Fall TV Premiere If the idea of a drama that occasionally has its characters bursting into song immediately has you flashing back to painful memories of "Cop Rock," we wouldn't blame you. But remember that musical
SF News Burning Man's Premature Ignition During last night's total lunar eclipse in Black Rock City, Nevada, someone set the Burning Man figure ablaze prematurely. Chortle. Hey, maybe that was their art? Their statement? Their message? Or their coke
SF News Day Around the Bay -- East Bay movie studio/shopping center deal? Fin. [Chron] -- #70: Early morning Hunters Point murder. [SF Crime] -- Lawsuit over AT&T Wireless' ability to suck. [Examiner] -- OMG: High
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Toronado's 20th Anniversary Fete It seemed like everyone in the beer-geek world was at the Toronado for their 20th Anniversary party on Saturday night. The place was packed to the absolute gills with locals, brewmasters, and beer
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Mark Twain torched Lake Tahoe? The wildfire raging up near Lake Tahoe reminded us of our dear old cousin Mark. Mark Twain, that is, and what we remembered was his own brush with accidental arson up Tahoe way.
SF News Nobody Walks in L.A., but Everyone Walks in San Francisco The survey was conducted by the Ministry of Silly Walks and based their findings on such things as "air quality, the percentage of people who walk to work, access to parks, number of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Strawberries (Maybe A Little Too) Wild Only about 50 cases went out, and they all shipped to southern California, Arizona, and Nevada from November 25-Dec. 1 -- that's less than 3% of all the smoothies made in that region.
SF News Word From Black Rock City So how was Burning Man this year? Well, we can tell you that aside from a frightful sandstorm on Wednesday, the weather was absolutely delightful. We can tell you that there was the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Barb Traub Barb Traub has been going to Burning Man for a long time. Her book, Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography, chronicles a changing festival over the last decade. If you
Arts & Entertainment The Legal Reader Takes A Bite Out Of Crime Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Wim Wenders Written by and starring Sam Shepard, tells the story of fallen Western star "Howard Spence" (Shepard), who sort of blurilly bails on his current film in an effort to reconnect with estranged family
SF News Sometimes We Have To Wait Until November To Get Our September Summer The only thing missing from this full-blown summer are the extra hours we lost to Daylight Takings Away a couple weeks back. (Did you know the federal government has already legislated extending Daylight
SF News Bright Lights, Big City Ooooh-weeeee-ooooooh! The Air Force is dismissing panicky claims from residents in the area that they saw some weird spooky lights over the cross on Mount Davidson last night. People across the state and
SF News Ski Exhaustion Man, we're running out of pictures and titles for the ongoing ski jump saga in Pac Heights. So the big day's tomorrow! Skip work and watch Jonny Moseley zip by multi-million dollar homes
SF News More More News than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know --Arnie kicked off the special election campaign with the traditional scaring of the old folks. The claim this time? If the three resolutions he's backing don't pass, Prop. 13 will have to be
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: SFist Has You Covered Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Weekend Getaway: Tahoe North Shore We stayed at a friend's beautiful home in Incline Village, which is just over the border in Nevada. Unfortunately, the county is too populous to have legal prostitution, but if you're in to
SF News Don't Send Your Loved One's Remains to the Southland As if we didn't have enough to worry about already (sex offenders in Cupertino trying to hit on you, insane criminal clowns), UC officials have admitted that they have been less than diligent
misc Calling Noah Of course, any sort of discussion about flooding caused by rain in these here parts must always be tempered by what happened in South-East Asia, but due to all the almost biblical amount
Arts & Entertainment Silver Lining Well, on the bright side, at least someone around here won . The only good thing about the Bush victory is that our adorable editor SFist Jackson won 1115.org's electoral map contest! SFist
Arts & Entertainment Reno Blue The League of Pissed Off Voters continues with their 40 Parties in 40 Days voter awareness campaign (though we're now only at a fortnight more of parties) with a big Thursday-night bash. The
SF News Gaming the System As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people
