SF News Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
SF News Bob McLeod, R.I.P San Francisco seems a little darker this week, with the passing of former Chronicle photo editor Bob McLeod this Monday. This SFist only knew Bob a little bit. Our most vivid memory of
SF News What's That Smell? 4 blocks in the Haight were closed this morning, due to a nicked gas line. A second leak reported at 6th and Mission was determined to be a false alarm. Though that block
SF News Goodbye, 104.9 Was that San Jose radio station Channel 104.9 the "new music alternative" because they played alternative new music, or were they the "new music alternative" because they played something other than new
misc School Credit Give Gavin Newsom a shiny red apple! In an interview with this month's San Francisco Magazine (in blatant disregard of another interview with the Gavman in 7x7, which was optimistically labeled "exclusive"), the
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
SF News Goodbye Marvelous Norv Turner SFist wasn't around when Marvelous Norv Turner was hired, but if we were, we would have said he was an uninspired pick that pretty much summed up the word "retread." Which turned out
SF News And What is Tit Play? Chopped Liver? Okay, folks. Here's what we're facing: in the December issue of "Faith: The Bay Area Catholic Newsletter," the editor writes that "if it should be the case that homosexual desires are related to
Arts & Entertainment An Excellent Resource for Plagiarized Content We got this email: "In case you have any interest in commuter related information, our website, www.CommuterResource.com was designed to assist commuters in finding better ways to get to work." Fair
SF News Don’t You Know the BART Fare is Going Up, Up, Up, Up, Up? A lot of things are changing come this new year. Like our sobriety. And our slack attempts at losing weight. But perhaps the biggest change that will affect us is that starting Sunday,
SF News The Year In Sports That's the thing about this Internet. In a way, it makes it easier to listen to new music but it's also easier to just pull yourself into some sort of musical bubble in
SF News Rock and Roll Even the rich aren't immune from the laws of gravity -- the folks living in those multimillion dollar homes perched precariously on the edge of Telegraph Hill are all a little on edge
SF News Alert Buffaloist! We love the idea of interstate extradition. We're imagining a style situation, except with a way less charming cast -- hey, do you think that Dog was the guy who brought him back
SF News Prop H On Hold Funny, we've never heard of the NRA a waiting period before. San Francisco and the NRA have agreed that the city will voluntarily delay enforcement of Proposition H for two months to allow
misc Where's Our Butterstick? We want a panda! We want a panda! Our cries to Gavin to pick us up one when he was in China went unheeded -- and now we've been stymied again! Oakland City
SF News Road Woerriors Unlike last year when the War-bags started 3-20 away from home, they came out hot this year, posting a 6-3 road record through the first month and a half of the season. Granted,
SF News When it Rains, It Pours The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning residents in low lying areas that the expected rain for this and next weeks may lead to property damage and flooding. The PUC has mobilized
SF News SFist Checks Out The 510: Popcorn Edition So SFist's take on the movies made you think you'd like to escape the holiday madness by going to the movies. We understand. We've been hiding from assorted shoppers and/or relatives in
SF News The Ivory Money Tower Former Cal chancellor Robert Berdahl got an annual salary of $315,000 for a 13 month leave, provost MRC Greenwood is on a 15 month leave at a $301,840 salary, and the
SF News Dogs And Kids Work It Out Who was it who said "never work with children or animals?" Well, whoever you are, Bevan Dufty's proving you wrong, as he proudly announces that he's united the two famously-warring factions in San
SF News City Releases TechConnect RFP Kimo Crossman over at Webnetic tipped us to the release of the new, final request for proposals from The City on the citywide wireless initiative. Strangely, just last week the Local Agency Formation
SF News Missing Doctor Found The six-week-long search for a missing pediatrician concluded tragically, as divers discovered her body inside her car, in the Oakland estuary bay. Dr. Zehra Attari was last seen driving from her Oakland office
SF News Slow News Day: Ring Found! Boy, nothing happens right before the holidays, huh? But nonetheless, we're pleased to report that someone is now claiming that she found the heirloom ring that a See's Candies worker lost in a
SF News Too Bad, So Sad Somehow, they managed to screw up and not get enough signatures to qualify their initiative to amend the state constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. They needed 598,105 signatures, but they didn't get
SF News Hatin' On The Sentinel What's everyone got against the San Francisco Sentinel these days, anyways? It's got beautiful photography, keeps an ear firmly planted on the ground of City Hall, and runs a fairly-entertaining gossip column to
