SF News North Bay Fires Bring Smoke To The City There's something in the air today, and it's not just hot-weather optimism: wildfires in the North Bay have brought smoke and a pleasant campfire-y aroma into the city today. Hundreds of firefighters continue
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'I Want It All Now' 1978 Doc Exposes Marin County's Hedonism "On the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco," this 1978 NBC News exposé begins, "a woman can buy the services of two nude masseurs." And with that, we think
SF News Gavin Newsom Moves to Marin When we first got wind that former San Francisco Mayor / current Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom moved to Marin, our first thought was, "Oh God, which town?" Everything in Marin, you see, hinges upon
SF News Geyserville Spurt of Dead Birds Determined to Not Actually be Sign of the Apocalypse The real cool heads at Bay City News followed up on yesterday's apocalypse scare about the flock of birds that suddenly turned up dead last weekend outside of Geyserville. It turns out it
SF News Birdpocalypse Strikes Near Home: Over 100 Dead Birds Found Near Geyserville The latest incident in a recent series of mass avian deaths has landed right in our backyard in the North Bay. According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, more than 100 birds were
SF News PG&E SmartMeters Threaten Your Freedom, Say the Tea Partiers Members of a local Tea Party group the North Bay Patriots have started gathering the necessary tin hat materials after deciding that PG&E's new SmartMeters are "a threat to public health,
SF News One Woman Dead, Two Missing In Sonoma/Point Reyes Three women, ages 37, 77 and 34, have disappeared since January 10. The locations are "approximately 60 miles apart if you take Highway 1 straight up from Pt. Reyes to Calzadero." Sleuth Beth
SF News North Bay Couple Used Tween As Designated Driver Doing something pretty much all of our friends whose hippie parents did to them back in the day, a Marin couple was arrested for allowing a 13-year-old boy to drive them home in
SF News North Bay Blotter: Face Stabbing, Molestation The North Bay had a characteristically macabre Monday night. Last night at a little before 8:30 p.m., a woman was walking near Water Street near the Petaluma River when a sketchy
SF News A Look at the Map and List of National Prop 8 Protests The above image -- showing just how large scale Saturday's national Prop 8 protest will look -- is from the flyer used to promote the big event. All of the demonstrations start at
misc Cosco Busan Update: Hearing for Pilot Skedded for April 2. The Incident Specific Preparedness Review team is finally done with its 112-page report regarding the first two weeks of response after the accident. You'll get a chance to read it before Super
SF News Body Found On Mt. Tam, Veronica Ruiz? A body turned up on Mount Tamalpais this Sunday afternoon, and authorities (as well as your favorite rabid media outlets) are wondering: is this the body of distraught Mill Valley resident and IRS
Arts & Entertainment The World's First Robotic Guitar, Neal Schon, and You What a perfect meeting of past, present, and future glories. Former Santana guitarist/now-and-forever Journey member Neal Schon is coming back to the North Bay (where he grew up and leaned how to
SF News SFist Blotter Why, we've been so preoccupied with murder right down the street from SFist, we forgot that the rest of the Bay Area is also littered with shootings and bloody tomfoolery. Forgive us, won't
SF News Robin Wright Penn In San Anselmo We always love it when Drew Altizer sends over his latest A-list pictures for us to peruse! Here's a memento of Drew's trip up to the North Bay last week, to San Anselmo
Arts & Entertainment Crazy Old-Lady Fashions This woman of-a-certain-age sporting a colander as a hat (why not?) came to us from reader Josh. At first we were like, whatever, but it seems he snapped this while taking the bus
SF News Stormy Tuesday And with all the bad weather comes the attendant flood warnings and winter storm warnings in Tahoe. In other words, it'll be a great time to be skiing this week (surfing too). Those
misc Bay Area Wanderer: Solid Luck We'll go somewhere, take a picture, and tell you a tale. Simple. We'll cover San Francisco, the North Bay, the East Bay, down peninsula way, and -- if we can swing it --
Arts & Entertainment ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Mental at The Marsh We never understood how antidepressants could actually increase suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers. How messed up is that? Well, Jennifer Berry is happy to tell you. After signing up for
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Horror and Blood at The Hypnodrome It appears the rumors of The Hypnodrome's demise were greatly exaggerated--or, the Thrillpeddlers got a stay of execution (aka "the landlord is selling the building"). That's good news for us,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bay Area Tour at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sorry, this isn't the same production of Mother Courage starring Meryl Streep, which recently closed in New York. Nor is it Tony Kushner's translation of the great Brecht play,
misc SFist Whines and Dines: Atlas Cafe But now dogs in the Bay Area have two, count ‘em, two monthly newspapers catering to their needs. The Woofer Times claims to produce 40,000 free papers per month distributed at over
SF News It's Raining, It's Pouring Tired of squishy socks? You and the rest of the Bay Area -- today's wet weather makes it 25 days of rain in a <30-day [ days hath March!] month, making March 2006
Arts & Entertainment You Mean There's Actually Culture OUTSIDE the City? Inconceivable! It's about 70 miles north of the city, which might be a bit of a strain on your City CarShare budget, but you can always take the bus. No, really, you can --
