Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Death of a Party: Oakland art-rockers perform tonight in the Mission along with Social Studies and Master/Slave. Show starts at 10 p.m. at the Knockout, 3223 Mission; cover charge is
SF News News From The Animal Point Of View They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one
SF News Day Around the Bay \ -- Poll: Should MUNI's 15-Third line rise from the dead? (Hint: Yes) [Examiner] -- San Francisco sheriff deputies accuse Sheriff Michael Hennessey of gender discrimination. [BAR] -- Father won't be charged with the
SF News Unhappy Local News Involving Cars There was a huge crash on South 280 this morning just after 7:30 a.m., when a car speeding over 100 mph from Los Altos to San Jose lost control. A witness
SF News SFist Blotter Phew, let's get to the less life-endangering stuff. Politicians! Matt Gonzalez's 2003 mayoral campaign team was fined $3300 for failing to provide donor information to the Ethics Commission (they said it was a
misc Charter School Scandal Uprep was intended to serve disadvantaged students and put them on a college preparatory path, but the school has been hit hard by cheating scandals as of late -- earlier in the month,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Blow-Up": DJ Jefrodisiac and Emily Betty’s "indie-pop-disco-noir" (noir?) monthly dance club brings out hipsters of every ilk. But that doesn’t mean that you still can’t have a good time.
SF News Did You Feel The Earthquake? No, you didn't dream it! There was a 4.2 temblor this morning at around 4:42 a.m., centered two miles east of Oakland on the dreaded Hayward Fault. It knocked out
SF News A Wednesday on the J Yesterday evening we had one of San Francisco's primary rules illustrated to us in vivid detail. You all know it: if you want to get somewhere on time, don't take MUNI. We were
Arts & Entertainment Inspired, Piercing "U Can't Touch This" Routine Our sister site over in Shanghai notified us to this. Sure, on the surface it seems like a viral, isn't-that-darling clip of a Chinese man executing a well-choreographed tribute to "U Can't Touch
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The Giants are best for bear bottoms: Cubs wipe up with us, 12-1. [the Chron] -- Bay Guardian dislikes big, corporate-chain retail stores? You don't say. [SFBG] -- Matt Stroud's final, fatal
SF News Bring Out Your Trash, Alameda An Alameda County judge has ordered Waste Management to start picking up the garbage again. The City of Oakland, who filed suit, says they're gratified by the ruling, since this means, you know,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Buy and Sell Looking to do some crafty shopping or feel like flogging your crafty creations? Here are a few ways to get your fix. Modern Times, one of our favorite independent bookstores in the city,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV On "America's Got Talent," Oakland schoolteacher Michael Strelo-Smith (check out his Web site and tell us just what the hell that thing in the upper left hand corner is) had a cold during
misc Canine-On-Canine Crime in Golden Gate Park And for God’s sake, if you live near the park, keep your cat(s) indoors. They don't need to be outdoors as much as us human beings do, so keep them safe.
SF News <i>The Economist</i> On Our City's Economy It's always interesting to take an "outside-in" look at our fine city, like when the L.A. Times wrote about the Haight a couple months back. This time, it's the venerable UK-based that's
Arts & Entertainment Love You Long Time? As part of the fifth annual San Francisco Sex Worker Festival, curator Gennifer Hirano and artists Sarah Mac, Mariko Passion, Reagan Louie, Tracy Quan, Annie Chen, Surgeon Scofflaw, The Girls of Banteay Srei
SF News Today's Murder Count --In Oakland, five people have been killed in the last 48 hours (from noon on Wednesday to early this morning). The one this morning is murder number 64 in Oakland. --In SF, they're
Arts & Entertainment We Came, We Saw, It Kicked Our A** We passed the LONG LINE of people waiting to pick up their Will Call tickets and grabbed our press passes from a separate window (lucky us) to enter what is probably the nearest
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Are you ready for the genius that is Peaches Christ and her Midnight Mass cult-film series? [Bay Area Reporter] -- Television -- glorious, warm, loving television! -- on BART cars? Hmm. [Inside
SF News Garbage In, Garbage Out Over in the East Bay, the city of Oakland's filed suit against Waste Management, the garbage company that's locked out the local workers for 11 days now, and is letting trash pile up
misc Free Slurpees Today, So Go Now. I Said Now! Since it's July 11, 7/11 stores (get it?) are giving away free Slurpees until 11 p.m. this evening. (Store locations in San Francisco found here, in Oakland here, and in Berkeley
misc In Living Color The proposal calls for the building of a business park, retail stores, luxury hotel, and a movie/TV production studio. The idea of a theme park has been shelved which, sadly, takes away
Arts & Entertainment Harry Potter and the Smooth Chest (Non-Baseball Event) Anyway, check it: The purple triple-decker Harry Potter Knight Bus will be parked outside the Main Library (Grove St. side) from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11, and a
SF News Schools, Airports, And Garbage Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students
