SF News Eritrean Community Crime Shocker Murder victims-- who died after being shot via open fire in a third floor apartment-- include a widowed mother named Winta T. Mehari, 28, of Berkeley, her brother Yonas Mehari, 17, who lived
SF News Your Commute: Eighty-Sixing the 880 The problem was that a large steel plate placed on the highway was moved off of where it was placed. Naturally, the repair work was to move the steel plate back to where
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,
SF News It's Thursday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? The thing most outsiders don’t understand about Oakland is that sentimentality is not one of its remarkable traits-- the Raiders beat that out of us in 1981. We are use to teams
SF News It's Wednesday-- Do You Know Where Your Baseball Team Is? Well, it's official, or at least as official as official gets-- the A's are moving to 'the Burbs. Tuesday they held a press conference with all the official types and even unveiled a
SF News It's Tuesday-- Do You Know Where Your Team Is? Okay, here's today’s team on a move recap: As for things in Oaktown, the repercussions of the A's possible move to Fremont has mainly been a shrug and a cry of "so
Arts & Entertainment Fedorov + Ventriloquism = Our Idea of Heaven And now, here's where you folks come in: After you've bought your ticket, let us know in the comments which of the entertainers you'd like us to interview. We can't absolutely guarantee that
SF News Fremont! Basically, the Coliseum doesn't work anymore because it's seen better days-- it, in fact, has that "first apartment you lived in when you moved here and shared a two-bedroom apartment with five people"
SF News Say Goodbye to Polystyrene Pam The reason? Styrofoam has polluting chemicals in it and has a tendency to stick around landfills and other things as they're not biodegradable. That is bad. The ban is probably going to pass
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Tuesday After, "Headlines For Election Day" OBVIOUS: Scoreless In Seattle EMOTIONAL: The Rain Can Hide The Tears TIMELY: See How Poorly A System Works When There Are No Checks And Balances? FASHIONABLE: At Least Our Uniforms Look Far Classier
SF News Where Do The Children Play (MarioKart)? We can't read about Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity without getting all misty-eyed. Back in 2004, the gaming website (spurred by the misconception that videogamers are violence-addicted jerks) created a big awesome geeky
Arts & Entertainment It's Only Rock n' Roll The Stones play Oakland Coliseum tonight having had to move it from last night's show due to Mick having a bad throat. Now granted, most people don't really care about the Stones anymore
Arts & Entertainment Take The Greats You Greedy Rakes, But Please Leave Your Mistakes at SwapSF on Saturday While gone, we were remiss in properly pimping an haute fashion event put on by Friends of SFist Jason and Monica. But with a method to our madness, knowing from experience that you
SF News Hugo Chavez in the Voting Machine Our story begins last year when Sequoia was bought by a small software company, Smartmatic Corporation, a Venezuelan company. Of concern are some shady maneuverings involving the company and the Venezuelan government. The
SF News Oakland Not a Safe Place To Be California represents all over the study. The third most dangerous city is Compton and Richmond is eleventh. San Francisco, you know the city that's averaging almost a shooting every-other day came in at
Arts & Entertainment Where's Leslie? Sometime a few weeks ago, Dennis Richmond's co-anchor stopped being Dennis Richmond's co-anchor and was nowhere to be found. For weeks, the word from KTVU had been only that she was taking a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Review and Preview at Berekley Repertory Theatre The best theater experiences happen when you go in not knowing what to expect, and then the show blows you away. If you agree, then stop reading right now
SF News The Warriors: Oracle Sez . . . On Friday, the Warriors announced their biggest signing of the year so far, agreeing to a 10-year, $30 million naming rights agreement with free agent multinational software corporation Oracle. The new name of
misc A Very Late Day Around the Bay Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was....awesome. Just awesome. -YMCA plan to cut down trees for their Camp Jones Gulch camp near La Honda not going down well with people who live near there.
Arts & Entertainment The Oakland Hills Fire, 15 Years Later We weren't living in California at the time, but we remember the Cal student in our dorm the next semester telling us her harrowing stories of escaping with nothing more than her cat
Arts & Entertainment Bassists For Measure O The event's at the law offices of Gonzalez & Leigh, at 2 Shaw Alley, 3rd Floor (off Mission between 1st and 2nd), and Ross Mirkarimi's expected to be there too. We don't know
SF News Holy Cow! Macha Gets The Ax in Oakland However, A's fans really shouldn’t be surprised by this move. Macha has historically bugged certain players to the point of inspiring mutiny. Terrance Long, a very likable outfielder of the Giambi-led crew,
SF News The SFist Guide To The SF Propositions If you're looking for better-informed information than the cursory one-sentence summaries we're going to provide to you after the jump, check out the SF Dept. of Elections and the San Francisco League of
SF News The A's, the End But this is the playoffs and that doesn't happen. There's only one team who ends the season without tasting disappointment and for A's fans, they watched what had been a great, fully enjoyable
SF News The A's are Against the Ropes For A's fans, however, last night's game was not business as usual. Milton Bradley became a big league star last night with his prime time base knocks off Justin Verlander. If there is
