SF News SFist Blotter Did you hear sirens last night? There was a high speed chase starting from Turk and Gough in San Francisco around 12:15 a.m. that went for 30 minutes, reached speeds of
SF News Drugs Are Bad, Mmmmkay Seems Dan Siegel, member of the lame-duck Oakland School Board and likely candidate for Jerry Brown's job, had "less than an ounce" of marijuana discovered in his checked luggage on his way out
SF News We'll Always Have So Best You might not have been able to tell but we here at SFist have some mixed feelings about the Newsom breakup. On the one hand, there's been an increase in single female staff
misc They're Just Big Boned While both SF and LA were on the "Fittest" list, our fine city was close to the best at #4, while the City of Angels was a mere, pitiful #21. San Jose whupped
SF News Political Junkie: Across the Bay Your intrepid junkie takes the lower deck of the Emperor Norton to report on some news from the Oakland City Council: city councilman Danny Wan, who represents Oakland's District 3 (Grand Lake and
SF News Monday Morning Quarterback Well, we're damn glad this season is over. Best performance of the year goes to Cal, even if they did get upset by Texas Tech in San Diego last week. Fact is, this
SF News Craigslist -- Newspaper Killer We’ve often thought of Craiglist as being many things- place to buy furniture, place to look for apartments, and a place to try and find casual sex, but there’s one thing
Arts & Entertainment Airport Holiday Roundup We're going to let you in on a little holiday travelling secret... Don't Do It. Seriously. Wait for teleportation or, say, February. But if you must go somewhere during the holiday season, the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Zak Nelson Zak works for Heyday Books which specializes in books about California. For any of you scrambling to buy last minute Christmas presents, Heyday titles might be the ticket. Zak's given SFist so many
SF News Farewell, Huddy In breaking news, Billy Beane has shipped the Oakland A's ace, Tim Hudson, to the Atlanta Braves for three young players who, well, won't cost so much. From Atlanta's point of view, we
SF News A Bridge by Any Other Name? As if it’s not enough that the re-building of the Bay Bridge has turned into huge spat fight over money and design another spat is possibly brewing over the most important part
misc Purl-oined We usually save these things for the blotter, but this one can't wait until Friday. Six students and a knitting instructor at the Knitting Basket in the Montclair Village in Oakland were held
SF News Salinas to Close Its Public Libraries The libraries would have been saved had Salinas voters passed a ballot measure in November that would have hiked sales taxes slightly, as Oakland and Modesto voters successfully did in the March 2004
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An SFist Christmas Well, we just heard Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on the radio the other day (the kickoff song for the season), so it's official -- Santa Claus be coming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Culinary Piracy Our idea of being a foodie outlaw is eating ribs in front of a vegetarian or putting chicken on pizza (which we're still not entirely comfortable with). Cheap thrills, we know -- but
misc Do Think Of An Elephant ... because how could you not with a picture this cute? Elephant with a pumpkin! Ha! The Oakland Zoo held its annual Thanksgiving Leftover Pumpkin feeding for the animals in residence yesterday. We can
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
Arts & Entertainment Season of Hate We're just blamelessly living our idyllic lives out here: blue skies, a Democratic mayor, a modern art museum that doesn't cost $20 to get into, a panda bear coming to Oakland..... when suddenly,
SF News WWJD? Okay, so SFist isn't always as impartial as we'd like to be. We're bloggers - our prejudices are bound to shine through from time to time (well, okay, always). With all this talk
misc Get Ooey and Gooey in Oakland Thursday night the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland is presenting a hands-on workshop for parents with small children: "Ooey Gooey Night: The Making of Creative Messes." From the museum's Web site: "Young
SF News Summit Faces Uphill Battle Alta Bates Summit's director of public relations, Carolyn Kemp, was quoted as acknowledging that the results of the audit "were not in our favor" but also downplayed the significance of the specific complaints.
SF News Jury to Scott: Murderer! The verdict is in, and it doesn't look good for Scott Peterson. He probably should have left for Mexico while he still had a chance (granted, the cops had been tracking his car
misc The New Silver and Black Look, Jen, look! Oakland city council member Henry Chang (at left) announced yesterday that, after six years of wheedling, the Bay Area is officially getting a pair of pandas for the Oakland Zoo.
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P., Mac Dre Mac Dre, the Vallejo rapper shot in Kansas City last week, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mountain View cemetary in Oakland. Unfortunately, the funeral home, which only seats 100, was not
