SF News 49er Aldon Smith Arrested At LAX, Claims He Had A Bomb Whether you're a clueless 14-year-old "white girl" or a lauded football star, offhand comedic bits about committing acts of terrorism don't land well with authorities. Take, for example, 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith who
Arts & Entertainment Oops: FOX Affiliate Accidentally Airs Schlong Pic [NSFW] Reporting on this morning's fatal news chopper crash in Seattle, Fox 31 in Denver got more than they wanted after clicking through someone's Twitter photo feed—namely, somebody's penis. The hosts, appropriately enough,
SF News Watch Video Showing Man Almost Getting Hit By Caltrain This video, released by Caltrain to promote public safety, reminds us that it's never a good idea to go around train track safety barriers/beat the train. SFGate reports: The video, from the
Arts & Entertainment Watch KTVU Reporter Swallow Her Own Snot Because Why Not SFist loves KTVU's Heather Holmes. So we hope she isn't miffed about this video we're posting, one that shows her swallowing snot leaking from her nose. (Yeah. I'm sorry.) The nostril meltdown happened,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Cafe Pokes Fun At Area Drug Addicts, Homeless [Updated] Call it click bait. Say that SFist is trying to rile you up. But this cafe/deli's sign, smack on Market and Sixth, is in poor taste. Crazy? No, not really. But tone
SF News Shirley Temple Neither 'Icon' Nor 'Legend,' Says Chron Oh boy, do I love editorial notes left in a published piece. A glimpse inside the minds that run your favorite publication. Take, for example, today's death announcement of former child star Shirley
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Concord School Apologizes For Serving Watermelon, Fried Chicken During Black History Month Carondelet High School, a private Catholic school in Concord, came under fire this week after adding "racially insensitive" items to the Friday lunch menu. Fried chicken, watermelon and cornbread were set to feed
SF News Meanwhile, At 23rd And Castro: Tipped Truck Over at 23rd and Castro today, Eric Littell snapped this shot of a truck tipped over onto a car. The monstrous vehicle, it seems, was carrying a heavy load. Oops. Please be advised.
SF News The Year In Muni Failures As we noted yesterday, it wasn't the worst year we can remember our municipal transit system having in recent memory, but it wasn't a great one! Here's our roundup of the ways in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Baby Drinks Bad Beer On Live TV Soaring rent prices, our Daisy getting assaulted at Candlestick, Jeff Daniels' Emmy for the exceptionally awful The Newsroom ... it's been a tough day to swallow. We know. But on the lighter side of
SF News Cyclist Runs Breed Off Twitter Road Once billed as the Amanda Bynes of S.F. Supervisors, District 5 Supervisor London Breed left Twitter today after battling it out with cycling-rights advocates online. And we're downright crestfallen. The entire brouhaha
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McDonald's Manager Arrested After Robbing Own Store In some ways, this seems like it could've been the perfect crime. Who would suspect a fast food manager of robbing his very own store at gunpoint? But that's just what happened when
SF News Meanwhile, On The Bay Bridge: Cyclist Takes The Wrong Bike Lane Earlier this week a brand new bike lane opened alongside the East Span of the Bay Bridge. It was definitely a win for the bike contingent, in the sense that it was 100%
Arts & Entertainment SFist Traffic Report: Stuck Truck On Divis Feeling trapped at work on this sunny day? Can't wait to get out of town for your Labor Day weekend? At least you're not this guy, who managed to get his big-rig royally
Arts & Entertainment Video: Romolo Claims Another Victim For your late-afternoon, slow-news-day amusement, this delivery truck done got itself stuck on Romolo Place in North Beach. According to Chad Fox, who caught the footage above, the siren song of Romolo tempts
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: SNL Cast Members Breaking, The Supercut Everyone loves to see the funny folks on SNL (we're looking at you Bill Hader) breaking i.e. breaking into uncontrollable laughter at their own hilariousness while on live television. Here, for your
SF News Asiana Suing KTVU Over Pilot-Naming Snafu [Update] Asiana Airlines said today that they will sue Bay Area station KTVU for accidentally broadcasting the now-infamous fake pilot names of flight 214. This comes one week after the airline caused the death
Arts & Entertainment Video: Local News Names Asiana Airlines Pilots "Ho Lee Fuk," Other Racist Names [Updated] Bay Area FOX affiliate KTVU 2 might want to check their NTSB sources a little more closely. The station's news team just aired the (alleged) names of the pilots involved in the Asiana
SF News S.F. Firefighter Arrested For Driving Fire Truck Drunk On Saturday night around 11:30 p.m. a San Francisco Firefighter allegedly had a little too much to drink before his company responded to an emergency call. Michael Quinn, a 43-year-old 20-year
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Named Snobbiest City, Which It Kinda Is Travel+Leisure has given San Francisco top billing in its list of America's Snobbiest Cities, based on a variety of factors such as propensity for recycling, culture and other markers of "elitism". To
SF News Another Car Attempts To Drive Into Muni Tunnel During last night's Pink Saturday festivities in the Castro, this car tried to do what so many others have tried before: drive into the Duboce Portal Muni tunnel. A gaggle of passersby helped
SF News Sean Parker Writes Mammoth Screed On Big Sur Wedding, Online Media Sean Parker brims thoughts and emotions, all of which he poured into an 9,000+ word article published today on TechCrunch. The article, "Weddings Used to Be Sacred and Other Lessons About Online
SF News Beautiful F-Bomb Dropped On Live TV After Gay Marriage Ruling After the SCOTUS ruled in favor of civil rights--meaning that same-sex marriage is now legal in the great state of California and DOMA is dust--National Center for Lesbian Rights executive director Kate Kendell
SF News Girl Who Escaped Kidnapper Actually Just A Total Liar A 10-year-old girl escaped an attempted kidnapper in Pacifica on Sunday night by punching her assailant and running away. At least, that's what she said happened. Turns out, the adorable preteen was lying
SF News BART Service Crippled By Pine Needles Shortly before 11 a.m. Friday morning, a small fire of smoldering pine needles brought BART service to a halt between Daly City and Balboa Park. The piney fire was spotted on track
