SF News Reddit Fame Costs Tech Writer His License Plate David Murphy has a problem. It's not a big problem, but it's a problem. It's his license plate. A lot of people think that, after looking at it, he's a troll. Wrong! His
SF News Photo: Oakland Cop Parks In Disabled Parking Spot While Getting Peet's Coffee An SFist tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent us this photo of an Oakland police officer parking in a disabled parking space in Temescal on Monday while sipping some brew inside a
SF News Photo: BMW Crashes Into Building Flickr user Im_wasted snapped this shot (click to enlarge!) of a nice BMW SUV that crashed into this Laurel Heights building today. No word yet of any injuries... save for the side
Arts & Entertainment Can You Find The Misspellings On <em>Alcatraz</em>'s Bay Area Map? Oh dear. Can you find the misspellings on this map that aired on FOX's Alcatraz? For those not in the know, Alcatraz, which aired last night, is J.J. Abrams' latest show is
SF News Marketing Firm Fined $7,000 For Red Balloon Barrage Back in March, as SFist first reported, thousands of red balloons were released into the air from Yerba Buena Gardens, a stunt that was part of game release launch for Home Front. Although
SF News Feds Accidentally Raid CBS Correspondent And Political Consultant's Home Oh dear. FBI agents got the wrong address this morning after pouding on the door of noted CBS correspondent Priya David and her husband, esteemed political consultant/friend of SFist Alex Clemens. The
SF News SF Chronicle Front Page Evokes Mild Bestiality As Mission Mission already pointed out, The Chronicle's front page photo today seems -- how can we put this bluntly? -- sexually charged. To say the least. While the shot without the canine
SF News Video: Tim Lincecum Drops F-Bomb on Live TV Shortly after the San Francisco Giants clinched the NL West championship (which: rad), two-time Cy Young Award winner (and SFist favorite) Tim Lincecum sprinkled in a pinch of "fuck" during a post-game interview.
misc Delta Wants to Charge $69 from SFO to OAK, Each Way We were cracking up earlier when this great "deal" appeared in our inbox. Delta wants to charge $140 for a roundtrip between San Francisco and Oakland. As Dottie Lou brilliantly put it, "WTHelta?
SF News Grandfather-Granddaughter Fast Food Outing Foils Possible Predator Arrest Earlier this week, a retired Daly City police officer witnessed an "elderly man" in his 60s talking to a 2-year-old girl at a McDonald's on Redwood Highway. Deciding something fishy was afoot, said
SF News Protip: Do Not Twitter Your Vacation Plans In a virtual allowing-newspapers-to-accumulate-at-your-front-door-like move, Arizona resident Israel Hyman (tee hee, sounds like "hymen") left twitter messages mentioning that he was out of town. Then, as fate would have it, Hyman's residence was
misc Photo du Jour 321 How you? Rape jokes aren't funny, jerk. Read a whole lot more on it, right here. dare
SF News Teachers Should Rally for More Online Internet World Wide Web Training Too Dying to know more about Pink Friday -- today's statewide rally where teachers protest impending layoffs and budget cuts while sporting varying shades of light rogue -- we were delighted to find this
SF News Orange County Mayor Resigns Over "Watermelon" Email Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose -- an elected official who blasted friends and colleagues with this racist email -- has resigned today. The "No Easter egg hunt this year" email, followed by a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hyde Street Seafood House Loves the Taste of a Triscuit From what we hear, Valentine's Day was heartbreaking for many Bay Area restaurants. Take, for example, Hyde Street Seafood House, who charged $70 for a three-course prix-fixe, but resorted to serving Nabisco Triscuits
SF News Yelp Day Never Happened Um, scratch that. Yelp Day, it seems, never happened. If you recall, Newsom supposedly declared today to be Yelp Day, but it was all one big fib. Or one big dream. Or one
misc Really, It's Just Another Reason to Add in Roller Coasters What better reason than dipping attendance to add in roller coasters to boost visitor numbers! Worked for another animal sanctuary in the Bay Area. There's nothing like the screams of children and the
misc Is It Xmas Already? Above image captured today, June 6, by SFist reader jnice as he was driving northeast bound on Portola, 7:30 a.m. Also: huh?
misc Jen Siebel Registers for Wrong Political Party She is becoming a woman after our own heart, that Jen. According to the Gate, the future First Lady of San Francisco accidentally registered as a member of the all-too-exclusive American Independent Party.
SF News Anonomyous Tip Speculation Time: Mayhill Fowler Speaking of backlash, the Mayhill Fowler assault is percolating at a gentle boil. You paranoid wheels-within-wheels political fans out there will be happy to know that, apparently, stellar journalist and master of the
SF News Besides Barack Obama and Mayhill Fowler, Who Is Responsible for His Elitist-Remark Leak? You know how political fetishists are losing their minds this week over Barack Obama's kind of awesome but kind of classist statement at the Getty manse? You know, this: And it's not surprising
SF News Village Voice Media Editor Michael Lacey Says N-Word, Journos' Lids Flip Oops. We cannot accurately report whether Lacey used the "-ga" or "-ger" suffix. As far as we know, no one will dare print the word-- word--in its entirety regarding this story. He later
SF News Your Halloween Drunk Driving Report During the wee hours of the morning, a woman sporting a French maid outfit was arrested for going the wrong way down the northbound lanes on (the) 280 in San Francisco. She caused