SF News Tuesday Morning Links: City Hall Lights Up For Paris Oakland police say they will step up patrols and partner with other agencies to prevent sideshows this weekend, PG&E defends its new board, and a jack-knifed big-rig caused traffic on the Dumbarton bridge.
SF News [Update] SFPD Investigating Possible Hate Crime After Vandalism At SF French American School SFPD investigates reports of vandalism at French American School in San Francisco. https://t.co/tx2KoDnVGb pic.twitter.com/N257yhYgoe— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) November 17, 2015 Just days after a series of
SF News Local Couple On Paris Honeymoon Were Dining Two Blocks From Bataclan Concert Hall During Attack As stories continue to trickle back from ex-pats and American travelers who had scary brushes with death during Friday's terrorist attack in Paris, ABC 7 reports on a Santa Rosa couple, Jamie and
SF News Alice Waters Posts About Daughter Dining 'Down the Street' From Paris Shooting Fanny Singer, Alice Waters's daughter for whom longtime Berkeley eatery Café Fanny was named, was in Paris and out having dinner in the neighborhood of one of the shootings on Friday, but Waters
SF News In Solidarity With Paris, SF City Hall Lit Up Blue, White and Red; SFPD On 'Heightened Alert' 🇫🇷 @SFCity_Hall, whose design was inspired by Les Invalides in #Paris, is lit up in France's colors tonight. pic.twitter.com/8DAMFXt250— John McMurtrie (@McMurtrieSF) November 14, 2015 San Francisco's City Hall, the
SF News S.F. To Paris: 'Oui, Je T'aime Encore!' Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe paid a visit to the best city in America (allegedly) yesterday. Aside from enjoying some of our world-class leisure amenities (and probably making fun of our wine), Delanoe was
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Timelapse Of Flight Between San Francisco And Paris Check out this remarkable footage of 2,459 photos of an Air France flight from San Francisco to Paris, featuring the northern lights. According to Gizmodo, the film was "shot using a Canon
SF News Cisneros and Dufty Party With Gay/Civic Pride In Australia Somehow we overlooked this last week, but local porn-ish blog, the Sword, captured images of San Francisco's openly bent politicos Supervisor/personality Bevan Dufty and city treasurer Jose Cisneros kicking it together at
Arts & Entertainment New Global Monopoly Game Leaves Its Heart Elsewhere Though this may amuse a smattering of transplants who neither want this city to grow nor evolve into the world-class city it secretly is, a new global Monopoly board is coming and San
misc Tiger Attack Update: Unfurling the Red Tape Today Gavin Newsom announced that "a series of public hearings on the fatal Christmas Day tiger attack" that resulted in the killing of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. will start as soon as this
misc Tom Lantos Stepping Down Lantos, who turns 80 this year, is a Holocaust survivor, chairs the House Committee on Foreign Relations (that's gotta be an interesting gig), recently attacked Yahoo for releasing user names to China, and
misc The Real Drama Queens - <i>Marie-Antoinette</i> One of the greatest misunderstandings in the history of US cinema -- oh please, as far as repeated viewings go, Ordinary People is a superior and more devastating film than Raging Bull --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Let's get this over with. Last week's pathetic challenge still hung in the air this week with the designers discussing Carmen's exit, and Chris proposing a "Project Runway" fragrance that would be a
SF News Susan Leal, Pink-Slipped? Although her contract ends in 2009, former SF Mayoral candidate and current San Francisco Public Utilities Commission chief Susan Leal might get the ax, according to Cecilia M. Vega over at the Chronicle.
Arts & Entertainment Marie-Antoinette and San Francisco: Match Made in Bourgeoisie Heaven? While the pairing seems unlikely (despite San Francisco being the "Paris of the West"), the Legion of Honor has received the, uh, honor of hosting the Marie-Antoinette exhibit. The show specifically focuses on
misc Blocker: 150 South Park Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco, "the Paris of the West" Yup, "the Paris of the West". It's a phrase that's been liberally applied to our fair city, perhaps most notably when the mayor of the Paris of, um, "France", arrived in San Francisco
misc Blocker: 1800 Union Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
misc Dell Using Nerd Wins Physics Nobel Prize No longer just for cute Aryan stoners, Albert Fert of the Scientific Research National Center in Paris -- who just received the Nobel Prize for physics alongside Peter Gruenberg for their massive brainpower
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Wiener Takes All</i> There's nothing like a celebrity appearance at a film festival, and Sunday night at the Roxie Theatre, the crowd went wild when it was announced that two of the wiener dogs who star
Arts & Entertainment Celebupics! Bless you, Drew Altizer, for your always-fun pictures of the local celebs in town! We wish we were Vegasist, so you'd have some pictures of Britney Spears's flabtastic performance at the VMAs last
Arts & Entertainment Socialite Jailbird Launches Clothing Line In San Francisco? Where does Paris Hilton stay when she comes to San Francisco? Does she try to get a discount at the family biz? We feel way dirty for posting this, but maybe someone cares
SF News How's Carole Migden's Driving?: Charges Filed We can't really get ourselves too worked up about the billboards or campaign finance allegations that Mark Leno's tossing around about his rival for the State Senate seat, Carole Migden (sorry) -- but
SF News It's Got to Be the <strike>Morning</strike> Afternoon After Hey, don't forget to play our "Rename Dodger Stadium" contest-- there's only three days left to play! And don't forget to sign in under a name so we know who to give the
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Gorgeous! (Comme T'y Es Belle!)</i> We headed to the Castro on Sunday evening for the SFJFF's Gorgeous! (exclamation included in the title), sort of a Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City, featuring four women, some single, some
