SF News That Smell Yum! Did you smell something nasty in downtown SF yesterday? Some people described it like raw sewage, and others like rotting meat. Turns out it was from the sewage holding system, which was
Arts & Entertainment MediaBistro Takes Its Turn With Phil Bronstein; SFist Community Guest-Stars Today, we really enjoyed an interview of Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein by Julie Haire, an L.A.-based freelance writer, that was published on MediaBistro. And, yes, we confess, part of that
SF News Your Commute: Did You Spare The Air? And for those of you commuting by car today, don't you you spared the air? A truck overturned right at the 92/101 S interchange (those ramps are pretty steeply banked) around 4
SF News Step Right Up! Gawk At Public Housing! We're not even really sure what to make of this article on the front page of today's Chronicle. Apparently Gavin Newsom has now so given up on being able to fix the city's
SF News Muni Alert: Get Out of Town, and Stay Out Not only is Muni adjusting service levels to accommodate the bridge closure, they're actually reducing service levels on one of the days. On Monday, Sept 3rd, a bunch of lines will be suspended
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic: A Gang Member was General-Managing our Hotel, Extorting and Assaulting our Clients Defendant is ... the former general manager of the Mission Hotel ... THC discovered defendant had been involved in criminal activity, including extortion, assaults, and threats of violence ... The conduct is ongoing. Yikes. Turns out,
SF News Now Boarding Group A.... Out Of SFO Southwest has gone a little nuts about the news themselves -- are you also getting emails where they're giving you triple Rapid Rewards credit if you book a ticket online out of any
Arts & Entertainment Friends Don't Let Friends Glide Recklessly If you or someone you know is pregnant, you may already know that to glide or not to glide is one of the many baby-preparation decisions a mom-to-be will have to make. While
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: <em>The Bridge</em> We watched the movie on DVD recently, and that was the reaction we had during more than one scene. We also shed a few tears. The movie isn't for the faint of heart,
SF News It's Got to Be the Weekend After So what happened over the weekend in sports? The Raiders looked impressive, the 49ers not so much. In baseball, the Giants played some of their best baseball of the season while the A's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Svea Lin Vezzone Best place to see art in the Oakland? I'm biased...Swarm Gallery! What's your take on the art scene here? Accessible and abundant. It's exciting to be a part of historically, but difficult
SF News 'Roid Rave: Celebrating Bonds At Justin Herman Plaza If there's a widespread contingent of San Franciscans that feel Bonds is a cheater unworthy of praise, that sure wasn't reflected in the celebration down at Justin Herman Plaza today. Music, tons of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Jonestown and the Summer of Love The first, and best, is Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Through interviews with former members and survivors of the Jim Jones cult, along with loads of archival footage, you get
Arts & Entertainment A Bi-Transgender Fight Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary
SF News SFist Blotter Samson Wong, the editor of Asianweek, reports that a local Asian media group has rejected an apology from the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation for screening in Dolores Park a few weeks ago,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Code Pink vs. the S.F. Federal Building The whole affair was very mellow (surprisingly?) with no assaults from any pie man or woman. Of course the Speaker has the right to choose with whom she meets and the protesters have
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After-- Rebuilding Edition Let's talk about rebuilding in honor of Matt Cain actually winning a game... Giants: With the Barry Circus over, everyone is now moving onto what to do about next year. What? Like people
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
SF News Homeless Kerfuffle, One Month In We were on the 7 a few days ago and four gutterpunk types were complaining about how the city had taken their stuff from camps in Golden Gate Park. One of them, a
Arts & Entertainment UPDATE: Cult Alert -- Youth With a Mission "Cult Alert!" flyers garnished lamp posts on Third and Market Streets the other night -- a siren song if ever we've heard one. (It seems like forever since SF's been plagued with a
SF News Look Out Belooooooow! The mother of the boy described the unexpected disturbance as “a big old boom.” See, this is sounding more and more like a party to us. Police show up and there's a massive
Arts & Entertainment This Crow's Gotta Fly -- A Plan For Burning Man Hannah Watson's really into crows. In June 2000, surrounded by family, her mother passed away. Hannah tells us that right outside, just after her mom died, "the crows cawed, hollered at one another,
misc New Penguins at the Zoo By the handsome looks of these birds, it’s no wonder that Penguin Island has the highest success rate of captive breeding. The 200-foot pool may not be as spacious as the original
