SF News SFist Blotter A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Mets 4 Giants 2- The big news yesterday wasn't the Giants loss, but the loss of Armando Benitez who somehow got traded to the Florida Marlins for Randy Messenger. Messenger is pretty non-descript
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy And with that, let's get it on. It'd be cool if the streetcars could have fare machines in the cars like the ones on the platforms out on the Embarcadero. Sometimes you can't
Arts & Entertainment 'Nothing Like the Funk of 200 Liberals': Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight' Flight was already at the top of our list of books to read. Then we read the New York Times review of it this past Sunday and felt a new urgency to go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3 Questions For A Gelato Slinger The other day, we told you our impressions of Naia Gelateria (nutshell: pretty good overall; you should particularly dig it if you enjoy having a ton of varieties to choose from). We wanted
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Chinese Media Yay, Tapioca Ed! We're counting down the days until he's scheduled to get back! (5 days to go.) Today's Chronicle runs a story about how Ed Jew's travails have been covered in the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight, and prices will go
SF News Another Way That Google Owns Us Have you checked out the latest hack to Google Maps? Somehow they've added street views, which lets you take a look at an intersection (say, 16th and Mission) from a street-level camera. You
misc Whales Are Gone Bright and early Wednesday morning, and searchers say it looks like the two hapless whales are nowhere to be seen. Did they swim out to the Pacific in the middle of the night?
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For A Graphic Novelist Yesterday, we posted a contest in which we're giving away a copy of Matt Silady's "The Homeless Channel," a new graphic novel. Matt, a Berkeley resident, was both the writer and artist of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Naia Gelato: Local, Innovative, Cavalcade of Flavors Okay, so nobody ever accused us of being especially observant, but we only recently recognized that "Naia", at 451 Castro Street, was a gelateria. See, the sign only says the name, and there's
misc Remembering Voxtrot Sometimes even SFist is ahead of our time. Like last year when we made Voxtrot our official summer 2006 crush. They’ve just released their new, full length, self titled album, and they’
SF News Swells By The Numbers It's a short Swells this week! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 85. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 2: Dede Wilsey and Frank Jordan. Minority count:
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Submit Your Found Photos/Objects/Letters! In the spirit of Found Magazine, the U.K.'s Is This You?, and the FoundPhotos community in Livejournal, we call on you to submit your interesting Bay Area finds, including photos, objects,
SF News Football (Real Football) Comes to Stanford We've written before about our love of soccer but unfortunately, being here in the States, it's a little hard to get the full flavor of it. Major League Soccer isn't quite that exciting
misc That Fake Stanford Student Today's article reveals that Azia Kim's friends from high school all thought she was going to one of those community colleges that feeds into Berkeley, but when she came back at Christmas break
Arts & Entertainment Club Six: Going Violently Into That Good Night? For his part, Club Six owner Angel Cruz points out that he's spent a lot of money on soundproofing, and that he doesn't know of any stabbings caused by his club. (Neighbors claim
SF News Explosion On Mission And to tie this all to two other hot topics at SFist: 1) one of the people injured was a bicyclist, who was hit by an inattentive gawker in a car. Chalk one
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits --So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea
misc Faux Cardinal The girl, named Azia Kim, showed up on campus the day before freshman orientation this school year, and told two freshmen she was a freshman having temporary housing problems due to some kind
SF News Day Around The Bay --They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All The News You Can Booze For many of us with standard 9-5 jobs, a long weekend is coming up. Naturally, our minds turn to libations (take a look to the left for some insight into our personal plans)
SF News There Must Be Some Mistake, Mr. Noyes. Dan Noyes, head inspector at the I-Team and blogosphere crush du jour, reports that according to the lying monsters at the CHP, 4,474 accidents were caused by bad car-driving, and 6,988
Arts & Entertainment Park in the Park Parking won't be free -- but then, it never is. The city hasn't worked out the exact prices yet, but between the rent they'll pay to the state's DMV and the fees paid
