Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Barefoot Nellies: "The Bay Area's finest all-gal bluegrass band" headline at one of the Bay Area's finest bars, Amnesia, starting at 8:30 p.m., 853 Valencia; free. -- Killer of Sheep
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Nimbies Kill Off the Panhandle Bandshell Find out why after the jump. [Update: What's that, commenters? Strong opposition from just one particular Commissioner out of seven is the problem? We don't know how to figure this out, as the
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 Peskin's Out (State Senate Race, And Politics In General) We've gotten word that everyone's favorite tough guy, Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin has made it official that he's not going to be running for the State Senate, declining to get in
SF News Old Map Mascot: Murray Found on Octoferret's Flickr account -- which also features a way boss lineup of old (and somewhat fury-inducing compared to today's) maps and buses -- is a long-forgotten mascot from the '70s, Murray.
SF News SFist Blotter [sorry we're late today!] Close call! A truck driver careened off the San Mateo Bridge yesterday afternoon, but managed to miss both the bay and a shed full of explosive material right by
SF News That Sounds About Right If you'd like to reproduce this NextMuni bug (which only occurs late at night, after the last trains leave), Octoferret's lovely Flickr stream contains details. Obviously it's an error -- what it should
Arts & Entertainment America's Next Opera Star To conclude the apprenticeship program’s 50th season, the Merola program gave its grand finale concert last Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. The singers did not present a full fledged opera,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: A Loving Neighbor Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
misc Week Around the -ists Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: "Black Gold" Coffee Movie in Dolores Park As promised, the Fair Trade movie screened at Dolores Park last night. Conversation about this film shouldn't cause as much rancor as last month's showing of the "straight up racist" movie 16 Candles
SF News Tsk Tsk: Sex. Drugs, And Good Attendance With Chris Daly It's the latest in the Tsk Tsk Supervisorial codes of conduct battle front! You've got sex, you've got drugs, all you need now is some rock and roll: Supervisor Chris Daly went and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Furniture with a Life of Its Own Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
SF News Bus Shelter Makes A Funny From the 22 shelter on Haight near Fillmore. We're not sure how we stand on anthropomorphizing your beverages, but that ad is pretty funny.
SF News Local Fire And Brimstone (If By Brimstone We Mean Generalized Trouble) Did you see (video footage) all that smoke (pictures) yesterday? A fire at 17th and Noe Street between the Mission and the Castro at around 6:30 yesterday evening displaced at least 14
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Swell Season Walking up Sanchez Street on our way to the Noe Valley Ministry, we passed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglová (a.k.a. The Swell Season) strolling smilingly toward 24th Street, not a
SF News Blue Angels Committee Vote As promised, non-mayoral candidate Chris Daly's proposing his nonbinding resolution to ban the Blue Angels from flying over San Francisco at the Governmental Audit and Oversight Committee meeting today. Daly, who's been working
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Toronado's 20th Anniversary Fete It seemed like everyone in the beer-geek world was at the Toronado for their 20th Anniversary party on Saturday night. The place was packed to the absolute gills with locals, brewmasters, and beer
misc Week Around the -ists Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Dublin-Pleasanton BART station closure times, dates. (Our apologies for posting this unforgivably late.) [BART, Chron] -- Pirates beat Giants. Arrr, indeed. [Examiner] -- Fish sandwiches and bean pies: what could have been
SF News Chris Daly's Not Running We imagine Heidi Klum Germanically intoning, "Chrisss Daaly: are you IN, or are you OWT?" Well, folks -- he's out. The Guardian has the entire text of his statement, but here's the paragraph
SF News Pelosi V. Sheehan Someone else viewed as unbeatable has a hail-Mary opponent from the progressive left -- and we're not just talking about Gavin Newsom and Chris Daly! That's right -- the stridently anti-war soldier's mom
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Jolly Bingo Markers Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know when and where you found the item and any other helpful
Arts & Entertainment More Daylight Shootings Yes indeed, there was another one: yesterday in the early afternoon at Div and Grove. A reader passes along these pictures and reports that no one seemed to have been injured from the
SF News <i>Yelp!</i> Guns Drawn In Front Of Yelp's Offices? Friend of SFist Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp's CEO and co-founder, just shot us this note: Guns drawn in front of Yelp office... Jeremy (That would be Mission & New Montgomery.) According to Jeremy's comments
