SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
Arts & Entertainment Eyes on the Rightsholder's Prize Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes
SF News Former Raider Pro-Bowler Shot The tale of former Raider's center Barrett Robbins just got a lot sadder yesterday, as he is currently in crtical condition after being shot in an apparent robbery attempt inside a Miami nightclub.
SF News Gwen Araujo Murder Trial Update Last we'd heard, in June of last year, the jury ended in a deadlock on all three defendants, resulting in a mistrial. Though a number of subsequent developments were reported in the Chron
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
SF News Denny's Stabber Freed (For Now) Amber Oberholtzer, the 21-year old woman who stabbed 16-year-old Frankie Mead to death on New Year's Day in Fisherman's Wharf, was freed last night while the DA continues to investigate the situation. (If
Arts & Entertainment New SFist Contributor: Mary-Lynn Bragg Mary-Lynn comes to the west coast via Canada and New York. Assessment continues on whether the move from Manhattan to Menlo Park has done permanent damage. When she's not engaged in random acts
SF News Remembering Daniel Price Almost exactly one year ago, a normally-jaded San Francisco was stunned by the news of a man shot to death on Gough Street. Daniel Price was escorting his wife home from a Christmas
misc Purl-oined We usually save these things for the blotter, but this one can't wait until Friday. Six students and a knitting instructor at the Knitting Basket in the Montclair Village in Oakland were held
SF News Salinas to Close Its Public Libraries The libraries would have been saved had Salinas voters passed a ballot measure in November that would have hiked sales taxes slightly, as Oakland and Modesto voters successfully did in the March 2004
SF News Down and Out in Berkeley So you know when the police come and roust some homeless person on the street and take away their shopping cart? Ever wonder what happens to the shopping cart? Do they become part
SF News Jury to Scott: Murderer! The verdict is in, and it doesn't look good for Scott Peterson. He probably should have left for Mexico while he still had a chance (granted, the cops had been tracking his car
SF News Disenchantment in the Streets It wouldn't be San Francisco if people weren't deluded into thinking anyone cared what we say. Which is why protest events have been long planned in response to this election. As one coworker
SF News Suffrage For All It's true that the main goal of the Vote or Die campaign seems to be to get celebrities to wear shirts that say Vote or Die on them. But that doesn't mean you
SF News Jay and Silent Bob in Hayward Snootchie bootchies! This scenario playing out in Hayward is so Kevin Smith, you'd think we lived in New Jersey. So this 18-year old (let's call him Jay) and his quiet 17-year old buddy
SF News Political Road Rage It's no secret that people tend to display their political leanings on their car bumpers, and it's also no secret that emotions are running high. SFist will also confess that when we see
SF News And They're Out of the Fajitagate! If you've been living under a rock for the last year, then you'll have no idea what we're talking about. But then we had enough trouble getting DSL in our home, so it
SF News Shhhhhhhh You might want to express your support for our city's striking laborers with just the big smile and the thumbs-up for the next few days: the police have started fining people who honk
SF News Warrant Issued in Murder of Timothy Griffith The San Francisco Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of Rafael Antonio Cuevas, who is suspected of being the man who murdered Timothy Griffith after the Giants game on Friday,
SF News Giants Fan Killed In all the (justified) glory for Barry Bonds hitting the big seven-oh-oh, there's some sad stories as well. A Giants fan was killed after the Giants beat the Padres on Friday night, in
SF News Pepper Spray or Power Tools? A federal retrial began in San Francisco today over police use of pepper spray on nonviolent demonstrators. In the fall of 1997, images were broadcast nationwide of Humboldt County sheriff's deputies and Eureka
SF News O Tannenbaum San Francisco has one less shady spot, as city workers stripped down a 100-foot pine tree in the Tenderloin. The pride and joy of city arborists, the tree was the only 'loin-area tree
SF News Synchronized Swimming Back Story Well, heres a weird Olympics story. Team USA synchronized swimmer Tammy Crow, based out of Santa Clara, will be competing on tonights taped telecast. (No, we wont spoil it for
SF News Sunset Tragedy Police have identified the most recent victim of a hit-and-run on 19th Avenue as Tu-Cuong Tran. Tran, aged 26, was found lying on 19th near Lincoln at around 12:30 this morning. Read
