SF News UC/Berkeley Uses Force to Oust Tree-Sitters The battle to save an oak grove on the UC-Berkeley campus turned even uglier yesterday. Protesters sang bizarre Native American-ish sounding songs (seriously, check this out) and threw buckets of urine at police
SF News Save the Oaks Protesters at UC/Berkeley Plucked? Five remaining tree climbers over at the University of California at Berkeley -- you know, the ones who have been protesting the school's plan to tear down the Memorial Oak Grove to put
SF News What's Going On Here? Around 10 cops come down on... some sort of situation "within 2 minutes at Powell Bart station." Exciting stuff, folks. Also, do we, as the totally insane person shouts in the background, live
SF News Washington Post Rightfully Bashes SFPD's Mad Skillz The San Francisco Police Department gets trashed (again), this time care of Karl Vick's Washington Post post article on the foibles of our very own Keystone Cops. In it, basically, he reveals that
SF News Matier & Ross (Sort of) Finger SFist as Culprit in Bay to Breakers Booze Mayhem (By Joe Kukura) Imagine our surprise when we finally stopped partying woke up this morning to find ourselves quoted by the legendary Matier & Ross in The Chronicle! And – surprise! – we were made
misc Bay To Breakers To Go the Way Of Halloween in the Castro? SFist intercepted this email sent out today by SFPD Park Station Captain Teri Barrett. Teri, it seems, has an estranged relationship with the merriment for which San Francisco is/used to be famous.
SF News Brief, Brutal Footage of Mini-Protest at Market Street Bob Brigham sent SFist the above footage from today's small protest on Market Street, which prefaces tonight's massive anti-war rally at Civic Center. The photographer getting manhandled at around 20-25 seconds in is
SF News Dead Body Discovered In Front of Boss Nightclub In SOMA Just seconds ago we came across frantic police activity at Boss nightclub (on Harrison Street between Third and Fourth streets). Police informed us that they found a dead body, and declined to give
SF News Broadway Community Meeting to Open Soon This is most exciting news, folks. The theater scene here sucks so hard now that even the San Francisco Police Department is working on the problem. Check it: Subject: Broadway Community Meeting with
SF News Pittsburg Sexual-Assault Suspects' Sketch Unveiled Pittsburg police -- you know, that place at the end-of-the-line BART station that also happens to be a city -- released a composite sketch of the man suspected of abducting and sexually assaulting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: A Warning Yikes. Not to drizzle gasoline on a fire again, but this alarming note was found at Drumm & Jackson (sent to us via Lady_K.) To All Female Tenants XXXXXXXXXXX our head head
SF News 100 Alas. We hit the 100th murder mark over the weekend. And this big 1-0-0, as you know, is not a cause for celebration. Early Saturday morning at around 5 a.m., Jose Alberto
SF News Have You Seen This "Person of Interest?" Well, have you? (And just what's on his hoodie?) The owner of this visage is wanted for questioning related to the shooting death of Jose Rivas, 20, of Antioch. His bullet-riddled body was
SF News Call Off Your Old Tired Eth-- Oh, For A Golden Shower I Charge $250, Baby The Mayor shot down the legislation. saying that "legalization of prostitution would be a terrible mistake," because of...bad stuff happening around security gates, or security cameras, or something like that. He does
SF News How Dry I Am: Three Bay Area Cities Some of the Most Shitfaced Congratulations, Oakland (29th), Fremont (32nd), and San Francisco (34th) -- you made it on the top 50 drunkest cities in the U.S. list. At least, according to the December issue of the
SF News Fortysomething Dies While Street Racing A grown man died during a street race in Oakland last night at around 9:30 p.m.. The unidentified 42-year-old -- that's right, 42-year-old -- was racing his 2005 Nissan "west on
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Watch out, SF. Last night's armed robbery spree shakes up, shakes down residents. [SF Crime, SFGate] -- Ding, ding: bike rally at City Hall. [Left in SF] -- Your Contemporary Jewish Museum.
SF News Stolen Saturn Kills Two During a hot pursuit, two men in a stolen Saturn -- a Saturn?! -- went through a red light, crashing into another car and killing two men inside the latter automobile. It seems
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Here's the question: Do cops ever stop a Muni driver for anything like speeding or running a red light? In theory, yes. In practice, no. Or at least, I've never seen it or
misc Week Around the -ists The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on
SF News Search for Veronica Ruiz Called Off Described as "despondent" since a recent break-up, according to NBC 11, Ruiz is "of Asian descent with black hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds.
SF News Update: Missing Teen Found Police found missing diabetic East Bay teen ("missing," "diabetic," and from the "East Bay" -- ow, that's rough), who also suffers from depression, in "ok" condition this afternoon. Whew. According to NBC11, "ambulance
SF News SFist Blotter -- In the 3600 block of Waterbury Court way down in San Jose last night, a double shooting left one man critically injured and another man dead. According to CBS 5, "no arrests
SF News Another Train Hits Another Man On Another Cell Similar to the fatal accident that happened in November, another pedestrian -- engrossed in a phone call, ignorant as to what was happening around him -- was stuck and killed by a train
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Oh Yeah, Merry Christmas Today's find was sent to us by SFist reader/commenter Jerry Jarvis, which he found somewhere along Howard Street. We can imagine how much it would suck to come to work and find
