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Another Berkeley Tree-Sitter Arrested, Standoff Continues

While police have tried to starve and cutoff supplies to the few remaining protesters up in the UCB oak grove, another tree-sitter was arrested yesterday afternoon at around 5 p.m. Performing

Sports Facility Plans Put On Hold, Trustifarians Feel Like They've Accomplished Something

UCB's plans to mow down an oak grove and put up a sports training facility were put on hold. It seems a judge halted the plans until "the university can

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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-

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.

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 body

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

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. [Curbed]

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 that stolen

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

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

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

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&

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