SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gays To Dump Russian Vodka Down The Sewer At City Hall Tuesday The controversial boycott of Russian vodka, in response to recent civil rights violations by the Putin regime and reports of violent treatment of LGBT Russians, comes to San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday
SF News Local Nudists Will Taint And/Or Titillate Your Saturday With Naked Parade Although a judge has already told San Francisco's nudists that being naked is not protected free speech, a group of the usual suspects plans to strip down for freedom again tomorrow. After hanging
SF News Protests Block Muni Service At Church & Duboce, Market & Van Ness [Updates] Around 4 p.m. Tuesday protest groups took to the streets in the Lower Haight as part of a demonstration against police brutality and racial injustice in San Francisco. As of 4:20
SF News 9 Arrested in Oakland Zimmerman Protests It was the third consecutive night of unrest, vandalism, and protest in Oakland over the verdict in the Zimmerman trial, and this time nine people were arrested for various offenses including assault with
SF News City College S.F. Students And Faculty To Protest Accreditation Loss A group of City College SF students, faculty, and supporters are gathering today to rally outside the Department of Education's offices at 50 Beale Street in protest of the school's loss of accreditation,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Farm Occupiers Get Eviction Notice, Announce That They Will Move a Block Away We reported last week on the entrance of some Occupy-esque folks on the land formerly known as Hayes Valley Farm, which is set to become a residential development. Many of you had opinions
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Old Man Shakes Fist "Native Son" columnist Carl Nolte marches outside the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission to protest the Hearst Corporation's proposed contract terms for guild workers. Your SFist editors, meanwhile, are still shaking our
SF News Nudists To Finally Receive Those Citations They've Always Wanted [Update: Three Arrested] Today, for the first time in San Francisco history,* a local nudist or nudists will receive a citation for being indecently exposed. Or, that's the plan anyway. Supervisor Scott Wiener's much-publicized ban on
SF News Gun Control Advocates to Stage 'Lie In' at Justin Herman Plaza Saturday In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, a local chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence plans to host a silent protest on Saturday at Justin Herman Plaza to call attention
SF News Oakland Braces for Occupy Anniversary Protest Occupy Oakland, the loosely organized off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street that gained national media attention last year because of the lengthy war they waged with Oakland police over the occupation of Frank Ogawa
Arts & Entertainment Everything's Happening This Weekend: Anti-Colonialism, Columbus Day Parade Can you hear them? Shhhh. Hear that? They're coming. No, they're coming. Damn tourists. And there's nowhere to hide. Quick review SFist's "How To Walk On The Sidewalk Like A Reasonable Human Being,
SF News Occupy Anniversary Just Might Ruin Your Monday Commute Monday marks the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and yesterday Occupy SF announced a Financial District protest beginning at 5 p.m. on Monday, which is sure to disrupt something, but how
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Slut Walk Returns To Dolores Park Tomorrow San Francisco will host its second annual Slut Walk and Rally at Dolores Park. Like last year, the event aims to protest those who attempt to explain or excuse rape by blaming
SF News Activists Protest Gay Rodeo Fundraiser At Powerhouse Bar Here's something you didn't know you'd be reading about today: the rights of grown gay men to put panties on a goat. Some animal-rights activists gathered outside the Powerhouse Bar yesterday to protest
SF News OccupySF Takes Over Vacant Building At Turk And Gough As part of the nationwide "We Won't Get Fooled Again" Day of Action, OccupySF has taken over a vacant building at 888 Turk (at Gough). The group says the building is owned by
SF News Six Reporters Arrested During Occupy Oakland Mass Arrest Mother Jones' Gavin Aronsen wrote a first-hand account of being apprehended at the Occupy Oakland mass arrest on Saturday, along with at least five other credentialed journalists and 400 protesters. Aronsen says this
SF News Thousands of Pro-Lifers March on Market Street A major pro-life march, the likes of which we haven't seen in recent years on a San Francisco promenade, is happening as we type. The cascade of Christians extends from Civic Center to
SF News Occupy SF And Oakland To Occupy Individual Homes Facing Foreclosure Today We want to be supportive of the Occupy movement. We do. But as with all things (and like most Americans), we bore easily. But we're trying to stay alert and remain positive as
Arts & Entertainment Notes From An Occupation: Police Infighting Friend of SFist and dedicated Occupy SF participant Scott Rossi was on the scene at last night's big barricade event. Highlights include details about the crowd knocking down the barricades and an eye-witness
SF News Boing Boing Interviews Pepper-Sprayed UC Davis Student Boing Boing has an interview up with a 22-year-old UC Davis student going by the name of W, who was one of the students sprayed in the now infamous pepper-spray attack last Friday.
SF News UC Davis Follow-Up: Chancellor's Eerily Silent Walk of Shame [Video], Faculty Member's Open Letter As the Second Alarm reports [via BoingBoing], a large crowd of student protesters and their supporters interrupted a press conference on Saturday afternoon with UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi and campus police, demanding
SF News Occupy Oakland's Scott Olsen Releases First Statement Scott Olsen, the San Mateo marine and Iraq War veteran who was critically injured by a police projectile during the previous Occupy Oakland raid a few weeks back, released a statement this morning
SF News Meanwhile, in Oakland... A Halloween-appropriate scene as Occupy Oakland demonstrators pause for a photo op at Broadway and 17th during a march on downtown Oakland this evening. A significant police presence was on hand earlier. For
SF News Iraq War Veteran Scott Olsen Critically Injured at Occupy Oakland Raid As a few SFist commenters noted, the person who was hit in the head with a projectile during last night's beanbag assault by Oakland police has been identified as Iraq veteran Scott Olsen.
SF News Rich Local Democrat Pissed at Obama Amongst the estimated 1,000 people who showed up outside the W yesterday to protest/holler at President Obama was prominent local Democratic fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell. A good friend and major campaign
