misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Louie, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the left side of the site, half-way down) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Not to sound like the
misc Stanford Brings Home the Victory Well, the Cardinal bested the team from Carnegie Mellon with their tricked-out autonomous Volkswagen nicknamed Stanley on Saturday in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The stock Tuoareg was modded with all sorts of high-tech
SF News Ski's On Bundle up, ski bunnies -- looks like Jonny Moseley's 30th birthday Pacific Heights ski jump party, sponsored by Icer, is back on! After a contentious meeting of the SF Interdepartmental Staff Committtee on
SF News Fires in the City A second fire in the Inner Mission in about as many months, as firefighters rushed to a burning apartment building on Capp Street between 18th and 19th Street early Thursday morning. Three people
SF News Your (Substitute) SchwarzenWatcher Approval levels in the 36 percent range -- are we talking about Bush or the California governor? What's the SchwarzenWatcher got cooking today? The governor's veto-happy! It's not just gay marriage, either --
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head - <em>Satan's Playground</em> We were thinking a lot about that snake during the short "Human No More," mainly because the film tested our nerves after the first eight minutes or so, and our minds began to
misc FDA Guarding Against Fabulous Sperm We must confess that we're rather attached to our bodily fluids. But not everyone hoards theirs as selfishly as we, and that's got the FDA all riled up: under new recommendations, gays will
Arts & Entertainment They're Thinking Of The Children (Just Not Thinking Very Hard) Although similar recent efforts have mostly failed, our very own Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee is pushing a bill -- AB 450 -- that would fine retailers $1,000 for selling M-rated
SF News Gropinator 2: Judgment Day A British reporter's claims that Arnold Schwarzenegger first sexually assaulted her, then libeled her in the press when she told the LA Times about the incident, survived a first round of review by
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Prettying Up Valencia Ah, Valencia Street. Who hasn't nearly been run over by a car, a bus, a biker, or frantic pedestrians running to make their reservations at Luna Park, on the Mission District's own Fifth
SF News Our Pot Plants Bring All The Boys To The Yard -- Damn Right, They're Better Than Yours In the "it would be funny and surprising if you didn't live here" department, the Mendocino County assistant agricultural commissioner, Tony Linegar, is asking the state to regulate Marijuana cultivation so that the
Arts & Entertainment A Children's Book About Ganja? We weren't even stoned and we had to laugh. But after we had a chance to read an advance copy of It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana posted online by
SF News Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration Rafkin puts her money where her mouth is as Head Instructor at Studio Naga, which teaches the art of Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen. In addition, she oversees the Women's Self Defense and "Street Smarts"
SF News Cops Summit Kilimanjaro to Honor Officer Espinoza Slashdot today points out that Cops on Top, the organization that climbs peaks to memorialize fallen officers, has been keeping an audioblog from their ascent of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to honor SFPD officer
misc Fun with Buns So, let's say that you've decided that your image needs an overhaul. Maybe your current look is wearing thin; it's just not you, the crowd is tired, the music sucks. And there's that
SF News Introducing SFist Listens This week SFist Mary Lynn recommends the following as a means of coping if you haven’t yet fled to Canada and are down about four more years of W: "Tragedy" by the
SF News Sausage King Could Cook Stuart Alexander has been convicted of three counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted murder and the special circumstances of public employees on the job and a multiple homicide. Whew. You
misc Beauty and the Beast We love animals, if you can't tell. All of 'em. Cats, dogs, rabbits. Our sister site Gothamist started it all with their unabashed love of giant pandas. But we're no wusses. Our tastes
SF News Don't Go Into the Water Stinson Beach reopened today, after the sighting of a great white shark forced a beach closing for swimmers. (Click here for shots from the Stinson Beach shark cam.) The beach had just reopened
misc Coyote Ugly South Bay residents are seeing significantly larger numbers of coyotes moving into their residential areas. So far, 12 cats and 2 dogs have been killed in one Los Gatos neighborhood, and neighbors report
SF News Sausage King on Trial SFist's coworker spent weeks in Oakland's jury pool waiting to find out if he would have to serve on a jury for five months. He couldn't talk about the case until he finally
SF News Your Commute/SFist Blotter Growing increasingly worried about safety, the union representing MUNI bus drivers have requested that the SFPD provide them with a dedicated police force. MUNI currently has 1 sergeant and 10 officers assigned to
Arts & Entertainment 22 Fillmore SFist has fond memories of waking up early on Saturdays to eat oversugared cereals and watch cartoons. SFist also deeply enjoys watching vaguely formulaic cop shows. With these two criteria in mind, plus
SF News Walk This Way Those of you who were bipedal in 2002 will probably remember almost every day that year, there was someone getting hit by a car on 19th Avenue or a child getting hit by
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your 49ers' 2006 Draft Picks, "Fall In, Recruit!" * Picked round 7, pick 46; 254 overall / Vickiel Vaughn / S / Arkansas / 5'11" / 208 / "The Fallen Man" Story: Things've been tough for Vickiel Vaughn. While in high school, he was rated amongst the top
