SF News Day Around the Bay -- March, rally, die. [Bluoz, SFGate] -- Zombie, thrill(er), dance. [SFWeekly] -- Mac OS X Leopard...on your PC! [Laughing Squid] -- San Francisco's Visitacion Valley Middle School's principal to receive highest
Arts & Entertainment Today's Record-Breaking "Thriller" Dance: the Video Ta-da. whatimseeing.com has the images and video you've been waiting for: the Thrill the World Michael Jackson "Thriller" dance-off (as well as choice images of today's protest, by the way). We hope
SF News American Football Spectacular: All That Glimmers For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has . There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams have seen the bottom drop
SF News Two SF Shootings Incidents Hospitalize Three According to Bay City News, "two separate Friday night shootings that occurred within about an hour of each other sent three men to San Francisco General Hospital." (And it's not even Halloween yet.
misc What-ever: Hyphens Pulled Earlier this month, the newest (and truncated) version of the OED got rid of many cherished hyphens. The editor, Angus Stevenson, "eliminated some 16,000 hyphens from the sixth edition," according to a
SF News Advertising Won't Grace Golden Gate Bridge Much to everyone's delight, we're certain, today Golden Gate Bridge corporate officials rejected an offer that would have seen the city rolling around naked in millions of dollars from advertising. A plan that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bye Bye, Barleycorn A campaign was started to save it, complete with petitions, a Great Pub Toast, and proposed legislation from Aaron Peskin. But it was all to no avail. In a city filled with mixed
SF News Friday Fun: Gavin's Wikipedia Page! Hey, remember the Wikipedia scanner that tells you who's edited what page on the ol' Wikepedia? Well, we decided to have a little fun with it and see who's been playing with the
SF News Tenderloin Robbery-Shooting Arrests "Help me. I've been shot," cried a Tenderloin hotel desk clerk who received life-threatening injuries after getting shot before 2:30 a.m. this morning. James Talley, 20, and London Shaw, 19, of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Mike Birbiglia Here at SFist we like to think of ourselves as givers. We give. You take. Again and again. So here you go, we're doing our part. We've got a pair of tickets for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Yuppie Passport Hell in San Francisco But once you're past the "creepy", "leer"-ing security staff, it's all downhill from there, right? Well, maybe not. Nationally-famous local violet blue told the story a few months back of the hassles
SF News SF Man Arrested in Connection with Bayview Convent Fire How do you solve a problem like an Mathew Hinz? This morning the 18-year-old fire-starter was arrested for setting ablaze the Good Shepherd Convent, on 10/13. The front and back doors were
SF News High Nerd Concentrations = Top Blogging Markets Who knew? According to the Scarborough Research -- an institute that measures the lifestyles, shopping patterns, media behaviors, and demographics of unholy, evil American consumers -- San Francisco was ranked as one of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Grilled Cheese Invitational : What's better than a grilled cheese sandwich? Nothing, that's what. (Our apologies go out to all and any lactose-intolerant readers. You live a life of heartache we can only
SF News Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin Tries to Slash SF's Environment Dept. Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week he introduced a wee bit of legislation that
SF News End the War in Iraq Day Resolution, Press Conference This morning a press conference was held in front to City Hall about this Saturday's March to End the War Now. The parade (grumble), which will start at City Hall and drain into
Arts & Entertainment SoCal Fires Monopolize Local News Pay attention to us, pretty please? We promise we'll be good, and stay out of the Castro on Halloween. We'll even maybe pretend to care about mayoral elections. Well, if we try, will
misc Blocker: 1300 La Playa Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News San Francisco's 311 Gets Its One Millionth Caller "This is Gavin Newsom, what the hell do you want?" Newsom (might have) said when he answered yesterday's one millionth call to 311. Since its launch in April, 311 helps SF residents bypass
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Cleaning Up Golden Gate Park This big bird was actually going for a meal. See you after the jump.
SF News Loitering for Biden Yesterday, presidential hopeful Joe Biden released details of his plan for the health care system, and coincidentally, we spotted this sign in an area of San Francisco that our 2001 Muni map calls
