SF News Late Night Shooting in Golden Gate Park Oh dear. Just days after Brian Austin was stabbed to death at 47th Avenue and Fulton Street, a (homelss!) man was shot yesterday in Golden Gate Park. According to the fuzz, he took
Arts & Entertainment RIP II: J-Church (the Band, Not the Reason You're Late) Frontman Dies Writer, lead singer, guitarist, and founder of J-Church, Lance Hahn, passed away due to kidney disease complications on Saturday. He was 40. Although he formed J-Church in San Francisco during the halcyon days
misc RIP: Rice-A-Roni Inventor Guy Perhaps in the traumatic stage of denial, we forgot to bring you some old obit news. Vincent M. DeDomenico, who co-created Rice-A-Roni along with his brothers, died last Thursday at 92. We tasted
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Lights Out SF Aftermath, Let's Do the Math So Lights Out San Francisco is now in the history books. Some were disappointed but it was all for a good cause. Or for a crackpot idea, depending on how you look at
SF News Rasheeda Would Like Better Books: SF Votes Youth 2007 Rasheeda, you can't watch HSM2 on a new textbook, now can you? But we hear you -- or hopefully, your SF Mayoral candidates do. A local YouChoose, if you will, SFGTV, Larkin St.
Arts & Entertainment Inside the SFPD Today's feature: a delightful Santos/'Twas the Night Before X-Mas parody. But the entire site seems to be coming along swimmingly, and we invite you to read and comment at your leisure. Note
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Reviews... Eulogies “Eulogies are most commonly designated for those who have passed, but really they are just words of praise, and in this case they are for the living,” explains musician Peter Walker. “The name,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Gay Geeks Saturday Night Social: "Fucking faggots," you scream? Ah, correction: "fucking nerd faggots," is more like it. Queers (not just Marys) who like to "geek out on the arts or science,
SF News American Football Spectacular: All My Ghosts "All my ghosts, on every sea, in every land / Who needs that now?" The 49ers venture into the wilds of Jersey this Sunday to war with the New York American football Giants. * San
SF News Vawanda Vindicated: Shocking Muni Confessional is 100% True! But our John-Stossel-Like hunger for the truth was unsatisfied. So we got in touch with Judy Morgan at the SF Arts Commission; and as it turns out, all of the posters are totally
Arts & Entertainment Aliza Cohen's <em>Bundles & Passages</em> After living in Shanghai for several years, 27-year-old Bay Area artist Aliza Cohen returns home to boast her new series, Bundles & Passages, featuring work that reflects her feelings of time-honored culture shock
Arts & Entertainment SFistPhoto: Ad Hoc Golden Gate Park Hookah Lounge Now you're up to speed. Try it yourself, if you want.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Parking Ticketiest Block in S.F. What's the worst place to let your meter expire in all of San Francisco? Our candidate is the 100 block of California on the south side of the street near the 101 Cal.
Arts & Entertainment Charlotte Martin at Cafe du Nord Critics have lauded her latest efforts saying, "Stromata follows adventurous suit...reveling in wild time signatures and stark, synthesized percussion, its only constant her unadorned, operatically trained vocals." (Paste Magazine) Collected Sounds wrote
Arts & Entertainment Your Crafty Map of the City View Larger Map Talented local designer and fiber artist, Leslie Yang of Feisty Elle, created a Google Map marking favorite local crafty spots, from boutiques that sell handmade wares to yarn and art
SF News Behold: Your SF Mayoral Ballot Check it out, our new SF mayoral ballot, now with ranked-choice voting. It works like this: if for any reason Gavin Newsom cannot fulfill his reign as Mr. San Francisco... Or something like
SF News Dear Editor Letters Might Not Be Such a Good Idea Matier & Ross today have a story about a police officer who is in a little bit of trouble for writing a letter to the Chron criticizing the Mayor's homeless policy. In the
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out SF This Saturday On this night, we invite the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. No. No! We cannot condone
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero: Smelly, Dirty, Dangerous, and We Liked it That Way Ah, beautiful Diviz. Is there no boulevard more perfect, more blissful? When we think "nice places to take an afternoon constitutional," we are drawn instantly to its divine charm. It is, simply put,
misc Blocker: 100 Taylor 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 MySpace to Open SF Office This Week What's more, the Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation-owned site plans to hire over 200 new employees, redesign the site, and allow users to add widgets. Fear not MySpace suicide contemplators; you might not have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Quintin Mecke's Odds of Victory First, check out the line on Conan O'Brien, Tom Brady and famous local Sean Penn. Now check out Quintin's. Surprised?
SF News Umbrage Alert! Umbrage Alert! Last weekend, while conducting mass, the Archbishop was giving communion when up came two people "wearing bizarre makeup and costumes, including one dressed in a parody of a nun's habit." Hmm…couldn’t
misc It's a Third Reich Blowout! What would one even do with such an item? Anyway, other Nazi forget-me-nots going up for sale include documents signed by the lunatic leader, and a box of cigars once owned by Hermann
SF News Assholes Want to Clean Your Carpet Update: Oh damn! The video's not working. It's a compilation of all the various calls we've gotten. We'll try re-uploading it when we get home from work. If you're like everyone else on
