SF News 20,000 Doses of GHB, Oh My The GHB, worth around $400,000 (wow) is now being analyzed to determine its origin. Huh. Science is way more advanced than we realized. Our old roommate used to make the stuff at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Jonestown and the Summer of Love The first, and best, is Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple. Through interviews with former members and survivors of the Jim Jones cult, along with loads of archival footage, you get
Arts & Entertainment A Bi-Transgender Fight Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary
SF News SFist Blotter Samson Wong, the editor of Asianweek, reports that a local Asian media group has rejected an apology from the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation for screening in Dolores Park a few weeks ago,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Paranoia, feeding faux stories, and NYT's Laura Albert (AKA Miss Leroy) article. Depressing is right, Rita. [CultureBlog] -- Newsom defends Halloween shutdown. [BAR] -- San Francisco's other (but not nearly as stellar!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Code Pink vs. the S.F. Federal Building The whole affair was very mellow (surprisingly?) with no assaults from any pie man or woman. Of course the Speaker has the right to choose with whom she meets and the protesters have
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the SF Weekly: Matt Smith mocking the frivolity of San Francisco political concerns. The nudist mayoral candidate (sorry, Spotswood, not Gavin). Cover article: something's not quite right about the City Attorney's
misc Blocker: 800 Innes 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
Arts & Entertainment We're Number One! San Francisco Is Top City For Singles Hey, all you singles in San Francisco/Oakland, looks like you live in the right place. Our fair city was tops in Forbes 7th Annual Best Cities for Singles Report. The magazine made
Arts & Entertainment Amy Winehouse Cancels US Tour We are saddened yet not surprised to report that Amy Winehouse has canceled her US tour. Bah! So those of you -- those of us, that is -- who planned on seeing her
SF News Elie Wiesel's Attacker Goes To Trial Currently on sabbatical at the psychiatric unit of San Francisco County jailhouse for trying to beat the holy hell out of Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel -- and also hopped up on meds
Arts & Entertainment 500 Burrito Reviews; Innumerable Mustaches While we interviewed him, shortly before he started contributing, Charles made the big time this morning, with a short interview being printed -- yes, printed, as in newsprint and and ink and stuff
misc New Penguins at the Zoo By the handsome looks of these birds, it’s no wonder that Penguin Island has the highest success rate of captive breeding. The 200-foot pool may not be as spacious as the original
Arts & Entertainment Is Digg Going To Be A 'Classified Killer' Too? Much of the decimation of newspapers' revenues from classified ads has been attributed to the proliferation of craigslist, which, to our experience, is a generally cheaper, easier, and more effective place to list
SF News R.I.P. Queen of Mean Although the billionaire hotelier once allegedly (the help is never a reliable source) uttered the words "only the little people pay taxes," Leona Helmsley today paid her biggest tax bill of all, breathing
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Anniversary of a Flesh Wound The violent melodrama characterizing the recent murder of a journalist investigating "Your Black Muslim Bakery" has conjured the entire Bay Area history of political violence into our memories. Dan White, James P. Casey,
SF News Hit and Runs in the Castro, Embarcadero Update: Yikes. According to Bay City News, a fatal hit-and-run in the Castro took the life of a "45- to 50-year-old skater" (!?) 60-year-old man 77-year-old Roger Tennyson (or maybe someone else, or Rainbow
Arts & Entertainment Bring Out Your Drag Kings: 12th Annual Drag King Contest In the tradition of Mona's 440 Club, where dames dressed up like fellas and had a gay old time -- before they got thrown in the slammer for doing so, that is --
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For ooma's Andrew Frame Andrew Frame was recently named by BusinessWeek as a "top entrepreneur under the age of 30"--one of the next generation's best and brightest in the tech world. He's aiming to fulfill that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Film School, Pela, Union Trade: What's your flavor? Tell me, what's your flavor? (Damn you, earworming Popeye's Chicken commercial!) Windswept indie and psychedelic rock are served up beautifully tonight at this Potrero
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval went into
misc Blocker: 000 Sussex 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
