misc Barge-Bridge Boink Update: Its Name is "Cascade" (Chortle) What a pretty name for a barge, yes? Morning fog, it seems, has temporarily delayed the investigation into yesterday's Richmond-San Rafael Bridge fender bender. Last night, while being guided by tugboats, the Cascade
SF News Barge Hits Richmond-San Rafael Bridge According to the Coast Guard, "a barge has hit the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge" around 6 p.m. this evening. Yikes! The barge, reportedly carrying 63,000 barrels of heavy black oil, hit the
misc Here Comes the Rain Again While not on par with Christmas Day tsunamis, this storm is pretty nifty, huh? Golden Gate transit buses have stopped, power has been knocked out to hundreds -- yes, hundreds! - of thousands
Arts & Entertainment The World's First Robotic Guitar, Neal Schon, and You What a perfect meeting of past, present, and future glories. Former Santana guitarist/now-and-forever Journey member Neal Schon is coming back to the North Bay (where he grew up and leaned how to
SF News Where Was SFist During the Great Quake of '07 Readers responded with light speed and razor-sharp accuracy (more or less) when it came to detailing last night's devastating -- body-wash-plummeting-to-the-earth devastating! -- 5.6 quake. We will all look back on October
misc Finally, An Alternative to Clubbing Baby Seals Bay Area polluters (that's all of us, kids) are responsible for contaminating the Bay with such nasty toxic materials as sewage, flame retardants, and Teflon. Mother seals who eat contaminated fish, pass the
Arts & Entertainment Education Prognostication From George Lucas' 'Edutopia' Mag San Rafael-based Edutopia Magazine, which is brought to us by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, looks to the future in its latest issue, identifying 10 ideas or trends that its experts believe can
SF News SFist Blotter Those activists living in the trees at UC Berkeley admitted that okay, maaaaaaybe they cut off the tops of the trees they were complaining about the university damaging. The leader of the tree-sitting
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi)</i> Who woulda thought. . . . we weren’t the only ones not completely immersed in isolation with the final Harry Potter book this weekend... although we did see a couple books neatly tucked under the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight We could've gone with a YouTube clip of the video for Love Is A Battlefield (totally one of the best videos ever), but we went instead for the Benatards doing "Hit Me With
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: RiffTrax Live We say almost only because the movie they did, which they kept secret until the night of the show, was the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling epic and all the comedic riffing in the world
misc Whale Watch So here's the progress report: they've got around 30 miles to go before they hit the ocean, and as the water gets more saline, their health and mood seems to be improving. (Probably
SF News Day Around The Bay --They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by
SF News Hi Al But what's that? You're going to be speaking there on Wednesday, May 23 at 7PM? About your new book, ? And you'll be signing copies? And we can buy tickets at http://www.ticketmaster.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Wanderer: China Camp Eucalyptus Frame * Bay Area Wanderer: China Camp State Park, out on Point San Pedro Road, San RafaelDrove out to China Camp State Park with Sufjan Stevens on the stereo singing about Chicago. The air sat
SF News Stormy Weather But that's not the only repercussions from the storm. Sadly, a man was killed when a tree was knocked over into their home. For a few minutes, we saw that happening to us
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Looking Rather Fetching This Evening Submissions go to Yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl in Brown Velour Jumpsuit: "I haven't been alone for 4 years. How long were we friends-with-benefits for -- 3 years?" --From Luisa/On a
SF News Clemency Denied As many legal observers expected, Gov. Schwarzenegger denied Stanley "Tookie" Williams's request for clemency, stating that (.pdf) there was strong evidence supporting the jury's guilty verdict, and that he doesn't really believe that
misc Win Passes to see <i>Come Fly With Me Nude</i> We here at SFist are looking forward to the The 21st Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, which runs from Nov 3-9 at the Kanbar Hall and the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco,
misc Win tickets to <i>Reel Paradise</i>! Our pals at Larsen Associates have come through again, giving us run of engagement passes for , which opens tomorrow at the Lumiere in here in the city, the Act in Berkeley and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe For The (Accidental) Soccer Mom? You Bet! Strange weekend. We're almost exclusively pedestrians, but every so often we're forced to go through the hell that is renting a car. While we hate driving, we were more than happy to make
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 25th Anniversary 26 years ago there wasn't a single Film Festival celebrating the Jewish experience -- 25 years later, there are hundreds of them! As with so many things, San Francisco's was one of the
SF News North Bay Mayhem SFist Amanda, presently on maternity leave, calls in with this report: Breaking news from Marin! Apparently, there was an attempted murder in Kentfield today, as two men in their 20s wearing white football
Arts & Entertainment Punk Farm Then he emailed us about his newest opus, . He told us, "I'm especially excited about it, so any plug that you could give it would be so appreciated (Ed note: Ask, and ye
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Knit On Hark! Do you hear the hosannas of angels wearing roomy striped ponchos and the clicking of bamboo sticks? That's right -- the hipster goddess of knitting, Debbie Stoller, is in town promoting her