SF News Santa Clara Mayor 'Not All That Interested In Football' While the San Francisco 49ers were gearing up to clinch the NFC West, Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews was confessing to the Chronicle on Saturday that he is just, "not that interested in
SF News Santa Clara Approves $10 Million 49ers Stadium Pre-Project At the risk of raining on the victory parade, Santa Clara just approved a $10 million plan to prepare construction for the shiny new 49ers stadium, which will be located right next to
SF News Some Terrible Person is Shooting Ducks With a Blow Gun in Santa Clara In the latest aggressive attack on Bay Area waterfowl, someone in Santa Clara is attacking innocent ducks with a blowgun. Property managers at an apartment complex where the ducks like to hang out
SF News Let Jed York Take You on a Dramatic Tour of the New 49ers Stadium in Santa Clara To drum up support and ticket sales before packing up the Niners and hauling them off to Santa Clara in a couple years, Jed York has built an entire website to showcase his
SF News Phone Outage Affects Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties Thousands of Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz county residents are currently without phone service this morning. They can't even call 911 in case of an emergency. Why? Because of an old,
SF News Shooting Suspect Was Yahoo Engineer Further proof that engineers and Peninsula tech folk are scary Asperger Syndrome types from which you should stay far, far away, Santa Clara police claim that the shooter who murdered his family in
SF News What's That Smell In the Air? Why, It's NorCal Burning Down! If you've noticed over the past couple of days, it's smells a bit smoky, a bit ashy in Baghdad by the Bay. It seems, according to CBS 5, Northern California is suffering from
SF News San Bruno Mountain Wildfire 75% Contained Last night's five-alarm wildfire in the San Bruno Mountains, which threatened homes in South San Francisco, has been 75 percent as of this morning. The crisp weather and fog -- which has mercifully
SF News Sheriff's Deputy In Fatal Bicyclist Crash, Asleep at the Wheel? Alas, it was not a good weekend for cyclists of the Bay Area. The sheriff's deputy that accidentally crashed into three cyclists in Cupertinio over the weekend -- a collision that killed Olympic
misc Local Media Nothing But a Bunch of Cockteasing Bitches We hate shit like this. 66-year-old Santa Clara ice cream man Santokh Singh Sajan made some dirty comments to underage ice cream patrons the others day. Sounds bad, right? And according to the
SF News Crystalline Water Ice Particles Fall from the Sky Yesterday's near perfect weather is now but a sepia-toned memory. Reports of a strange, icy substance, often referred to as "snow," is falling on Mount Diablo, Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County, Mount
misc Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of Sport -Bud and Donald went to Washington yesterday for the annual brow-beating on baseball by congress. Taking the most heat were the Giants, who were shame-shame-shamed (shame of fools) for not doing anything about
SF News UPDATE: Palo Alto Teen's Attacker Caught According Eric Thomas from ABC 7, who went into mighty graphic detail about what happened, a suspect was arrested today for the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old Palo Alto teen. A press
SF News SFist Blotter At Pine and Divisadero on Wednesday afternoon, a man severely slashed a woman with a box cutter (some reports we saw said she might die, while others said the wounds were not life-threatening)
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Democrat fundraiser Norman Hsu is on the run! [Chron, KGO] -- Fred Thompson to run for Prez. [CBS5] -- Now more than ever before, San Diego sucks. [CBS5] -- Cruising, it seems,
SF News Niners Still Not Sure If They're Moving To Santa Clara Offside! Penalty -- three months. Any talk of the Niners moving from San Francisco down to Santa Clara is before the snap (did we get our convoluted football metaphor right? SFist Jon's out
SF News SFist Blotter A four-year-old boy drowned to death in the 2-foot deep section of the wave pool at Great America in Santa Clara yesterday. There were six lifeguards on duty at the time, but there
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Insidious Jam Makers Admit To Eating Nearly Extinct Apricot We always thought that a story regarding an organization called "welovejam.com" would be NSFW. No, this is actually pretty innocent. Delightfully so. These two fellows, Eric Haeberli and Phineas Hoang, started an
SF News Day Around The Bay --Have you checked out the footage (above, 4:34) of someone driving their Prius into the N Judah tunnel? The derisive laughter as the driver sheepishly gets out of the car is awesome.
SF News Day Around The Bay --What with all the excitement about the arrest warrant for Ed Jew, we didn't get a chance to tell you about how just about 50 miles away, the Santa Clara DA's office had
SF News Day Around The Bay --Barack Obama was in town. --Santa Clara would like to have the Niners, but it'll be expensive. --Airport news: there was an emergency landing in Oakland, and a guy with measles came through
SF News Day Around The Bay --They're raising water rates in the city. Guess who doesn't care about that? --The Macarthur Maze is set to reopen tomorrow. --15 goats (used to reduce fire risk) were shot in the Oakland
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Food-Related PSA: Free Haagen-Dazs Hey -- more free ice cream! This one's not left to chance, like that whole "Dreyer's" thing. Anyone and everyone that shows up at Haagen-Dazs on May 15 between 4 p.m. and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated for its Excellence There's a heated and productive conversation happening over in our earlier post about Muni's dangerous plan to get bus-mounted cameras with optional bayonets and gatling guns. One of the best comments (and we
