SF News UCSF Researcher Nabs Nobel Prize For Medicine Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 60, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Francisco, won the Nobel Prize for medicine today. Just what , exactly, did Blackburn do to win this this fancy
Arts & Entertainment Arse Elektronika 2009 Festival, 10/1 - 10/4 Arse Elektronika 2009, the annual conference on sex, technology and the future, kicks off tonight. Here's how this year's kinky conference (“Of Intercourse & Intracourse”) is being described. We may not forget that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the opening night of the Open Source Embroidery exhibit at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art. The show brings together individual and collectively made artworks by artists, makers, computer programmers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Duncan Jones (David Bowie's son) pays homage to classic sci-fi films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner in the acclaimed Moon. Sam Rockwell stars as a solitary astronaut
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jazz quartet Yellowjackets are promoting, Lifecycles, their first album in 15 years, which was recorded in collaboration with high-energy guitar virtuoso Mike Stern and received a Grammy nomination. The five players will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Off-the-wall comedian Maria Bamford has a knack for introducing the audience to her myriad of multiple personalities/dysfunctional family members during her stand-up routine, and we especially enjoy her occasional appearances on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Did someone say free Scotch tasting? Enjoy a free tasting of Balvenie scotch with some light snacks, along with raffle prizes, as author Howard Miller celebrates the release of his book You’
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SPORTS: The San Francisco ShEvil Dead duke it out with the Richmond Wrecking Belles at the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls' Duel on the Docks, a full contact, all female, flat-track
SF News Quantum Physics Attack Ends In Jury Acquittal Jason Everett Keller, 40, the San Mateo man who attacked another sans maison gentleman with a skateboard during a presumably heated quantum physics discussion, was acquitted of all charges on Thursday. During said
SF News SF Agency Donates $40.6M for Stem Cell Training Grants Delightful news, folks. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (a stem cell research funding agency established thanks to Prop 71 in the 2004 election) put their seal of approval on 15 grants to
misc Film du Jour: Green Graduation Cap Aw, recent college graduates. Aren't they adorable? They're younger than you, they're prettier than you, they believe in things, they can drink more than you, and they will steal your jobs. Take, for
SF News Five Million Year Old Whale Bones Discovered on Santa Cruz Beach Santa Cruz County construction crews spotted a fossilized vertebrae sticking out of the ground at Mid-County beach last month, which paleontologists have since identified as the remains of a whale, likely dating back
SF News Mars Phoenix Lander Finds Water Ice Our sister site LAist informs us, via the Mars Phoenix Lander's Twitter, that water ice has been found on the planet Mars today. At around 5:15 p.m., NASA folks exclaimed, "Are
misc Maker Faire Fun Thinking about going to the Maker Faire? You know, the adult science fair? You should. It's loads of fun. Don't believe us? Check out SFist's partner in binge drinking, the brilliant Nate Halverson
SF News Did You Hear It? After their American Idol hour was unforgivably interrupted by the San Francisco Police Department making an announcement last night, a reader writes to SFist asking: At about 8:55pm tonight, my viewing of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Beatropolis: Oh joy! Beatropolis has returned! (Not that they really went anywhere, but it always feels like forever when they're not around.) Anyway, Beatropolis' special brand of dance rock, live drum 'n' bass,
misc Cosco Busan Update: Hearing for Pilot Skedded for April 2. The Incident Specific Preparedness Review team is finally done with its 112-page report regarding the first two weeks of response after the accident. You'll get a chance to read it before Super
misc Contest: Melee @ Slim's 01/18/08 Until June, from sunny Phoenix, traveled to Los Angeles in hopes of a record deal. Obviously, at first, they got lost in the mix, but promised themselves that if they didn't have a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Crime in Choir: CIC rocks it. Hard. For reals. Big time. One of the purest sounds coming out of SF these days, really. Brave the chill and head down to Potrero Hill
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
misc Lick Observatory Observes New Planet According to the Merc, "astronomers have discovered a fifth planet circling a star beyond our solar system -- a star that holds the record for the most orbiting extrasolar worlds." Using the Doppler
SF News Go Blackle™ Yourself Australia's Heap Media created Blackle™, a Google-powered search engine that provides Internet users with an environmentally-friendly alternative to search engines that use an energy-hogging white background. Apparently, having a black background saves a
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,
misc Dell Using Nerd Wins Physics Nobel Prize No longer just for cute Aryan stoners, Albert Fert of the Scientific Research National Center in Paris -- who just received the Nobel Prize for physics alongside Peter Gruenberg for their massive brainpower
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Sorry for the delay in getting SFist Tonight out. This afternoon was steeped in several fun-filled return trips to CompUSA, dealing with customer service. So much fun was had, folks, that we felt
