SF News SFist Blotter Well, we thought your usual SF criminals were getting all Christmas-y into the spirit of the holiday season what with so little crime reported this past week. the festive spirit is not as
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Bonds' final, fatal backlash continues. (I wonder how he spent his day today? That would make a good dramatic play.) [SFGate, SF Examiner, FCJ , SFBG, The Snitch, CBS 5, NBC3] -- Kicking
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SF News Newsom Has the Unmitigated Gall to Defend Hawaiian Vacation! Mayor Gavin Newsom had the gall -- the gall! -- to defend his Hawaiian sojourn , saying "I was gone Friday and Saturday...and one of the most remarkable things that’s happened in
misc Ask SFist: Why Not Drink the Juice? The main pro-roids (pro-drug?) point was this: seeing as how athletes already push themselves to physical extremes, shouldn't synthetic enhancers also count? Since it also deals with the body? See who's a lightweight,
SF News Saturday, Saturday, Saturday: Migden vs. Leno Rematch For those of you somehow not tempted into becoming a part of Van Santian art -- or, you know, if you sport a vagina -- might we suggest catching round II of the
SF News Indicted: Barry Bonds! Dude. Duuuuuuude. After a four-year federal investigation, today cranky baseball icon Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice. Ouch. And Jesus. He's like Pete Rose, but worse. Which? Again, ouch.
Arts & Entertainment Drink for the Ducks at Doc's Clock Tomorrow Night The kind folks over at Doc's Clock are hosting a fundraiser tomorrow night from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. to benefit Baykeeper. One hundred percent of the sales of Radeberger, Chimay
SF News SFist Blotter It's been quiet over the past couple of days. A little too quiet. Hop to it, hoodlums of SF, we need crime-y content! -- In the foreign realm of Fremont, a routine traffic
SF News You're Out: Coast Guard Commander Replaced After screwing up mandated drug tests and failing to report the severity of the oil spill in a timely fashion, as of this morning Coast Guard Captain William Uberti is out. And an
Arts & Entertainment A Tale Full of Vile Sounds, Weird Fury So foul and poor a play we haven't seen. At least, not during this San Francisco Opera season. That is, until now: behold, the vile production that is Macbeth. It's easier to count
SF News "Oracle World Wasted My Ambien!" Who knew living in a city would be so noisy? We received a few messages this morning regarding mass sleeplessness due to last night's Oracle Open World finale. Even the enchanting Stevie Nick's
SF News MISO Nameless The swell chaps over at Curbed SF have a poll going on about what to name the district that SFist brought to your attention yesterday. You need to vote, people! Rock it, as
SF News ID, Please? San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved municipal ID cards to SF inhabitants yesterday. These (hopefully adorable) new cards can be used by anyone here, it seems -- U.S. resident or not. Tommy
SF News World Dominated By Hitler Goes for $100K Now, before you go labeling Pritiklin an anti-Semite, this man is character -- a true collector and unique hoarder. His home is a mansion stocked with bizarre collectibles, SF Mayoral signatures, its own
SF News Carole and the Case of the $397,000 After paying up last year for disclosure violations, Senator Carole Migden is once again under investigation for not disclosing or itemizing credit card charges that total $397,000. According to the LA Times,
SF News Pierre Valley: A Real Neighborhood After All It seems that there is enough evidence to support the neighborhood's existence. Despite its odd pronunciation, which is meant to rhyme with Noe Valley (which we question, since PV has seemingly seceded from
SF News Guy Robs Bank, Carjacks, Kidnaps, Gets Cuffed Within a 10-minute span, some poor sap ruined his life. According to San Francisco Crime (via Bay City News), at 9:05 a.m. this morning, Sacto resident David Bryant, 51, jumped over
SF News Horrors: Newsom's Hawaiian Weekend Getaway “I was shocked,” said Board of Supervisors Prez Aaron Peskin after being asked about Gavin Newsom's whereabouts this past weekend. Same here. Word is that Gavin was in Hawaii this past weekend, kicking
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Oh dead God: "Hearts in San Francisco" returns. Sweet cuddly baby Jesus, help us all. [Curbed SF] -- Prop A passed. And? [BeyondChron] -- Siamese Conjoined twins separated. Pft. Please. Wake us
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Roller Boogie (1979): '70s campfest about brightly colored roller skaters trying to keep their roller skating rink open should be fun, we think. For some reason older folks seem to have a
SF News SFist Blotter Why, we've been so preoccupied with murder right down the street from SFist, we forgot that the rest of the Bay Area is also littered with shootings and bloody tomfoolery. Forgive us, won't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crabby Over Crab Season Delay Poring over Entertaining the other night, because our pulverized sleeping aid refused to kick in, we got so excited after reading "Bouillabaisse for Twelve to Sixteen". But now any plans of having said
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Clean up to take weeks. (But probably longer, we're betting.) [SFGate] -- Ship pilot called into questioning. [Examiner] -- Behold: your new Spock. [ONTD] -- Look what's now inside Precita Eyes. Something
Arts & Entertainment Touched by an Angela: La Rondine at SF Opera. Now, Angela has some redeeming qualities: one could excuse her for her behavior; being diva in the truest operatic sense of the word, that's her job after all. Plus, she brings excitement to
