SF News Free Market Head-Scratcher: Who'd Have Thought, Bargain-Basement Housing Not Always of Highest Quality But like we said: it's cheap! Jeff's been making the most of rent control for years and years now, and he'd like to keep it that way. Well, of course! Who doesn't like
SF News SFist Blotter The latest weekend murder in SF: At around noon on Saturday, a 66-year-old Asian man was shot to death after a road rage incident in Viz Valley. Witnesses say the man was arguing
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Alameda County judge tells Berkeley tree squatters, like the scrappy Ninjah and Stork here, to climb down. For good. [SFGate] -- Car crash on the 101 kills one, lands two in jail.
SF News American Football Spectacular: No Surprise * Seattle vs. San Francisco Sunday, September 30, 2007. 1:00 PM, PST. Week 04 The Surpriseless Battle This is it, the game that will tell whether the 49ers can seize the lead in
Arts & Entertainment Our Glass Runneth Over As a prelude to the big event, the world premiere of Appomattox next Friday at the opera house, composer Philip Glass was hosting a night of chamber music at Herbst Theater last night.
Arts & Entertainment It's Hard not to be Well-Dressed When Surrounded by Men in Leatherpig Outfits We were alerted to an alternative-alternative picnic happening at the Folsom Street Fair via the Finch Mob, a terrifying local gang of drug addicts. Apparently some folks are going to dress up , and
Arts & Entertainment Groovy Scavenger Hunt This Weekend You might think "potatoes" when you hear this street. Something big and red, there you might meet. If figuring out rhyming, city-themed clues is your kind of fun (and why wouldn't it be)
misc Thanks to This Week's Advertisers Once again, we would like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Sarah Silverman Program, who has new episodes starting in October. Cazadores, because after a long week,
SF News Apple Store for Marina Dwellers Because sluts and date-rapists (we kid!) like iPhones and PowerBooks just as much as dorks, Apple is racing to open up its third SF store, this time in the Marina district on Chestnut
SF News SFist Blotter Oh No, Chris Kavanaugh! Berkeley's own Ed Jew, a Green Party member of the Berkeley rent board who was actually living (and litigating with his landlord) in Oakland, pled not guilty to three
SF News One In and One Out One day in San Francisco politics you're in, and the next day, you're out. IN: District 1 Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, who successfully managed to fend off the petitions calling for his recall, which
SF News Day Around the Bay -- So it has come to this: Barry Manilow, Brian Boitano, AT&T Park, and ice. [Examiner] -- The fuzz busts cannabis-sweets fusion culinary artists. [Oakland Tribune] -- Arrested Berkeley Rent Board
Arts & Entertainment Francis Ford Coppola's <em>Tetro</em> Screenplay Swiped This is startling: Francis Ford Coppola has a Zoetrope Argentina office. What's more, the other night thieves came in and "tied up employees and took computers, cameras and other valuables" including his screenplay
Arts & Entertainment Literary Fest Litquake Opens With Lovely Laura Linney Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until many
SF News ...In A Material World Newsflash! It costs a lot of money to live here in the Bay Area -- 40% above the national average. Fortunately, salaries are generally higher here to cover at least some of the
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For DocFest! We love documentaries -- they're like reality TV, with a popcorn stand! So you know we're totally psyched for SF Indiefest's sixth annual Docfest, which starts up tomorrow and goes through next week!
misc We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to
Arts & Entertainment An Army of Philistines We got word that 27,000 people made a reservation to attend this Friday's Opera at the Ballpark. 27,000! And there are still tickets left! Tonight is the last day to see
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: We Suport It's on! Gavin Newsom's finally pulled the trigger (.pdf), and Ed Jew is out (at least for now). What odds do you have on poor beleagued Ed Jew lawyer Steven Gruel filing a
SF News Sutro Baths Back Then We found this short clip of people frolicking at the Sutro Baths -- which, really, looks like so much fun! -- shot by Thomas Edison on October 25, 1897. But our question is
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Gargantuan steroid sting nabs two Bay Area brothers. [SJ Merc] -- PC World editor's suspected killers could receive death sentences. [Chron] -- Marines banned from filming commercial in SF. [FOX] -- Another
Arts & Entertainment Nolita Uses Anorexic Model In Ads That headline doesn't seem like news, but this model appears to be of a different eating-disorder variety. (Think The Insider-anorexic, not Anna Wintour-anorexic) Anyway, SF Fashion Week -- which came and went without
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
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Cammerin Boyd killed by reasonable force, says jury. [Chron] -- Behold: the 54 million dollar SF home. Bow down before it, plebeians and renters! [CurbedSF] -- Argentina hosts the gay World Cup
SF News Maria Shriver Visits the Tenderloin For Family Day Destination Turk Street in the TL, our First Lady Maria Shriver is coming to town to celebrate Family Day ("a day to eat dinner with your children"), and in part for "It About
