SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
SF News Squint When You Ride That Based on the homicidal meanderings of SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan, this tour covers about 10 miles, stopping off at specific locations seen in the 1971 antihero vehicle, "Dirty Harry". Tour Captain Brandon Baunach
SF News Bomber? Bomber? Your Macchiato Is Up! We mock the SFPD, but only because we love! The Foggy Lady's finest have released photos of a "person of interest" that they want to talk to about yesterday's Starbucks pipe bomb incident.
SF News Helen and David We're getting a creepy Harold and Maude vibe here -- what else are you going to think when a 30-year-old man enters into a suicide pact with a 109-year-old woman in San Francisco?
SF News Starbucks Is The Bomb It's a triple espresso shot in your crime Blotter/coffee Trimethyl latte -- the SFPD were called in this afternoon to the Starbucks on Van Ness and Bush after an employee found a
SF News Help Spider Davila Spider was on his bike at the corner of 20th and Florida in the Mission at about 12:30 p.m. a.m. on December 17, making a cell phone call, when a
SF News Four Out Of Five Unsolved We've gotten kind of into this show on A&E called "The First 48," which follows homicide detectives during the first 48 hours of a murder investigation. As the narrator intones over
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
SF News Have You Seen Jerry Tang? See this PDF for a better picture of Tang, who experienced a stroke which has left him with balance, memory and epilepsy issues at age 37. He is on an anti-seizure medication that
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Metallica and The Rolling Stones We got an email from a Noe Valley resident who confirmed they too could "hear every note several miles away in Noe Valley with all [their] windows closed." They called the SFPD who
Arts & Entertainment Deadly Juice Squeeze Things got a little ugly on Fifth and Mission yesterday, as the World Can't Wait protestors struck a blow against George Bush by tossing Molotov cocktails at the right-wing bastion of the San
SF News Police Commissioner Peter Keane Quits Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking
misc SFist Rants: Emergency Kits Was anyone else a little unnerved to see that "major earthquake in San Francisco" is listed as the number 2 scenario for FEMA practice, right below "terrorist attack on New York" and right
SF News Political Junkie: I'm Chris Daly, Bitch! Beef -- it's what's for dinner! Here's the full contents of a letter from Supervisor Chris Daly to the Sentinel, in response to Pat Murphy and Luke Thomas's editorial about the CitySafe program:
SF News Could the Message Be Any Clearer? We'll we've got an update in the oh-so-exciting negotiations between the Media Workers Guild and the management of the San Francisco Chronicle (as you should know by now, part of the Hearst publishing
misc SFist Blotter/Animal Roundup Nick Faibish's mauling continues to send shock waves across the city -- Gavin Newsom's announced that he's starting a panel to look into possible restrictions on pit bull ownership in San Francisco. Gavin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drop The Fajita This just in -- a Sacramento jury has found Alex Fagan Jr. not guilty in the Fajitagate trial. The jury found him innocent of two felony assault charges and hung on the misdemeanor
Arts & Entertainment Solarize This Hey, a fight in the Tenderloin that doesn't involve Supervisor Chris Daly? Singer and Angry British Man Ian Brown, the former lead singer of the Stone Roses ("I Wanna Be Adored" -- yeah,
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Supervisors Can Be Such Bitches We all know it -- bloggers really be such bitches (buy your SFist t-shirt bearing said message right here right now!) -- so guess who's the City's newest entrant in the blogrolls? That's
SF News SFist Goes To City Hall -- What's Up With SFPD Press Passes? We were originally tipped to the meeting of the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee by a friend at the SF Call, a local alternative news source that you can find online.
SF News Irony Thy Name Is City Hall Since we hear that the SFPD is issuing passes on the basis of how "breaking" the news is that is covered by the respective organizations, we'd like to remind everyone that you heard
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
SF News Cops Summit Kilimanjaro to Honor Officer Espinoza Slashdot today points out that Cops on Top, the organization that climbs peaks to memorialize fallen officers, has been keeping an audioblog from their ascent of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to honor SFPD officer
SF News Shhhhhhhh You might want to express your support for our city's striking laborers with just the big smile and the thumbs-up for the next few days: the police have started fining people who honk
SF News Warrant Issued in Murder of Timothy Griffith The San Francisco Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of Rafael Antonio Cuevas, who is suspected of being the man who murdered Timothy Griffith after the Giants game on Friday,
