SF News Who Are These Guys? That's three in a row, putting them 1 1/2 behind the first place Friars for the NL West lead and just a game back in the Wild Card race. This also puts
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Diameter of a Bomb</i> And then, about three quarters of the way into the movie, we started to understand what the movie is about. In one sense, yes, it's about how awful terrorism is, but there's more
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: SFist Has You Covered In addition to our coverage, we'll be giving away tickets to DocFest screenings, of course. So come back to SFist early and often for all sorts of DocFesty goodness. In fact, let's kick
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
SF News Your Commute: (408) 850-6125 Caltrain service is delayed in both directions this morning after a suicidal man jumped in front of a northbound train at Mountain View around 7:15 a.m. today. As of around 9:
SF News Missing Person At Sutro Baths The police are still piecing together the story, but they know Attaie must have fallen in some time after 11 a.m., because his friend has a digital photo of Attaie from around
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: John Vanderslice Hopefully you're the lucky winner of the Feist tickets tonight so that you can catch John Vanderslice opening. This interview first ran last August, and SFist is republishing it to enhance your Noisepop
SF News Your Commute: TGIF Thank goodness it's Fridays, all you folks who don't work at home. Boy, it's been an almost comically-bad week for commuting: doesn't the Gitmo Montgomery shutdown seem like it happened ages ago? Well,
Arts & Entertainment Suicide Prevention is Serious Business, Except When It's Hilarious We suppose that sometimes you've got to laugh, otherwise you'll cry, when it comes to "Laughs for Life," an evening of comedy benefiting San Francsico Suicide Prevention. The SFSP hotline has run 24/
SF News SchwartzenWatcher's Got Nothing So, this week we're going to operate on the principle of giving people what they want. And what do they want? Skeletons from Arnie's prodigious closet. Like this video of him in a
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 Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
SF News Pistol Packin' Pardners Piss on Prop H In 2002, nearly 10 in every 100,000 Californians died at the hands of a firearm, for a totaly of 3,410 deaths according to the Center for Disease Control and Injury Prevention.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Tamed Madness Bernard Loiseau was a sad casualty of a similar debate: this French chef committed suicide, alledgedly because the Michelin was going to take his third star away (on a scale of three). His
Arts & Entertainment Interview: John Vanderslice The best things in life really are free. Free shows at Amoeba fall into the category of one of the reasons that living in San Francisco is totally awesome. Tomorrow (Tues.) the day
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Television This Week We've been cable-free since 2001, but when we reunited with our long-lost boyfriend TiVo (who left our lives about four years ago, along with a really great cat and a man on whom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Staff of Life Pass the basket, please! The San Francisco-based US Bread Baking Guild competitive team won this year's Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, described as "the World Cup of bread baking." The team coach
SF News Humanitarian Marla Ruzicka Claimed By Violence In Iraq In a terribly tragic irony, Marla Ruzicka, who grew up in Lake County, and worked tirelessly for Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange before founding her own organization, "The Campaign For Innocent Victims of Conflict"
SF News Suicide Isn't Painless Since the bridge was built in 1937, an estimated 1,500 have leapt to their death on the bridge, but the number is completely unknown as the bodies of many who have jumped
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
SF News Documentarian Secretly Films Suicides Okay, we try not to pull story ideas from the front page of the Chron too often. After all, you can scan the headlines above the fold in the box without actually having
SF News SFist Blotter Did you hear sirens last night? There was a high speed chase starting from Turk and Gough in San Francisco around 12:15 a.m. that went for 30 minutes, reached speeds of
