SF News SFPD Puts a Stop to CashTomato's Giveaway Inside Dolores Park Huh. The San Francisco Police Department has put the kibosh on tomorrow's Dolores Park free cash giveaway care of Cash Tomato. Check it: This Saturday 23rd February at 10am, we had planned to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like that;
SF News Calling All Flamers You have, well, two entire days to fill out and return your application to become a torchbearer for the San Francisco leg of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay. The San Francisco relay
SF News Dame Fires Gun in Holding Area After SFPD Botch Search This is rich. The San Francisco Police Department are now having to investigate their own brethren. It appears that last Saturday morning, SFPD missed finding a firearm on a female suspect being booked
SF News SF Zoo Closed Tomorrow. Again. The San Francisco Zoo will remain closed on Friday, December 28, 2007. Please visit www.sfzoo.org for information as to when the Zoo will reopen to the public. According to their site,
misc Feed The Hungry, Everyone! Feel that? Why, those are your heart stings being tugged care of us and this cool little guy over here on the right. (Who like totally did not just make us completely tear
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Testing Toys for Lead at Union Square Would the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission approve of today's event? Has this federal watchdog been co-opted by industry? Is the Center for Environmental Health a "bounty hunter" practicing "legal blackmail"? What
SF News Just Shoot Us Sadly, the website is a little confusing -- a lot of , and their plans for implementation are alarmingly sparse. And what's the difference between "Not Aware" and "Don't Know"? Navigating through the poll
Arts & Entertainment SF to Represent at the Emmy Awards Wait, what? The San Francisco cast of Jersey Boys is performing at the Emmys? Whoop-dee-do. How are we supposed to get excited about that? Sorry to be a tease, but we do have
SF News A Cop's Perspective On Use of Force At AT&T Park It must be oddly freeing to have an ongoing, very public work-related crisis, because Officer Andrew Cohen seems to have a lot to say these days. And why the heck not? It's an
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Theater Festival Breaks A Leg This past Sunday, under blazing blue skies in the City's snuggly warm SOMA bosom of Yerba Buena Gardens (YBG), there were no microphones, no stage lights, and no admission fees (and sadly no
Arts & Entertainment SF Jewish Film Fest: <i>Sweet Mud (Adama Me'shuga'at)</i> The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) is the first and only Jewish film festival in the world. At least that's what the President of the SFJFF said at the Castro Theatre last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Knight Bus Comes to San Francisco A few more shots after the jump. All photos courtesy of Mugglewatch.uk
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV There were a lot of locals in the world of reality TV this week! "America's Got Talent" included an audition from an East Bay music teacher named Michael Strelo-Smith. He had an OK
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Phil Bronstein Phil Bronstein is the Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In no small part thanks to Eve Batey (our "Editrix Emeritus" and the Chron's current blogging and interactive editor), Mr. Bronstein agreed to
misc SFist Give-Away: 86 Recipe Cards The San Francisco world of restaurant gossip columnists went head over heels when Grace-Ann Walden retired from the Chronicle and the Inside Scoop column. She had all the info, friends in all dining
misc World Still a Potentially Scary Place What's the price of a free society? Lunatics running around loose: online threats have lead UC Hastings to shut down, just for today. What are the threats? Who's responsible? We don't know. What
SF News Make Your Own SFist T-Shirts! Anyways, if Pat's shirt inspires you to make your own personalized SFist gear too, check out our Spreadshirt.com shop, which should be in the middle of the left-hand margin column. You can
SF News Treasure Hunt: An Ounce of Bliss Their name's the stuff our dreams are made of but the first minute we spend at The San Francisco Chocolate Factory doesn't bode well. "Do you make the chocolate here?" We ask, our
Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
SF News We Said, Now We've Got Our Magic Bus The main component of the plan is to have a bus-only lane for the buses. Obviously, the thinking is that one of the main things that holds up buses is traffic and evil
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SF Underground Short Film Festival! Aw, yeah! Though the Midnight Mass film series has ended, Peaches Christ isn't done with us yet. This Saturday, she opens the doors of the Bridge Theatre for one last midnight extravaganza, The
SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
Arts & Entertainment We Take It All Back, Mick LaSalle. OK, Not Really. The Mission District of San Francisco is the kind of place where transgender bike messengers live chockablock with marketing executives, thrift stores brace for the encroachment of Starbucks, and heroin addicts nod off
misc School District Employees to Strike This Week Last Thursday, teachers representing the United Educators of San Francisco met to hear from the SEIU as they consider plans to strike in solidarity with the custodians, cafeteria workers and secretaries. The teacher's
