SF News Weekend Blotter You know we usually try to hoard up all the crime-type news for the Tuesday and Friday blotters, but there was enough vaguely unsettling news this weekend to warrant a post a little
SF News Day Around the Bay -- After 11 shootings and 3 deaths since yesterday -- since yesterday -- a Richmond gang war results in SWAT teams hitting the streets. [Chron, CBS5] -- Man breaks into Haight home after
SF News SFist Blotter Do you have any information? A Fremont family is trying to get some answers about the circumstances of their father's mysterious death. The father suffered a heart attack at Van Ness and Market
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Creators of The Thing If you can’t wait that long we have two suggestions. The first is to read the interview below in which you will find that Will and Jonn have a lot of great
SF News SFist Blotter Those activists living in the trees at UC Berkeley admitted that okay, maaaaaaybe they cut off the tops of the trees they were complaining about the university damaging. The leader of the tree-sitting
Arts & Entertainment Frozen Silent: Your Film Fest Options This Weekend At the Castro this weekend, the organists are warming up -- it's time for the Silent Movie Festival. This year's lineup features a series of Hal Roach comedies, a Cecil B. DeMille over-the-top
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Geek out! At Ask a Scientist SF, a monthly lecture slash happy hour with a guest speaker on some sciencey topic. This month's meet-up touches on everything you ever wanted to know about
SF News Day Around The Bay --Ha! The guy to your right ran for mayor of Barcelona, and doesn't he look like Matt Gonzalez? By copatbark from the SFist Flickr stream. --John Edwards was in town at Google. So
Arts & Entertainment Cal Performances' Lauded Leader Leaving Under Coles' tenure, ticket sales increased ten-fold and the center has increased its events, now hosting more than 80 per year. Performances have been given by prestigious music, opera, theater, and dance groups
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Pollan Cares About the Farm Bill (And You Should Too) No longer a little-known piece of farm legislation that would dictate agriculture funding and policy while no one was paying attention. This year, food and farm advocates are pushing hard to publicize the
SF News Nobel Prize Found UC Berkeley police said Sanchez showed the prize off to his friends and one of them tipped off the cops. Probably because there was a $2,500 reward for information about the stolen
SF News Grand Theft Berkeley One has to wonder who would actually go around stealing a Nobel Prize in physics. A rival physicist who didn't get the award? A really smart thief? An international Nobel Prize thief who
misc National Condom Week! (How Did We Miss This?) But luckily… we forgot all of our problems, when we found out that today is the last day of National Condom Week! February 14- 21! Hurry to the PPGG website to take the
Arts & Entertainment McLaren Park: It's Time Us Full-figure Girls Get Noticed To Little Miss Golden Gate Park, princess of the City, Honey, I'm sick of you and your flat-ass panhandle getting all the attention. You think you're the only park in the whole City
SF News There is Unrest in the Forest, There is Trouble With the Trees The cops are saying that the encampment had become a public safety concern. Protestors, however, said that they weren't camping out, they were just there 24 hours a day. Ever since UC Berkeley
SF News Don't Panic Yet Actually, the scientists say that there's small earthquakes happening all the time and it's just that a few of these were more noticeable than others. The good news is it's not a harbinger
SF News Don't Answer The Phone, Don't Open The Door Friday's incident at the Cloyne Court co-op involved a recent graduate from the stats department, who was found unresponsive in the dorm room of a friend he was visiting. An autopsy is scheduled
Arts & Entertainment F*** That Bridge: East Bay Events Over Labor Day Weekend As we mentioned here before, the Bay Bridge eastbound will be closed Labor Day weekend. For those of us who live East of the Edenic S.F., here are some cultural offerings on
SF News Cody's Books, 1956-2006 Happy 50th birthday, Cody's Books, and rest in peace, Cody's Telegraph Street -- the most iconic branch of the Cody's Books triumverate is closing for good tonight at 8 p.m. Folks are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Tries the Shangri-La Diet It's not what you think, the food is quite good. Inka must serve domestic sodas, but there you can try some Inka Cola, the Peruvian equivalent of Coca-Cola. If you were a sommelier
Arts & Entertainment Get Out Of My Dreams And Onto My Couch cinematic superimpositions, symbolic imagery of razors and knives, and menacing shadows create a frightening world. A professor (Werner Krauss) is driven into a state of terror by strange intense nightmares accompanied by compulsive
misc Late Registration Looks like the UC Registrar's going to have to cut some refund checks -- $33.8 million worth! A San Francisco court has ruled that the UC's fee hikes for professional students were
SF News The Heartbreak Of Reply-All There are so many good reply-all stories: the person in the office who accidentally distributes their snide response to an office-wide email; the fun-loving fake email sent to #ALL PERSONNEL from the computer
SF News Tiiiiiimber! But now that honor has been taken away, as she was suspended from Tree duty, after February 9th's Stanford-Cal basketball game. She first drew the attention of UC Berkeley 5-0 when she began
misc Doin' The Evolution Jeanne Caldwell, whose husband, Larry Caldwell runs an organization that sues schools over the teaching of evolution, filed the suit. Because it's for the kids, you know-- they might not be able to
