SF News Day Around The Bay --One person is dead after a Caltrain hit a car in Palo Alto this afternoon. [CBS 5, Merc News.] --The Lauryn Hill show . [The Chron, All Shook Down, the Inside Bay Area Buzz
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3 Questions For A Gelato Slinger The other day, we told you our impressions of Naia Gelateria (nutshell: pretty good overall; you should particularly dig it if you enjoy having a ton of varieties to choose from). We wanted
Arts & Entertainment It's Spelling Bee Time! Tomorrow's the finals of the National Spelling Bee! We've already got our TiVo set for the semifinals (which happen while we're at work), we've cancelled all our evening plans for the finals (on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe in Need is a Cafe Indeed He writes, In the past, we’ve tried comedy, live music, wine events, family nights, and various “get-something-free” promotions. ... In our perfect world, we’d find some sort of evergreen event that is
SF News Day Around The Bay --Chihuahua race! --And speaking of a chihuahua race, Gavin Newsom refuses to sign Chris Daly's budget proposal. We're hoping for a fight! (Daly has enough votes to override a veto.) --Drug-resistant TB hits
SF News Massing for Mass This is all in response to last month's Mass which saw two stories of supposed bike mayhem, that being the poor, scared soccer mom trapped in her mini-van and the angry limo driver
misc Of Course, You Know, This Means War City spokesman Brad Rovanpera said that nobody seemed to notice anything until news trucks started showing up in the Creek to report on all this. The reason, of course, is that now we
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Barbie We got this forwarded to us in e-mail recently and it's kind of funny. Who doesn't love busting on people from the East Bay. Mattel recently announced the release of the improved limited-edition
misc Lafayette Crosses Go Neon The reasons for the new sign is because of last night's little speech that the President gave. Activists behind the crosses are calling it a "panic button" or "stop sign" and hope that
SF News Tauscher Gets Tut-Tutted The trouble started for her a couple of weeks ago when the President tried doing some outreach to out-and-proud Democratic moderates and so invited a few over for tea. One of the Democrats
SF News Everybody Loves Livermore? Money Magazine has published its annual list of "Best places to live" in these here United States, with the highest ranking Bay Area city coming at number 31. While we've never visited the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies at Dolores Park Behind us was Film Geek guy who spent the entire night dazzling his fawning girlfriend with his amazing ability to discover plot holes. In front of us was some woman who just couldn't
misc Craigslist Encounters: Free Stuff! Buy your own store! Or an Airplane Hanger! Right now there are over a dozen free pianos on Craigslist. It seems that budget cuts to state sponsored art programs are finally having an effect on music appreciation! There are also over
misc Local Coffee Guy Takes A Fall; Coffee Community Helps Him Back Up Some time ago, we met Steve Ford, who, among other things pulls a great shot of espresso. We met him during his tenure with the stalkerriffic Blue Bottle Coffee Company; since our encounter,
misc SFist Whines and Dines: Pier 23 Since this is the Year of the Dog, we decided to try out some Eastern Medicine and try some canine acupuncture. That’s right – acupuncture for dogs and cats, just without the new
Arts & Entertainment Slightly Frightening Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Female: So I Googled myself the other day. Male: ....and? Female: It was a to give that reporter my name at
misc Animal Roundup: Deer Shot, Orinda Safe Remember that terrorizing deer that killed a dog in Orinda? Breathe safe, ladies -- he's been rubbed out -- with one shot. The trapper making the town safe again works for the US
Arts & Entertainment Still Yvesdropping We know it's not as good as overheard in new york. Send us some better quotes if you don't like the ones we've been using. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail
SF News Explosion in Walnut Creek Two construction workers were killed and two others remain missing after yesterday's huge explosion in Walnut Creek. A third person is still unaccounted for, but they think he might be an injured man
SF News Spare the Air On the down side, it's still hot and, eeeegh, it looks really gross out. On the up side -- free BART! As part of the Spare the Air program, BART is working with
