SF News If Launched, North Korean Missiles Would Hit The West Coast In 30 Minutes People in my generation (X, if you hadn't guessed) spent our first 20 or so years under the constant threat of nuclear war. Back then it was with the since defunct(ish) USSR,
SF News Remembering Tupac: Chicken Wings and Blunts Not necessarily local, but in breaking OG West Coast news, friends of behemoth rapper Tupac Shakur have just come out with the details of Tupac’s memorial. According to rapper Young Noble: “[We]
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misc SFist Tonight Let's Get Lost (1988): Bruce Weber followed around jazz trumpeter and heroin addict Chet Baker on a year-long excursion, "from the West Coast, to the East Coast, to Europe--including a stop at the
misc San Francisco's 4th Annual Walk for Life, Counter Demonstration Didn't seem as contentious as in years past. Read IndyBay's take on it and see some photos if you want. Speaking of photos, we've got ten more after the jump. See you there.
misc See You at the Anti-Abortion Protest, Ladies! This year's abortion bash, Walk for Life-West Coast, will take place tomorrow, Jan 19, on the lawn area of Justin Herman Plaza down by the Embarcadero from 10:30 a..m. to 1:
SF News American Football Spectacular: Wild Card Wknd 2008, "And Then The Rain..." -- the Jesus Lizard, "And Then The Rain"The NFL's 2008 Wild Card Wknd has arrived at the same time as this rainstorm front. It's forecasted to be wet at both of Saturday's
misc American Football Spectacular: Donohue's Deceit, Garcia's Return, And Delicious Garlic With the perpetual rebuilding process that is the San Francisco 49er franchise, every so often an old part of old successes will cycle back through SF. This Sunday, Gilroy’s second-most-favorite export returns
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: December 10-16 David Bazan is traveling up the West Coast before he jumps over Europe to finish his tour. He'll be stopping in at the Bottom of the Hill, where he'll play his witty folk/
Arts & Entertainment Eat it, Portland! San Francisco Most "Walkable" City Everybody get and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas here in .pdf. But why are we talking about Portland? And what about
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Exxon Valdez Doppelgänger Visits SF Bay Why is it that the single-hulled 980-something-foot-long Exxon Valdez is effectively banned by the government from hauling petroleum from southern Alaska to the west coast, while the very similar single-hulled, 980-something-foot-long S/R
Arts & Entertainment They've Done It Again Instantly the audience responded positively to the well-blended vocals, perfectly crafted pop-hooks and the organic-sounding drums played by NYC Subway musician, Shakerleg. You can not deny that these two Australian brothers, Issac and
Arts & Entertainment Mini-View with Charlie M. from the Happy Hollows Do you have any Bay Area ties? Yes, our singer Sarah is from here. And she went to SF State. Actually, none of us are from LA. Chris and I are from DC.
Arts & Entertainment Win a Pair of Tickets to See <em>Thin Air</em> ODC Theater welcomes Guggenheim Fellow Donna Uchizono and her New York-based dance company with its west coast debut,Thin Air. Hailed by the almighty New York Times as "brilliantly imaginative," Uchizono draws inspiration
Arts & Entertainment L'Orchestra Di Piazza Vittorio -- Movie And Performance We love it when events combine movies and music! So check out The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio, a documentary about the creation of a multi-ethnic world music orchestra from Italy. Diverse residents of
Arts & Entertainment The Dirty Ol' Fall Tour Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers and special guest MoZella October, 4 2007 Cafe du Nord (2170 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94101) Cost : $12 All Ages Photo courtesy of flickr user: caitlinbango
misc Blocker: 400 Cortland Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News American Football Spectacular: The 2007 49ers, "Nolan's Great Leap Forward" The glaring problem with the 2007 San Francisco 49ers is that there are two 49er teams: the American football team that Head Coach Nolan II will put on the field of play this
SF News 20,000 Doses of GHB, Oh My The GHB, worth around $400,000 (wow) is now being analyzed to determine its origin. Huh. Science is way more advanced than we realized. Our old roommate used to make the stuff at
SF News Megabus Megacheap The big draw are the $1 tickets (yes, you read that right, one dollar to go to LA) -- if you're one of the first four people to book on a particular bus,
SF News American Football Spectacular Remembers Bill Walsh Yesterday, the gentleman who came to be called The Genius passed away from leukemia at the age of 75. The importance of Bill Walsh to San Francisco sports, and the whole of the
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: The Tyrant. Despite wearing the beret of a dictator, Duykers comes across as pretty innocuous as far as tyrant goes: he anguishes about writing a speech for the 20th anniversary of the coup that put
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our second offering of prizes comes from two great bands playing on Tuesday night at the Independent: Great Northern and Loney, Dear. For a long time we had an irrational aversion to the
Arts & Entertainment It's a Blog War! So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when
