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Day Around the Bay
Pigeons fly away as Carol Rothman walks Vern at Spreckels Lake in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) It rained. [Weather Underground] Sixth suspect, Elvis Torrentes, 21, charged in Richmond HS gang rape. [SFGate] Eyewitness account of Muni station fight says the ticket agent is the real victim. [Eye On Blogs] Blessed be, a Google heir is born. [Valleywag] SFUSD teachers may be booted. [SF Examiner] Jacques Pepin would like most...
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3rd Annual California Dreaming Same-Sex Ballroom Dancing Competition
While today's young San Francisco gay gent prefers to (pretend to) skateboard, spend the night frolicking at Bender's, and eschew the art of proper hygiene, there was a day when the effete dandy reigned supreme among the homo sect. (No, Rufus Wainwright doesn't count. Ever.) And those dandies, if only the days of yore had allowed it, would have put on their Sunday best and busted it up on the ballroom floor. Lots of...
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Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Virgin America, with its new non-stop route from LAX and SFO to Ft. Lauderdale starting 11/18. Pirate Radio,the new comedy starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, from the creator of Love Actually. In theatres 11/13. GroupOn, using collective buying power to bring you one ridiculous coupon each day. American Apparel, with 3 stores in San Francisco, you can look your best after dark....
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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dinosaur Jr.'s "Over It"
With the new album, The Farm, J Mascis and the gang return to mid-nineties form in sound and song writing. They're performing at The Fillmore tonight and we believe there are still some tickets available. The video above embarrasses us a little, if only because they're all a little old to be on skateboards and BMXs, but we suppose that's the point....
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Photo du Jour 501
"Where are you transmitting from?" by Travis Jensen....
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Verizon Droid: Big Deal? Or Just Another Late Arrival Rival?
According to this woman, who was in line at 3 a.m. this morning at a Verizon store in order to be the very first owner of a Motorola Droid phone in SF, this is "the phone [she's] been waiting for." What do you think, dear readers? Certainly Apple deserves a worthy rival, but has the iPhone just been around too long and the market for apps just become such a monolothic thing to overcome...
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SFist Tonight
Leanne is off for the day, taking care of the proverbial bun in her proverbial oven. So, please, bear with us as we throw a list of stuff at you. And remember: just because it's rainy outside doesn't mean you should go crazy and not have fun tonight. How else are you going to show off that new scarf and umbrella? ART: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Street Art San Francisco, featuring...
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SFist Drinks: A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino
As we noted last week in the New School Cocktail Glossary, the bar program over at Camino in Oakland, just like the food, is focused entirely on local, seasonal, sustainable, organic ingredients and spirits -- so that means if there's a point in time when there are no local limes available, all the drinks will be made without limes, and all the drinks are made with local liquors. Camino was opened last year by...
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Murderous Crazy Edward Wycoff May Get Death Penalty in El Cerrito Murders
We feel compelled to update you on Edward Wycoff, the Sacramento County truck driver who killed his sister and brother-in-law, Paul and Julie Rogers, in their El Cerrito home in 2006 because they had "screwed up" his family. The completely batshit insane, lawyer-hating, egomaniacal bigot, who was somehow allowed to represent himself at trial despite the fact that he obviously has a personality disorder of some kind and might be legally insane, was convicted...
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Cyclists: Let the Backlash Begin (or Not)
Scott James of NYT Bay Area did something a bit crafty. He perched a camera at Duboce and Steiner, capturing cars and cyclists during their morning commutes. While not the busiest or most dangerous intersection in San Francisco, it is, as James points out, a complex one where "cars, pedestrians, cyclists and the MUNI N-Line all converge." During the speedy video (40 minutes condensed to 8), "7 cyclists come to a complete stop, 15...
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Car Thief Steals Vehicle To Get To Auto-Theft Trial
Now this? Is our kind of criminal. With no way to get to his auto-theft trial in Vallejo, tenacious Oakland resident Samuel George Botchvaroff did what comes naturally to him: he stole a car and drove it to the courthouse. According to The Reporter, Botchvaroff "apparently stole a car in Oakland and drove it to Vallejo, where he attended court ... Meanwhile, officials were notified of the theft and tracked the car to the...
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So Much For That Plastic Bag Ban
Photo by Matt Baume Well, well, well. What do we have here? Plastic bags. At the Masonic Lucky's supermarket. Destroying the environment. Making Ross Mirkarimi vomit. Actually, these bags, which have appeared at supermarkets since Halloween, are "reusable bags," ones made from recycled materials. They're all a part of the "Got Your Bags?" campaign. "We encourage our customers to recycle their single-use plastic bags in our stores and to utilize our reusable bags every...
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Saturday Is Burl Toler Day
Gavin Newsom, according to SF Examiner, has officially proclaimed Saturday as Burl A. Toler Sr. Day in San Francisco. Who is Burl A Toler Sr., you ask? Well, Toler was the "first black official" in the NFL and "a star player on the University of San Francisco’s famously undefeated 1951 team." (USF, according to the school's athletics site, no longer has a football team.) Sadly, Toler died in August, so he won't have the...
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Richmond HS Gang Rape 911 Tape Released
Yesterday, Richmond police released a recording of the 911 call made on October 24 by 16-year-old Margarita Vargas, who reported the now infamous Richmond High School gang rape. In the call, Vargas -- who had the decency to make the call after a 16-year-old girl was beaten, robbed and raped by 10 men over a two-and-a-half-hour period during a Richmond High School homecoming dance -- tells the dispatcher that "a naked girl could be...
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Feinstein : Will She Or Won't She?
Now that Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the governor's race (welcome back to work, Gavin!), rumors are swirling that Senator Dianne Feinstein might take a stab as the new "it" Democratic candidate. Or not. Who's to say for sure. This speculation pops up all the time with DiFi. While AP reports that "polls indicate she would be a heavy favorite if she chooses to run," odds are she won't go up against friend...
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Muni Ticket Agent Arrested After Assaulting Juvenile
An unidentified male Muni ticket agent was arrested yesterday afternoon after allegedly punching a young woman. "[T]he incident started as a verbal altercation but developed into a fight in which the ticket agent allegedly punched one of the two sisters, a juvenile," reports CBS 5/BCN. "It appears at least one of the sisters then threw a soda can at the ticket agent." SFPD Sgt. Lyn Tomioka said that "[t]he preliminary investigation indicates the ticket...
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Day Around the Bay
Just because: Princess Leia and her stunt double sunbathing on Tatooine while filming Return of the Jedi. [Laughing Squid]
Downtown ice skating rink opens next week! [7x7]
U.S. attorney targets white-collar crime. [WSJ]
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Lincecum Busted for Pot
According to Columbian.com, Giants star Tim Lincecum was busted on October 30 for smoking and possessing marijuana. "The amount was 3.3 grams, [Washington State Patrol trooper and spokesman Steve] Schatzel said, which is considered only enough for personal use. Lincecum did not appear to be impaired behind the wheel and is not being charged with a felony crime." He was busted while driving in I-5, charged with misdemeanor possession. (via The Splash)...
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Newsom Mainland Watch: Gavin Returns Tonight
Breaking news, folks. It looks like Newsom will return to San Francisco tonight, and be back to work come tomorrow morning. The mayor, if you recall, vanished from San Francisco and City Hall after announcing his withdrawal from the California's governor race. "I told you he'd be back soon, and he's going to be back soon," Nathan Ballard told City Insider. "He's got a lot of work to do in City Hall including getting...
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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kristen Wiig Reading From the Early Poems of Suzanne Somers
This was part of the Celebrity Autobiography series. What more do you need to know? [Hat tip: Le Fag site semi-NSFW]...
