On Sunday, while attempting to get the sweet love of a woman he met through a Craigslist sex ad, a 37-year-old Concord man found himself dodging bullets instead. Rendezvousing at the 4700 block of Matheson Court, the victim says that he had "responded to a Craigslist ad posted by a woman named 'Angel' and arranged for her to come to his house." However, once inside the house, "Angel" devilishly stole his wallet and then......

As a "part of an agreement with attorneys general in 40 states," Craigslist will start monitoring its always-amusing "erotic services" a wee bit closer. The deal will require sex workers who post here to "provide a working number" and pay with a valid credit car. Why? Well, this way, if needed, law enforcement can have Craigslist to subpoena this info. The site will also sue "14 software and Internet companies that help people who post......

Sure, it happened over a week ago. But the following story of lurid merriment on the 49 Mission-Van Ness will burn into your memory forever. A horrified Craigslist reader/writer posts: To the tranny that blew that guy on the 49 bus last night..... - m4w Date: 2008-10-12, 7:48AM PDT ....in case you were wondering, yes, we all saw. And were horrified! You might remember the incident, huh? About 9:45pm last night, heading north. Why......

Photo by Brian Brooks/Flickr Hey, is that Craig Newmark? Riding Muni?......

Vice detectives arrested a woman of ill repute, Kimelyse Hurley, in Antioch yesterday after the fuzz posted a fake love-for-money ad on Craigslist. Hurley, in addition to carrying a meth pipe, also "admitted to managing five females that worked as prostitutes for her," according to CBS 5. Pimp and a prostitute? Nice. We didn't know that there could be overlap with those two professions. Anyway, m'lady was arrested, booked, and released later that day.......

This week we mentioned that eBay filed lawsuit against Craigslist because CL founders Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster had "unfairly diluted eBay’s economic interest in the company." What happened was that CL reduced eBay's economic interest in Craigslist by more than 10 percent. Why? To stave off a potential takeover. At least according to CL blog: We are surprised and disappointed by Ebay’s unfounded allegations, which came to us out of the blue, without......

You're so mean, eBay. What did they do this time, you ask? Well, today they filed a lawsuit against Craigslist in a Delaware court. Why? According to the New York Times, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster "took actions that unfairly diluted eBay’s economic interest in the company." (EBay snatched up a 28.4 percent minority interest in the company back way in 2004.) EBay Senior VP Mike Jacobson goes on to tell the NYT: "The......

Cragslist started up its own blog a few weeks back. (It's ever so loverly, and we recommend it between Missed Connections and Seeking Job searches.) Perhaps its creation was due in part to that fake Craigslist blog lurking on the Internets. Oh, and it has asked Tim White, editor of the fake Craigslist blog--one that began, supposedly, in response to Craigslist not having a blog of its own, or whatever--to quit. The faux CL......

A lonelyheart would very much like to reconnect with an extra that he met on the set of Milk. (It's not us, by the way. If you recall, we were deemed too grotesque to star in the film about former SF Supervisor Harvey Milk, and haven't left our apartment since.) We're posting it because how they met would make a great story for the two to tell their grandchildren one day. Sigh. Hot Cop......

Your Black Muslim Bakery women treated like "slaves." (Hot fish sandwiches don't make themselves, ladies.) [Oakland Tribune]Dan Noyes sticks it to Muni again, and not in a good way. Be sure to check it out. [ABC7]Well. Somebody thinks they're too good to shoplift. [Spotswood]Free Jameth! He turned into a reform school girl over the weekend. [Nature abhors a vacuum]How many real estate agents does it take to post an ad on Craigslist? [Curbed]TED, a......

You know that site where you bid on and bought your vintage designer duds? That Thundercats lunchbox? Or those garish home accents your girlfriend has all over her apartment? It seems that they were purchased from a media company. At least according to Simon Dumenco at AdAge: There's actually another company that does something very much like what eBay does -- and, curiously, nobody hesitates to think of it as a media company. Like......

Sure, we've gone onto Craigslist for our apartment hunting and job search needs, but not for anything as illegal as finding a hitman. Ann Marie Liscott from Michigan is accused of placing an ad in the Sacramento Craigslist for some "freelance" work involving killing the wife of a man she was reportedly having an affair with. Linscott and the man met through an online class together two years ago and met in person twice. According......

Danielle Steele, Vanessa & Bill Getty, Trevor & Alexis Traina, and Serge & Tatiana Sorokko are wealthier than you, punk. "A San Francisco family is looking for a personal assistant / household manager to join our team on a long term basis." Are you that someone? But wait, there's more: in addition to joining a family that refers to themselves as a "team," you--a "highly poised, polished, professional, and articulate" cad--will also conduct interviewing,......

SFist reader/ commenter Jameth picked up this little lady at Church & Market on Monday and has taken her on quite a few adventures. We don't know that much about her except that she used to have a body and was a golfer in her past life. Update: The alligator has posted a Craigslist ad in search of Jameth. How romantic... Jameth lost track of the alligator in Dolores Park this afternoon (see photo at......

This week we want to focus on the local music scene even though it seems that Portland natives' Blitzen Trapper and Stephen Malkmus have captured San Franciscan's hearts - Wednesday's show is sold out. (There aren't even any tickets available on Craigslist!) Friday night you'll want to head over to Slim's to catch six bands: Perfect Machines, Fyre Away, High Like Five, the Paper Sons, Punch Face and Bob Hill Band. We're most excited about......

Good news everyone-- well-known libertarian, Ron Paul fan, exotic male dancer and bisexual male escort Starchild has been aquitted of charges of prostitution by a Fremont court. Starchild was up on charges for soliciting prostitution on Craigslist and was caught up in a sting by a Fremont police officer. ...

A loyal fan of the child-rearing arts -- she had taken nanny jobs at least twice before, even a job in Turkey, after answering online ads in the past; and even recently played Maria in her church community theater's production of The Sound of Music -- Katherine Ann Olson, 24, answered a Craigslist ad posted last week, looking for a nanny. The CL ad ultimately would lead to her death. Last Thursday, in Savage, Minnesota,......

-- Halloween in the Castro, or lack thereof. [The Snitch] -- 50K a year and living in SF? How vulgar. [SFGate] -- Jarring and attractive LSD-y visuals. [SFBG] -- Marquee preservation. [CurbedSF] -- RIP: One-time Harvey Milk campaign manager Jim Rivaldo dies. [FCJ] -- Bart worker gets a cool $1.27 million for on-the-job racism. Bitchin. [SFGate] -- If you like drugs, pussy, punk-rock, and suicide, have we found the band for you to join!......

-- Behold! The Infinity apartment! [Curbed SF] -- Welcome Wikipedia to SF with a slew of wacky neighbors and a joint taped to their door, won't you? [Examiner] -- Missing cyclist, James Bronstein, found dead. [SFGate] -- BART wants you to save Darfur. [Civic Center Blog] -- UC Berkeley searching for a hooded man in connection with recent arson activity. [SFGate] -- The Gov signs into action a bill forbidding you to light up......

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. LAist saw national headlines soar this week with......

Looks like Gavin's already started recruiting! After his housecleaning began last week, we were waiting with bated breath for the job ads to start appearing. But foregoing the mighty Craigslist for our lil' SFist job board? It's going to be hard to replace the head of the strife-ridden Housing Authority - if he's only offering equity, he should probably be looking anywhere he can!......

Although you might’ve already read about it on Valleywag, yesterday’s consecutive outages did not, in fact, cause some of your favorite blog, review, and sex ad sites (e.g., LiveJournal, Vox, Craigslist, Yelp) to collapse temporarily. Over at datacenter 365 Main, it seems that maybe someone or some (clearly as of today, former) employee "'came in shitfaced drunk, got angry, went berserk, and fucked up a lot of stuff. There's an outage on 40 or......

A lot fewer people activated their iPhones than expected. Apple stock drops about 5% on the news. That guy who started Netscape just sold his new company to HP for $1.6 billion in cash. He gets $138 million of it. The company he just sold (Opsware, originally LoudCloud) makes software for servers. They're coming out with a cheaper high-def TiVo. Everyone's abuzz about those YouTube/CNN debates last night. Is the power still out at Craigslist/Six......

Is anyone else's power going out every five to ten minutes today? Annoying. So far we have reports from One Market, Harrison/Fourth Street, UCSF Mission/Bay, parts of the Financial District -- the general downtown/SOMA area. What's more, we (and, most likely, you) have already lost several documents. Jesus Christ, make it stop. Really now. UPDATE: sites like Craigslist, Live Journal (ONTD!), VOX, and Yelp are temporarily down due to either thes power outages or punchy......

Back after the July 4th break! The winner from two weeks ago: the SJ Metro. This Media News Corp. group taking over the Merc News is bad for local news coverage. Dude! We need to start following San Jose local politics -- one of their city council members eloped last weekend! Annalee Newitz liked Transformers. Bodybuilders in San Jose this weekend -- look at the cords on that guy's neck! Cover article: we're embarrassed to......

Oh now this is very cool, and will probably be totally disabled the moment we report it, so enjoy it while it lasts. SFist reader Kristopher passes along a tip that he read on Craigslist: you can tap into a couple of Muni security cameras by pointing your browser to http://mmxvideo.homeip.net/camera/servlet/MainPage. Username is muni, password is videoshop. Who's project is this? Who's running the show? We have no idea. All we can do is......

From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches......

Yay! Tapioca Ed's back! Puckish commenter KWillets passes along this picture, from yesterday's Ed Jew Open House in District 4. Originally posted on Craigslist, it's somehow gotten included on Ed Jew's own webpage. KWillets has done everything on our Oh No, Ed Jew! coverage -- coming up with the name Tapioca Ed, dreaming up the LOLJEW pictures... we're just going to let KWillets cover the Ed Jew beat from here on out! Thanks, KWillets!......

--The SF Weekly writes us (us the site and you the readers!) a totally nice note about the mix-up over our dueling Day Around The Bay columns! Hugs! [The Snitch] --An ABC 7 blog doesn't think all this Chris Daly and Ed Jew stuff is funny! Of course it's funny! [ABC 7's The Kitchen Think.] --Thought today in the SFist comments were bad? It could always be worse. [Craigslist's SF Local Politics Discussion Forum.] --The......

SFist received the following note from a local hiring manager that was annoyed at a particular response regarding a position she posted on Craigslist. We found it amusing. Please note that details have been changed to protect the involved parties. "A while back I anonymously posted a job on Craigslist. In the four years I've been a hiring manager, CL has really garnered the best results. Even so, you know how it goes: you......