The bodies of the two unidentified thirtysomethings were found by a roommate on Monday, over at 215 Missouri Street. According to homicide detectives, both victims were shot. Not much detail has been released yet. We'll update as soon as we know more. But do you know something? Let us know in the comments. (SFGate)......

Holy second-hand smokes! An astounding five people were shot in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood last night. According to the Merc (via Bay City News), the fuzz found five people suffering from gunshot wounds over on the 800 block of Missouri Street, right next to the Potrero Hill Recreation Center. This happened at around 10:30 p.m.last night. Apparently, someone came up to the group and started shooting. Jesus. Anyway, all of the victims are expected......

Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that magic recording device that can pinpoint the locations of discharged gunfire in San Francisco's most at-risk neighborhoods--hears gunfire that city residents should be reporting. Via. Two men were shot and killed in SF on Saturday night. First, just outside the Japan center in Japantown......

Over in Potrero Hill, a 40-year-old man was shot to death while while driving a van, according to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens. The crime happened around Turner Terrace. CBS 5 (via Bay City News) goes on to say that SFPD officers "found a lone occupant suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds...[he] had crashed into the dead end of the street." The medical examiner's office ID'd the male victim as Kelly McGee of Fairfield.......

Photo: Jim Herd At first, we thought this was a bunch of art students or gamesters when we saw people setting up cones and bowling balls on a steep hill. Sidewalk bowling? Appears to be an exercise class, with some people forced to run uphill while others do bowling ball pushups in a kind of urban basic training. Strange.......

It turns out that the man who was brutally gunned down in the Mission on Monday night recently ditched a witness protection program. Justin Lee, 40 - who was shot to death after being chased down on 26th and Mission Streets - just left the security of a safe house in another part of the state on the same day. Yikes. Going back a bit, it seems that in 2005 Lee had "taken the......

-- Crime in Choir: CIC rocks it. Hard. For reals. Big time. One of the purest sounds coming out of SF these days, really. Brave the chill and head down to Potrero Hill to check them out. You won't regret it. Pink Mountain and Science of Yarba open at this anniversary party for Frenetic Records. The music starts at 10 p.m. at Bottom of the Hill; $10. -- It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine:......

Today, we hear about the glories of body waxing, spreading cheeks, and holding your package over at Potrero Hill-based Lonni's Punani (you heard us...Lonni's Punani.) Just try listening to it without fainting. [NSFW]...

Hey, wouldn't it be neat if you could sign up for a weekly email newsletter that let you know when Muni closures would be happening? Well you CAN! If you're a member of the press. Towards the end of every week, Muni sends out an email to reporters about weekend traffic and transit disruptions. It's kind of like Muni's own little guide to what's happening around town, and what's fun to do if you......

-- 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 a meth binge. You know, just to kick it. If you read the B.A.R.'s crime blotter -- a most fascinating read -- this occurs almost hourly in the Castro. [Examiner] -- Submit: UC Berkeley tree sitters accepting more and more members. [Oakland......

-- 9/11 felt around the Bay. [CBS5, Chron, Examiner, SFBG] -- Come get your soy-based ice creams and kombucha tea, Potrero Hill! [SFMetBlog] -- Grand Prix moves out of San Jose. For good. [CBS5] -- No deal for Ed Jew. [Chron] -- Extortion attempt at SF's Maze Cafe. [Chron]......

For the two or three of you out there who might be driving through the Sunnyside this afternoon/evening, be sure to avoid the intersection of Congo and Mangels. It looks like this truck is going to be there for a while. Oops. This sort of reminds us of the beached limo incident in Potrero Hill, circa July 2007. UPDATE: The intersection is now clear. Phew.......

Film School, Ali Liebgott, Facing East, Xocolate Bar...

Photo of a now-pristine wall at the formerly graffiti-laden Warm Water Cove....

Potrero Hill, Connecticut and 18th Street/Image credit: Tien Chiu While not nearly as worrisome as this type of beached creature, we came across this image that helps prove why limousines and the hills of SF don't always mix. For this and more instances of such sad occurrences, go here.......

In a city as spectacularly hilly as San Francisco, 20th St. in Potrero Hill may well be the finest roller coaster ride on offer. Of course, the speed limit is only 25 mph (as it should be through a neighborhood), so you’ll have to resist the temptation to get on your bad motor scooter and go roaring up and down 20th’s undulations all Evel Knievel-style. Aside from Potrero’s most obvious geologic property – it’s a real tall hill! – what’s most striking is how self-contained it is. (All that’s missing is an old-timey single screen theater, and anyway, who wants the hassle of having to clean spilled soda and Junior Mints anymore?) It may lack the restaurants strung along 18th St. down the hill, but 20th St. between Missouri and Connecticut speaks to Potrero Hill’s autonomy as well as any block in this eminently pleasant neighborhood. ...

--The Dyke March was fun. [Chron.] --The Recall McGoldrick people didn't get enough signatures to get on the ballot. [From the SFist Tips line!] --It's the winner of the World's Ugliest Dog contest! [ABC 7.] --Learn more about Chris Daly! [Chron.] --Can Yahoo be saved? [Merc News.] --Ha ha ha ha! Crazy animal races at the Alameda County Fair. Would a duck beat a pig? [Inside Bay Area.] --Remember that house that collapsed in Sunnyside?......

Hey, we're back from vacation! And we just missed the 5-foot sinkhole that opened up on California Street between 6th and 7th Avenues for New Year's Eve. Does anyone have pictures? In our second item of news on the city's west side, CHP and the SFPD shut down the Golden Gate Bridge to pedestrians to thwart Code Pink's peace march across the span, to commemorate the 3000th U.S. casualty in Iraq. Code Pink didn't have......

Four pedestrians were held up at gunpoint in Portrero Hill of all places Monday night. Police say they think the crimes were all related....

There was a sewage spill on Ocean Beach last night. Wasn't Daniela Kirschenbaum just talking about this? A manhole cover blew out around 11 p.m., which allowed not only water but what we'll delicately call "SFSOS effluvia" to leak onto the beach. The affected area is about 150 feet of the beach, from the base of the Cliff House going west. There's a whooping cough outbreak at Palo Alto High -- one student managed to......

We get a lot of e-mails about various events for good causes and most of them we'll list in our events posts but some of them, the one's that look really fun, we'll do a big post on. This one is definately deserving of a big post-- Dine Around. The basic gist of which is that if you eat at a selected restaurants in the Castro, Noe Valley, Mission, Potrero Hill, and Soma-- in other words, prime eating areas-- Wednesday night, money will be raised for the Aids Emergency Fund (AEF) and the Breast Cancer Emergency Fund (BCEF). And there's some great restaurants listed too like Foreign Cinema and la Mediterranee and Firefly and, well, just check out the list yourself. A raffle will also be held to help raise money. How could this not be a great thing as for the most part, all you need to do to support something is eat. We like eating. ...

When does the RCV count begin -- in the District 6 election! And as promised earlier, this week's episode is indeed titled: Everybody Hates The Wait. --Man, it sounds like we just missed the Dalys' almost-to-victory speeches at the DNA Lounge last night. Savannah Blackwell (yay! she's writing again!) has the good word. We're trying our best to get YouTube footage of Mrs. Chris Daly telling off "the motherf**kers at the Golden Gate Restaurant Association,"......

Everyone goes through phases where they think: am I nuts to think that I can afford to live in this city any longer? You spend so much for these teeny-weeny houses, the public schools are so tough to navigate, wouldn't it be nice to have a yard? But then you look at how nice the view is, and how awesome the people are, and how great our neighborhoods are, and you either think, how could......

Have you guys been to the UPS pickup office in Potrero Hill by 280? They have all these huge banners in the lobby that say "We Have Been An Accident-Free Work Zone for 10,000 Days," or something to that effect. As we while away our life waiting in line (only to find that the package we're waiting for is "still on the truck," but that's a separate post for a separate day), we amuse ourselves......

When we were little we used to catch fireflies at night as it got dark. We'd put them into old mayonnaise jars with grass on the bottom and holes poked in the lid and watch them light up. Then, when it got dark enough we'd play tag with the other kids with flashlights in our yard. We'd forgotten about most of that until we had to prepare a birthday gift for our brother, and spent......

Dogs, like children, can be very expensive. But the geniuses at the Sports Basement have come up with a promotion where your canine friend can save you money. This Saturday, June 10th, the Potrero Hill Sports Basement on 16th St. is hosting a Doggie Social from 9 a.m. until noon. Bring your pooch and get 15% off everything in the store. If you don’t have a dog, borrow one from a friend. Sports Basement in......

Ever have one of those weekends where you keep running into people who tell you about the party you missed the night before, like, “Oh man, you should’ve seen Joe, he was walking around naked with a beer can on his head, reciting the dictionary backward while monkeys swung on chandeliers”? Well, that’s how we felt Saturday walking into Southern Exposure the day after Between the Walls opened. Arguably one of the best places in......

If you needed any more proof that dogs are the new children of San Francisco, look no further than the list of most popular names for canines. Dogs used to have cute, very dog like names like Shadow or Bandit or Princess. But now, according to recent studies by VPI Pet Insurance and Bow Wow Meow now most dogs are given names suitable for human offspring. The top names for dogs include Max, Jake,......

SFist Jacob steps up to the blog pulse plate, while SFist Jackson's on hiatus. All anyone can talk about is the snow, snow, snow. (OK, those last two are actually tagged as "hail," but you get the point and the pics are pretty.) In our eyes, all this cold just means the onset of summer. Still, if you're jonesing for some tropical island loveliness, head over to the Humu Kon Tiki's San Francisco section to......

So maybe the folks back East were all over Fake Writer JT Leroy first, but San Francisco-based author and journalist Jack Boulware has a piece in Salon on Leroy creator Laura Albert (aka Laura Victoria) that looks at the person behind the persona while also painting a pretty vivid picture of what it was like to live in San Francisco in the 1990s. It feels like truly local coverage -- and SFist means that as......