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Pro-life animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is being accused of taking part in a break in of a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, whose research using animals "sheds light on the causes of breast cancer and neurological diseases," and attacking a man at the residence. According to Santa Cruz Sentinel:

turned 50 last year, and Leonard Bernstein would have turned 90 next August. Classical music is giving Hallmark a run for its money as an anniversary-driven industry.

No, not Frank Chu -- although a Gav versus a crazy would be most fascinating, indeed -- Carmen Chu.

Kids, it's time to get rocking. (Especially before the "Private Party" dry spell that is coming on. Yikes.) This week, the San Francisco music gods are offering a vast array of newbies and veterans - something that we will graciously partake of any day of the week. Now that the bets are in (okay, so no one really cast any bets - how boring is that?), you can go to Cafe du Nord, tonight,...

We've always been warm for One Rincon Hill's late-modernist form. For some reason, though, we failed to realize this darling accent of omission, located at the tip on the building's west side, is intentional. What fun!

Week Around The -Ists

To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for corned beef hash, but now, with the collapse of the 80/580 interchange, we have nothing to worry about. So here goes...

-- the Chronicle ran an interesting set of articles yesterday detailing the problems that San Francisco-based families face when trying to stay in the city.

here's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays 9th Street in downtown Oakland, AND offering dinner discounts at neighboring restaurants to ticket holders.

As expected, the beating up of members of the Bakers Dozen acapella group is now a full blown story with all the breathless reporting and graphics that comes with it. It's even gone national with Drudge reporting that the singers were beaten up "after singing the Star Spangled Banner" as if we here in San Francisco are so anti-American that we'll beat anyone up who sings the National Anthem.

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?

This week we go a little mental.

Wednesday. Tonight: You're staying home tonight and playing SFist Eve's drinking game for her appearance on SF/Unscripted at 7:30 on Comcast Channel 11, right? Right? Of course you are!

Don't worry, San Francisco: As we check out the great theater through the tunnel or across the bridge, we'll always leave our heart with you.

Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention this because that's where we were four summers ago, huddling by the air conditioner in a townie bar to escape the heat that had been trying to braise us, watching the A's play Cleveland on ESPN, when we discovered the best. Promotion. Ever: Mug Root Beer Float Day at the Oakland Coliseum. Mulder was pitching, but ESPN had video of Hudson and Zito scooping vanilla ice cream into Mug root beer.

Tonight at the Last Day Saloon features MC Art Link-Letterz, Lowfat and award-winning vocalist Tony Lindsay. Show starts at 9:30, and the Last Day Saloon is at 5th and Clement -- west side represent! For other weekend music pics (and a chance to win to next Friday's Cake show) check out When The Lights Go Down In The City.

SFist is going to take a stand and say that Lucca Foods makes the best sandwiches on the West Side. We're not going to say that theirs are the best in the whole city, because we feel that title belongs to San Jose Avenue's Roxie Food Center, but Lucca brings you the best sandwiches our side of the avenues.

A feature in which SFist brings attention to restaurants in the oft-overlooked Richmond and Sunset districts. We hope you're inspired to try new some new places, and we'd love to hear recommendations of Westside joints you'd like to see reviewed, so please send your thoughts our way, or leave them in the comments.

SFist has decided to take Dr. Phil's advice and to go out on "dates" with our long-standing sweetheart. Living in the Outer Sunset as we do, our desire to keep the relationship alive is tempered by a desire not to go to far from home. And thus a new, intermittent SFist feature is born, in which we review restaurants in the oft-overlooked Richmond and Sunset. We hope your inspired to try new some new places, and we'd love to hear and recommendations of Westside joints you'd like to see reviewed, so please send them our way.

Well we knew San Francisco was a happy place for both organic produce and poets. Better to be a starving artist picking up the leftovers at Boulevard than at TGIMcAppleruckers. What we lacked in the quantity of entries was more than made up for in their quality (certainly better than ours). It was really a very, very close vote, but unfortunately we can only send the prize of two boxes of organic fruits and veggies from Westside Organics to one winner. The envelope, please...

The newly single, and recently more vocal, Gavin Newsom can have his pick of the staff to bring as a date to someone's first anniversary party. Congratulations to all the happy couples who got hitched last year in San Francisco -- especially friends of SFist Ed and Norm up in Silverton, Washington. You guys are such a cute couple. Sorry about the damn state Supreme Court.

Our advertiser, Westside Organics, who's handsome delivery van zooms in and out of that advertising banner up there, has given us a couple of boxes of fresh, organic produce to give away to you! Since last time we did this, Niall K. had won within thirty minutes of the post going up (but thanks again to everyone who entered), we're going to shake things up this time. So we're asking our readers to write one or more haiku about their favorite fruit or vegetable. Don't know haiku? Well, it's pretty simple -- a five syllable line, followed by a seven syllable line, follwed by another five syllable line. They don't even have to rhyme! For example:

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Congratulations to our Westside Organics contest winner Niall K., who managed to score himself three deliveries of fresh produce by getting back to us within, oh, thirty minutes or so of the post going up. We should have made the questions harder! Live and learn. Thanks to everyone who entered -- we're sure you'll get some free stuff from us eventually.

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Since there's no free lunch -- at least since 2000 -- we're gonna make y'all work for it. So we came up with a little quiz that will not only send all sorts of sweet, sweet traffic Westside Organics' way, but will hopefully convince you that we actually think they're a good deal and are proud to have such fine people to do business with.