Kicking it at the Days-Inn on Lombard. [Butter Retriever]Twitter explained in plain English. [Laughing Squid]The very hot Tyler Florence to take over the very gay Plush Room. Intriguing. [Eater]More on Prop. 22. [BAR]Moth alarmism? [SFBG]UC Berkeley gets restraining order against animal rights activists. [EBX]The best drama on television? Intervention The Wire. Of course. [SFGate]......

An update on today's story about a UC Santa Cruz faculty member whose home was invaded by, according to local media outlets, members of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty animal rights group: the animal rights group claims zero responsibility for last night's attack. We just made contacted with a member of the reportedly elusive SHAC7. They told us the following: No--we are not responsible. In fact, the only knowledge we have of the whole......

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: Santa Cruz police reported that six people wearing bandanas tried to break into a Westside home ["Westside rules!" -- SFist] just before......

A recent video has emerged showing Giants' legend Juan Marichal joining current legend Pedro Martinez in a little bout of cockfighting in their native country, the Dominican Republic. Apparently, Juan's cock took on Pedro's cock and won. Way to go, Little Juan. The video of it appeared on YouTube but was recently taken down, but this being the internet, a video in some form still exists. For obvious reasons, we won't post it but for those curious about it, you can see it here (warning-- site contains pictures of excessively well-endowed women.)...

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca Ed turns in his residency paperwork to the SF City Attorney a day early. --Keep affairs on your own side of the bridge! People are starting to subpoena Fastrak records in divorce cases. --It's queer senior prom at the LGBT Community......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

We did a confused circle around the first floor of the Women's Building Saturday night, until we noticed the sign which you see at your right, telling us to go upstairs for the SF Women's Film Festival documentary shorts screening, featuring movies all directed by women. We got to a classroom-sized room and settled into a folding chair just as people were starting to trickle in and, more importantly, right as the Trader Joe's snacks......

Watch the trailer for Your Mommy Kills Animals. We felt a little bad when the lady working the concession stand at the Roxie seemed so startled we were getting butter on our popcorn -- but hey, the IndieFest documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals is a movie about the radical animal rights movement, so we can't blame her for thinking the audience would be in general staying away from dairy-based fats. Your Mommy Kills Animals......

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. First, Dianne Feinstein came for the animal rights activists, and we said nothing. What are some of the election day losers doing now? Well, Krissy Keefer has been offered $100,000 to run against Gavin Newsom. Cover article: Chron blogs editor (and SFist editor emerita) Eve Batey must save the Chronicle!! (In a travesty of justice, Eve is not mentioned in the piece. Boooo!). It's actually a pretty decent article......

Josh Wolf's Ninth Circuit appeal is officially dead, and it looks like he's stuck in jail for the next 18 months -- unless he wants to turn over his video footage. And in other grand jury contempt of court news, an animal rights activist is scheduled to stay silent before the federal grand jury today, and the LA Times laments the fate of Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada. Remenber the drunk ostrich killers in Half......

No one does mafia like the Chinese mafia: the FBI has gotten in on the investigation of the mysterious death of Chinatown businessman Allen Leong, who was shot to death in his office on Jackson Street. Leong, who was active in a number of Chinatown fraternal groups, also known as tongs, had rejected another tong's request for $100,000. The rejected group then vandalized a number of storefronts and sent taunting letters to Leong's tong, to......

...because this week they're not that long! We'll start, as always, with last week's winner, the East Bay Express. Cover story is on the Richmond Steelers midget football team -- no, really, it is! Bottom Feeder on animal rights activists who've crossed the line. Cityside on the conflict between industry and residence in Oakland. Justin Benton on the Seldom Seen Acting Company. SFist Sarah, do you know Ramen freak Mira? We prove ourselves to......

It's animal time on SFist again! Fwee! A Sausalito-based company called Genetic Savings and Clone (ha) that helped fund the cloning of this cute kitten (DNA donor on far left, surrogate mom in the middle, and cc: the kitten on the right) has sold its first cloned kitten to a Texas woman who donated the DNA from Nicky, her sorely-missed cat of 17 years. The woman has named the kitten "Little Nicky" and says the two cats are identical. "His personality is the same," she reports, noting that Little Nicky also loves to jump into water. The woman would not give her name, fearing reprisals from animal rights group who suggest that people just adopt the many cats languishing at shelters instead. The company estimates that it should be cloning the more profitable dog by next May at the earliest. From cats to rats -- a woman in the Haight woke up on Tuesday to find three crates filled with rats (176 of 'em) on her front doorstep. A known animal lover, she brought them into the SPCA for adoption. In the meantime, three of the rodents gave birth to 10 babies apiece, making it a grand total of 206. 138 of them have been adopted already (80 by local rat advocacy group Rattie Ratz) but there's still 38 left for that perfect present for your boss! (n.b.: it is never a good idea to give live animals as gifts.) There's a $10 adoption fee to cut down on snake owners coming in and "adopting" the rats as cheap food, and a 114-question application form (with questions such as your "hopes and expectations" for your pet). For some reason, both the Chron and the Examiner profiled the same rat adopter, which makes us think maybe she's the only person that's adopted a rodent this season (but that may be anti-rat bias on our part). ...

Oakland and SF Zoo elephant news...

Some follow-ups on stories we read about earlier this week and last:...

SFist doesn't know why were on the animal experimentation tip so heavy. May have something to do with the intersection of the biotech industry and animal rights activism....