A big ol' sinkhole broke out today on First Street between Mission and Howard due to a water main rupture, resulting in the closure of a major artery out of SF and onto the Bay Bridge. Traffic around the area is backed up all sorts of bad. Sorry, dear East Bayers. But look on the bright side: you get to stay in the city of San Francisco that much longer. Yay, you! Anyway, due to......

During last night's total lunar eclipse in Black Rock City, Nevada, someone set the Burning Man figure ablaze prematurely. Chortle. Hey, maybe that was their art? Their statement? Their message? Or their coke pipe exploded? Still, not cool according to Black Rock City firefighters, eclipse fans, and festival organizers. Police swiftly arrested the arson suspect. No reports of any injuries, serious or otherwise. Except, of course, the apparently indescribable vibe on the Playa, which......

As already mentioned in Blotter's comments and in our tips section, Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue (hot fish sandwiches -- mmm) was raided this morning, resulting in the arrests of over a dozen people. Police, bomb units, and SWAT teams came down on the bakery and several other "related locations" in North Oakland and Emeryville at 5 a.m. (Read Chron's article about it here, Examiner's here.) Police claim that this was all......

It's not just Kimberly Guilfoyle's male model making the news today -- today's installment of This Week In Police Brutality features a piece about two models and their sister, who were allegedly beaten up by two SFPD officers, one of whom had a record of injuring 31 people in 9 years, outside Polly Esther's in 1999. (We know, we know, wasn't going to (the now-closed) Polly Esther's beating enough? But we digress.) Why did the city settle this lawsuit for $175,000? What made these folks different from the 30-year-old consultant who was not urinating outside the Great American, the man minding his own business in the 'loin, or the woman double-parked outside J-town? Well, as a city attorney says in the article, "These were good-looking, middle-class folk, articulate. Two of them were models." Well, of course! There's justice for attractive people, and there's justice for the rest of us! And, of course, this is all contingent on the attractive folks in that picture actually being the people the Chron claims they are too. We look forward to tomorrow's press conference, with two unattractive guys coming forward and being like, "Actually, we're the guys who got beaten up at Polly Esther's." ...

Hey, remember the kids rampaging through the streets of the Mission, smashing the state one window at a time? Well, it ain't quite over yet. First off, at least one protestor who's still in custody needs help coming up with the $5,000 needed to post bail -- you can send a donation! Us, we would call Bad Boy Bail Bonds (they speak our language -- funky-fresh rappin'). On the other side of the coin, "The......