After Kim Conover, 31, paid a visit to her divorce attorney on Sunday afternoon, her estranged husband, Kevin Covover, 35, shot and killed her outside said lawyer's office, later turning the gun on himself. "The 2 p.m. shooting happened in front of 10 Keller St., a small office building where the woman had been visiting the attorney," reports The Press Democrat, adding, " Kevin Conover died at 5 p.m. at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Police identified him as the shooter and said his wound appears to have been self-inflicted." more ›

ABC's drama The Bachelor is looking for a few good-looking men. Well, one. They need a new bachelor to pretend he's looking for love and lifetime companionship. Might that be you? "We are very open to all ethnicities," producer Holly Golden explained to SFist. You should also be "handsome and eligible." To the press release! more ›

April is a big one for ice cream and print publishing. Two noted ice cream shops in the Mission District, Bi-Rite Creamery and Humphry Slocombe, are coming out with recipe books. So, if you've always wanted to use that Krups ice cream machine cylinder that has been sitting in your freezer for years, be sure to buy one of these books. You're certain to dazzle family and friends. Anyway, the latter ice cream store's book, Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones, features 90 truly astounding recipes. Seriously. They're fascinating. But our favorite recipe also has our favorite intro. Behold: more ›

When you tell your grandkids that you met grandpa shit-faced during last call at Taco Tuesdays, you might as well say you met on a Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. Because it's classier than saying you met him on Grindr at 3:30 a.m. Or is it? Has dating online lost its creep-laced stigma? And can your shady web past kill your chances for love? To find out these answers and more, the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District (YBCBD) will host a new (and highly anticipated!) monthly discussion and performance series on Thursday, March 15th, called Yerba Buena Arts in Dialogue with a probing (heh) look at How We Date Now in the age of l'internet. more ›

Seeing as how we give the Oakland A's little love on SFist (though we did kinda like Moneyball!), here is a photo of newly acquired power slugger Manny Ramirez and his wife, Juliana, making out after today's first spring training practice sessions. Adorable. more ›

This may come as news to most single women in town (at least if you buy into this 2010 piece by Ashley Harrell in SF Weekly), but according to the Daily Beast, San Francisco is the number-eight city on this list of Best Cities to Find a Date in 2012. What data are they using to create this highly scientific list? It has something to do with the percentage of single people, and the average price of a movie ticket. more ›

A couple cuddled in front of City Hall during the Occupy Oakland general assembly on Monday, resulting in this delightful shot. While it lacks the chic coolness of the Vancouver riot's kissing couple, the Oakland duo's use of Birkenstocks makes the entire scene downright adorable. more ›

Grindr, the wildly popular location app site for gay men, plans to go straight this week. What is Grindr, you ask? Created in 2009, Grindr uses GPS technology to find other gay men in the area, some as close as a few feet. Perfect if you find yourself in a bar, restaurant, shopping mall, Muni station, parking lot, gym, Bed Bath and Beyond, the Bay Bridge, Puerto Rico, Chez Panisse, a Baptist church revival, an airplane, or a sparsely gay-populated town. It has become a popular all over the world "with more than 2.6 million users in 192 countries including Iran, Iraq and even Sri Lanka." more ›

Ivan and Elizabeth, two long-distance lovers living in Amsterdam and San Francisco, respectively, came up with a public way of showing their love for each other. "San Francisco\Amsterdam," billed as "a collaborative poster project between lovers separated by circumstance," is like one of those broken heart necklace pairs but done with two posters. more ›

Valen-tiny Idea Night: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosts a night of "mingling, mating, and music," featuring live performances, dancing, and lots of art and activities, including postmodern elevator peepshows and Infatuated, an interactive cell phone game of love for couples or singles, who must solve the mysteries of love in the 21st century. more ›

Albert Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” After watching the 49ers lose 25-22 to the Saints in last night’s home opener, that’s exactly how I feel today: like a loon. Every single game day, I tell myself that this time we’re going to win. This time the Niners are going to show us why everyone said they’d win the NFC West. This time the world is going to see why Alex Smith was a No. 1 draft pick. This time Singletary will prove he can coach the 49ers to the playoffs. This time we won’t make stupid mistakes. This time… more ›

Mission Mission has a thought-provoking comment thread in progress today. It's all about dating in San Francisco, and why it's so damn difficult. Which, yes. It is. more ›

New dating site helps Apple fans find love with other Apple die-hards. more ›

What with Valentine's Day around the corner, Nob Hill Gazette (a local publication whose motto, "...an attitude, not an address," lets you know that Nob Hill is the neighborhood in SF) released its Annual Eligibles List, a directory of crestfallen, lonely locals, which was made famous back in the day by SF Weekly's Laurel Wellman. more ›

According to Matier & Ross, an interoffice romance, if you will, between two BART officers might have played a part in the shooting death of Oscar Grant. M&R report: more ›

Before we post a few festive Valentine's Day events -- you know, fun ones with other lonely single folks; parties that will, hopefully, keep you from taking the final Nestea plunge over the Golden Gate Bridge -- let's commiserate on those who have broken our hearts. For Friday fun, share with us in the comments the most bizarre and/or depressing way in which somebody broke your heart. Or, if you must, how you viciously broke someone else's. And why. Did you do it via text? Did you fire her just so she would breakup with you? Did the crazy bitch slice open an artery in your bathroom? Did you lie and say you were gay? more ›

Society rag Nob Hill Gazette -- who, sadly, let the divine Catherine Bigelow slip through their fingers last year -- came out with its annual list of coke heads and homosexuals. And at least one of them, according to Valleywag, is a wife beater. "Arjun Gupta, a venture capitalist best known for being accused of beating his former wife. A restraining order filed in the case was due to expire next Sunday." (Not all at once, ladies!) Other notables are Anna Alioto (famous name, "environmentalist with a yen for travel," and randy lady); Jeremy Stoppelman, (surprisingly hot) co-founder & CEO of Yelp.com who enjoys dining, dog parks, nightlife & fresh air; Dan Herling, 6' 7" former college basketball player with a presumably humongous penis to tear apart your intestines; and Wilkes Bashford. more ›

We dare you to watch the Courage Campaign's Fidelity video and not get all weepy. We were able to keep it together until it got to the big crowd shots around the end, and then suddenly there was something in our eye. more ›

While this shouldn't be news, it is. President Barack Obama mentions San Francisco in his most recent blog post honoring Chinese New Year. Eeee! See, it's been, let's see, about eight years since anybody in the Oval Office mentioned Baghdad by the Bay without fire-and-brimstone condemnation. more ›

While it seems too sugary to be true - and we doubt it is - this story has touched our cold, selfish hearts. See, Muni Diaries has a story of fate and romance that will have you believing in the magical powers of public transportation again. more ›

According to a handy zip-code-searching tool at the Chron, about 200 San Franciscans have stuck their noses into their neighbors' marriages by giving money to the anti-marriage campaign. Voting to end your neighbor's marriage? That's messed up. But here's what's even messier: less than 9,000 San Franciscans have donated to No On 8. Seriously, folks? How much easier could it be, especially now that they're matching donations? more ›

While Sarah Palin held her own last night during last night's debate, more or less, and Joe Biden shed an effeminate tear that touched millions, both team McCain-Palin and team Barack-Biden bit it hard when it came to human rights. Take, for example, their stances against same-sex marriage, which both candidates, it seems, are 100% against. (But Palin doesn't mind the queers doing her hair and makeup; she's very "tolerant" of people, you see. All of them.) more ›

Hey gay couples! You're in terrible danger. Fortunately, we can help. Well, not exactly -- SFist_Matt, to be specific, has taken a break from writing stern emails to Muni, and is now working on a really neat online video project to protect marriage equality. more ›

More time is being wasted over in Berkeley over those damn oak trees. This time the Berkeley City Council voted last night that they it "will not seek a stay of a judge's order allowing UC Berkeley's athletic center project to proceed," according to CBS 5. Good. Also, many of the protesters, who awesomely are starting to view themselves as Christ-like figures as of late, held a small rally outside Berkeley City Hall last night. And this is our favorite quote from one of the pro-oak grovists: more ›

After a judge ruled that the University of California can cut down those cumbersome old oak trees, the kids still stuck up in the grove aren't coming down. What else is new, right? But in the end, the protesters have no one to blame but themselves. The twee aesthetics the sitters used to save said trees turned off any fence sitters, and "Dumpster Muffin"'s dilettante-ish and affected temper tantrum earlier this month made some supporters eyes roll. But what the Save the Memorial Oak Grove did accomplished was having fun. They turned lemons into a festive, extended tree-fort playdate. Kudos, guys! But if any of you still want those oak trees to remain standing, there will be an Oak Grove Supporters Plan March at Berkeley City Hall tomorrow. Go here for more details. more ›

While police have tried to starve and cutoff supplies to the few remaining protesters up in the UCB oak grove, another tree-sitter was arrested yesterday afternoon at around 5 p.m. Performing yoga exercises on the median strip on Piedmont Avenue in front of the grove of trees, it seems, police arrested someone going by the moniker "Redwood." According to university spokesperson Dan Mogulof, the protester came along "very quietly." more ›