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 ›

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 ›

You've got to love local author Danielle Steel. Her daughters look nothing short of delightful, she successfully extracted herself out of the inner SF society sect, and her house looks like this. Which is why we were saddened to hear that Steel's bookkeeper, Tiburon resident Kristy S. Watts (also known as Kristy Siegrist), was pinched for skimming cream off of the Steel empire, embezzling over $768,000. Watts pleaded guilty back to the crimes back in September of 2009. 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 ›

In a shameless attempt at receiving good karma, SFist presents to you this retro-chic Missed Connection. more ›

Three Hayward residents (of course) are sitting in jail facing attempted murder charges after kidnapping and beating a man they met online. The 22-year-old unidentified victim, a San Jose man, had "gone to a Hayward motel to meet a woman after responding to a social networking Web site." (Which site? Who knows. Since they don't flat out mention Craigslist, which MSM loves to do, we're going to call it out as onlinebootycall.com.) According to CBS 5, "When the man arrived at the motel, police say he was beaten by the three suspects. The three then allegedly used the victim's ATM card to get cash, drove him to the Bethany Reservoir and beat him some more. " He was fond the next morning by a fisherman. The three suspects are 28-year-old Rodolfo Aguilar, 32-year-old Salim Ahmed and 20-year-old Lydia Troche. See, this is why online sex hookups just don't work in the heterosexual community. Alas. Update: the online site in question, according to the SJ Merc, was mocospace.com. 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 ›

Gee, this is rich. At a sci-fi conference in Michigan recently, some gent kindly created a system that allowed women to easily express permission for men to fondle them -- what an altruist! And his remarkable, breathtaking, totally unforeseeable discovery: people feel uncomfortable when they are asked to publicly specify their preferred level of anonymous sexual contact. more ›