SF News Details of Tracy Abuse Case Unfold The whole story of the Tracy child abuse case is starting to emerge. The boy's aunt, Caren Ramirez, who was arrested on Tuesday night, was charged in 2006 with inflicting "cruel and inhuman
SF News Tracy Teen's Aunt Arrested in Berkeley The final suspect in this week's terrible Tracy child abuse case has been nabbed. Caren Ramirez, 43, was picked up by police at her Berkeley home at around 9:30 p.m. last
SF News Landlord Rage All the Rage: Capp Street Edition Remember when Mission Mission wrote about that sinister Mission District landlord bitch who smeared blood and feces on tenants' doors -- which prompted the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (link almost banned due to unfortunate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Entree Is Dead; Long Live the Hors D'oeuvre Three square meals a day is finished. Heartiness plunged to its death from the Golden Gate Bridge. The entree, sadly, is dead. At least according Kim Severson of the New York Times it
Arts & Entertainment <i>Degrassi: TNG</i> Stereotypes Ring True Characters such as Manny, the school slut, Paige, the pig-faced "mean girl," and Marco, the Latino gay resonate with tweens and adults alike. One of the most unforgettable Degrassi characters is Rick, who
SF News Wiesel's Wispy Whacker Pleads Wacky The man accused of assaulting and kidnapping Elie Wiesel -- attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, stalking, elder abuse and hate crimes, to be exact -- changed his not guilty plea to one of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... She Wants Revenge Judging by the audiences' volatile reactions, She Wants Revenge did everything in their power to give the audience what they wanted: a spectacle (with some music). About half-way through their hour and a
SF News Gap Kids: Made for Kids, by Kids As if Don Fisher doesn't have enough on his hands, now this: in addition to environmental carelessness and No-on-A-isms, the Gap founder can now add human right violations and child labor abuse to
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Record-Breaking "Thriller" Dance in Dolores Park We just caught wind of this worldwide Michael Jackson "Thriller" movement, so [insert bad pedophilia, child abuse, or body dysmorphic disorder jokes here]. Thrill the World, "a worldwide attempt to break the Guinness
Arts & Entertainment Village Voice Media Rulers Larkin and Lacey Arrested Oh my. According to the Snitch: Two executives of Village Voice Media, the parent company of the SF Weekly, were arrested in Arizona last night in connection with a story they wrote for
SF News Warning: Bay Area Booty First off, we feel a tad icky for the following post. On one hand, we're playing into his game of profiting of his abuse of women. (For argument's sake, let us presume his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fall TV Premieres Tonight Abandoned kids, wannabe models, sitcom groaners, socialite teens, and a screaming Brit. It must be Wednesday! Firstly, we have CBS's "Kid Nation," at 8 p.m., in which a bunch of kids are
SF News Elie Wiesel's Attacker Goes To Trial Currently on sabbatical at the psychiatric unit of San Francisco County jailhouse for trying to beat the holy hell out of Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel -- and also hopped up on meds
SF News R.I.P. Queen of Mean Although the billionaire hotelier once allegedly (the help is never a reliable source) uttered the words "only the little people pay taxes," Leona Helmsley today paid her biggest tax bill of all, breathing
SF News SF Doc Charged In Donor's Death San Francisco transplant surgeon Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was criminally charged on Monday with "dependent adult abuse." He's accused of prescribing way, way too man drugs to speed up the death of a developmentally-disabled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight But brace yourselves for tonight's edition: an "honest" look at the (dying? dead? necessary?) state of print publishing. Such inky icons as Ben Fong-Torres (from Rolling Stone), Lynn Peril (publisher of Mystery Date)
misc Week Around The -Ists From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.... ...as for the bathroom, this is a HUGE problem. A lot of drivers carry around empty plastic bottles… There’s something
SF News Not A Girl's Kind Of Girl Here's the full quote from the article: "I shouldn't say this, but there are two sides to every story,'' she said in an exhausted tone. "If people did research into the scandal
Arts & Entertainment Haight Ashbury Free Clinics’ Integrated Care Center Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Inc.CEO John Eckstrom, Board Chair Eric Flowers, and Barbara Garcia of the S.F. Department of Public Health all addressed the crowd of over 100 on Mission Street
SF News Today In <i>As The Gav Turns</i>: Friends With (Sick Leave) Benefits You think Gavin Newsom'll shave off all his hair next, just like rehabbing Britney Spears? Okay, so where were we the last time we checked in with the Ruby Rippey-Tourk sick leave investigations?
SF News Had A Bad Day Okay, to start things off, that's a YouTube clip of Daniel Powter's Had A Bad Day. Play it as you read this post! Gavin Newsom started off the first day of the rest
SF News Holy Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So earlier today, we heard that Alex Tourk resigned as Gavin's campaign manager. It was a bit curious, a bit odd, but these things happen, although whenever somebody mentions that they are leaving
misc New Year's Bash The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and
