SF News Mayor's Office Calls Mirkarimi Case An 'Attempted Cover-Up' In the latest news surrounding sidelined Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's misconduct trial, it is the Mayor's turn to start lobbing out the pointed language and conspiracy theories. In an opening brief for the trial,
SF News Occupy SF Commune Cleared Out, 26 Arrested Scratch those breakfast plans. The Occupy SF commune at 888 Turk lasted just about as long as it did the first time around on April 1st. According to the Examiner, SFPD moved in
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Occupy Breakfast Hungry this morning? Occupy SF is serving a Solidarity Breakfast, free to all at their new commune at 888 Turk Street. (Sidenote: chances are high SFPD will show up and raid your coffee.
SF News Live: Protesters Square Off With Police In Oakland [Updates] What looked like a relatively peaceful scene in Oakland in the evening escalated around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night as Oakland Police and Alameda Sheriff's deputies gave a dispersal order to protesters
SF News Occupy SF Re-Occupies 888 Turk, Protester Antagonizing Police From Nearby Rooftop [Updated] After a day of shutting down traffic in the Mission some members of Occupy SF have returned to 888 Turk Street, which the group occupied in protest on April 1st. Although the occupation
SF News Romney's Gay Foreign Policy Advisor Ousted, Apparently Too Gay For Conservative Supporters Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney's openly gay foreign policy spokesman, resigned from his post today after taking fire from anti-gay conservatives. Grenell was hired to help focus the Romney camp's messaging on foreign affairs
Arts & Entertainment May Day: Children Join In On The Destruction Don't be alarmed. It's just a piñata. And it was reportedly stuffed with candy, the placebo of choice for many of the 99-Percent's under-12 members, many of whom show more maturity than some
SF News New Jersey Woman Attempts To Check Land Mines On Flight To SFO A woman flying from Newark to San Francisco International Airport this morning apparently thought it would be an acceptable idea to stow some Claymore land mines packed with shrapnel in her checked luggage.
Arts & Entertainment Uber Launches On-Demand Mariachi Service For Cuatro De Mayo For their latest publicity stunt, locally-based on-demand car service Uber is rolling out a new service that is less focused on getting taxi-weary riders to their tequila bar of choice and more about
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Remembering SF's Long-Gone Baseball Stadiums Hidden Histories: SF Baseball Stadiums. Can we bring back the part where the ballpark had a "booze cage" surrounded in chicken wire, and ticket price included your choice of a sandwich or shot
SF News Protesters Trash Valencia Street Businesses In Early May Day Demonstration A group of protesters showed up early for the Occupy May Day General Strike Monday evening. What started as a small after dark gathering of Occupiers over sandwiches and Capri Suns in Dolores
SF News Man Knocks Out Roommate's Tooth For Watching Porn While Mom Slept From the SFPD's Richmond Station newsletter comes a very noteworthy arrest that happened out in the avenues last week. Just before 3 a.m. on April 23rd, a 42-year-old male suspect confronted his
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Stabbed At Mission Street Bus Stop For Lacking Gang Affiliation 2012's Wave of Knife Crime continued apace this weekend, when a 22-year-old victim was stabbed while waiting with his girlfriend at a Muni stop in the Excelsior. The pair were approached by a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Yacht Partiers Brawl In Tiburon, With Spectator Commentary Sailing season on the Bay opened Sunday, which means every jib-tugger with a berth was out on the water taking their private boats for a spin. While the weather was lovely, things apparently
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Dizzying View From Sutro Tower This video shot from high atop Sutro Tower was uploaded to YouTube a couple months ago, but judging by it's lowly 450 plays not many of you have gotten to enjoy this acrophobia-inducing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guy Fieri's Stolen Lamborghini Turns Up In Point Richmond Storage Unit Guy Fieri's amazingly flamboyant yellow Lamborghini, which readers will remember was boosted from a tony showroom on Van Ness last year, turned up this weekend in a storage unit rented out by a
SF News Berkeley Hit-Run Driver Who Sideswiped Two Cyclists Arrested In Oakland The owner of the black Acura Integra caught on tape sideswiping two cyclists in Berkeley last week was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with the incident. The vehicle's owner, 43-year-old Michael Patrick Medaglia
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Lovely Weather For The Lands End Lookout You should go take a look at the new Lands End Lookout. [Chron] Gavin Newsom sighting: at the California Academy of Sciences' Big Bang Gala. [SFWire] Valencia Street tree swing returns and it's
SF News Berkeley Hit-Run Vehicle Turns Up In Oakland, Reported Stolen The black Acura Integra caught on tape hitting a couple of cyclists in Berkeley on Wednesday turned up in the Glenview neighborhood of Oakland today. OPD spokesperson Johnna Watson confirmed with SFist this
SF News Teen Attacks Home With Pitchfork, Hurts Himself An unhinged 15-year-old attempted to break in to the home of an elderly woman while brandishing a terrifying gardening tool in Half Moon Bay yesterday evening. The kid, who was apparently from two
Arts & Entertainment Opposing Cardboard Fortresses To Do Battle In Dolores Park In June Not to be confused with the other cardboard battle in Dolores Park, the Ultimate Team Cardboard Fortress Battle promises to bring even more childlike whimsy to Dolores Park with a showdown between two
SF News Actual Date Of The Apocalypse To Be Revealed In San Francisco On May 27th So says this ominous looking flyer that just landed in our mailbox at SFist's Western Branch Office this week. According to the materials that we found with our $5 Bed Bath and Beyond
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: What You Missed At SFMOMA's Modern Ball Fancy people things: Photos from SFMOMA's Modern Ball. [SFWire] War on Earth Day: vandals destroy thousands of plants at Candlestick Point park. [SFEx] A Chinatown restaurant named "Chinatown Restaurant" is opening in the
SF News Video: Driver In Berkeley Caught On Camera In Hit-Run On Cyclists Bay Area Cycling Community: Two of your own have been struck by a hit and run driver across the Bay in Berkeley. One of the victims, cyclist and YouTuber Bruno had his bike-mounted
SF News Stunning Percentage Of Ross Mirkarimi Supporters Can't Pronounce His Name Sidelined Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi went before the Ethics Commission earlier this week. Although the early proceedings sound like a completely snoozefest, whip smart local political analyst Melissa Griffin has handily recapped the highlights
