Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: KRON4's Stanley Roberts Investigates 'People Behaving Badly' On Hippie Hill If you watch only one local news report about the 4/20 shenanigans in Golden Gate Park, please do yourself a favor and watch Stanley Roberts' look at the annual smokeout for his
SF News Groupon Earns Itself A Boycott Over Kink.com Armory Tour Deal Groupon, the deals site we all know and love and also still kind of hate, has come under fire for offering a half-off deal to noted local porn studio Kink.com's tours of
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Are Currently Flocking To Hippie Hill For 4/20 As is tradition on April 20th, scores of marijuana smokers, legal or otherwise, are currently making their pilgrimage to the hallowed ground of Golden Gate Park's Hippie Hill. Since we live in these
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: What It's Like To Be A Dog Toy This lovely video shot at Ocean Beach Crissy Field with a dog toy-mounted camera is just the thing to get high and stare at enjoy soberly from the comfort of your climate-controlled cubicle
Arts & Entertainment Interactive Map Uses Fancy Algorithm To Figure Out What You Already Knew About Your Neighborhood Livehoods.org, a project built by a bunch of computer science nerds from Carnegie Mellon University, aims to provide some human-level insight about how neighborhoods in San Francisco (and New York and Pittsburgh)
SF News On 4/20, Gavin Newsom Draws Inspiration From Bob Marley Former Mayor and recovering substance abuser Gavin Newsom found some curious inspiration all the way from Kingston, Jamaica on the noted stoner holiday. As the Lite Gov. tweeted, in a surprising plug for
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Mateo Bridge Nightmare A Costco shipping truck collided with a stalled pickup on the Westbound San Mateo Bridge this morning, setting off more crashes involving a Highway Patrol cruiser and a fire truck. Making things worse,
SF News Berkeley High Students Face Expulsion For Awesome Computer Hijinks About fifty students at Berkeley High School are facing suspensions and four others are facing expulsion for masterminding an elaborate scam to ditch class. The scam itself wasn't that elaborate — the kids apparently
SF News Man Killed In Oakland While Pushing His Son In A Stroller A man was shot and killed in broad daylight yesterday in East Oakland. The victim, identified as 24-year-old Tyrell Omar Smith, was pushing his 1-year-old son in a toy car around 3:15
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic Chinatown Joint Sam Wo To Close Heartbreaking news from the Chinatown dive restaurant scene today as Inside Scoop reports Sam Wo, the century-old institution on Washington Street will close its doors forever after dinner service Friday evening. Although it
SF News Urban Outfitters Will Make Your Daughter A Lesbian, Worries Hate Group One Million Moms, which is a coalition of (we assume) at least one million mothers, has found the latest threat to the angelic youth of America: the Urban Outfitters catalog. Specificially, the controversial,
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Metreon Sold Even though it's smack in the middle of that big renovation, the Metreon just got sold off to Starwood Capital. [Chron] City Attorney allowed to stay on the Mirkarimi Case, because Mirkarimi's argument
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gotye Becomes Unlikely Pub Trivia Champion Gotye shows up at pub trivia in the Tendernob, kicks everyone's ass. [AllShookDown] Google CEO Larry Page, who is strikingly grey-haired these days, defended his company in court today, claiming: "We did nothing
SF News Woman Receives $245,000 For Falling In A Pothole (And You Can Too!) Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors agreed to pay out a nearly quarter-million-dollar settlement to the victim of some shoddy street surfacing. The 68-year-old victim of the city's boobytrap was leaving the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Striking New Photos Of Great 1906 Earthquake Emerge On the anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has released a stunning new set of photos from their archives, offering some previously unseen views
SF News Has The Toilet Torcher Returned To Terrorize Noe Valley? Although when San Francisco's infamous Toilet Torcher made headlines by lighting up over 20 porta-potties in 2009, we haven't (ahem) caught wind of any cases of portable toilet arsons for a while. When
SF News Heroic Dolores Park Fire Hydrant Mistakenly Painted Silver [Updated] Every year on the anniversary of the Great 1906 Earthquake, the heroic fire hydrant at 20th and Church Streets that saved the Mission District is honored with a ceremonial wreath-laying and a fresh
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Lafitte Shutters, S.F. Loses A Foie Gras Freedom Fighter The occasionally controversial and sometimes inconsistent Lafitte on the Embarcadero's Pier 5 shutters. Chef and foie gras aficionado Russel Jackson will be headed to New York. [EaterSF] Mission District neighbors are bummed about
SF News Hustler's Mobile Strip Club Chased Back To Las Vegas As a brief update to an earlier item, Larry Flynt's Hustler Club's peepshow-on-wheels has reportedly headed back to the desert, where the locals are accustomed to being bombarded with images of nearly naked
SF News Day Around The Bay: Guy Fieri's Douchiest Vehicle Yet Adding to his stable of (missing) yellow Lamborghini and obnoxious Yellow Camaro, Guy Fieri also owns this amazingly douchey yellow truck spotted last weekend at the Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival. [GrubSF]
SF News University of California Schools Seeing A Gold Rush Of Out Of State Tuition The cash-strapped UC system has started shifting the balance of admitted students to better favor profitable out-of-state applicants, UC officials reported today. In addition to accepting a record high 80,289 freshman to
SF News Hustler's Mobile Strip Club Sparks National Controversy Like any good brick-and-mortar spot these days, North Beach bare-breasted joint Larry Flynt's Hustler Club has its own mobile version making the rounds in San Francisco. On Friday and Saturday nights, ladies can
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Battle of the Larrys Begins The Larry vs. Larry, Google vs. Oracle copyright trial officially kicks off in a San Francisco federal court today. [BCN] Speaking of Google: with all the crap the the tech giant is placing
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Music Festival Announces 2012 Lineup The Outside Lands Music Festival announced the lineup for the fifth annual three-day music festival in Golden Gate Park. Highlights include music legends like Stevie Wonder (!), Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Metallica, Jack
SF News Day Around The Bay: Should White Girls Be Allowed To Live In The Mission? Should white girls be allowed to live in the Mission? Some people think not! [MissionMission] The Larry Flynt's Hustler Club stripper mobile keeps parking near schools and libraries in the Richmond. Not surprisingly,
