Arts & Entertainment Video: Aerial Footage Gets Up Close With SF Landmarks, Taunts Bison Using an HD camera strapped to a remote-controlled helicopter, (a new cinematography technique that's been popping up everywhere from protests in Poland to local real estate listings) visiting videographer Robert Mcintosh filmed this
SF News Piers 30 And 32 Won't Get Makeovers In Downsized America's Cup Deal In the latest updates from the America's Cup, a key real estate deal that would help rehabilitate the city's eastern waterfront has been cut back by the city. Under the new deal Mayor
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Make Your Own Foie Gras Just imagine: if you took this class on how to raise ducks in your backyard, you could be making your own foie gras come July. [RichmondSF] DPW Director Muhammed Nuru totally bums everybody
Arts & Entertainment Using The Force, SFist Attends Lightsaber Training School When we first caught word that San Francisco had its very own lightsaber training school, two thoughts popped into our heads: First, "Ha! Look at those nerds!" Followed by, "...so where can I
SF News Police Search For Arsonist Who Torched Main Branch Library An arsonist caused over $5,000 in damage to the Main Branch Library yesterday afternoon after setting fire to some informative pamphlets he found behind the reference desk in the Library for the
Arts & Entertainment Train Announces Intimate Tour Of SF Venues Perhaps encouraged by Tony Bennett's continued success with his San Francisco anthem, three-time Grammy winners Train have announced a six show tour of their adopted and largely ambivalent hometown. The "San Francisco Tour
SF News Arrest In Fatal Stabbing Of 'Intervention' Subject Remember back in January when the local crime pages and re-runs of A&E's Intervention overlapped after 30-year-old Joseph Minozzi, who once filled the role of the drug-addled boyfriend on the reality
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Cheapest Gas In San Francisco The Arco Station at Fell and Divisadero has the city's cheapest gas, but like all good cheap petroleum sources it lies in disputed territory and shares some road with one of the city's
SF News Bruise Photos Emerge In Mirkarimi Case, New Judge Selected After Ross Mirkarimi's lawyer made an attempt to exclude Eliana Lopez's videotaped statements from the evidence yesterday, the district attorney's office filed a response this afternoon to ensure the crucial evidence remains in
SF News Important Bowling Alley Updates: Lucky Strike Lanes Opens In Two Weeks The wait for bowling in an actually accessible location in San Francisco got a shorter timeframe this week. As South of Market blog LiveSOMA reports, the ballpark-adjacent Lucky Strike Lanes is set to
SF News Ashton Kutcher Rode Along During Child Porn Raid The Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force made three arrests in a child pornography raid through Marin County yesterday. The Task Force's raid team, which started arresting the reprehensible kiddie porn
SF News Woman Drunkenly Crashes Stolen Boat In Alameda Around the intoxicating last call hour this morning, an apparently drunk woman crashed a stolen boat — a 40-footer named "The Bon Bon" — in to a rocky breakwater outside of the tony Ballena Bay
SF News Woman Trapped Under N-Judah Was Trying To Cross Street With Dog The 27-year-old woman who found herself trapped under an N-Judah train in the Sunset yesterday was just trying to get across Irving Street in a hurry when she and her canine companion got
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Controversy Brewing On The Planning Commission One member of the Planning Commission is calling out Ed Lee for appointing a Rose Pak-connected commissioner who has already risen to become the commission's VP. [SFEx] Upper Haight Irish Pub Martin Mack's
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Julian Avenue Case SFPD made a bust in the case of the man who lay dying for hours on Julian avenue. The suspect was found with the victim's ATM card and he has already pled not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Sues To Stay Put, Claims Elder Abuse In the ongoing battle to stay put in their Union Square digs, the Bovis Family, owners of the Gold Dust Lounge, have filed a lawsuit against their landlords Handlery Hotels today in an
SF News Was Your Bike Stolen Recently? Police Recover 21 During Craigslist Bust Two teenagers were busted with a cache of 21 stolen bicycles in Ingleside Heights yesterday. Cops in the neighborhood nabbed the two 17-year-old boys after one victim of bike theft spotted his ride
SF News Alleged Murderer Arrested In Fatal Knifing Of Retired Seaman Positive news in SFPD's war on the recent knife crime epidemic: at least one stabby criminal has been taken off the streets now that 45-year-old Howard Frazier has been arrested in connection with
SF News Photo: Joyriding Thieves Ram Stolen Car Into Produce Market On Mission Street last night, an apparently stolen car ended up crashing right in to the front gate of Casa Guadalupe Produce Market near the intersection with 26th Street. According to witnesses on
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Big Changes Coming To Mission Hill Saloon Mission Hill Saloon is changing hands and becoming another member of the Thieves/Dear Mom portfolio. Big changes in the works for a dive bar with a lot of character. [Uptown Almanac] Two
SF News BART Police Have No Plans For Increased Security Tonight BART Police apparently aren't too concerned with backlash following this morning's announcement that District Attorney Gascón won't be pressing criminal charges against the officer who shot and killed 45-year-old Charles Hill last July.
SF News SFPD's Stellar Drug-Sniffing Springer Spaniel Mac, the San Francisco Police Department's prolific drug-sniffing Springer Spaniel, was recognized for his work with the departments Investigations Bureau in a special ceremony at the Hall of Justice today. Mac, who is
SF News Meet Joel Engardio: A Supervisor Candidate With A Thing For Owls From way out in Forest Knolls (which, like Sherwood Forest, is one of those fairytale neighborhoods that sounds like it was named by six-year-olds) we learn of a new candidate running for the
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: It's Giant Pacific Octopus Week! Northern Mission residents, here's a handy excuse you can use when you're late to work today: My alarm didn't go off because a PG&E transformer exploded in my neighborhood overnight. [BCN/
SF News Charles Hill, Homeless Man Shot On BART Platform, Was Extremely High On Meth According to a report from District Attorney Gascón's office, Charles Hill, the homeless man who was shot and killed by BART PD officers in July of last year, was not only "wobbly drunk"
