Arts & Entertainment BREAKING: Laser Cat Mural Vandalized! Outrage! Well, now this is just disappointing. Barely a month since the Laser Kitten Mural, a.k.a. "Kittenzilla" on Divisadero first delighted us by livening up a long-shuttered movie theater with some playful
misc Gift Wrapping: You're Probably Doing it Wrong As if we didn't already have enough gift-giving guilt before the impending holiday, today's Chronicle includes a feature on gift-wrapping tips from "the second best gift-wrapper in the world," San Francisco resident Megumi
misc Garchik gets all the punchlines: "Upon learning that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine person of the year 2010, many senior citizens asked, 'What's Facebook?' says Janice Hough. And many young citizens asked, 'What's a magazine?
SF News SFPD Breaks Up Muni Pickpocketing Ring Yesterday, San Francisco Police arrested Eduardo Cuidad, a man suspected of multiple Muni-based pickpocketings and probably connected to "a handful of other suspects" who work the bus lines to lift credit cards and
SF News President Obama Signs Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act At 9:15 a.m. Eastern this morning, President Barack Obama took the podium amidst lots of cheering and "Yes We Cans" to sign the Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: a Fig on a Plate Slathered in Big Nate's BBQ Sauce Our friends over at EaterSF point us to this series of delightfully viral-ish videos called "Pouring Big Nate's Sauce on Stuff" in which Big Nate's BBQ sauce is, well - poured on stuff.
SF News Should We Be Worried About February 9th, 2011? Last week we called your attention to this gentleman who used his two minutes of public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting to creep us out and predict Judgement Day for February
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Discovers the Tonga Room In his side-item column on Inside Scoop this week, the Chronicle's princely food critic made a trip to everyone's favorite place to take their grandmother: the Fairmont Hotel's historic Tonga Room. It's worth
SF News San Francisco: Still Smoking After All These Years Cigarettes we mean. Roughly 13 percent of San Franciscans still smoke tobacco (yes, clarification is necessary) according to a report released by the California Department of Public Health yesterday. The Examiner* notes that
SF News Race for America's Cup Might Come Down to the Wire with Rhode Island In a late report from the Examiner last night, we learn that billionaire Larry Ellison and his BMW Oracle Racing team have "ramped up" negotiations with Rhode Island officials to host the race
SF News Oakland Police Chase Ends in Wrecked Home, Shooting, Pow! Yesterday afternoon, undercover Oakland PD officers in East Oakland spotted two suspects from a "shooting in a vehicle" (so, a drive-by then?) incident that occurred in the same neighborhood last week. Uniformed cops
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Tempo Foodies Suggest Speeding Up Slow Food What happens when a team of three 24-year old software developers and freelance designers-turned-chefs enter a competition put on by at least one person from the team that brought you American Idol and
SF News Stanford Docs Still Accepting Drug Company Cash Back in 2006, Stanford University's medical school garnered a lot of praise for giving pharmaceutical sales reps the boot from campus and banning free lunches and handouts for physicians, paid for by drug
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Heads to China In Search of More Friends Facebook's CEO is in China today, where 1.6 billion people still don't know what Facebook is thanks to China's censorship of politically sensitive sites and pretty much everything that makes America great
misc This Week in Willie Brown The Mayans or Aztecs or whatever weren't the only ones warning about impending doom coming in 2012: This week, Willie warned in his Sunday column that Obama could be in some hot water
misc Let's Not Get All Nogged Up and Drive, San Francisco We're coming in to the thick of the Holiday season here (or perhaps more accurately: Holiday Party Season) and the authorities in San Francisco will be celebrating accordingly with their traditional 17 day
SF News Edgar Renteria Feels Disrespected by Giants' $1 Million Offer Edgar Renteria played 72 games last season, one of which included a very important 7th-inning home run against Cliff Lee. So the Giants offered the Colombian shortstop a cool million to do it
SF News Meet San Francisco's Most Violent Drunk With 38 arrests since 1979, and three in the past month alone, 50-year-old Arturo Pleitez is the SFPD's least favorite inebriate. In a fun crime report on the Examiner, Mike Aldax details Pleitez's
SF News Newsom Speaks: Will Probably Delay Swearing-In as Lt. Gov Mayor Newsom probably ruined the Holidays for some supervisors by finally speaking up about this whole Interim Mayor selection process. According to CBS5 this morning, Gavin has laid out his terms: if he
SF News Signs of Impending Apocalypse: Whole Foods Finally Approved for Market Street After three years of meetings and discussion the Planning Commission has unanimously decided to move forward on construction of a Whole Foods location on Market Street at Dolores. Per the Examiner, the corner
SF News BART Would Like You to Avoid Lake Merritt Station This Morning Bad news for commuters going through Lake Merritt BART station: delays at the station started at about 8:15am during the morning commute. As of about 9:35am the transit agency issued a
SF News Oracle Made a Boatload of Money this Year According to AP reports on CBS5 today, Larry Ellison's massive software company posted a 28% increase in income over last year, or $1.87 billion in net income. This certainly validates Chuck Nevius,
SF News East Bay Express Loses Longtime Editor SFWeekly has the inside media baseball news from the East Bay, where the East Bay Express has lost Stephen Buel, their editor of over 10 years. Buel, who was also a minority owner
SF News Damning DNA Evidence Released in Richmond High Gang Rape Case Dave Stockwell, forensic supervisor for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office is the latest witness to testify in the ongoing preliminary hearings for the seven teen boys and men charged with the October
