Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens To Perform Radiohead's 'OK Computer' In Its Entirety Next month, Peaches Christ Productions brings the second installment of the San Francisco Album Project to The Chapel on Valencia Street: a gender-bending theatrical production of Radiohead's landmark 1997 album OK Computer lip-synched
Arts & Entertainment Incredibly Accurate LEGO Cable Car Includes People From The Midwest, German Tourists Forget going to Mars, here's the nerdiest toy we'd like like to see on the shelves of City Target: LEGO brick/transit history aficionado Michael J. has created a delightfully detailed plastic brick
SF News Sidewalk Biking Update: Stanley Roberts Joins The Crusade SFist has gained an ally in our effort to eliminate sidewalk biking in San Francisco: noted newsman and patron saint of watchdogs everywhere, Stanley Roberts. In his latest People Behaving Badly segment, filmed
SF News Two Victims, One Robber Shot During Violent Bayview Home Invasion Early Tuesday morning, three people were shot when a trio of armed burglars broke into a home on Elmira Street in the Bayview. According to San Francisco Police, the three suspects burst into
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Bingo Game Retires It's the end of an era at St. Ignatius: After 43 years, Monday night Bingo is no more and Chuck Nevius is on it. [Nevius] Knife crime: man fights for life after being
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supermooned Is Sacramento trying to hide the Bay Bridge Safety Review from the public eye? Newspaper association says yes. [Contra Costa Times] Rub-and-tug parlors making a comeback as bathhouses. [SFEx] Knife Crime: Woman stabbed
SF News Man Shot And Killed At Bayview Muni Stop Monday Afternoon [Update] This afternoon in the Bayview, two victims — one male, one female — were shot while waiting at a bus stop at the intersection of West Point and Middle Point Roads. The male victim died
SF News City's Homeless Census Finds A Shift In Demographics Although San Francisco's total population of homeless people hasn't changed much since the Human Services Agency last did their census in 2011, the agency included additional details in the demographic survey for the
Arts & Entertainment The Beanstalk: Heading To L.A. (By e.Chang) The Week That Was: Won 2, lost 1 against the Padres. Won 1, lost 3 against the Marlins. 38-37 for the season; 2nd place in the NL West. The Week
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Face Of Jesus Spotted In Local Tamale Husk The city may be giving San Francisco's best-known tamale purveyor a hard time, but the Son of Man has apparently made a miraculous pop-up appearance to show the world his love in the
SF News Weather Report: June Gloom Expected To Ruin Your Week, Bring Rainbows For Pride After a few weeks of exceptionally nice (if a tad too windy) weather, Sunday's gloomy not-quite-rain, not-quite-fog wet thing was a nice excuse to stay indoors with a coffee and the newspaper. Or
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: The Techie Defense In Defense of San Francisco's Techies: in which the Chronicle finally stands up for this put-upon crowd. [Chron] A Girl, Her Pimp and Her Parents, a long read about the local couple who
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo's Baby Giraffe Named After That Girl You Used To Know In College The San Francisco Zoo's adorable one-month-old giraffe calf finally got a name this week. Meet: Erin. Erin the giraffe. And she's gotten a bit taller since we first met her last month, she's
SF News S.F. Examiner President: 'I Will Pimp The Hell Out Of The Show In All 3 Papers' Although he originally said it was "insulting" to suggest that he was attempting to promote Michelle Shocked with a coordinated media effort across three of his publications, S.F. Newspaper Company President Todd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boitano Meets World: One Man's Quest To Cook His Way Through Brian Boitano's Cookbook "I really like entertaining," writes 1988 Olympic men's figure skating gold medalist Brian Boitano in the introduction to his new cookbook, What Would Brian Boitano Make? "Maybe that's why I was attracted to
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Here Come The Instagram Ads One woman's account of her night serving food off her body at San Francisco's sex supper club. [NYMag] Even dirtier: a look at the unhealthiest restaurant in San Francisco. [Vice] Instagram video already
Arts & Entertainment Map: The Sidewalk Biking Offender Registry List Thursday afternoon near the SFist Western Branch Office, your bicycle-owning correspondent witnessed a crime: two full-grown adult men, biking two-abreast, along the sidewalk for an entire block of Divisadero Street. As you know,
SF News Man Throws Spear At Moving Vehicle, Poses For Primitive Mugshot 56-Year-Old Jeffrey Jones (pictured) of Sacramento was arrested earlier this week after he tried to hunt a moving vehicle with a spear. Judging by his Encino Man mugshot, the suspect may have mistaken
SF News BART Police Still Trying To Figure Out How They Blew It On Naked Man's Arrest Now that Internet-infamous naked BART man Yeiner Perez Garizabalo, 24, is awaiting trial in July, BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey is ready to take questions from the peanut gallery. First order of business:
SF News Get Ready To Record Your Life In 15-Second Snippets: Facebook Announces Video For Instagram This morning at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom took a moment to discuss the heart of Instagram before introducing a video tool for sharing your life in "beautiful" 15-second
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: City Lights At 60 Treasured, beloved and historic City Lights bookstore turns 60 this weekend. [KALW] S & R Lounge, also known as the lobby bar at Hotel Zetta on Fifth Street, is now open with a
SF News Michelle Shocked Show Cancelled, S.F. Examiner President Apologizes It's been a rough week for S.F. Newspaper Company president Todd Vogt. Not even a day after Vogt defended his company's decision to bring Michelle Shocked back to San Francisco for a
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Frappucino Likely Involved In Fisherman's Wharf Stabbing Although we cannot officially confirm the origin nor flavor of said beverage, the Examiner reports that a milkshake, or similar blended dessert drink, played an integral part in a stabbing on Jones Street
Arts & Entertainment The 7 Best Weekend Getaways From San Francisco Summer can be a drag in San Francisco, where the June Gloom often puts a damper on one's mood well into July and August. Luckily, sunnier and less windy weather is usually just
