Arts & Entertainment May Is International Masturbation Month, Ya Jagoffs According to San Francisco-based, lady-owned sex accessories shop Good Vibrations, the month of May is International Masturbation Month. Which makes sense because your mom will always interrupt right in the middle of it.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Announces Free Summer Festival Schedule 76 years after the first outdoor concert in Stern Grove, the annual festival series is still going strong and admission-free out there in the Outer Sunset. This year, the festival begins on June
SF News Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Births New Maternity Leave Policies At Yahoo, where CEO Marissa Mayer famously bailed on her own maternity leave and then immediately told everyone to start getting their asses to work, the company has plopped out a new set
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Insecurity Theater Apple patents thing that tells you whether you should call or text your friends. Neat. [TNW] Insecurity theater: In this post-Boston Marathon world, it's a real pain in the ass to get into
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Whale-On-Whale Gang Violence Happening Off The Coast Of Monterey In the middle of whale watching season, local nature photographer David Cruz was lucky enough to snap these photos of gray, humpback and killer whales while aboard an excursion off the coast of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woman Attempts To Poison Starbucks Customers With World's Worst Screwdrivers In San Jose, 50-year-old Ramineh Behbehanian has been accused of trying to pass off two orange juice and rubbing alcohol cocktails as perfectly normal bottles of OJ and stashing them in a Starbucks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hide The Franzia: Bay To Breakers Bans Backpacks, Unregistered Revelers Attention potential Bay to Breakers revelers: the "San Francisco original" footrace finally has another reason to remove even more things from the official race course. Due to increased security concerns following the bombings
SF News BART Will Ban Violent, Pee-Prone Riders Starting Monday Starting next week, the bouncers in BART's police force can start 86ing riders who treat the rapid transit system like they own the place. Thanks to a policy passed by the BART board
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: A Hipster Glossary In case you were wondering what Jason Collins' aunt, S.F. Judge Teri Jackson, thought about her nephews big Sports Illustrated coming out party: now you know. [BCN/Appeal] From "All-night roof parties"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Mediocre Bauer Review, Hutong Becomes Betelnut Again Well, now here's something you don't see happen with Yelpers: after receiving a middle of the road, two-star review from Chronicle Food Critic Michael Bauer, Asian street fare newcomer Hutong will quietly be
SF News New Startup Hopes To Create Homeless Showers In Repurposed Muni Buses In the startup world, a "pivot" is what your tech company does when the thing they were built for no longer seems like such a good idea. In San Francisco, one startup founder
SF News 19-Year-Old Man Killed In Drive-By Near Oakland Children's Hospital Friday evening, around 9:30 p.m. 19-year-old Ceejay Reed was fatally shot after he and two friends stepped out of their car on 53rd Street about a block away from Children's Hospital
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Revved Up On Nob Hill Fancy car owners get all revved up on Nob Hill. [Chron] Here is a very detailed description of a Civic Center iPhone sting operation. [HuffPo] Four men had to be rescued after an
SF News Digital Citizens Create Virtual Oakland Online On Minecraft, an immensely popular online virtual world that is something like Second Life meets an infinite supply of Legos, a certain type of digital escapist that has emerged. Minecraft players — there are
SF News Broken Fire Hydrant Becomes Quaint Hayes Valley Pop-Up Fountain There's nothing we love more than an ad hoc street geyser and in Hayes Valley yesterday the city's faux-Parisian neighborhood finally experienced the thrill of a busted fire hydrant. Unlike the roaring, 5-story
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Google, Cult-Like Google Billionaire Eric Schmidt is creating a scary new machine-worship cult. [TheAwl] How to join the Golden State Warriors bandwagon. Might as well, since we'll have them in town in a couple years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Senate Bill Hopes Soda Tax Will Eradicate Childhood Obesity A bill that would tax sugary sodas and energy drinks is currently making its way through the California State Senate. If passed into law, SB-622 will add a one-cent tax per ounce to
Arts & Entertainment Video: The S.F. Zoo's Tiger Cub Eats A Hamburger It's been a moment since we last checked in with our favorite animal on the planet, but we are happy to report that about a week or so ago, the San Francisco Zoo's
SF News Afternoon Shooting In Bayview is S.F.'s 12th Homicide 27-year-old Trivon Dixon of Rodeo, California has been identified as the victim of San Francisco's 12th homicide in 2013. Dixon was sitting in his parked car on Whitney Young Circle near the Earl
SF News [PHOTO] Big Rig, Muni Metro Train Disagree About Who Should Go First A semi-truck driver totally blew it yesterday when he attempted to make an illegal U-turn on Third Street, cutting off a Muni Metro T-Third train in the process. ABC7 Newsman Dean Smith caught
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: S.F.'s Youngest Food Critic A four-year-old reviews Mission Chinese Food with his face. [BoldItalic] Six romantic date spots that won't decimate your paycheck. [GrubSF] Is Twitter, like the Wall Street banks, too big to fail? [Chron] Was
SF News BUZZKILL: Senate Bill To Extend Last Call To 4 AM Gets Put To Bed State Senator Mark Leno's proposal to allow cities and counties in California to extend drinking hours until 4 a.m. was effectively cut off by a bunch of buzzkills in a state Senate
SF News Serial Nudists Fined For Showing Off The Goods How much does it cost to put your crown jewels on public display in San Francisco these days? About $200 bucks in fines and court fees. In yesterday's trial, three of San Francisco's
Arts & Entertainment Ian McKellen & Patrick Stewart Will Take The Stage At Berkeley Rep Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart — two of the greatest actors on this planet, Middle Earth or the final frontier — will grace the stage in Berkeley for four weeks this summer theater
SF News PHOTO: Barry Bonds' Home Run Plaque Missing From AT&T Park A plaque celebrating Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run has gone missing from the brick wall in right center field of AT&T Park. All that remains now is a smattering of
