SF News Convicted Redwood City Poodle Killer Claims Neighbor's Dog Was Boning His Chihuahua 32-Year-old Marcos Montano-Topete, who claimed he was acting in self-defense when he beat a 12-pound toy poodle to death with a brick in Redwood City last year, was convicted last week animal cruelty
SF News Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA's Mohawked Superstar, Gets A Free Ticket To The State Of The Union Bobak Ferdowsi, the man who helped land the Curiosity rover on Mars and then drove it straight into our hearts, will be sporting his trademark mohawk alongside whatever Michelle Obama decides to throw
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: A Hayes Valley Mardis Gras San Francisco may have failed to bring the party to New Orleans last week, but at least one neighborhood is going all out for tonight's Fat Tuesday celebrations. Well, "all out" in San
SF News AP Decides 'Husband' And 'Wife' Only Applies To Straight Folks The Associated Press, whose stylebook is "the journalist's bible" used by writers and abused by bloggers the world over, issued a memo today clarifying when writers should use the terms "Husband" and "Wife"
SF News Videos: All The (Non-Lethal) Weapons SFPD May Want To Shoot You In The Face With San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr has been leading a recent push to equip 100 specially trained officers with less-than-lethal weapons as an alternative to, well, to shooting people with bullets, obviously. While
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Bidding For Valentines Lonely San Franciscans are now bidding on dates for Valentine's Day. [SFEx] "Hyperlocal" neighborhood blogs recognized by major newspaper for their work. [Chron] Colin Kaepernick didn't win a Super Bowl (yet!), but you
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bin Laden's Shooter BART considers a $900 million remodel for Embarcadero and Montgomery stations to deal with increasing ridership. [Chron] Former S.F. Chronicle Editor-at-Large and seasoned war reporter Phil Bronstein profiles the man who killed
SF News Carmel Newspaper Labels Lingerie Models 'Sluts' After Local Resident Objects To Tequila & Cleavage Party A quaint little media brouhaha has popped up down in the seaside hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea (not to be confused with other Carmels, which are not by the sea). After a prudish local resident
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Ping Pong At Rock Bar Beer week can be a hectic, liver-ruining experience every February in San Francisco. So if you're looking for a beer week event where the competition isn't based around getting a taste of this
SF News 'I Have A Little Meth In My Pocket' And Other Methed Up Stories From The Richmond In the lawless Outerlands beyond Arguello Boulevard, where coyotes roam and river otters rip water fowl to pieces, we have two new reports meth users getting themselves arrested for some blatantly methy behavior.
Arts & Entertainment Map: The Marina Is Ripe With Eligible Ladies, SoMa Full Of Single Dudes If you're single in the Bay Area this Valentine's Day, there's still hope that you're not a hopeless and unlovable human being. Maybe you're just living in the wrong neighborhood. To help those
SF News Apple Rumored To Be Making An iWatch, Or Possibly Something Else Entirely After reporting on the last thing Apple released, if there's one thing tech blogs know will do good traffic it's wild speculation about whatever the computer giant's next life-altering device will be. Is
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Dumb Tech Person Speaks About Racism Supervisor John Avalos' twitter feed was hacked by people who think Avalos supporters could stand to lose a few pounds. [UptownAlmanac] Hunter Pence tells local high schoolers to be cool and quit littering.
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From February's 'Nob Hill Gazette' As is monthly tradition around here, we present our 10 favorite utterances from the February issue of The Nob Hill Gazette, "San Francisco's original social network." This month's issue is all about love,
SF News Baltimore Has It Better Than Us: 49ers Fall To Ravens 34-31 Who's got it better than us? For the first time in history, the city of Baltimore has it better than San Francisco. Teams fielded by two crab-infested bayside towns battled it out for
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The Gold Dust Lounge... A 49er fan at the nearly rips her hair out while watching the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII at the Gold Dust lounge in Fisherman's Wharf.
Arts & Entertainment While You Wait For The Lights To Come Back On At The Super Bowl, Here Are Some Pictures Of Beyonce It could be awhile longer. In the meantime: Please enjoy Queen Bey, who's awesome power apparently knocked out the power to the Superdome. Update: Power completely returned to the Superdome around 6:10
Arts & Entertainment These Cats (And One Dog) Are All Rooting For The Niners You know what can really turn a mood around? Adorable animals. These cats (and one dog named Billy Joel) are all hoping Kaepernick and co. can pull off something big in the second
SF News Live-Blogging Super Bowl XVLII: For America Here we go, football fans. It's less than 30 minutes until kickoff in the Superdome, where as you know the San Francisco 49ers are ready to take on the Baltimore Ravens in the
Arts & Entertainment What Time Does The Super Bowl Liveblog Start? Forgive us for buying into such a schlocky headline, but its Super Bowl Sunday, everybody! Kickoff is at 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. ET, at which point we will
SF News Famous 'Rumors' Recording Studio To Become Yoga Studio The famous Record Plant Studio in Sausalito — where Stevie Wonder laid down Songs in the Key of Life, Metallica Load'ed then ReLoad'ed and Fleetwood Mac sent Rumors swirling — is getting one of those
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In New Orleans: Fabulous Hats! Football fans Rion Loisel and Uland Price of Louisiana pose with Mark Castanon of San Jose, wearing their custom-made and completely fabulous Super Bowl ring hats earlier today along the Riverwalk in New
SF News Meet The Pick-Up Artist Behind The Mission's Notorious Rape Van Pictured above is Jeffy. Or "Captain_Derp" if you're on OKCupid. Or Jeff Allen if you're his mother, who is probably pretty disappointed in her son's choice of conveyance. The van, which you
SF News Nudists To Finally Receive Those Citations They've Always Wanted [Update: Three Arrested] Today, for the first time in San Francisco history,* a local nudist or nudists will receive a citation for being indecently exposed. Or, that's the plan anyway. Supervisor Scott Wiener's much-publicized ban on
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bowled Over The New York Times picks the Niners over the Ravens. [NYT] Who wins the Super Bowl of food? [SeriousEats] Look: Super Bowl cakes. [Chron] The Crocker Galleria: no longer a downtrodden shopping center.
