SF News Man Sets Girlfriend On Fire After Laundromat Spat San Francisco Police are on the lookout for 22-year-old Dexter Oliver after the fiery fiend allegedly set his girlfriend aflame outside of a Bayview laundromat Sunday. According to the victim's sister, Precious Craig,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Supporting Local Media Consolidation Former newspaper rivals agree: SF Examiner owner Todd Vogt's plan to buy up SF publications is a good thing. (Although we still haven't heard which, if any, newspaper Vogt plans on buying.) [SFAppeal]
SF News Frank Ocean Busted Twice For Speeding, Pot Possession Near Nevada Border Not to get all up in your Frank Ocean news today, but the noted "Sierra Leone" crooner was stopped twice for doing over 90 mph on remote highways in the Eastern Sierra Nevada
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Your Mr. Marina 2013 Contestants! Last year, the Mr. Marina Competition saw fourteen of the 94123's most unabashed bro-hams waggling their dongs while drinking away any hint of homoeroticism that arises from being a contestant in a male
Arts & Entertainment Many Americans Think Al Jazeera Are Terrorists, Say TV Experts With the purchase of Current TV this week, Pan-Arab news network Al Jazeera bought a huge base of American subscribers (many of whom didn't seem to know they even had the channel). According
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: #OccupyTwitter District Attorney drops subpoenas of twitter accounts related to Occupy Oakland protests. [SFEx] Muni 2013: Now what? [N-Judah] Entire mail collection box stolen from Alameda Street. [CBS5] Man accused of Potrero Hill stabbing
SF News Day Around The Bay: Big Muni Is Watching You SFPD can now watch and listen to live video feeds from Muni buses and trains. Naturally, privacy activists up in arms. [CBS5] What will happen to the Palace of Fine Arts now that
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From January's 'Nob Hill Gazette' As is monthly tradition around here, we present our 10 favorite utterances from the January issue of The Gazette, "San Francisco's original social network." In this month's issue: The magazine's top "A" Listers
Arts & Entertainment Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic Will Hit Theaters This April The first of two biographical films based on the life (or at least keynote presentations) of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be unleashed in American theaters this April, with noted actor/
SF News SFPD Seeking Five Armed Men In Early Morning Richmond District Home Invasion Just before 3 a.m. Thursday morning, five armed men broke in and raided a home in the quiet Outer Richmond District. The residence on 40th Avenue near Geary Boulevard was apparently home
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: The Walk of Shame Brunch Looking for opportunities to bring back that ball gown in your closet? Babe Scanlon explains how to pull off the the Walk of Shame Brunch. [SFAppeal] Surprise! Facebook only paid about 0.3%
SF News Have You Seen This Guy? SFPD Releases Video Of Dog-Throwing Tenderloin Mugger As part of their new crowdsourced crime solving efforts, SFPD has tracked down surveillance footage of the mugger wanted for stealing a woman's wallet and throwing her 18-pound Pekingese pup named Roxie into
SF News Al Gore Jazeera? Arabic News Network Possibly Buying Out Current TV [Updated] After several months of rumors that Current TV was looking to sell out, Qatar-based, Arabic satellite news network Al Jazeera is reportedly finalizing a deal that would take over the cable news network
SF News Septuagenarian Punched During Wig Store Robbery A couple of hair thieves are on the loose after robbing a wig store on Polk Street Sunday afternoon. The two suspects in their late twenties were trying to make their escape with
SF News Naked Guy Brandishing Samurai Sword Busted After Two-Hour Standoff Well, it sounds like at least one person had a fun time on New Year's morning down in San Jose, Calif. See, 29-year-old Coco Bennett was arrested after a two-hour standoff that began
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Back to Work It is now a crime to picket at a funeral, and other new California laws in 2013. [SFEx] Some handwringing over who Mayor Lee might appoint to District 4 Supervisor — assuming current Supe
SF News Day Around The Bay: So Long, 2012! It's New Year's Eve and we have no idea why you aren't putting on your party dress already, but in 2013 you should resolved to follow SFist on Twitter and like us on
SF News Dog-Throwing Tenderloin Mugger Wanted By SFPD A deplorable dog-hating mugger is still on the loose after he robbed a woman in her car on Leavenworth Street last Friday evening. According to Bay City News, the victim had done the
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To Taking Ride Sharing Services On New Year's Eve It's New Year's Eve, and tonight after all the clocks flip over to 12:01 a.m. every taxi in San Francisco will turn into a pumpkin. A pumpkin that does not want
SF News This Is Tonight's DUI Checkpoint First things first: Don't drink and drive. Just don't. It should go without saying that people who drive drunk are the worst. If we find out tomorrow, dear readers, that any one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink C.W. Nevius: The Chronicle's Latest Subway Shilling Columnist We've known for quite some time now that former Da Mayor, well-compensated political/sandwich lobbyist and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Willie Brown has been suspiciously vocal about his love for Subway sandwiches. Now
SF News YouTube Nixes Billions Of Fake Video Views Because The Internet Is Meaningless The ubiquitous video streaming site and trampoline accident repository says they have caught major music labels Universal, Sony/BMG, and RCA inflating view numbers on their YouTube channels in a vain attempt to
SF News Berkeley Law Students Charged In Fowl Las Vegas Murder Justin Teixeira and Eric Cuellar, the two UC Berkeley law students accused of beheading a rare bird and toying with the carcass one night in Las Vegas earlier this year, have been charged
SF News Butt-Touching Bandit Breaks Into Chinatown Home To Touch A Butt What a creep: a 40-year-old suspect is on the loose after a 42-year-old woman awoke in her Chinatown home early yesterday morning to find him touching her butt. The victim was unharmed aside
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Perusing The Year-End Lists The San Francisco Public Library does not have bedbugs, says the San Francisco Public Library. We'll still be finding an alternative place to pee when we're in Civic Center, thank you very much.
