SF News Reminder: Don't Take A Road Flare To Your Christmas Tree Because That Would Be Stupid In front of St. Francis Memorial Hospital today, members of the S.F. Fire Department set up a safety demonstration to show local holiday decorators just how fast a well-watered pine can go
SF News Over The Weekend, Hundreds of Bay Area Residents Decided They No Longer Needed To Own Guns Gun buyback programs in San Francisco and Oakland proved that, at least in the Bay Area, there are scores of people willing to abandon their right to bear arms — especially in light of
SF News Daisy Does the Niners: Stunning 41-34 Victory Over the Patriots (By Daisy Barringer) Within seconds of the 49ers amazing 41-34 victory over the New England Patriots, my Twitter feed blew up. People were demanding apologies for the fact that I ever questioned Harbaughs’
SF News Concord High School Football Player Shot To Death In Bayview Saturday Night 17-year-old Montreal Blakely, a player for Concord High School's Minutemen football team, was shot to death in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood Saturday night. Blakely was shot on Osceola Lane around 10 p.m.
SF News Oakland Hospital Documentary, Scientology Spinoff, Osama bin Laden Flick Top SF Film Critics Awards The San Francisco Film Critics Circle awards, which are like our local Academy Awards but with much less Billy Crystal, were announced today. And the winners are... P.T. Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F. Zoo Otters Frolicking In The Snow The San Francisco Zoo is running a highly effective ad campaign this holiday season. They've already won us over with penguins singing "Jingle Bells." Now they're back with this much less adorably titled
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Avoid The Post Office Heads up, the post office will be extra busy today. [BCN/Appeal] And now, a painting of Ron Conway. [TechCrunch] Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom is being a little coy about the time Twitter
SF News Mission Rapist Frederick Dozier Jr. Sentenced To 373 Years To Life Frederick Dozier Jr., the 33-year-old former school cafeteria worker convicted of violent sexual assaults against three women in the Mission earlier this year, was sentenced Friday to 373 years to life in prison.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gold Dust Lounge Pours In Fisherman's Wharf Although the space is far from ready, the Gold Dust Lounge poured its first Irish Coffee in Fisherman's Wharf. [InsideScoop] Fuck you, guns. [Jezebel] Then & Now: City's second most expensive home has
Arts & Entertainment 49ers Preview: Niners at Patriots (By Daisy Barringer) On Monday, I boldly declared that if Kaepernick started on Sunday against the New England Patriots, the 49ers would lose the game. It is now Friday and I still stand
Arts & Entertainment Photo: The Geminid Meteor Shower Over San Francisco Photographer Tony Eckersley shot this amazing composite photo of seven meteors over San Francisco during a one-hour period of the Geminid meteor shower Thursday night. "I saw around 30 total," Tony explains, "shame
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Not-Crazy John McAfee Eats McDonald's In Miami Software mogul, allegedly not-insane person and possible Meth user John McAfee has been remarkably chatty throughout this whole ordeal in which he is accused of murdering a neighbor in Belize and shacking up
SF News Scammers In Vallejo Attempt To Sell Worst Fake iPads Ever Every holiday season, some prankster thinks he can get away with putting rocks in a box and passing it off as an iPod or something. This year, the consumer reports section of the
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nudity Ban Lawsuit Has No Clothes A Squat in the Dark: attending an illegal underground literary reading in the Lower Haight. [Haighteration] City Attorney says the lawsuit against the nudity ban has no merit. (Or clothes.) [Chron] San Francisco
SF News Day Around The Bay: NoisePop Festival Lineup Announced NoisePop Festival announces initial 2013 lineup: Toro Y Moi, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Rogue Wave, Ramona Falls and more set to perform. [TheBayBridged] Please don't use the G-word on Divisadero.
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F. Zoo's Penguin Colony Sings 'Jingle Bells' Penguins are great, right? Not only have they proven that gay couples can successfully raise adopted babies, but they can also sing timeless Christmas Carols! Here now, a chorus of the San Francisco
SF News Eight Arrested In Emeryville Underage Prostitution Sting Eight people — six adults and two 15-year-olds — were arrested in Emeryville last week during an undercover sting operation designed to crack down on the underage prostitution. The Alameda County Vice Enforcement team conducted
SF News Even Gavin Newsom Thinks The New U.C. Logo Sucks As a voting member on the University of California's Board of Regents and a guy with really nice hair, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has some important opinions on the UC System's controversial new
Arts & Entertainment Stop What You're Doing Right Now And Watch These Puppies & Kittens In Macy's Seriously, what are you doing right now? We can almost guarantee it is not looking at the adorable puppies and kittens (available for adoption from the SF SPCA!) currently living in the holiday
SF News Anti-Mirkarimi Group Hopes Sheriff Will Resign On Signatures Alone Although efforts to recall Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi seem to have stalled for the time being, a new online petition and social media campaign popped up yesterday that hopes to oust the sheriff on
SF News Late Night Cyclist Trapped Under Street Sweeper In SoMa Early this morning around 12:30 a.m. a cyclist and a street sweeper crashed into each other near Sixth and Brannan Streets in SoMa. According to police, the cyclist got trapped under
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Fleishhacker Pool To Be Demolished Fire-damaged Fleishhacker Pool house to be demolished. [Ocean Beach Bulletin] King Tides — the highest of the year — bring flooding to the Bay Area along with global warming activists. [Chron] Officers lauded for saving
SF News Day Around The Bay: Jerry Brown Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer Governor Jerry Brown has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He will continue to work for now and his oncologist thinks the prognosis is "excellent." So, you know, don't get all weepy yet. [Chron]
SF News C.W. Nevius' Dildo Goof Lands On 'Error of the Year' List Remember back in August, when Chronicle Columnist Chuck Nevius erroneously claimed local drag entertainer Peaches Christ had appeared at a church event with a crucifix-shaped dildo? At the time we called it, "Quite
