SF News Newsflash: Those Trails Across the Sky Yesterday Were Just Normal Airplanes Despite what many of your conspiracy theorist friends managed to tweet and Facebook from under their tinfoil caps yesterday, those streaks across the sky last yesterday were not, in fact, some kind of
SF News City Hall Fails To Burn Itself Down [Updated] Last night around 9:30 p.m. San Francisco's City Hall tried to burn itself down with an electrical fire. According to the Mayor's spokeswoman, the building's self-immolation attempt began in a basement
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: San Francisco Shipyard Live shots: La Sera at the Chapel. [SFBG] Crumbling splendor: exploring the magnificent vacant buildings of the San Francisco Shipyard. [PotreroView] Has Green Day become Metallica? They've both gotten sober and gone broadway.
SF News Mission Rapist Found Guilty Of 25 Felony Counts Frederick Dozier Jr., the 33-year-old former San Francisco school cafeteria worker accused of a string of violent sexual assaults in the Mission District late last year, was found guilty today of 25 felony
SF News Norman Yee Barely Leads In Historically Close D7 Race A week after election day, the race for the next Supervisor in the Parkside-to-Lakeside District 7 is down to a 33 vote lead for school board president and photoshopper of questionable taste Norman
SF News Oxford English Dictionary Hears 'YOLO,' Names 'GIF' Word Of The Year Instead In a fierce competition between two words that will continue to bug the crap out of you in 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary has named "GIF" as the American word of 2012, finally
SF News Affeldt Agrees To Three-Year $18 Million Deal; Wife Agrees To More Babies, Hopefully Left-hander Jeremy Affeldt made a cool $5 million for sticking with the Giants this year and knocking down three tense outs in game four of the World Series this year. Now, for his
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Falling For Soup Local theater troupe PianoFight will break ground on a new theater in the old Original Joe's space in the Tenderloin. [CurbedSF] Heres Michael Bauer's soup roundup. [InsideScoop] The UCSF Mission Bay parking garage
SF News Day Around The Bay: Going Green in San Quentin 780 Café on Valencia Street institutes new $5-minimum-order policy. If your order doesn't hit the minimum, you're getting that coffee to go. [Mission Mission] Bay Bridge celebrates its 76th anniversary, which is just
SF News Protestors Return To City Hall Wednesday To Get Naked, Artsy After disrobing in the middle of a City Hall committee hearing last week, noted local naked woman Gypsy Taub will be leading another nude-in on the steps of City Hall this Wednesday. According
Arts & Entertainment Hi/Lo: Help The Rumpus Make a Movie or Help Yourself to Some Holiday Shopping For Camera Nerds Two artsy events: one free and one to support the nobel cause of indie filmmaking compete for your attention tonight. First up, local literary concern The Rumpus needs your financial help to make
Arts & Entertainment Nominate Your Favorite/Worst Bro For Mr. Marina 2013 It seems like only yesterday we were indulging the Marina's finest scrotum-gazing bros in their quest for drinking superiority in the name of charity, and yet here we are again: It's time to
SF News In Post-Mirkarimi San Francisco, Domestic Violence Reports On The Rise According to the Chroncile, who pored over an early version of a 2011 report compiled by the city's Department on the Status of Women, the number of domestic violence reports rose sharply from
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Touring The Kirkland Muni Yard Public transit porn: touring the Kirkland Muni bus yard. [Aresluna] What you missed when Christopher Owens debuted his new solo album at The Lodge on Friday night. [AllShookDown] New development eradicating Mission parking.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Valencia Street Ponders Limiting New Restaurants Is it time to start limiting new restaurants on Valencia Street? The Valencia Corridor Merchants Association thinks so. [UptownAlmanac] Surprisingly, the Mission is not the district with the most hoodies per capita. [MissionMission]
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Social Studies Record Release At The Independent Tonight at the Independent on Divisadero, local guitar pop rising stars Social Studies will debut their new album Developer for an adoring local crowd in advance of the record's anticipated release next week.
SF News Knife Crime 2012: 21-Year-Old Stabbed in Head at Powell Station Just before midnight Thursday, a 21-year-old victim got another reason to hate Muni when he was reportedly stabbed in the head at the Powell Street Muni Metro station. The victim managed to get
SF News Video: Horrible California Woman Doesn't See A Problem With Her Racist Obama Assassination Status Update With one Facebook status update on election night, a California woman went from Cold Stone Creamery employee in the forgettable town of Turlock, CA to infamous racist under investigation by the Secret Service.
SF News San Francisco To Cover Gender Reassignment Surgeries For The Uninsured In a move that will make San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries, the city's Health Commission voted Tuesday to remove
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Disney-Lucasfilm Strikes Back The newly Disney-owned Star Wars franchies may already have a writer for Episode VII: Toy Story 3's Michael Arndt, who also got an Oscar nod for Little Miss Sunshine. [Vulture] Nicholas Dirks, a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mirkarimi Recall Effort Shaping Up Effort to recall Sheriff Mirkarimi is starts to take shape. [Chron] Improving service should be Muni's #1 goal, says Supervisor Scott Wiener. [SFEx Op Ed] A cautionary tale about putting your bike on
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Coyote Pups Are All Grown Up (Almost) Remember those adorable coyote pups we fell in love with back in May? Well, they're still out there in Golden Gate Park and they've grown! Big enough to steal your unattended children, even.
SF News Nancy Pelosi's Burglar Busted After Returning To Steal Coin Collection A 21-year-old Napa County man was busted yesterday for burglarizing six homes up in wine country, including two trips Nancy Pelosi's vacation home outside of St. Helena. After his first trip to the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chick-Fil-A Fanatics Camp Out Overnight For Free Chicken With all the fervor of a new iPhone launch, hungry chicken fans not afraid of Chick-Fil-A's homophobic stigma camped out at the chain's new Walnut Creek location overnight last night in hopes of
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Big Boi Stocks Up On Popeye's Outkast's Big Boi dropped by the Divisadero Popeye's, stocked up on $72 worth of chicken. [Haighteration] A man was arrested on Broad Street in Oceanview after threatening to shoot any cops who came