Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Deerhoof At Slim's From their humble beginnings as a little-known nineties noise rock band to critical acclaim for one of Pitchfork's top albums of the 2000s, San Francisco's Deerhoof have made a name for themselves with
SF News Schwarzenegger Talks 'Total Recall,' Recalls Other Dumb Things To Say Aging action star, noted adulterer, and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzeneggar has a new book out today: the highly anticipated and partially crowdsourced autobiography Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. The
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Where To Buy A Pith Helmet In Union Square Cable Car Clothiers is one of the last outlets of "traditional" San Francisco, and probably the only clothing store in Union Square where you can purchase a pith helmet. [Chron] Despite the numbers,
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco's Most Hideous Dining Room Is this the most hideous dining room in San Francisco? How does one even eat in there? [Curbed] Downtrodden Mission High mauls Lowell High School's rich kids in football season opener. [MissionLocal] This
SF News A's Pitcher To Police Chief: "Arm Yourself Or Get Out, It's the Wild West." Well this is odd: Dallas Braden, the Oakland Athletics pitcher currently in possession of the arm responsible for the 19th perfect game in MLB history, got in to a spat with the Stockton,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Drinks And AT-ATs At The Walt Disney Museum Finally hopping on the after-hours museum trend, tonight the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio hosts Animate Your Night: Where It's AT-AT. The informative drinking event promises to teach attendees a thing
Arts & Entertainment 49ers Preview: Niners In New Jersey (By Daisy Barringer) Hopefully we've all recovered from the debacle that was last Sunday's loss to Minnesota because we're just two days away from facing off against the Jets in New York. Well,
SF News Sad-Eyed Dog Dies On United Flight to San Francisco A 140-pound mastiff failed to make the flight from Miami to San Francisco International Airport last month. The cause of death: a sweltering four-hour layover in Houston, apparently. According to the dog's owner,
SF News Likely Mugging Victims In San Francisco? 20-Something Dudes In SoMa Over at the Examiner today, the free daily paper with the blog-esque crime section has compiled some data on 100 street robberies that took place over 23 days in August and September. The
SF News Critical Mass Breaks Up With SF Bike Coalition Critical Mass is celebrating two decades of traffic-blocking bicycle advocacy this week, but from the sounds of this open letter from former mayoral candidate and community leader Quintin Mecke, the two decade-old bike
SF News S.F. To Paris: 'Oui, Je T'aime Encore!' Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe paid a visit to the best city in America (allegedly) yesterday. Aside from enjoying some of our world-class leisure amenities (and probably making fun of our wine), Delanoe was
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: City Facing Fines On America's Cup Developments The city could be on the hook for $29,000 a day in fines if certain America's Cup venues aren't ready by March 1st, 2013. Still, the City's spokesperson for the A-Cup project
SF News San Francisco Is America's Best City, Says Business Magazine "It's impossible to say what's 'best' for everyone, of course," reads BusinessWeek's introduction to America's 50 Best Cities, hinting that not even the magazine itself can take another 50-photo slideshow seriously anymore. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eric Mar's Next Crusade: Less Beer, More Produce At Your Corner Store Having famously saved an entire generation of San Francisco children from making potentially unhealthy lifestyle choices, Richmond District Supervisor Eric Mar has a new mission that will rescue San Franciscans from themselves: Getting
SF News Even Twitter Thinks Your Follower Count Is A Load Of Crap Speaking to a crowd at BuzzFeed's kitten photo factory in New York earlier this week, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams suggested that the almighty follower counter might not be the best way to measure
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: World Baseball Classic Headed to AT&T Park Ruins of pre-1906 City Hall were found at Civic Center construction site, which is as good a reason as any to bring out the vintage photographs. [Chron] World Baseball Classic coming to AT&
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sam Wo Rising Sam Wo's comeback is currently underway with the help of some pro-bono work from the Chinatown Community Development Center, but they'll still take your donations. [InsideScoop] "See Driver Hit Bike Cop. See Driver
SF News Jerry Brown Becomes America's Oldest Governor To Ride In A Robot Car Earlier today Governor Jerry Brown stopped in to Google's Mountain View headquarters to sign a bill that will soon allow Californians to be even more apathetic while behind the wheel of a car.
SF News Tweaker Principal Had 10 Hidden Cameras In His SF Apartment Updates today on the Santa Clara Elementary school principal busted for attempting to sell crystal meth to an undercover officer last Thursday. Montague Elementary school's suspended principal Eric Dean Lewis was charged with
SF News Help A Transplant Register To Vote Today Look, we get it: some of you just moved to San Francisco. (Hello! Welcome! We have great Mexican food!) Some of you probably moved here years ago and never bothered to register to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Django Django At The Independent Tonight at the Independent on Divisadero, Scottish electro-jangle-pop band Django Django makes their San Francisco debut at a show that is criminally undersold as of this publication. In the three years between the
SF News Hack Free Muni Rides Under the premise of highlighting some vulnerabilities in Muni's contactless fare card system, two analysts with New York security consulting firm Intrepidus Group have created an app that allows riders to use an
SF News Village Voice Sells Alt-Weeklies, Owners Keep Sketchy Backpage.com Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, the two sexagenarian owners of Phoenix-based Village Voice Media's network of 13 alternative weekly papers have agreed to sell off all their publications (including SF Weekly) to separate
SF News Transbay Tower Gets A New Crown, Plus 100% More Funicular San Francisco's soon-to-be-tallest building got a few design tweaks before it heads back to the Planning Commission for final approval next month. When last we checked in, the Planning Commission compromised with neighbors
SF News Tweaker School Principal Busted For Crystal Meth Principal Eric Dean Lewis of Montague Elementary School in Santa Clara was busted Friday evening after allegedly setting up a crystal meth deal at a CalTrain station with an undercover cop he met
