Arts & Entertainment Why Should People Visit San Francisco? 'Fast Money, Faster Women,' Says Website Today, on the Internet, a website named San Francisco #19 out of the top 29 cities to visit this year. (Why 29? Unclear. Because it's a prime number, maybe?) Anyway, number 19 puts
SF News One Of These Ladies Had To Die So A Federal Court Could Rule DOMA Unconstitutional Yesterday, a Federal Court in New York confirmed what we've heard confirmed repeatedly this year: The Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The New York court became the fifth federal court to rule
Arts & Entertainment You Should Adopt These Perfectly Quirky Rescue Pets This Weekend You know what's great about rescue pets? They're always a little bit off, like they are terrified of the vacuum cleaner or they hide under the couch whenever an ambulance goes by. That
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Heading Towards A Blander Music Scene SFWeekly worries about the future of San Francisco's music scene in the face of an increasingly affluent city. [AllShookDown] The East Bay Express investigates an unprecedented case of first amendment rights on the
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From June's 'Nob Hill Gazette' After a slight delay caused our copy of the city's "most exclusive news magazine" to show up a couple days late, we now return to our regular monthly tradition. Without further ado, our
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Attacks Self With X-Acto Blade, Severs Penis Maybe we can't technically count this one towards 2012's wave of knife crime in the city, but this baffling tale of self mutilation in Fremont deserves a sharp headline. According to police in
SF News Office Drones Go Nuts For Obama's Entourage In Downtown S.F. President Obama is back in town again today for his latest ATM run. Although the President expected to run in to protesters during his brief, three and a half hour stop in San
SF News Cops Confiscate Assault Rifle In Bayview Drive-By An drive-by shooting in the Bayview Sunday morning ended in five arrests and a confiscated AR-15 assault rifle, the Examiner reports today. The drive-by went down near the intersection of Hawes Street and
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: A 70-Year Voting Streak In the Richmond, a frail 96-year-old woman kept her 70-year voting streak alive yesterday. Remind us again: what was your excuse for not making it out to the polls? [RichmondSF] Chuck Nevius is
SF News Deer In Berkeley Are Going Buck Wild While San Francisco has adorable coyotes to contend with, folks in Berkeley are currently experiencing a much quirkier problem with their urban wildlife: violent deer. According to several readers over at Berkeleyside and
SF News Local Bloggers And Journalists Fix BART Escalators With Words Let's hear it for the Fourth Estate, everybody! After bombarding BART with scores of blog posts, news stories and social media campaigns criticizing the dismal state of the transit agency's fleet of non-functional
SF News State's Gay Marriage Ban Likely To Go To U.S. Supreme Court The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional earlier this year, issued a brief today stating the court would not be revisiting the earlier ruling on the same-sex marriage ban.
SF News Horrible Youths Steal Kid's Skateboard At Gunpoint An 11-year-old boy had his after-school skateboard session completely ruined by a gun-toting youth and his friends last Friday. The kid had been hanging out with his skateboard near the intersection of Leland
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Pier 30 Neighbors Won't Be Warriors Fans Surprise: The Chronicle found some neighbors in SOMA who aren't excited about the forthcoming Warriors arena. [Chron] The investigation in to sexual assault allegations against Pablo Sandoval should wrap up by the end
SF News Breaking: Downed Muni Lines Block Market Street [Updates] Heads up homeward commuters: several sources are reporting downed Muni cables have closed Market Street to traffic between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Emergency crews are currently on the scene, but at the moment
SF News Bayview Shooting Marks City's 27th Homicide Of 2012 A 22-year-old man was driving near Le Conte and Meade Avenues in the Bayview around 2 a.m. this morning when a gunshot wound to the head caused him to crash into a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Buys La Boulange In an effort to overcome their reputation as a mediocre coffee chain with overly syruped seasonal beverages, Starbucks announced Monday that they are purchasing La Boulange for $100 million. The generally well-regarded San
Arts & Entertainment Divisadero Doomed To Become S.F.'s Next Tourist Hotspot As the debate over tour buses in Alamo Square rages on, the neighbors around the Western Addition's enclave of privileged real estate have a new proposal to deal with the droves of tourists
SF News Willie Brown Predicts Booming Black Market For Cigarettes Avuncular former Mayor and noted political soothsayer Willie Brown has seen the future of California's tobacco trade, and it is about to go underground. With Proposition 29 on the ballot tomorrow*, Willie believes
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: The Early Word On The Black & White Ball The early reviews of the S.F. Symphony's Black & White Ball are in: SFWire notes, "The drag girls were fabulous as they posed with slightly shocked suburbanites. Marina girls tried to outdo
SF News Alamo Square Developer Still Trying To Make 'Painted Gentlemen' A Thing Down the block from the postcard row of Painted Ladies in Alamo Square, the real estate developer behind three new post-Victorian homes on Steiner Street is still insisting that we refer to the
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Tenderloin Mugger Stabs Victim In The Throat A mugging victim is in serious condition after a failed robbery attempt at the corner of Ellis and Jones early this morning. The victim had been standing in front of a business at
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Where Have All The Pancakes Gone? Leah Garchik wants to know: what happened to all the good old-fashioned pancakes? [Garchik] Fayes Video sign drops some knowledge on proper toilet paper roll placement. Take note. [MissionMission] Cheesy Lolita glasses popular
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco's First Gay Sports Bar Lime's popular bottomless mimosa brunch is leaving the Castro to make way for the first gay bar in San Francisco to explicitly call itself a sports bar. Lime's final brunch blowout happens this
SF News Local Metal Thieves Dig Up Graves To Steal Coffin Brass We've seen them take everything from the Harvey Milk plaque to a massive church bell to wire from BART tracks, but up metal thieves up in the old Gold Rush town of Martinez
