SF News Say Hello To The Palace Lagoon's New Baby Swans After last summer saw months of drama in the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts, we were beginning to wonder if the game of swans in the Marina would ever rebuild their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Attempts To Out-Nanny San Francisco With Soda Ban In the ongoing competition to see whose city government can coddle its constituents more (and hopefully make kids less fat in the process), New York City's Mayor Bloomberg is attempting one-up San Francisco
SF News DOMA Is Still Unconstitutional, Rules Federal Appeals Court In a unanimous ruling at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston Thursday, a three-judge panel again declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional and discriminatory against gay couples. The
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: The Life Of A Classical Composer-Turned-Cabbie Newsflash: there are still people aggressively trying to sell you weed at the end of Haight Street. [Chron] Today in headlines: "Teach a man to fish and you feed his crack habit". [SFEx]
Arts & Entertainment Worried You Might Be A Brogrammer? There's A Handy Quiz For That If you're one of the many dudes suddenly questioning where you fit on the Geek-Bro spectrum now that Brogrammers have come along to testosterone things up, you can fret no more. A Chicago
SF News Mr. Mission Competition: OK, Now You're Just Being Gross Last night in the Mission, six contestants hopped on the tiny stage at the Elbo Room, dressed like they just fell out of a viral video about Dolores Park to compete in a
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Spectacular Golden Gate Bridge Fireworks Sullied By Stabbing While most of us were observing the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge by swigging cocktails and watching fireworks, two unlucky men were busy getting stabbed in a fight near Aquatic Park
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Pinkberry To Invade Union Square Popular celebrity and skinny girl snack spot Pinkberry is finally coming to San Francisco proper. Opening in Union Square just in time for the summer chill. [InsideScoop] Speaking of LA things: Now you
Arts & Entertainment Look At These Adorable Coyote Puppies In Golden Gate Park Right This Instant Fellow lovers of all things local and adorable (that should be all of you): please stop what you're doing right this very second and take a look at these impossibly cute coyote pups,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mark Zuckerberg Forgets To Tip, Eats McDonald's While On Roman Honeymoon At the risk of finding ourselves becoming Mark Zuckerberg's financial apologists, the tabloids are out to nail the bajillionaire Facebook CEO for being cheap (again). His offense this time? Stiffing the waitstaff at
SF News Another Day, Another Marijuana Grow House Discovered By Firefighters If recent incidents are any indicator, the biggest threat to the local marijuana industry is shoddy electrical work in their grow houses. After a 3-alarm fire torched a grow house in Oakland last
SF News Gavin Newsom Describes Sacramento: "I Just, Ugh, God" The life of a politically irrelevant, celebrity Lieutenant Governor can be be tough sometimes. Between finding time to interview Lance Armstrong and hanging out at fundraising galas, the Lite Gov. barely has any
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Remembering The <em>Other</em> Golden Gate Bridge Chuck Nevius celebrates the other Golden Gate Bridge — the one in Mulvane, Kansas. [Nevius] The principal of the Paul Revere School in Bernal Heights is staring down DUI and Hit-Run charges today. [SFAppeal]
SF News Day Around the Bay: Blue Bottle Makes Golden Gate Salt The Blue Bottle Coffee outpost inside SFMOMA went down under the Golden Gate Bridge to collect salt water to make salt for a limited edition hot chocolate that ties in with the current
Arts & Entertainment Your 2012 Film Night In The Park Schedule, With Beverage Pairings It's that time of year again, when the rest of the country decides it's summer and the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation sets up their outdoor projection screens for the entertainment and delight
SF News Zuckerberg Wedding Was 'Cheap,' Says Tacky Newspaper While we throughly enjoyed gushing over Priscilla Chan's lovely Claire Pettibone wedding number, the Zuckerberg nuptials apparently did not fit the expectations of online wedding crashers who would rather see a big budget
Arts & Entertainment Here Are Five Videos Of Marina Dudes Stripping [NSFW] Now that we have had a day to process the overwhelming machismo present at the inaugural Mr. Marina Competition, we'd like to present this brief and entertaining follow-up in the form of our
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Your Holiday Weekend DUI Checkpoints It's a holiday weekend: Expect DUI checkpoints in Glen Park and around the Bay Bridge, and as always don't drink and drive. [BCN/Appeal] Meet the entrepreneur who squatted at AOL's Palo Alto
SF News Day Around The Bay: Price Of Garbage To Go Up Ross Mirkarimi is for openness — mostly. [Griffin/SFEx] Get ready for San Francisco's garbage collection monopoly Recology to jack up your garbage rates. [SFAppeal] Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the founder of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oyster-Obsessed Northen California Man Finds Record Breaking Mollusk Richard Mesce, a Northen California man with a passion for extremely large filter-feeding shellfish, has discovered an 80-year-old, 13-inch long oyster in the muddy Humboldt Bay. Mesce, a retired pilot, has spent the
Arts & Entertainment Mr. Marina Competition: Aggressive Alcoholism In The Name Of Charity Last night in SOMA, fourteen of the Marina District's finest 20- and 30-something male specimens took the stage at Mezzanine to sing, drink, and charm their way to the title of the district's
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Landlords Are Evil SFPD Chief Greg Suhr weighs in on yesterday's video of Valencia Street vandalism. [SFEx] Mission District landlord demands move-in "signing bonus" on an already ridiculously overpriced apartment. [UptownAlmanac] Barack Obama (America's first gay
SF News Los Angeles Anarchist Group Posts YouTube Video Of Valencia Vandalism A feminist, anarchist group from Los Angeles has posted a YouTube video titled "Scenes from a Black Bloc documenting protesters during the pre-May Day demonstrations that left the neighborhood trashed on April 30th.
SF News Two Women Shot In Afternoon Tenderloin Drive-By At least two women, and possibly a third, were shot in front of a taqueria during an apparent drive-by shooting in the Tenderloin aroudn 1 p.m. this afternoon. According to a witness,
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom, Social Media Expert, Forgot How Twitter Works; Tags An SEO Expert Instead Of Paul Ryan Television personality and angry tweeter Gavin Newsom, who once wrote a book on how to use social media, must have had a temporary lapse in brain function today. While attempting to use the
