Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday we present to you 7 Reasons. (Our sister site LAist does
Arts & Entertainment Will Any LGBT Actually Wear The Nike Gay Pride Shoe? Nike recently launched the BE TRUE 2012 campaign aimed at the LGBT community. The campaign pays homage to "the achievements of the New York City, San Francisco and Portland communities as progressive leaders
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kreayshawn's 'Go Hard' Is Bad-Girls-Club Fun East Bay female hip-hop/pop chanteuse Kreayshawn penned a great ditty last year christened "Gucci Gucci." It was not only fun, but also bitchy and earwormy — everything one should look for in a
SF News Watch San Francisco Giants Fans Catch Falling Star "It" player Melky Cabrera caught a ball during the sixth inning of last night's Giants-Padres game at AT&T Park. Also making an important catch? Giants fans who helped Cabrera back up
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Punk Rock Cat Boards Train, Doesn't Care What You Or Society Think Eugenia at Muni Diaries brightens our day year with this photo of an unapologetic punk rock cat sitting atop its equally rad owner boarding a Muni train. "[T]he cat that looks absolutely
SF News Masked Gunman Opens Fire Near 24th and Alabama On Monday afternoon a little before 2 p.m., a masked gunman opened fire near the busy intersection of Alabama and 24th Streets in the Mission. A man sporting a "black mask, sunglasses
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The DMV This Morning In Western Addition.... Beth Spotswood sent us harrowing images of her standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles this morning in Western Addition. Yuck. Though this is a city chockfull of people who love
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey's PETA Ad Features Cat On Crooner's Head For your evening viewing pleasure, we give you Morrissey's PETA ad, which features a feline atop the singer's head. Regarding the campaign to spay or neuter your pets, Morrissey said, "Letting cats or
SF News Day Around The Bay: Same-Sex Kissing & Fast Food The most necessary graffiti of our time. [Mission Mission] National same-sex kiss day planned for anti-civil rights fast food joint Chick-fil-A. [Eater] Car porn, anyone? [Violet Blue] Secret places at Fort Mason. [SFGate]
SF News Neocon Radio Host Michael Savage Rages Over Blackballing Boomer generation-spawned performance artist Michael Savage penned a thoughtful and even-keeled response to local media blogger Rich Lieberman's question about whether or not the neoconservative radio host thinks that he's being blackballed in
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Remaining Gay Spaces In SoMa Over the weekend, a smattering of gays held a protest in front of Foreign Cinema to rally against the loss of LGBT spaces (read: bars, clubs) in San Francisco — specifically in South of
SF News Horny Olympic Athletes Allegedly Crash Gay Sex App Grindr In London Within a few minutes of Olympic athletes arriving in London on Sunday for the games, same-sex buddy locater Grindr crashed, either due to a massive influx of hot gay-sex seeking athletes or a
SF News Man Killed In Motorcycle Accident Identified Constantine Boyko, a 25-year-old San Francisco resident, was killed on Saturday after his motorcycle collided into a van on Cesar Chavez Street between Evans Avenue and Pennsylvania. "According to investigators, Boyko was traveling
Arts & Entertainment Astute Shark Fin Mural Inspired By 'Me and My Shark Fin' Video, Shark Art Tour As Mission Mission pointed out last week, this oddly elegant yet telling shark-fin mural, which depicts a dead shark strewn next to its freshly sliced-off fin, was inspired by Kool Kid Kreyola's "Me
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink German Conglomerate To Buy Peet's Coffee For Around $1 Billion Bay Area-based Peet's Coffee's stock got a jolt (ahem) this morning after the company announced that Germany conglomerate Benckiser will buy the coffee/tea company for a bold $977.6 million. Peet's, founded
SF News Pot Advocates To Protest Obama's Oakland Visit Today President Barack Obama will make an appearance at the Fox Theater today — located in the heart of Oaksterdam, the East Bay's cannabis community — for a fundraiser. While the president shills for dollars for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Scenes From Last Night: Beer-Biased Abbot's Cellar Opening Next Week "This is totally an Instagram type of place," Tighe Flatley, who escorted us to Abbot's Cellar, a new Valencia Street restaurant slanted toward a beer-drinking crowd, exclaimed when we arrived. He meant that
SF News Boutique Uses 'Dark Knight' Tragedy To Promote Kim Kardashian Inspired Aurora Dress In a deplorable move to hawk cheap dresses inspired by the likes of Kim Kardashian, online store Celeb Boutique seemingly takes advantage of "#Aurora," which trended on Twitter shortly after the "Dark Knight
SF News Of Course, Famous People React To 'Dark Knight Rises' Colorado Massacre Friday's massacre during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" inside a movie theater in a Denver suburb will go down as yet another horrific footnote in American history. These incidents are,
SF News Mirkarimi Stay-Away Order Lifted, Couple Smooches For The Cameras A judge lifted the protective order placed on embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and Eliana Lopez. In response, the two gave each other a little sugar in front of media. (Best viewed
SF News Man Shot, Killed By Officer Identified The man accused of allegedly slashing a colleague at the TCHO chocolate factory with a box cutter, then shot and killed by police, was identified as Pralith Pralourng, 32, of Oakland. Pralourng, if
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Let's All Congratulate Margaret Cho for Her '30 Rock' Emmy Nomination "Oh, see, she should totally get nominated for this," we thought to ourself while watching San Francisco-born comedianne Margaret Cho perform as dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. We then went back to
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Litquake Speakeasy at Public Works Get your 1920s on at a speakeasy party in the Mission care of the fine scribes at Litquake. Hear excerpts of biting authors read by some of your favorite Bay Area writers, including
