SF News Live: Oakland Cops Prepare For General Strike Showdown [Updated] Justin Beck's live coverage of today's May Day occupation continues. Right now, at around 3 p.m., cops have arrived in Oakland near Broadway and 14th, demanded protesters to leave or face "removal
SF News May Day: Demonstration Shuts Down 16th & Mission [Updated] The revolution will be Instagramed, as pictured here by Jen Ackrill, and nowhere else does that sentiment ring truer than in the heart of the city's Mission District. A May Day demonstration at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Buttermilk Southern Fried Chicken At Pican Who would of thought that, with all of the melee set to go down tonight, one could get so excited about going to Oakland. But it happened. How so? With buttermilk friend chicken,
Arts & Entertainment Look At RuPaul Drag Race's Sharon Needles' Beer Mug Gown [Spoiler Alert] While the rest of the city wrung their hands over a gaggle of alpha males smashing windows on whimsically posh Valencia Street, the real world was mainlining last night's finale of RuPaul's Drag
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Barrel Responds To Mission May Day Riot Four Barrel is not the 1%. In fact, we only serve whole milk.— Four Barrel Coffee (@fourbarrel) May 1, 2012 Monday night's early Occupy May Day General Strike brouhaha occurred after a gathering
SF News Day Around The Bay: BART Plaza Redo The janky 24th Street BART station plaza will be getting a makeover. [Mission Local] Someone needs to buy us this house, please. [Curbed] Facebook and Google might disappear within 5 years. Huh. [Forbes]
SF News Live: SEIU Protest At San Francisco City Hall In Progress Justin Beck is live at City Hall covering today's SEIU occupation. So far there are an estimated hundred or so protesters inside, one brandishing a bullhorn to shout and chant stuff. Supervisors Eric
Arts & Entertainment 7 Spectacular Photos Of The New Bay Bridge Span Photographer Bhautik Joshi was invited by Caltrans to check out the progress of the Bay Bridge's new eastern span. He captured several astounding shots of the span back in 2009, but these new
SF News SEIU Planning Wisconsin-Style Occupation Of San Francisco City Hall The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local 1021 will attempt a Wisconsin-style occupation of San Francisco City Hall starting tonight and going well into tomorrow, May Day. Via the SEIU Facebook page, "We
Arts & Entertainment Return Of Valencia Swing Sparks Outcry For More City Sidewalk Swings You guys, the Valencia swing is back! And this time it comes affixed with streamers! What fun. Mission Mission has been chronicling the plight of the swing on Valencia Street ever since a
SF News Occupy's Plan To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Cancelled Er, never mind. Occupy's plan to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge on May 1st has been cancelled. Occupy will instead focus on ferry service. Why? Well, part of it could be that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kids And Foul Balls Daisy Barringer would never give a kid a foul ball. [XOJane] Klouchebag, something more "douchey" than Klout. [TechCrunch] Parents who sued school over son's punishment for cheating receive hate messages. [Mercury News] Arizona
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breaking HRD News: Closed Next Monday & Tuesday Wildly and habitually popular HRD Coffee Shop will temporarily close on Monday, April 30th and Tuesday, May 1st. The beloved restaurant, which crafts the finest bacon cheeseburgers this SoMa dweller has ever known,
Arts & Entertainment Concord Gets Its First Feature-Length Movie: 'Love, Concord' Let's start things off by saying that if you're not reading Claycord, you're not living out loud. Really. It's a formidable site on all things Concord, Clayton, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Martinez.
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Tenderloin Stabbing The fuzz responded to a call about a stabbing near the always-lively intersection of Turk and Hyde in the always-exciting Tenderloin. When they arrived, officers found a 57-year-old man "heavily bleeding," who is
Arts & Entertainment What Happened To The Keith Haring Sculpture At Howard & Third? Yet another sign of queer culture erosion in San Francisco? Bite your tongue. Hard. Keith Haring's colorful sculpture at Third and Howard in SoMa has been temporarily removed as part of a necessary
SF News Oakland Homicide No. 40: 18-Year-Old Man Shot 'Multiple Times' Coty Luster, an 18-year-old man, was shot "multiple times" near his home in West Oakland. The incident occurred Thursday in the 1100 block of 34th Street. Luster was pronounced dead at the scene
SF News Day Around The Bay: Falling Bears The most important photo you will ever see. [Mother Jones] Tamara Palmer has your gastronomic Designer Imposters. [Eater] Meyer lemon blueberry streusel cake, anyone? [SF Appeal] You know what's radder than robots? Nothing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Dining Out For Life At Bisou Bistro On a very tardy edition of Eat Here Tonight, we suggest that you head over to the Castro for Dining Out For Life at Bisou Bistro. Hosted by Bill Hemenger and Rebecca Prozan,
SF News Fatal Shooting Outside Mission Dolores [Updated] The Bay Area Reporter notes, "We're hearing reports that there has been a shooting at the Mission Dolores chapel this morning." We'll update as soon as we know more. Update: According to Mission
SF News MC Hammer Pays A Visit To San Quentin MC Hammer paid a visit at San Quentin recently to talk to a group called The Last Mile, a group of five prisoners, led by two (free) venture capitalists who teach the men
