SF News Man Sets Wife On Fire, Kills Her Egads. A transient man set fire to his wife on Monday, killing her. The fiery fatality occurred on the 100 block of South Second Street in San Jose. Barton Williams, 49, was arrested
SF News Heading To Lake Tahoe? Take Alternate Route As I-80 Is Shutdown If you're heading to Lake Tahoe today beware that, as of this morning, the Yolo Causeway has been shutdown, casing a massive backup. Police have closed the stretch of I-80 as they search
SF News SF Examiner Just Bought SF Bay Guardian? [Updated] Whoa. According to Rachel Swan at East Bay Express, the SF Examiner just bought alternative weekly SF Bay Guardian. "The owners of the San Francisco Examiner just bought the San Francisco Bay Guardian,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Caine's Cardboard Arcade Coming Good news! Food trucks to replace Pink Saturday stage at this year's Pride. [BAR] Tentative ruling means Ross Mirkarimi won't get job back. [SFGate] Reaction to the "Obama ate dog meat" story. [CHOW]
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: I Let My Gay BFF Cruise The Castro With My Kids By D. Hanousek What's sexier than a good-looking, stylish gay with great hair walking down Castro pushing a stroller? I actually don't feel qualified to answer, but my gay BFF banks on this
SF News Occupy To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Occupy just stopped being polite, and started getting real: Tuesday, May 1st a general strike has been called for the Golden Gate Bridge in an effort to "show the Golden Gate Bridge Highway
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Editor News: Shake-ups At SF Weekly, 7x7 Noted as one of the few faceless critics in town, SF Weekly's formidable and wildly intelligent food editor Jonathan Kauffman will leave the local alt-weekly for Tasting Table, formerly edited by friend of
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Former Leather Bar The Eagle Sanitized, Ready For Leasing At $15K The SoMa gay bar formerly known as The Eagle has been stripped of its dark lighting, license plates on the wall, and all of its history. It's also ready for leasing. "The bygone
SF News Santa Clara 49ers Stadium Ground Breaking Breaks SF Hearts "How is everyone celebrating #groundbreaking eve?" 49ers owner Jed York tweeted on Wednesday. Not the greatest move, especially for some San Francisco fans still reeling from their team's move down south. In addition
Arts & Entertainment Occupy SF To Interrupt Bank Shareholders Meeting Next Week From 4 p.m. to midnight on Monday, April 23, members of OccupySF will rally in front of the Wells Fargo building at California and Montgomery. According to a press release, it's attempt
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Night Stand: Taj Campton Place & Restaurant Behold, SFist's newest feature, One Night Stand, ready to help Bay Area locals plan a getaway inside San Francisco or within a 71-mile circumference thereof. How did this come about? Well, being SFist,
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Magic Cube, A Full-Sized Laser Keyboard If only for the fact that it brings lasers into the game, we are more than intrigued by The Magic Cube, an operational QWERTY keyboard that works by using really bitchin' lasers. Made
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: $1 Pizza At Credo You know where you should not eat tonight? Anywhere near AT&T Park, that's where. Season-opener fans at or anywhere near the park are just the worst. The WORST. Granted, we shouldn't
SF News Men Arrested After Polk Street Shooting Outside Bar; White SUV Involved Two dirtbags outside a Polk Street bar were arrested after one of them fired a gun into the air. The shooting was reported at around 1:45 a.m. in the 600 block
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom Gets His Own Talk Show On Current TV Proven to be such a shoot-from-the-hip, anything-goes, oh-my-god-did-he-really-just-say-that kind of guy, former San Francisco Mayor and now Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom landed his very own talk show on Current TV, reports Ms. Carla
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: 1906 Quake Survivor Winnie Hook Winnie Hook, 106 year old survivor of the 1906 earthquake, by David Gallagher.
SF News Instagram Wanted TWO Billion From Facebook Deal Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, the largest ever for the company, wasn't quite what the twentysomething cofounders of the photo-sharing site wanted. No, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger wanted more — $2 billion
SF News BREAKING: Bomb Squad At New Montgomery; Shelter In Place [Updated] The bomb squad has been called in over on the 100 block of New Montgomery in San Francisco, according to NBC Bay Area. A shelter in place is in effect for all businesses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Junk Food Wine Pairing At Maverick, 5/16 What we call a night in front of the TV watching Bad Girls Club, Mike Pierce, wine director and part owner of Maverick, will call a sugar-and-wine-soaked night to remember. What are we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Which Bay Area Restaurant Has The Worst Name? After scores of entries poured in for our query asking for the worst named restaurant in the Bay Area, we have arrived at a cringe-worthy group for you to pore over. One commenter
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 Fatal BART Shooting To Big Screen: Octavia Spencer To Star In Indie Movie About Oscar Grant Killing Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and former Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan are in talks to star in Fruitvale, an independent flick about the 2009 New Year's Eve killing of Oscar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nine People Secretly Filmed Using Toilet At Pac Heights Restaurant A former employee at a Pac Heights restaurant stands accused today of filming patrons using the bathroom. SF Examiner reports: "Between Feb. 12 and 20, according to court documents, [David] Talavera is alleged
