Arts & Entertainment Photo: 'Underwear Bomber' Article Meets Unfortunate Ad Placement Today's print edition of The Chronicle features a story about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sentenced to life in prison for attempting to bomb a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day 2009 with explosives tucked
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission's Response To Serial Rapist Rape survivor reflects on our community's response to Mission serial rapist. [Mission Mission] Chocolate caramel cookie bars, anyone? [SF Appeal] New ad campaign encourages HIV testing among black men. [BAR] Sacramento couple found
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Obama Orders Dim Sum President Barack Obama, in town for a fundraising stint, calmed his appetite by heading over to Chinatown's Great Eastern Restaurant. What did he order? SFist called Great Eastern to find out. "Just some
Arts & Entertainment Jeremy Lin, James Franco: Palo Alto High Boasts Impressive Alumni Jeremy Lin, now a member of the New York Knicks, played on the 2006 Palo Alto High School basketball team before attending Harvard. While at Palo Alto HS, he helped his team win
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fluffy Grilled Cheese At Darwin Cafe For lunch today, we had intended on eating the Roast Beef Sandwich at Darwin Cafe — SoMa's not-so-best-kept secret, a small cafe/sandwich shop tucked away on Ritch and Bryant — but we were either
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food Best Restaurant In America, Says GQ GQ recently named Danny Bowien's Mission Chinese Food one of the top ten best new restaurants in America — and rightfully so. Bowien's food, which initially began as a pop-up joint within the Mission
SF News 3.5 Earthquake Hits Vallejo Another earthquake hit Vallejo this morning, bigger than the one last night. It was reportedly a 3.5 quake. This morning's minor tremor comes on the heels of a similar shaker that hit
SF News Obama Arrives At Noon [Updated] As SFist first reported, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will visit San Francisco today for a couple of fundraising events. The Obamas are expected to arrive at around 12:50
SF News Obama's Next Supreme Court Pick: Kamala Harris? Could California Attorney General and former San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris be the next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court? Maybe, says Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog who claims with certainty that
SF News Teens' Photos Stolen From Facebook, Placed On Porn Site Over in Massachusetts, authorities are warning girls that someone is stealing their "fully-clothed" photos from Facebook and placing them on an x-rated site. The incident happened to 17 girls at Bay Path Regional
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Brainwash's New Colors "Brainwash's New Colors" by Demetrios Lyras.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: People Lined Up For Cheap Valentine Tattoos We always assumed self-consciousness, not price, kept people from marking their bodies with tattoos. But here we see a gaggle of ink fans queued outside Let It Bleed tattoo parlor on Polk Street,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oscar Watch: Controversial Hollywood Cocktails At Quince The Financial District's noted restaurant of glitz and glamour, Quince, just concocted several new cocktails to coincide with Oscar season. (Pst, the Academy Awards fall on Sunday, February 26th.) Most of the drinks
SF News Man Ambushed, Shot, Killed In The Bayview A 30-year-old man, identified by SF Weekly as Derek Hall, was shot multiple times and murdered in cold blood last night on Osceola Lane in the Bayview. Two men, described as African-American wearing
SF News Don't Make Big Decisions After 3 p.m., Suggests Twitter Research Cornell-based research using Twitter posts suggests that people are happiest in the morning hours, with users using words like "awesome" and "super" most often from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tweets,
Arts & Entertainment Two Guys Go At It During Valentine's Day Pillow Fight [Video] Bob Horowitz captured this excellent shot of a boy in blue caught among the flying feathers from San Francisco's annual Valentine's Day Pillow Fight at Justin Herman Plaza. Below: two guys go at
Arts & Entertainment Discover Your Force At Lightsaber Training School Using LED Lucasian swords, the Golden Gate Knights teach lightsaber courses each week in San Francisco. Headed by a former choreographer for George Lucas' Star Wars films, the classes (for kids-at-heart 17 and
SF News Marijuana Found In Peanut Butter At Oakland Aiport Oakland Airport TSA security screeners wasted both time and money busting a guy for carrying a stash of marijuana inside a jar of Skippy peanut butter on Sunday. "Nico Melendez, a TSA spokesman,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lenny Kravitz In The Haight Party boat revelations: 28 lbs of cocaine on cruise ship room docked in SF. [SFGate] Take a Valentine's Day ride. [Mission Bicycle] Mylar balloon hits power lines, causes Valentine’s Day outage. [SF
Arts & Entertainment For You, A Frank Chu Valentine Two blasts from the past to lighten your day, let Frank Chu and The Simpsons ease you into a more festive Valentine's Eve with this mashup care of Brody Qat. She uses one
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: Valentine's Day Is For School Kids By D. Hanousek If my husband walked in the door after work carrying a dozen red roses and a box of chocolate, I would roll my eyes and maybe even throw up a
SF News Woman Critically Injured During Mission Hit-Run A 47-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injures after being hit at Mission and 13th Streets on Monday. According to SF Appeal, "The truck left the scene afterward but was stopped in the city's Ingleside
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 San Francisco's Emergency Warning System To Play Tony Bennett At Noon? [Tragic Update] As gooey-romantic-at-heart Andrew Dalton dutifully pointed out, at noon today, Valentine's Day, Tony Bennett will return for a special Valentine's day performance of the city's unofficial theme song under the dome at City
