SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa McCarthy's Ranch Dressing Taste Tester Granted, if you're above the coveted 18-to-25 age bracket, and used to another season of not-ready-for-primetime players, you're almost required to claim that you've fallen out of favor with Saturday Night Live. However,
SF News Gov. Brown Signs Bill to Block Circumcision Bans Citing anti-freedom of religion sentiment, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill over the weekend blocking any and all circumcision bans in the state of California. Assembly bill 768, penned in response to San
SF News Weather: Rain Returns That slight warm patch of weather that typically hits San Francisco around this time of year might have come and gone already. Today at around noon-ish, rain will pour down on the city,
SF News Officer-Involved Shooting in the Richmond Follows Domestic Stabbing [Updated] The intersection on Funston and Balboa is blocked off this morning after an SFPD officer-involved shooting occurred. According to KRON 4 Morning News, two people were carried off by ambulances and a woman
SF News Day Around the Bay David Chiu, scared of Rose Pak? [SF Appeal] Mission Creek houseboat community rocks with the tides. [SFBG] Frutivale merchants: armed and wary. [Bay Citizen] The problem with witless Patti Stanger's inane stand on
SF News Niners Preview: Taking On the Eagles By Daisy Barringer Earlier this week, one of the two people who reads this called me out for my prediction that the Eagles would beat the 49ers this Sunday. Well, Matthew Lynch, while
Arts & Entertainment Forlorn to Mend Broken Heart by Building Boat Sob. Maybe it's the simple, lonely cartoon boat, but color us touched. See, this guy or gal needs your help -- specifically, he or she needs your garage to build a boat in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gay Coffee Is Now a Thing No meth blend? Seems like a meth blend would result in pure comedy gold. Whatever. Fine, no meth blend. Oh, what are we talking about, you ask? Gay Coffee, that's what. After running
SF News Jackie Speier Beams Praises Death of Al Qaeda's Anwar al-Awlaki Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo), Member on the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the House Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement Friday after the U.S.-backed assassination of
SF News Rapes and/or Rape Reports Rise at Stanford Tony Palo Alto school of higher learning, Stanford University, has seen a sharp increase in reports of rape on campus. Incidents of sexual assault more than doubled from 10 in 2009 to 21
SF News Public Safety Exercise Happening at Civic Center Please be advised that there will be a Public Safety Exercise taking place in the Civic Center area starting at around 10:30am Friday morning. "There will be emergency vehicles in the area
SF News Another 'Occupy Wall Street' S.F. Protest Planned for Tonight The folks in charge of last night's Occupy Wall Street in San Francisco have planned a similar sympathy protest for tonight. If you recall, hundreds of protesters hit the streets on Thursday--making pitstops
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Raises Way More Cash Than Opponents Mayor Ed Lee and Rose Pak's attempt to maintain power at City Hall will (most likely) prove fruitful come November. (City Hall insiders tell SFist that it's pretty much a done deal at
SF News Gas Leak in Pleasant Hill Prompts 'Immediate' Evacuation [UPDATED] A gas leak near Viking Avenue and Ruth Drive have prompted the immediate evacuation in the College Park area. Residents are urged not to open their doors or windows. Police said the evacuation
SF News Manhole Cover Explosion at Folsom at Harriet Today at around 1:50 pm, there was a manhole cover explosion on Folsom Street at Harriet Street. Alert SF notes: "Folsom Street is closed between 6th and 7th Streets. Harriet Street is
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, in China Basin... This happy stingray reminds us why it's a good idea never to swim in the China Basin Channel. Nature kills, folks. (Photo: Gerard Livernois)
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: 'Dark Passage' In Presidio Park Arguably one of the best flicks shot in San Francisco—our money is on Vertigo or the yet to be filmed or even conceived Shooting Versace In Style: The Andrew Cunanan Story—the
SF News 15-Year-Old Arrested for Hog and Rocks Employee Murder A 15-year-old suspected gang member has been arrested in connection with the shooting death Hogs and Rocks employee Gaspar Puch-tzek. If you recall, Puch-tzek, a line cook at Hogs and Rocks, was shot
SF News Taiwanese Animation's UC Berkeley 'Racist' Bake Sale It's been quite some time since we posted a Taiwanese animation bit -- because, you know, it's getting extraordinarily old -- but we couldn't resist sharing with you Next Media Animation's harrowing take
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Coffee Today at 7-Eleven or Krispy Kreme Well, it's better than nothing. 7-Eleven and Krispy Kreme stores will offer free coffee today in honor of National Coffee Day. That's right, Krispy Kreme and 7-Eleven will hand out tepid brew at
