SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Paw Fund to Help Pets of the Homeless Berkeleyside effortlessly tugs our heart strings today with a story about Paw Fund, a clinic for pets of homeless people started by Jill Posener, a photographer and onetime Animal Care Commissioner. Behold: In
SF News Paul Thomas Anderson, James Franco Shooting Movies In Bay Area This Summer A few notables will shoot movies in the Bay Area this summer. Valley kid Paul Thomas Anderson will start filming The Master in Vallejo mostly, with some shooting at sea. Anderson's latest flick
SF News SF Zoo Names Hippo 'Brian Wilson' Aw. At a ZooFest fundraiser for the San Francisco Zoo on Wednesday, a winning bidder won the right to re-name the park's male hippo. His new name? Brian Wilson. NBC Bay Area notes:
SF News Day Around the Bay Helpful advice posted for friends-with-benefits night owls. [Mission Mission] Can you be evicted just because my apartment's an illegal unit? Find out. [Appeal] "Incremental" progress for beaten Giants fan, Bryan Stow. [Chronicle] Al’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Future Divis Bi-Rite Obtains Liquor License The artisanification of Divisadero moves one step closer after 18th Street boutique food market Bi-Rite nabbed a liquor license for their impending Western Addition location. "This one will be a little bigger than
SF News Circumcision Ban On November Ballot Anti-circumcision activists culled well over the 7,168 signatures needed to get a ban on circumcision on the November ballot. Pro or con, the issue should garner nationwide media attention over the next
SF News 5/21: How Are You Celebrating/Preparing for the Rapture? The world might end on Saturday, May 21. Yep. Harold Camping, host of a local radio call-in show and Oakland false prophet, has made a prediction on the day of rapture. CBS reports:
Arts & Entertainment Major Moving Sale at Shotwell Shotwell, a super fine clothing store at 320 Grant, was a beacon of hope in Union Square. A clothing store that felt comfortable, affordable, and, dare we say it, literally hip. SFist gave
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Caffe Strada Ranked 8th Best College Coffee Shop in America College coffee shops are as American as apple pie, multi-camera sitcoms, and bloodshed. They are critical instituions of pep. They are the places you sit in order to pretend to study while you
SF News Man Barricades Himself Inside Berkeley Home The fuzz have closed down parts of a Berkeley neighborhood this morning after a man barricaded himself inside a home at around 7 a.m. The standoff is happening in the area of
SF News Day Around the Bay 3rd rape reported in 9 days at Cal Poly. Yikes. [Chron] TryMeSF, a new San Francisco dating service that wants to break you out of your cat-lady lifestyle. [7x7] Gwyneth Paltrow to appear
SF News Patrick Schwarzenegger Changes Last Name to Shriver After news broke today that Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with a household employee in 2003, which prompted the break up for his and Maria Shriver's marriage, the former California Governor's 17-year-old son,
SF News Giants Move to 2nd After Losing to Rockies The Colorado Rockies moved (temporarily) back into first place in the NL West after beating the San Francisco Giabts with a 5-3 win today. Bah. As the Chronicle reports: "Through seven innings it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leah Garchik & Paolo Lucchesi Guest Bartending at Jardinière Oh boy, oh boy: Leah Garchik and Paolo Lucchesi will make cameo appearances Wednesday night behind the bar at Traci Des Jardins' Jardinière. It's all part of the restaurant's monthly guest-bartending series. See,
SF News S.F. Game Site Asks if Mass Effect 3 Gay Characters Will Harm 'Traditional Moral Values' A recent article from San Francisco tech website Ubergizmo asks if a new game, Mass Effect 3, will hurt traditional moral values. Why? Because the latest installment of the RPG shooter will allow
SF News Bay Bridge Detour Starting Memorial Day Weekend Drivers taking the Bay Bridge for Oakland during Memorial Day Weekend will encounter a "slight" detour during the holiday weekend. "The detour will occur just west of the Bay Bridge toll plazas, and
SF News Right-Wing Outrage Over 'Obamacare' Waivers Issued to S.F. Companies Of the 204 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (AKA "Obamacare") waivers President Barack Obama approved in April, nearly 20 percent are for "fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority
SF News Day Around the Bay Help Kelly Malone (founder of Indie Mart and Workshop) beat cancer. Please. You can donate here. [Broke-Ass] Hit-run driver tries to flee with man on hood of car. [KTVU] Fake cryer and GOP
SF News Botox Mom Shocker: Phony Name, Phony Residence Hardened reporting duo Matier & Ross have blown the lid off the case of San Francisco mom Kerry Campbell who (now allegedly!) gave her 8-year-old daughter botox and bikini waxes. Namely, she neither
SF News Beaten Giants Fan Bryan Stow Moves to SF General Transferring to one of the country's top trauma centers at San Francisco General Hospital, attacked Giants fan Bryan Stow returned to the Bay Area today. SF General has the only trauma center in
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Ocean Beach Vigilantes? We can't figure out what the "Avenue Coalition" is all about, exactly, but it sure sounds exciting. Actually, it sounds more like a group of Ocean Beach surfers bemoaning territory issues -- something
SF News Porta-Potties Set Ablaze in Castro District Harkening back to the days of the toilet torcher, two portable poopers were set on fire Sunday night in the city's Castro district. "One of the toilets was at 18th and Sanchez streets,
