SF News Catching Up With Jose Canseco Former A's great Jose Canseco went from a Madonna-dating star to rat-fink bastard within a few years. "Ever since the more caliente half of the Bash Brothers blew his baseball stake on bad
SF News Man Acquitted In Hit & Run of <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> Fan Tamara Barak Aparton, our favorite civil servant scribe, cut another shiny gem for us today. See, after a three-day trial, 33-year-old Jose Sanchez, accused of hitting a Mission District pedestrian with his minivan
SF News Bowling Alley for SoMa? The Border's Books at 200 King Street in South Beach, sadly, will close its doors for good in October. (On a personal note, we will miss the staff, the stuffed cream cheese pretzels,
SF News Teen Arrested In Alleged Gay Attack On Muni Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy this week suspected, along with others, of beating Zachary Davenport, a gay man, on Muni on August 14. Davenport, according to reports, "was getting off the J-Church
SF News Day Around the Bay Now you too can own a Mission Reds jersey. [Mission Mission] Speaking of Mission baseball, what does it have in common with the Street Food Fest? Find out. [Burrito Justice] Spare the Air
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Funny, Because We're Michael Bauer's Long Lost Son Food criticism czar Michael Bauer has had it with rapscallions tossing his name to and fro -- especially when they don't actually know him and/or have blood ties. (And you know who
SF News Astrid Hayarti, SF Greening Director, Quits According to a tipster, SF Greening Director Astrid Hayarti left her position today. Our tipster writes to us, saying, "Just heard another member of Gavin's team jumped ship. Astrid Hayarti, the so-called Greening
misc $750 Hidden Somewhere In S.F. Right Now Wired scribe and Longshot magazine (formerly 48 hour mag) founder Mat Honan -- who, most recently, made headlines after holding a benefit to recoup money lost after meeting alleged apartment scammer Rachael Smith
SF News San Francisco Is Third Safest City For Kids, Says <em>Men's Health</em> Men's Health magazine, a fitness/softcore gay porn publication, has announced its official list of the best and worst cities in which to raise your little blessings. Basing their results on specific statistics
SF News Church Bell Swiped from S.F. Catholic Church The God-fearing folks at San Francisco's St. Michael's Korean Catholic Church have more to fear this week: bell thievery. Over the weekend, it seems, someone stole their massive, church bell that weighs between
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: S.F. Street Food Festival On Saturday, the fine folks at La Cocina put on the second annual Street Food Festival in the Mission. The thousands who attended were fed and imbibed with local grub. People waited in
SF News KPIX Newscaster Dave McElhatton Dies Today, former KPIX "Eyewitness News" anchor Dave McElhatton died "of a stroke-related illness in Rancho Mirage." He was 81. [AP]
SF News Warm Weather Arrives Even those of us who enjoy the crisp, electric chill that our glacial summer weather provides (hi!), we've had it with fog, scarfs and sweaters in August. Thankfully, according to Weather Underground, we'll
SF News Halle Berry Moving to S.F.? She just wants to feel good. (Monster's Ball? Anyone?) Academy Award winner Halle Berry, according to SFGate gossip, "is considering relocating from Los Angeles to S.F. in an effort to protect her
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist is awaiting the presence of cops at all Starbucks locations, because cops ejected one customer who refused to use their lingo during her bagel order. SFist asked about the practicality of the
SF News S.F. Unemployment Numbers Still Awful Second verse, same as the first: San Francisco's unemployment rate skipped from 9.6 percent in June to 9.7 percent last month. Although, as SF Weekly reports, we're not the worst in
SF News UC Berkeley, On of the Top Military Friendly Schools in Calif. According to The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley has been feted as one of the top "military friendly" schools in California due in large part "to its efforts in offering both financial and non-financial
SF News Man Accused of Killing Cyclist Nils Linke Pleads Not Guilty Joshua Calder, the driver of the car that hit and killed 21-year-old Nils Linke, pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, Caldre is accused of hitting and killing Linke near
SF News Your Weekend Plans Ruined After Mexican Drug Cartel Bust Billed as "one of the largest narcotics seizures in Northern California history," authorities conducted a drug bust in Gilroy that "netted almost 500 pounds of methamphetamines and cocaine with an estimated street value
SF News Man Falls to His Death at Saratoga Mountain Winery Concert During a concert featuring the Swell Season last night, a man plunged to his death at the Saratoga Mountain Winery, landing next to the lead singer. According to Mercury News, "At about 10
SF News Two Shot Dead In Separate Incidents In S.F. During the last 24 hours, two people were murdered in the city. First, at around 6:40 p.m. on Thursday, officers responded to a call of a 19-year-old man who was shot
SF News Day Around the Bay More on today's hijacking threat that grounded a plane at SFO. [Chronicle, CBS 5] Police investigate another gay bashing on Muni. [BAR] Nate Appleman and Mourad Lahlou set to share a tender kiss.
