SF News Man Clubs Roommate With Hammer Mike Aldax, our favorite crime reporter, details a roommate living situation gone awry. Early this morning, a 47-year-old woman was clubbed with a hammer by her roommate on the 100 block of Mission.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Reopens After Crash All traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge was blocked this morning after a multi-vehicle crash. The incident was reported a little after 9 a.m. "There are two confirmed injuries and six cars
SF News Day Around the Bay Checking out the Alhambra in the Tenderloin. [Caliber] While we think designer label loyalty is a bit more complicated, here's an interesting article on brands. [SFGate] Lake Tahoe, not getting murkier? [CBS 5]
SF News Gay Marriage Blocked Gay marriage stay was granted by 9th Circuit Court while the constitutionality of the state's gay marriage ban is bandied about. Brian Devine at Calitics notes: "[T]he panel that issued this Order
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chiarello's Water, Castro Bans, Cupcake Castration A daily review of local food-related musings. Troy Patterson of Slate delivers a stellar (and necessary) thrashing on the "yipping lap dog of baked goods," cupcakes. Suffer, inappropriately frosting-to-cake ratioed sweet treats, suffer.
SF News Driver Chatting On Cellphone Drives Into River, Dies On Saturday, according to The Chronicle, an Antioch woman "drove off a boat ramp and into the Sacramento River while she was talking on a cell phone with her daughter, asking for directions,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrate National Rum Day Tonight at Smuggler's Cove Did you know that today is National Rum Day? That is to say, August 16th is the day that honors the bottle of booze always left untouched at house parties. But fear not
SF News What's Going On Here, Masonic and Turk? As most of you now by now, 21-year-old Nils Linke died while riding his bike southbound on Masonic Avenue near Turk Street on Friday night. He was hit by a car. His body
SF News Three Men Shot at 17th and Mission Three men where shot several times while hanging out at 17th and Mission on Saturday night. The reportedly gang-related incident, it seems, happened a few minutes before midnight, with the suspect and victim
SF News Escaped Zebras Run Around Sacramento Suburb (Video) Here are videos showing one of two zebras going on an adorable (albeit horrifying for the animals) rampage throughout the streets of a Sacramento suburb on Saturday. The zebras, it seems, escaped while
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist was stunned when a JetBlue flight attendant apparently had a meltdown and then exited the plane via emergency slide. It's unclear whether Steven Slater is a working man's hero for telling off
SF News Day Around the Bay Checking out the Chinatown Night Market. [The Toasted Blog] Walnut Creek rape suspect arrested. [CBS 5] A lovely chat about Grumpy Old Men The Expendables. [SF Appeal] Royals send Jose Guillen to Giants.
SF News Antioch Burglary Suspect Killed, Police Dog Injured Antioch shot and killed a burglary suspect early this morning. SFGate reports, "The incident began when officers responded to reports of a burglary in progress at the home. The residents were on vacation
SF News What's Going On Here, Marijuana Plant In Front of Walgreens? While we head over to Spear and Mission to check out the authenticity of this apparent marijuana plant, please read what a tipster sent to us: There's a giant marijuana plant that looks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFChefs Week Recommendations: Part 2 Oh, hey you. Listen up: San Francisco's second annual ode to Norcal food and wine is still going. And, yes, while it's not all about food from a truck in the Mission, it's
SF News Dead Body Found in Van Near USF Reportedly dying of natural causes, a man whose van was towed from Anza Street near Rossi Park "was discovered dead in his vehicle Thursday morning." Identified as Sigmund Leonard, 59, the man had,
SF News RIP, Andy the Polar Bear The San Francisco Zoo is mourning the loss of Andy, their beloved polar bear. KTVU reports, "Officials said Andy recently began to show signs of lethargy, decreased appetite and disorientation, forcing veterinary staff
SF News Has God Forsaken Treasure Island? Treasure Island is in need of a drastic makeover. The little swatch of land between SF and the East Bay is, for lack of a better work, harrowing. Which is why a "master
SF News SFPD Seek 3 San Jose Men for Kidnapping, Sexually Assaulting SF Woman Police need your help in arresting three men from San Jose who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a San Francisco woman on Saturday night. It seems, according to BCN (via CBS 5), a 25-year-old
SF News Day Around the Bay As previously reported, Judge Walker lifted stay of Prop 8 ruling but delays weddings. [BAR, Just Married] Bill would force high-speed rail bidders to admit holocaust role, of any. [KTVU] The mystery of
SF News Jury Acquits Man in Snickers Theft, Air Fresher Assault, Urine Intimidation Case Tamara Barak Aparton, current Communications and Policy Assistant with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, writes the best crime press releases. Take, for example, the case of residential motel resident Willie Smith,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over Laura Beck's bi-weekly installment of vegan dishes worth creaming your pants over. Vegan Charcuterie at Gather (22200 Oxford, Berkeley) First off, charcuterie is pronounced, "char-cooter-ee". (Tee hee). Unlike in our piggy dreams, it's
