SF News Oakland to Lift Ban On Cross-Dressing Oakland went ahead and finally banned one of the city'/s most bizarre and benign laws: cross-dressing. Today, the Oakland council voted 7-0 to remove the ban from the city's municipal code. CBS
SF News Ellen Apologizes for iPhone Parody Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres just realized what many of us have known for years: Apple is pretentious and humorless. See, after making this amusing iPhone parody video for her daily
misc 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 (yes, we know we're a day late), we present to you
SF News Mt. Diablo School Employee Arrested for Luring Boys with Her XBox This lovely dove here, Janis Thompson, a 44-year-old Martinez resident and part-time yard duty supervisor with the Mount Diablo Unified School District, was arrested yesterday for trolling young men, then "instigating sexual conversation.
misc Adoptable Pets of Week: Magpie & Champ Did you make a connection with one of both of these two lovable rapscallions? Then, by all means, head over to the SPCA to adopt them or one of the many fine animals
SF News Hate Muni? Head to City Hall for Noon Rally Today What with Muni prepared to unleash its latest round of service cuts and fare increases, people are more concerned than ever. Such as SF Supervisors, Muni drivers, the lowly and forgotten Muni passenger
SF News Target Stabbing Suspect Lost Custody of Son A recent divorce and losing custody of a child are a couple of reasons that might have exacerbating Antioch resident Layla Trawick's bipolarism and schizophrenia, prompting her to go on a stabbing spree
SF News Day Around the Bay Oakland cops kill deer for no good reason whatsoever. [SFGate] Public Defender Jeff Adachi says convict cop cover-up is either "gross malfeasance, or unethical behavior." [SF Appeal] Whitman can't buy her way out
SF News Another Far-Right Christian Leader Caught Being Gay George Alan Rekers is your average far-right Christian leader. Some of his notable achievements include testifying as a state's witness in favor of Florida's gay adoption ban, co-founding the Family Research Council, ("a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Wins Few James Beard Awards The James Beard Awards (the Junos of cuisine, if you will) were announced yesterday. Although the Bay Area came up a wee bit short -- at least when compared to arty-farty New York
SF News <em>American Idiot</em> Nabs 3 Tony Award Nominations To the handful of you who care about the Tony Awards -- those trinkets awarded annually to theatrical productions taking place in a select few Manhattan theaters -- Green Day's American Idiot received
SF News UC Berkeley Hunger Strike Protesters Want It All Striving to pin-thin echelons for a good cause, a smattering of UC Berkeley students are staging a hunger strike on campus. Why? Well, because of the Arizona immigration bill that passed last week.
SF News Caltrain Death In Mountain View Marking the fifth Caltrain fatality this year, a man hit and killed near the San Antonio station in Mountain View yesterday. The crash happened at around 5:10 p.m., snarling the evening's
SF News Target Stabbing Suspect Sanity-Estranged, Says Mom Yesterday, Antioch resident Layla Trawick, 34, went on a stabbing spree at a Target store in Southern California. She sliced four customers, including a woman holding a baby, before being subdued and arrested.
SF News SF Cops' Shady Pasts Could Overturn Hundreds of Convictions In a story that could make the cocaine-stealing story look like schoolyard drama, The Chronicle has a brilliant gem of an investigative piece today. Brace yourselves: "more than 80 San Francisco police officers
SF News Day Around the Bay Neighborhood whippits users now more environmentally conscious. [Mission Mission] Yelp bigwig, Nish Nadaraja, resigns. [Eater] Antioch woman stabs 4 at Target store. [CBS 5] GOP debate sets up Brown for gov campaign. [SFBG]
SF News Fire at Ellis Street Hotel CBS 5's red box of alarm tells us that "people have been evacuated from a fire at a hotel on Ellis St. in San Francisco's Tenderloin district." Matt Baume, who is live at
misc Schwarzenegger Stops Offshore Oil Project After Massive Oil Spill Sacramento Bee reports that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "withdrew his support Monday for a controversial new offshore oil drilling project off the Santa Barbara coast in the wake of a massive oil spill in
SF News Felony Charges for White Separatists' Alleged Attackers Donnell Allen, 42, a black San Francisco resident, and Kelsey Musgrove, 19, a white female from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were hit with felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and conspiracy, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More HRD Gooddness: Spicy Kim Chee Burrito Your SFist Editor does not enjoy burritos. Alas. For our money and tongue, they're just too large, gloppy, tinfoil-y and overloaded. Also, we were forced to eat them twice a week in our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight CLUB: The makers of Chilidog bring you their latest installment of high class/low rent joy via italo disco, electronic funk, bionic boogie with Vienetta. Which goes down (in more ways than one)
SF News Photo du Jour 625 People take part in a march to celebrate International Workers' Day and to protest Arizona's new controversial immigration law Saturday May 1, 2010 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jakub Mosur)
SF News White Supremacists Attacked During Immigration Rally Members of the Bay Area National Anarchists -- a group, according to SF Weekly that "believes in white separatism and which supports the controversial Arizona anti-immigrant law" -- were physically attacked during Saturday's
