Arts & Entertainment And That Was The Day The SF Zoo's Baby Giraffe Played With A Zebra We thought this video of the SF Zoo's baby giraffe running around was pretty cute, but that was before we saw these photos of her playing with a zebra. On Wednesday, the SF
SF News LA Public Defender Allegedly Gives Drunken Concert, Demands Cocaine While At SFO Sixty years after Bill Haley's version of "Rock Around the Clock” "became an anthem for rebellious Fifties youth," a high-profile Los Angeles attorney allegedly used it to fight for her right to party
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Moon (Unit) Zappa And Others Talk 'Too Hard To Keep' You already know all about Porchlight, San Francisco's storytelling series. Tonight's an especially good installment, with local and national luminaries gathering at the Contemporary Jewish Museum to tell tales "about times it was
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Political Consultant's NSFW Birthday Party That giant dome you'll see in Union Square tomorrow is just pro-Canada propaganda. [KPIX] The [NY Times] weighs in on the whole "IS SF the new NY?" thing. OH MY GOD WHY ARE
SF News Customers Of Local Sex Workers Might Have Their Photos Tweeted Richmond, California's 23rd Street and Ohio Avenue are both reportedly hotbeds of prostitution, and the local police department's so frustrated that they're going to do the same thing many of us do when
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: One Man Up If you like sex, drugs, and soccer, tonight is your night. This evening, San Francisco's Italian Cultural Institute is offering a free screening of L'uomo in più (in English, One Man Up), one
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Lurking Landlady "Things just got a little less lenient at Duboce Park," where surveillance cameras, skateboard stops have been installed. [Hoodline] Restauranteur is too overwhelmed by tax problems to respond to local writer's query, yet
SF News LA Tremblor Doesn't Change Bay Area's Earthquake Risk Admit it. When a 4.4 magnitude earthquake rocked Los Angeles Monday morning, at least part of you wondered if that SoCal seismic activity might have an impact on us NorCal folks. Rest
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Talking Public Service And Faith With Chris Matthews After a day (for some, a whole weekend) celebrating a Catholic holiday, think you can handle one more day of contemplation? Sure you can. Tonight at the University of San Francisco, the school
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Evicted Over Airbnb Hey, remember when Oakland-based toy company Goldieblox used the Beastie Boys song "Girls," in a video, then ended up trading legal barbs with the rap group's lawyers? Well, they've settled. [Contra Costa Times]
Arts & Entertainment Watch 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh Do Pushups With A Walrus We already know that San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has mastered the sport of basketball, so now it looks like he's on to the next big challenge: training the creatures of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: St. Patrick's Day Feast At 21st Amendment St. Patrick's Day can be awful: green food, overserved youth, and, is that a bowl of Lucky Charms in your hand? That's no way to mark the cultural and religious celebration of the
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: It's Still Hot In Herre Some folks complain that Mid-Market is gentrifying, some say it's not gentrified enough. Which one are you? [BeyondChron] It's amazing how [USA Today]'s list of the "10 Best Foodie Spots in San
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Veronica Mars, Inhabitant, St. Patrick's Day Parade This weekend, spend some time with a great detective, watch dancers take over 24th Street, and celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Friday: Veronica Mars Look, I need to be honest with you. I don't
SF News Teen Father Arrested For Biting Off Infant Son's Nose An 18-year-old man was arrested for allegedly biting off part of his infant son's nose because the child would not stop crying, police said Thursday. Police in the San Francisco Bay Area city
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SFPD's Ticketing More Drivers, Cyclists, Pedestrians We'll lead with a fond Friday farewell to Mike Billings, who is leaving the San Francisco Examiner after serving as its editor-in-chief since September of last year. He'll be heading to a copy
SF News Library User Beats Flasher Off With Anthrozoology Text [Updated] When Brittany Clark checked Hal Herzog's Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals out from the library, it's likely she was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: March Madness At The California Academy Of Sciences Parents and the blissfully childless can agree on at least one thing: sometimes museums are more fun without a bunch of kids running around. The California Academy of Sciences, which caters to kids
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Iconic Le Video Expected To Close Next Month Le Video, the Inner Sunset video rental store known for its eccentric organizational system, its wide selection of hard-to-find titles, and its smarty-pants staff, has announced that they expect to stop renting movies
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Amazon Prime Bump Officials want to chop down one of the of the rarest trees in the world, the beautifully named "albino chimera coast redwood tree." It's too close to a planned set of Northern California
SF News Rough Waters Force Alcatraz Shutdown And this is why we don't have jails in the middle of the water any more (except in movies, shout out to Face/Off and Escape Plan). Rough waters have forced the Golden
SF News How A Mission Shooting From 2000 Became A Homicide In 2014 When Carlos Vargas was struck by at least three bullets on a Mission District in October 28, 2000, it seemed like a miracle that he survived. But his fate was apparently delayed, not
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: RADAR Reading Series It's Wednesday, still early enough in the week that you might feel too intellectually ambitious to collapse on the couch in front of all those Under The Gunn episodes you have piled up
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Bomb Threat At Facebook According to this [OZY] article, "Eighty-five percent of all white students in San Francisco are in private schools." How did the Chronicle get that scoop on the confidential informants behind some of those
SF News Report: The Night Stalker Made At Least Two Escape Attempts From San Quentin Though the notorious Night Stalker killer has been dead for nearly a year, a new report proves that he hasn't lost the power to scare us. A source now says that the serial
