SF News Oakland Attracts Big New Investors to Coliseum City Project Just in time for the playoffs this weekend, in which the A's are going to take their shot at the World Series, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan announced yesterday that there's big new money
SF News Firefighter Who Ran Over Asiana Crash Victim May Face Charges The investigation into the tragic, post-crash death of 16-year-old Ye Mengyuan following the Asiana Airlines disaster in July has been completed, and the firefighter responsible for running her over may face charges. As
SF News Seattle Tops S.F. In Census of Percent of Gay Couples, But We're Still Tops For Gay Men Local homosexual types might joke that San Francisco is a city of bottoms, but we're on top when it comes to having the country's largest population of gay male households. Depending on the
SF News Man Robbed In Oakland Chases Suspects to S.F., Gets Them Arrested Well here's a feel-good thievery story for your Wednesday morning: A man who was robbed of his camera on International Boulevard in Oakland chased after the two men who robbed him, alerting CHP
SF News 14-Mission Bus Hits Car, Three Passengers Hospitalized A Muni bus at 20th and Mission had a collision with car pulling out of a parking space Tuesday afternoon around 1 p.m. The crash sent three passengers aboard the bus to
Arts & Entertainment Jinkx Monsoon To Reprise Her Little Edie Impression At 'Grey Gardens' Screening Fans of RuPaul's Drag Race who are still annoyed at the paucity of representation from San Francisco (no disrespect to last season contender Honey Mahogany, who performed admirably despite that kaftan incident) can
SF News Two Oakland Men Found Guilty In 2006 Murder Of Young S.F. Woman A case based mostly on circumstantial evidence in which three men were accused in the robbery, rape, and murder of a young San Francisco mother in 2006, has almost come to a conclusion
Arts & Entertainment Apple's New 'Spaceship Donut' Campus Goes Up For Approval The great and glorious Apple mothership in Cupertino, California is set to become an actual mothership. Or is it a space station? In any event, it is round, and vast. The building, which
SF News Mayor's Office Will Throw Some Cash At S.F. Eviction Prevention Mayor Ed Lee is acknowledging for the first time that there may be a problem with illegal Ellis Act evictions, and this week his office announced they would be tripling the funding for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Straw Expands To Mid-Market With Proposition Chicken The owners of Straw, the two-year-old carnival-themed restaurant in Hayes Valley, are expanding with a small, quick-service chicken restaurant at 1750 Market near Octavia. It's called Proposition Chicken, and the theme is voting/
SF News Mormon-Run Marriott Sponsored This Year's Folsom Street Fair A funny little news item appeared over the weekend connecting the fact the San Francisco Marriott had signed on as a sponsor of this year's Folsom Street Fair, and the company is still
SF News Two Arrested, One Shot, After Failed Attempt To Rob A TV News Crew In Bayview Two young men, both aged 19, were arrested following a failed attempt to rob a television news crew on Friday night. This all happened around 8 p.m. near the intersection of Third
SF News Over 100 Arrested At Electronic Music Fest At Shoreline Mountain View police succeeded in harshing the mellow of many ravers and would-be ravers over the weekend when they arrested over 100 people at the Beyond Wonderland music fest at Shoreline Amphitheater. The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Kitten Named Panda And now, a traditional palate cleanser of a kitten at play to send you off to your weekend. It's goddamn beautiful out, by the way. You need to get away from the computer.
SF News California Mayor Ousted Over Support For Gays Back in July we noted how the arid, tiny Central Valley town of Porterville had canceled their previously announced Gay Pride Month amid some controversy between Mayor Virginia Gurrola and a couple of
SF News Huge New Grocery Store and Condo Development Headed to Hayes Valley Big news for Hayes Valley-ans: A big new condo project with an as-yet-unidentified big grocery tenant on the ground floor is headed for the vicinity of Fulton and Octavia. It's a handsome, glass-clad
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Joins Fight Against Fracking Local legend, chef, Slow Food doyenne, and restaurateur Alice Waters is helping spearhead a petition drive to get Governor Jerry Brown to end the practice of fracking in California. Fracking has been used
SF News SFPD Seeking Video of Wednesday Fight That Led To Fatal Stabbing of Dodgers Fan The SFPD is on the hunt for two suspects who were part of a four-man group of Giants fans who attacked two Dodgers fans after the game at AT&T Park on
SF News Google Will Face Federal Lawsuit For Reading People's Gmail Between the NSA, Facebook, and Google, your life is an open book. But, a federal judge in San Jose ruled Thursday that Google will have to face a wiretapping lawsuit over the claim
SF News Berkeley High Pool Shut Down After Water Polo Players Lose Body Hair Yikes. The City of Berkeley is shutting down the pool at Berkeley High School after some water polo players began reporting some strange symptoms likely connected with the chemical levels in the pool,
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Looking for 'Looking' Extras All about the casting of locals, and what they get to do as extras, during the shooting of HBO's upcoming series Looking, a.k.a. the gay Girls/Sex and the City. [Mission
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike' At Berkeley Rep Let's just say up front that I'm a whore for references. Toss a few movie lines into a conversation, namedrop some playwrights, or expound upon 80s television shows, and I'm putty in your
Arts & Entertainment Your SFist Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend It's the high holidays for all the homosexuals and fetishists in the land, and also a time of year when every vanilla gay man pretends they're into leather for an afternoon. Leather Halloween,
Arts & Entertainment America's Cup Press Is Now Glowing, But Larry Won't Commit To Another In S.F. In the aftermath of yesterday's historic and showy win for Oracle Team USA, everyone in the local media is generally doing a mea culpa and saying, "OK, Larry. Good show." Yes, this thing
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: #JimmyFallonIsGenius Please. Everyone. Quit it with the hashtags. As Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake demonstrate in this clip, you all sound like morons, especially if you're using them in conversation. The irony of it
