Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LED Dance Troupes The video above just came to our attention, featuring the (Red Bull-sponsored?) PasTels Dance Troupe at an identified mall doing a flash dance number wearing LED-enabled suits. This has become a bit of
SF News Eric Holder Is Essentially Trying To End The War On Drugs In a major speech today in front of a meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a sea change in the federal government's prosecution and sentencing
SF News Tourist Bus Catches Fire In Financial District Not long after that double decker tour bus hit some electrical wires and sent some senior citizens to the hospital, another double-decker bus caught fire on Saturday while touring some folks around North
SF News Another BART Strike Averted; 60-Day Cooling Off Begins Breathe easy, East Bay commuters. A San Francisco Superior Court judge has approved the 60-day cooling off period requested by Governor Brown in the ongoing BART labor negotiations, so we've averted another BART
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Year (So Far) In Vines You wouldn't think you could do that much with six seconds of video, but the world (and many a college student) is showing us just how versatile the medium is, for comedy anyway.
SF News Cab Driver Stabbed After Deplorable Teen Can't Pay Fare A cab driver was stabbed in the Potrero Hill neighborhood last night after a 17-year-old was unable to pay his cab fare. This all happened around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Luckily, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Panic: Posh Bakery Actually Says It's Selling Cronuts, Not CroNots You know how Posh Bakery/Posh Bagel came out with a cronut imitation that they dubbed the "CroNot." Well, it appears their informal advertising isn't worrying so much about trademark infringement. Signs posted
SF News Motivational Speaker On Morning BART Trains Confuses, Inspires Oakland resident Ron Yorrick Jr. recently decided to "practice his awesome" by making speeches to commuters on crowded morning BART trains, prompting many to wonder what he wanted from them, or if he
SF News Mission Gun Buyback Draws Long Line, Nets 157 Guns The Mission's first gun buyback event happened last night in the bank parking lot at 22nd and Capp Streets, and a whole lot of people showed up to get some cash for their
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Revisiting 'Da Hip Hop Witch' It may be one of the worst movies ever made, and we had, in fact, never heard of it. It's called Da Hip Hop Witch, and it was an atrocity from 2000 that
SF News Man Shoots Wife, Posts Photo Of Body On Facebook A truly disturbing low in the Era of Facebook today: A Miami man allegedly shot his wife this morning and immediately posted a confession on Facebook, followed by a photo of her bloodied
Arts & Entertainment Video: Advice For Straight Girls In Re: Their GBFs Davey Wavey, the vlogger who brought us this swell look into the sex lives of LGBT senior citizens, and this montage of thoughts about vaginas by gay men, presents us with a new
SF News Ink Death: AARP Mags Boast Top Circulation In Print World, Most Newspapers Struggling The stubborn world of print media took way too long to avail themselves of the digital universe, and here in mid-2013 we are still seeing the fallout. A new audit this week by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Palace Hotel Gets Its Pied Piper Back For a week or so last March many here in S.F. were wringing their hands over the news that the new owners of The Palace Hotel, Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts, were going
SF News It All Comes Out: BART And Unions Still $100 Million Apart [Updated] A public hearing took place today at which BART and its three employee unions were scheduled to make presentations before a panel of state investigators charged with figuring out why the negotiation process
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Beer Hall And Bottle Shop Comes to Market Street Everyone's about the beer these days -- from the glut of new beer gardens in the East Bay to the beer-centric food menus at places like Bar Tartine and Abbot's Cellar. And now
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'The Tanners' And Other Fake Reality Shows Channel Thirteen, the PBS station in New York City, recently put out this brilliant campaign for donations with three ads for absurd fake reality TV shows: "Clam Kings," "Long Island Landscapers," and "The
Arts & Entertainment Nile Rodgers And Chic Replace D'Angelo At Outside Lands Citing a "crippling illness," D'Angelo has backed out of the Friday lineup at Outside Lands, and he'll be replaced by Chic featuring famed disco guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers whom young readers will
SF News Brief Power Outage Hits 37,000 In S.F. Tuesday Night A power outage left 36,895 homes dark last night (including one of your SFist editors) for a brief period during which they might have otherwise been enjoying David Letterman, or President Obama
SF News Why Have We Heard So Little From BART Workers About the Strike? We have to hand it to the SF Bay Guardian's Joe Fitzgerald, because even though he's only got two detailed interviews with actual BART workers talking about their real-world concerns about wages and
Arts & Entertainment 'Drunk History' Hits San Francisco Comedy Central's hilarious new show Drunk History is a must for everyone who enjoys history, and drunkenness, and laughing at drunks. Tonight's episode features all San Francisco tales, and you'd better tune in/
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Russian Vodka Spilled At SF City Hall As we mentioned yesterday, there was a protest today at noon in front of City Hall in which some LGBT activists were calling on the mayor to support the boycott of Russian vodka
SF News San Diego Clerk Withdraws His Prop 8 Appeal One of two lawsuits pending for review by the California Supreme Court that are attempting to reinstate Prop 8 is being withdrawn. The suit, filed last month by San Diego County Clerk Ernest
SF News Attorney 'Outraged' That Naked BART Acrobat Charged With Felonies The man who will forever be known to us as the "naked BART acrobat," whose full name we now know is Yeiner Alberto Perez Garizabalo, appeared in court for a preliminary hearing yesterday
SF News Now AC Transit Workers May Strike Wednesday You'll recall that the AC Transit workers's union authorized a strike back in late June, at the same time BART workers did, and now, not wanting to feel left out of the strike
