SF News Evil SoMa Landlords Kip and Nicole Macy Finally in Jail Again Maybe you think your landlord's awful because they raise the rent every year and never got around to fixing your shower. Well, listen here: It could be worse. Some of you may recall
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Get Lucky' By Black Simon & Garfunkel It's the song to cover right now, ladies and gentlemen, and now Daft Punk's off-the-charts summer jam "Get Lucky" has been covered by Black Simon & Garfunkel (Questlove and Captain Kirk Douglas of
SF News Man Stabbed In The Neck Near Mission And 16th Another charming story from the nightly circus at 16th and Mission: A 51-year-old man got into an argument with a man and a woman last night, and soon he was stabbed in the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Did You Poop?' It's a good question, really. Please observe this actual conversation between a father and his two-year-old daughter, as re-enacted by two grown men. [ConvosWithMy2YrOld via Laughing Squid]
SF News What We Talk About When We Talk About Formula Retail Formula retail. You know: chains. They're a hot topic in S.F. right now, especially in The Mission where a beloved used bookstore is becoming a Jack Spade, and in the Castro where
SF News George Zimmer, the Face of Men's Wearhouse, Gets Canned George Zimmer, whose gravelly, deliberate delivery of the line, "You're gonna like the way you look. I guarantee it," has made him boringly famous, is being ousted as Executive Chairman of the Houston-
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Pride Is Way Better Than N.Y. Pride, Says Justin Vivian Bond Former San Francisco resident Mx. Justin Vivian Bond just gave an interview with Paper talking about her summer plans, her new cabaret act, feminism, and her feelings about Pride. The New York City
SF News Prosecution Reveals Fifth Potential Naso Victim In Opening Statement Investigators have suggested that they believe that accused serial killer Joseph Naso has many more victims out there, and the prosecution in his quadruple murder trial in Marin County yesterday revealed the identity
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Inks Deal With Dreamworks For New Original Animation Los Gatos-based Netflix announced today that they've just signed a deal with Dreamworks Animation for 300 hours of new original content based on Dreamworks characters. So, you can expect some spinoffs of Shrek,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Patricia Field Doc Trailer This month at Frameline, the San Francisco LGBT Film Fest, will be the premiere of the new documentary The Little House That Could. It's a film about The House of Field, and the
SF News Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Stands Trial Today In Marin Remember Joseph Naso, the 79-year-old guy who was arrested two years ago on suspicion of multiple murders of women in northern California between the 1970s and the 1990s? Well, his trial is finally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Virgil's Sea Room Opens in La Lengua, Complete With Frank Chu-Inspired Cocktail That new bar we talked about a few weeks ago, Virgil's Sea Room (3152 Mission Street), just debuted this week in the former Nap's III space next door to El Rio. The best
SF News Michael Bloomberg Presses for Immigration Reform at Stanford Commencement New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered the commencement address for Stanford's class of 2013 on Sunday. In it, he makes a lot of in-jokes about campus life that must have been fed to
SF News Google Tests Out Internet-Beaming Balloons in Skies Over New Zealand The latest project to come out of the top secret Google X lab the same folks who brought us Google Glass just launched in New Zealand, and unlike their previous projects, it's totally
SF News BREAKING: Gas Line Rupture Shuts Down SoMa Near Yerba Buena, Buildings Evacuated [Update] Photo: Brock Keeling A gas line in the SoMa district is presently leaking, causing Folsom and Howard Streets between 3rd and 5th Streets to be closed to traffic and multiple buildings to be
SF News Firecracker Attack Freaks Out Union Square Saturday Late Saturday afternoon what appeared to be a stick of dynamite (or a firecracker) was thrown at the window of a business on the 300 block of Grant Street near Union Square, causing
SF News Berkeley Woman, Frenchman Are Top Finishers in S.F. Marathon 35-year-old Francois Lhuissier, a native of France and a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, was the first-place finisher in the San Francisco Marathon this morning, and in first place among
SF News Child Shot While Home Sleeping in West Oakland Drive-By An 11-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet while at home sleeping in his bed around 5 a.m. Sunday morning in Oakland. The shot came from a passing car on the 1100
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chipotle's Bid To Move Into The Castro Gets A No From Planners Things aren't looking good for Chipotle, which wants to open its tenth S.F. location in the former Home restaurant space at Church and Market. Yesterday afternoon the Planning Department issued its weekly
SF News Millionaire Gives $1.5 Million to Cover Bay Lights Shortfall; Broken LEDs Getting Fixed WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg just ponied up a whopping $1.5 million to cover the remaining budget shortfall for the $8 million Bay Lights installation. Mullenweg had already donated $100,000 to artist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Artist Recreating Bawdy Ceiling Mural at New Gold Dust Lounge Local artist Layla Skramstad is recreating a half-century-old mural for the ceiling of the recently relocated Gold Dust Lounge, and it's full of naked ladies. The bar had to give up its well
SF News NYT Enjoying the Bay Bridge Bolt Debacle The story of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge and its pesky, brittle bolts has finally reached the New York Times, and the most expensive infrastructure project in California's history is
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Dolores Park Tonight kicks off the summer movie series in Dolores Park and Union Square that we reminded you of the other week, and the kickoff film for our chilly summer will be Raiders of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Straight Dudes Skipping The latest from Pleated Jeans. And please get it through your head: There is nothing gay about skipping. [WOW]
SF News One Of Three Remaining 1906 Quake Survivors Dies At Age 107 As you may recall, none of the three known, still-kicking survivors of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 was able to make it for the anniversary festivities this past April 18 because
