SF News Naked BART Acrobat Yeiner Perez May Get Deported The unfortunate star of S.F.'s internet stage this week is Yeiner Perez, the man who either had a serious mental breakdown on May 10 or was seriously high on bath salts
SF News Dude Proposes Marriage During School Board Meeting We don't know if this qualifies as quirkily romantic, or if it's just the most awkward, political-wonky marriage proposal of the year, but a guy proposed to school board member and City Hall
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Tiny Dog Playing Pool Meet Raisin. He is a chihuahua who enjoys a good game of billiards. Despite the fact that he does not use a cue, and he scratches by sinking the 8-ball too soon, he
SF News Naked 16th Street BART Acrobat Officially Fired From Acrobat Troupe Yesterday we brought you the news that the naked man who terrorized the 16th Street BART station on May 10 was a local acrobat and entertainer by the name of Yeiner Perez. Today
SF News Mission Merchants Continue Campaign Against Jack Spade As we learned back in March, Jack Spade has signed a lease for the former Adobe Bookstore space on 16th Street. Since early May, neighborhood merchants have been battling to keep the chain
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Organizers Still Haven't Paid The Stagehands There's some tension up in the North Bay surrounding last month's BottleRock music festival, and 142 stagehands who worked the event still haven't seen the money that's owed them. As the Press-Democrat is
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Capital Cities Covers 'Holiday' Besides "Get Lucky," our other favorite anthem of Summer 2013 is Capital Cities' "Safe and Sound." Today we bring you a fun electro cover they did a while back of Madonna's "Holiday." The
SF News Trolley Collides With Bus Injuring 19, Including Schoolchildren A collision between an F-line streetcar and a 9L-San Bruno bus this morning has caused a traffic snarl on Mid-Market at 6th Street, and injured at least 19 people. The eastbound streetcar slammed
SF News Victory For TIC Owners As Board Of Supervisors Votes to Clear Lottery Backlog A whole bunch of condo conversions are set to occur in the next couple of years as the Board of Supervisors voted last night to approve legislation to clear a backlog of over
SF News Oakland Teen Who Confessed To Pulling Trigger In Paramedic Shooting Pleads Not Guilty A 16-year-old Oakland High School student who previously admitted to the April 2 shooting of 34-year-old Quinn Boyer has entered a not guilty plea in the case, and his father is telling media
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Get Lucky' Through the Ages We know, we know... We just posted a "Get Lucky" cover (a pretty terrific a capella one) yesterday, but in case you hadn't noticed, the Internet, the radio, and Internet radio are all
SF News Many Hoodlums Jumping Out of Muni Bus Back Doors Lately Apparently there's been a rash of bus-jumping and bus "surfing" lately as ne'er-do-well passengers have figured out how to kick open rear bus doors, in particular on the 14-L in the Mission. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Delfina Pizza For A Year If You Come Up With A Brilliant T-Shirt Design Pizzeria Delfina, which is now known for its cool and clever promotional t-shirts, is reaching out to the pizza-loving community at large to design them a new shirt. The winning designer will win
SF News 'Don Juan Con Man,' Wanted in San Mateo, Nabbed Again In Vegas A fugitive whom authorities have dubbed the Don Juan Con Man, a.k.a. Simon Gann, was arrested in Las Vegas this week and may be extradited to San Mateo County. He has
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Man Killed By Police After Killing Wife A 57-year-old man was shot by a police officer after allegedly gunning down his wife and pointing the gun at police. The incident happened Saturday afternoon when Lt. Lee Horton responded to multiple
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Get Neefy' Earlier we brought you the acoustic version of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" by Atlas Genius, but 24-year-old Oliver has done them one better, doing this Petra Haden-style, one-man a capella "mouthstep" version, complete
SF News Female Carjacking Duo Strikes in Bayview A pair of female suspects are being sought for a carjacking in the early morning hours of Friday, June 7. The women are described as being in their 30s or 40s. Thelma and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Farm Occupiers Get Eviction Notice, Announce That They Will Move a Block Away We reported last week on the entrance of some Occupy-esque folks on the land formerly known as Hayes Valley Farm, which is set to become a residential development. Many of you had opinions
Arts & Entertainment What Will Become of the Historic, Quite Possibly Haunted, Market Street Cinema? Back in February, longtime strip joint Market Street Cinema (1077 Market Street) known for its ever-changing marquee messaging, Thanksgiving turkey drives, military discounts, and deals for conventioneers shut its doors. Was it just
SF News Another Limo Fire: Half Dozen Elderly Women Escape Unharmed What is happening with the local stock of limousines? Another one burst into flames on Sunday morning, very nearly causing another tragic scene, this one involving a group of elderly women heading to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Wanna Sex U Up' By Jimmy Fallon's Barbershop Quartet Not since JT joined Jimmy and the Ragtime Gals to make a quintet on an old timey acapella version of "Sexy Back" have we so enjoyed the barbershop quartet schtick on Late Night
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Misguided Occupy Kids Take Over Hayes Valley Farm, Rename It Gezi Gardens Sigh. A group of protesters who have given up on the Occupy the Farm protest in Albany (and various Occupy stragglers from elsewhere), have set up camp on the site of the recently
Arts & Entertainment The Walkmen, Mayer Hawthorne Headline Chipotle's Cultivate Festival Saturday in Golden Gate Park In 2011, Chipotle launched their first Cultivate Festival, following it up in 2012 with stops in Denver and Chicago, and this year they're throwing one in San Francisco too, on Saturday, June 8.
SF News Black People Arrested for Pot Possession Way More Than Whites If you think the War on Drugs is mostly about "hard" drugs these days, think again. And when it comes to the War on Pot, it's been a futile war to say the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Biergarten, Ritual, Entire Proxy Project Gets 8-Year Extension As you may know, the popular Proxy project on Octavia Street in Hayes Valley was built as a temporary placeholder on vacant lots owned by the city. Well, Supervisor London Breed just announced
