SF News Man Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances at Marina Hotel The death of a man early this morning at the Francisco Bay Inn at 1501 Lombard Street was ruled suspicious by investigators for the medical examiner's office. The man was found unconscious around
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ice Cream Cone + Cat ... At least, not if you want it back. Please observe the greedy ice cream consumption of one particular kitten, named Korra, whose owner Mike uploaded this video to the 'tube. [Reddit via Laughing
SF News Stockton Street Apple Store Moving To Levi's Space Perhaps wisely, given the multi-year clusterfuck of the Central Subway construction on their doorstep, the Apple Store at 1 Stockton Street is relocating next year to the big space currently occupied by Levi's
SF News New CVS-Anchored Market-Noe Center Revealed Everyone wanted a Trader Joe's, but the Castro is instead getting a CVS in the long vacant Market-Noe Center (formerly home to Tower Records). This week, via the Planning Commission and Castro Biscuit,
Arts & Entertainment Book About Famed Mob Hitman Killed In S.F. To Become Film Joseph “the Animal” Barboza, the first mafioso to turn government witness and testify against other mobsters, was a brutal and widely feared hitman in the Boston mob of the 1950s and 60s, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The New Daft Punk Song, Acoustically Australian outfit Atlas Genius has just let loose an acoustic version of the Daft Punk song that is, officially, already the anthem of summer before summer has even begun. That song, in case
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Books Hosts Marketplace Event This Satuday As discussed last month, we haven't seen the last of embattled used bookseller Adobe Books, which is getting ousted from its longtime home on 16th Street to make way for a Jack Spade
SF News Oakland Woman Sentenced For String Of Violent 2010 Robberies 36-year-old Althea Housley was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison today for four armed robberies in Oakland that left one man dead. In a plea deal in which she testified
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Gay Bear Love Song For all the gay bears out there, and their admires, please enjoy this new country song and video from bear singing sensation and Bearapalooza founder Freddy Freeman, "Just Bear With Me." It's a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silicon Valley Nerds Rap Badly About Venture Funding We're not sure if this counts as funny, but we suppose it's funny to those involved the way similar efforts by a college fraternity to make a viral video are funny to those
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cats Battling With Printers A video meme you may not yet be familiar with has recently come to our attention: cats who don't like printers. Namely ink-jet printers that jerkily spit out pages at unsuspecting felines who
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Teams Up With Kink.com For 'Black Watch' 'Black Watch,' which opened last night at the Armory Community Center. Photo: Brenden Mendoza The American Conservatory Theater's latest production, Black Watch, is making use of a new space some of you
Arts & Entertainment Check This Out: artMRKT & ArtPad Return To S.F. This Week Our very own miniature version of Art/Basel, dubbed artMRKT, returns this week in a somewhat larger form at the Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion. The now annual contemporary art fair brings together
SF News Older Man Beaten In Head With Rock In SOMA Near a SoMa freeway overpass last night, a 61-year-old man was bashed in the head with a rock after an argument. The incident happened around 9 p.m. near 5th and Bryant, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sutton Foster Live At Feinstein's Old-fashioned talents like the ability to command a stage, large or small, and hold an audience in the palm of your hand for an hour and a half just through song and a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mini Goat On A Maxi Horse Maybe you've heard that This American Life story that begins with a goat on top of a cow by the side of the road. Well, here's a miniature goat on top of a
SF News We're Not The Only Ones Who Notice That The 'Chronicle' Has Problems We pointed you to this piece from the Columbia Journalism Review in a link dump the other day, but in case you missed it, it's worth a read. Former SF Weekly editor John
Arts & Entertainment Film Based On Michelle Tea's 'Valencia' Premiering At Frameline Mission-based literary types are all more than familiar with Valencia, the 2000 novel that put local writer Michelle Tea on the map, and which was republished in a paperback edition in 2008. It's
SF News Oakland Police Chief's 'Medical' Retirement Might Not Be So Medical The embattled, controversial, and less-than-effective Oakland Police Department made headlines again yesterday when Chief of Police Howard Jordan abruptly announced his retirement. The official word was that he is on medical leave, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Beloved Merritt Restaurant & Bakery Closed After Major Fire The Merritt Bakery in Oakland, popular especially with the elderly but embraced by hipsters too, is closed today after an early morning fire that started in a storage room at the rear of
SF News Homeless Man Les Rowe, Former North Beach Fixture, Returning To Georgia A homeless man known to many North Beach residents just as Les will finally be heading back home to friends and family in Georgia after spending a year hospitalized following a hit-and-run accident.
SF News SF Pride Battered Again By Protest Over Bradley Manning Decision The organization responsible for putting together San Francisco's LGBT Pride parade and Civic Center fest in June, known as SF Pride, tried to have a public meeting last night to discuss the de-selection
Arts & Entertainment Popular Circuit DJ Peter Rauhofer Dies Peter Rauhofer, a name known to many who have attended big club parties, listened to a remix of a pop song, or gone to a gay circuit event in the last decade and
SF News Gov. Brown On Bay Bridge Bolt Screwup: 'S**t Happens' The latest in the fiasco surrounding the roughly 1,200 bolts on the new Bay Bridge span that may or may not be too brittle to withstand an earthquake is that Governor Jerry
SF News People Are Already Banning Google Glass The cyborg-ification of the human race at the hands of Google is nearly upon us via Google Glass, and lawmakers, cities, casinos, and at least one Seattle dive bar aren't having it. Do
