Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Red Carpet The much-anticipated season finale of RuPaul's Drag Race airs tonight, and interpid World of Wonder correspondent Damiana Garcia did some red carpet duties, interviewing all the arriving drag queens including Season 4 winner
SF News Confirmed: Kelly Wearstler Designing Mid-Market Hotel With Rooftop Bar The Renoir Hotel at 7th and Market which over the last year was home to A Temporary Offering, which included the cool but temporary Rio Grande bar from the Trick Dog team that
Arts & Entertainment Matt Groening's Mother Dies, Leaves Behind Simpsons-esque Obit When Simpsons creator Matt Groening's mother, Margaret (or Marge, as her friends knew her), died last month at the age of 94, a wonderful obituary was printed in a Portland, Oregon newspaper, which
SF News Oy, Evictions In S.F. Hit 12-Year High The number of evictions across the city have officially returned to dot-com boom levels not seen since 2001 according to new numbers released by the San Francisco Rent Board. During the period of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Teddy Has An Operation This video might start out looking cute, but it's not. You've been warned. It is, however, darkly hilarious and amazing. But don't watch it if you're easily upset by the site of actual
SF News Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter We now realize, after posting a couple highlights last week, that it's Park Station Captain Greg Corrales whom we have to thank for the colorful, sometimes midcentury-archaic language he uses to round up
SF News Last-Minute Appeal Fails, Dolores Park Renovation Plods On After 50 public meetings over the last three years (jesus, that makes us exhausted just typing it), Dolores Park Works has announced that they will finally be taking the publicly approved conceptual design
SF News Former Sex Worker's Children Make Claim for South Bay Millionaire's Estate A former prostitute who claims that a dead Santa Clara County millionaire fathered her children recently made a claim on behalf of her two daughters to the man's estate. A judge ruled this
SF News Oakland Cops Shoot A Lot Of People A new piece in the Oakland Tribune by Thomas Peele the author of a recent book about the murder of Chauncey Bailey suggests that the OPD are, in fact, more trigger-happy than cops
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu's 'Q.U.E.E.N.' Much like that Capital Cities track the other day, we smell some major hit potential here with this new Janelle Monae track "Q.U.E.E.N." featuring Erykah Badu. Whoa. Just whoa.
SF News Seven San Jose Pot Clubs, One More In S.F., Threatened With Closure By Feds U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag is still on her crusade to clean up the medical marijuana scene around the Bay Area, and the latest chapter in the saga features at least seven letters
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Summed Up in BuzzFeed Photo Post You know BuzzFeed? That site responsible for every "20 Animals Who Just Can't Deal Right Now" post clogging your Facebook feed? Well, behold. They've done a photo post devoted just to kooky San
SF News Behold, A Ghostbusters-Themed Lyft Car; Also, A Hello Kitty One As Lyft enters its second year of pink-moustachio'd gypsy cabbing, it stands to reason that some of the drivers are looking to distinguish themselves. Also, this is San Francisco, and we love a
Arts & Entertainment 'Book of Mormon' Returns to SF This Fall Good news for theater fans, and South Park fans, and fans of all things funny and awesome. The Book of Mormon is returning to S.F., this time to the Orpheum Theater, for
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Coffee Music Please enjoy this Stomp-style music video of four guys making music while assembling a Sanremo espresso machine. It was just screened this week at the London Coffee Festival. [via SFoodie]
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Is Coming Next Week, But Not All of Napa Is Too Happy We first told you about BottleRock Napa Valley back in February, and we're guessing some of you are going. It's basically a Coachella for the older set, with the demographic expected to skew
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: How to Make Bible Club Cool Here's another from Deeper Understanding this time a creepily edited montage of videos promoting moral purity, starting a Bible club in your school, and becoming a totally dope-ass campus missionary. We really most
SF News Elderly Man Punched After Parking Lot Scuffle, Now In Critical Condition A parking lot fender bender led to an angry confrontation in the Bayview Monday afternoon that left a 74-year-old man in life-threatening condition. The trouble started when two cars collided in a parking
SF News Who Octavia Street Is Named After, and Other Fun Facts From a New Interactive Street Map Once upon a time in 1855, a humble milkman by the name of Charles H. Gough became an alderman and was asked to join a committee tasked with naming the streets of the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Song Destined to Be Your Summer Jam We won't say that we are always genius predictors of these things, but we would like to tell you right here and now that "Safe and Sound" by Capital Cities is going to
SF News Small Northern California Town Shaken After Stabbing Death of 8-Year-Old Girl A young girl was apparently stabbed by a male intruder Saturday in the small Calaveras County town of Valley Springs. The incident seems to have happened during a break-in, and the eight-year-old victim
SF News Ocean Avenue Car Crash Involving Stolen Vehicle Leaves Six Wounded An accident Saturday night on Ocean Avenue in Ingleside, near the northbound on-ramp for I-280, injured six people and left two critically injured. The vehicle responsible for the accident, containing a driver and
SF News Things Looking Even Worse With Those Bay Bridge Bolts Following on some comments last week by a retired engineer who says that Caltrans "fell on its face" with regard to the steel-bolts fiasco, it's come to light that there are some 1,
SF News HIV Vaccine Trial Halted After Too Many Subjects Contract HIV [Updated] Yet another clinical trial for a vaccine to prevent HIV has failed, and for 48 men and transgendered individuals it meant that they contracted the virus while participating in the study. The study,
SF News Highly Intoxicated 'Nincompoop' Faces Off With Fire Truck in the Upper Haight If you don't subscribe to the SFPD Park Station newsletter, you probably should. Phrases like "loathsome louse" and terms like "flower child" and "nincompoop" are de rigeur, and what officers have to deal
