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
Arts & Entertainment Very Dirty White-Guy Rap Video, 'Ex-Boyfriend' Shot in Alta Plaza Park [NSFW] We introduce you to Lil Dicky. He's a local rapper who enjoys humor and mocking himself, and his flow isn't bad. His video for the song "Ex-Boyfriend," which tells the amusing tale of
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Use Your Smartphone In Public As we continue with Etiquette Week 2013, we bring you our thoughts on how best to utilize your mobile phone without getting mugged, or annoying everyone around you. Texting Whilst Walking Sure, you're
Arts & Entertainment Video: Senior Citizens Discuss Gay Sex This isn't what you think. It actually was filmed at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, and these are, in fact, all gay and lesbian seniors. And they're all awful cute. Kudos
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Deeper Understanding Some of you are likely familiar with Everything Is Terrible, those brilliant curators of the VHS universe who sometimes offer bits of sheer brilliance to this column. (P.S. It's Puppet Week over
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Go To Oakland No, you won't get shot if you go there. Really. Probably not. Our sister city to the east has long gotten a bad rap for a higher-than-average crime rate, which tends to dominate
Arts & Entertainment Indian 'Vogue' Discovers Hipsters In San Francisco Oh, foreign magazines. They really never cease to elicit a chuckle except for French Vogue, of course, which is very, very serious. Behold this new piece in Vogue India in which a blogger
SF News Thief Nabs Huey Lewis' Laptop And Rental Car In Mill Valley This story, which happened in February, is just coming to light because the suspect is in court. But it seems that one Hugh Anthony Cregg, 62, a.k.a. Huey Lewis, jumped out
SF News Three Nudist Activists Go To Trial Today Yes, we know that some of you saw the whole kerfuffle over the nudity ban, which centered largely on a single, tiny public plaza at 17th and Castro, as being just about a
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Drive In San Francisco Without Being A Total Idiot Dear readers, it's time once again for Etiquette Week. Last year we brought you such rulebook gems as How to Conduct Yourself Like a Human in a Bar or Club and How to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I'm Not Gay' Whether this video represents a watershed moment for comedic takes on gay stereotypes, or is just a funny little diversion created by an LA-based singer-songwriter is up to you to decide. But actor
SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to convert to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Pericles' at Berkeley Rep In the hands of certain directors, contemporary productions of Shakespeare can become something far greater than the sum of their parts. Mark Wing-Davey is one of those directors, and his take on Pericles,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: No Way Back and Honey Soundsystem at Beatbox Techno-disco-house DJs Honey Soundsystem, who host the popular Sunday night party at Holy Cow, are popping up tonight around the block at Beatbox (314 11th Street) with another local DJ collective, No Way
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Ana Matronic Of Scissor Sisters In case you weren't aware, years before the formation of the band Scissor Sisters in New York, Ana Matronic (b. Ana Lynch) was a young fixture in the S.F. nightlife scene and
SF News Mayor Lee To Make All Building Owners Do Soft-Story Retrofitting In honor of the anniversary of the Great Quake yesterday, Mayor Ed Lee signed some legislation that mandates that all owners of apartment buildings of five units or more that have soft stories
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tanlines Outshines Vampire Weekend At The Fox Sometimes an opening act just has more chutzpah, charisma, and raw hunger for an audience's love than the band they're supposed to be warming people up for, and that was exactly the case
SF News Accused Nob Hill Murderer Is Psychic Craps Player On Monday we brought you the news of the murder of 24-year-old Geoffrey Greer, who was shot and killed following an argument with an older man in his Nob Hill apartment complex. The
SF News Last Remaining Great Quake Survivors Sleep In, Miss Memorial Ceremony for First Time We know some of you may tire of the annual updates about the remaining, extremely elderly survivors of the 1906 earthquake and fire, but dammit, you should find it remarkable that there still
SF News Five Teens Arrested In Killing of Paramedic in Oakland In case you had not caught the story on the local news, Dublin resident Quinn Boyer, a 34-year-old paramedic, was shot and killed at point blank range while driving in Oakland on April
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Stuck Elevator' At A.C.T. It's hard to criticize a piece of musical theater that is as ambitious, poignant, and unique as Stuck Elevator without coming off as a philistine, and for that A.C.T. deserves some
SF News 22-Year-Old Man Shot In The Lower Haight A 22-year-old was shot in the leg last night on the 100 block of Pierce Street in the Lower Haight. He was a passenger in a vehicle that was exiting a parking area
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Evolution Of Pop In 4 Minutes Five-person a capella group Pentatonix, who won Season 3 of NBC's The Sing-Off, have just done this amazing medley of their favorite songs throughout history. They start with an 11th century madrigal, and
SF News Thief Tries To Escape Arrest By Hitching Ride On Roof Of Car Here's a fun story from the crime blotter, via the Examiner and Nevius: A man who was suspected of breaking into a woman's garage in Ingleside and stealing a television tried to escape
SF News Sign A Petition In Support Of The 4 AM Last Call Mayor Ed Lee may end up being a stick in the mud about it, but a bill to institute an optional 4 a.m. last call in cities across California moves along, and
