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
Arts & Entertainment Hunky Jesus Contest Rescheduled For Friday At DNA We know that many of you were bummed that the annual Hunky Jesus Contest was rained out on Easter Sunday. But all those strapping, shirtless Jesuses presumably still have their beards and loin
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Joy' By Iron & Wine Today of all days you could probably use a little respite from the news. Here's a new and very pleasant video from Iron & Wine for the song "Joy," off the new album
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Killed After Argument On Nob Hill A 24-year-old man identified as Geofrey Greer was shot and killed at 2:30 a.m. Saturday by a 55-year-old suspect who is in custody. The suspect and the victim reportedly had a
SF News Shooting At 15th and Guerrero Leaves One Wounded A shooting on Friday afternoon at the corner of 15th and Guerrero left one man wounded with a non-life-threatening injury. The incident happened just before 4:30 p.m. and involved two suspects
SF News Study: Frequent Texters Tend to Be Shallow, Wealth-Obsessed Look everyone! A very scientific study from Canada has found that teens who text upwards of 100 times a day tend to be shallow, image-obsessed, and motivated by wealth. Also, they're probably terrible
SF News 2011 Japanese Tsunami Debris Still Showing Up In California The massive amount of Japanese tsunami debris that's been out floating in the Pacific for the last two years continues to hit the West Coast, and today the Chron brings us the story
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Local Empire Spoofs Foodies The new-food obsessed are easy and frequent targets, but allow us to introduce you to NY-based filmed-sketch-comedy group Local Empire. The material comes from a trio of young writer-performers Addison Anderson, Colin Drummond,
SF News Gang Beats, Robs Man To Defend Stripper's Honor A group of about fifteen men allegedly beat up a guy outside the New Century strip club (816 Larkin Street) early on Wednesday morning after he allegedly knocked a stripper's cell phone out
Arts & Entertainment Behold: A Map Of San Francisco's Lost Gay Bars Last month we brought you a roundup of ads from defunct gay bath houses in town, and about a year ago we showed you a semi-current map of the dozen gay bars that
SF News Man Fatally Crushed By BART/Muni Elevator ID'd Remember the gruesome story last month about the guy who seemed to have been sleeping on top of a BART elevator at Montgomery Station and got crushed when someone tried to use it?
SF News Study: S.F. Needs More Cabs Photo: Jay M. In a newsflash that will shock no one, a new study commissioned by the SFMTA says that the city could use 600 to 800 more cabs on the streets in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: How to Tell If You're F***ing [NSFW] Please take a moment to take a valuable lesson from comedian and avowed "disinformationist" Reggie Watts. And yes, it's NSFW, at least the audio is anyway. Also if you liked that, you may
SF News Crime-Addled Piedmont Will Photograph Every Last License Plate That Enters Town In a new effort to keep out Oakland criminals who are behind a string of home-invasion robberies in Piedmont, the tony township wants to start photographing every license plate that crosses its borders.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep's New Season to Kick Off With 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' Excellent news for Christopher Durang fans: The absurd comic playwright's latest Broadway hit, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, will be the opening play of Berkeley Rep's 2013-14 season, fresh off of
Arts & Entertainment New Male Strip Club Trying to Move Into Diesel Store Space In The Castro [Updated] Well, what do you know! An outfit called the Randy Rooster is in escrow to purchase the former bank turned retail space on the prominent corner of Castro and Market, adjacent to Harvey
SF News 'Door Knock' Burglaries on Peninsula Being Blamed on East Bay Hooligans There's been a rash of burglaries in various Peninsula cities in recent months in which teams of thieves knock on the doors of homes to see if anyone answers. If they get no
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cat Sleeping On Its Head Leave it to Japan to produce a cute little kitty that does something so bizarrely cute. This petite feline apparently likes to sleep with its butt up in the air, and its head
SF News Oakland Tribune Photographer Killed By Stray Bullet Outside His Home Longtime freelance photographer for the Oakland Tribune, Lionel “Ray” Fluker, was shot Friday night near his home at Seminary Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The 54-year-old Fluker
SF News iPhone iMessages Impervious to Government Wiretaps? [Updated] Well, isn't this intriguing. In a boon for privacy and civil rights advocates, the federal government recently discovered that they can't actually collect text messages from people they're wiretapping if they own an
SF News 47-Year-Old Man Dies In Possible Homicide In Pacific Heights High-Rise [Updated] A "suspicious" death occurred last night in a high-rise building on Vallejo Street, and as ABC 7 reports, such events are "unusual for quiet Pacific Heights," and we should all therefore start to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Happy Ones' at the Magic Theatre We don't make it out to The Magic Theatre too often, in large part because of the travel anxiety associated with getting out of the Marina after dark, but for all those of
SF News Downtown Hotel Boom: Two to Three New Hotels Heading to SoMa/Mid-Market The construction boom in the city won't just be bringing new condos and office towers. This week a new hotel on Fourth Street got approved by Planning, and there are at least two
SF News War on Drugs Won By Marijuana? Business Insider Says Yes This is what the future could look like. Photo: Sparc This week, Business Insider says that the marijuana legalization effort has already, for all intents and purposes, won the war on drugs in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'My Drunk Aunts' There's a new web series from Drew Droege (of Chloe Sevigny fame) and John Roberts (most known for his brilliant Christmas Tree short, but also Jackie & Debra) called My Drunk Aunts, and
