Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chris P. Bacon, Piglet On Wheels We hope you appreciate this quiet time alone with a painfully adorable baby pig, who was born without the use of his hind legs. He's got himself a wheelie contraption, and half the
SF News Human Toll Workers To Disappear in Late March at Golden Gate Bridge We first heard back in September of a plan to phase out all humans at the toll plaza at the Golden Gate Bridge, and now a firm, official date has been set: March
SF News Arrest Made In Fairfield Slaying of 13-Year-Old Girl Fairfield police have made an arrest in the high-profile murder case of 13-year-old Gennelle Conway-Allen. 32-year-old Anthony Lamar Jones is the prime suspect, and the police announced his arrest this morning. They have
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Nina Simone Covering 'Suzanne,' Live in 1969 We love, love Nina Simone. Always have. Even the slightly crazy-lady version of her we saw performing several times in the Bay Area prior to her death in 2003, swatting around a big
SF News Bay Bridge Span Opening To Be Fêted With Historic Walk From Oakland To San Francisco When the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge gets completed this August (*cough* about fifteen years late), the first things to cross over it won't be tires, but feet. The Metropolitan Transportation
SF News Anti-Smoking Crusaders Seek To Ban Smoking Around Lake Merritt Some "chemically sensitive" and otherwise smoke-averse individuals in Oakland have just filed a petition with city councilperson Rebecca Kaplan to ban smoking around the perimeter of Lake Merritt. Once again, smokers, in case
SF News 13-Year-Old Suisun City Girl Found Dead In Park The North Bay has been shaken this week with news of a murdered 13-year-old girl, whose naked body was discovered in a Fairfield park one day after she went missing. Genelle Conway-Allen disappeared
SF News Renters And TIC Owners Pitted Against Each Other In Current Real Estate Climate We are back, once again, to dot-com-boom levels of Ellis Act evictions, begging the question of whether rent control really exists in any real way. And is there a way to protect longtime
SF News Oh, God: Syphilis On The Rise Again In S.F. It's that time of year again, when San Francisco public health officials release data from the previous year and send us into new fits of hypochondria and prudishness. The latest cause for alarm:
SF News CA Supreme Court Appears Likely to Allow Cities to Ban Pot Dispensaries In the ongoing war over medical marijuana, and the legal gray area in which it now sits in the state and several others, California advocates may be looking at one losing battle in
SF News Suck It, America: S.F. Deemed Happiest City In All the Land An international consulting firm has just published a list of the Top 10 Happiest Cities in the world, and San Francisco is the only U.S. city to make the cut, ranking seventh.
Arts & Entertainment Video: R.I.P. Stewie, World's Longest Cat Stewie, a Maine Coon cat who hailed from Reno who at 48.5 inches from nose to tail was the Guinness record holder for world's longest cat, died Monday after a battle with
SF News Ramon Ramirez Returns to Giants; Bruce Bochy's Son Brett May Be Up Too Former Giants relief pitcher Ramon Ramirez has signed a deal to return to the Giants via a minor league contract, after spending last season with the Mets. He's a non-roster invitee to spring
SF News New Dildo Shop Opens In The Haight Hey everyone! A new retail shop catering to your every naughty need has just opened in the Upper Haight and it's called Behind Closed Doors despite the fact that in San Francisco, pervy
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Our Two Favorite Super Bowl Ads, GoDaddy and Audi Yep, commercialism. Few times of the year is the whole country totally gung ho to get pitched at by a commercial, but the Super Bowl is one of those coveted times. This year's
SF News BART Can Now Ban You If You Beat Up Agents, Pee On Things BART has just in the last year passed a new law that allows them to ban people from the system for periods of anywhere from 30 days to a year if they are
SF News Suspect in Friday's Fatal Art Murmur Shooting Is In Custody The suspected gunman in Friday's despicable and tragic shooting during Art Murmur/First Fridays is now in custody. Oakland police arrested him on Saturday night but have not yet released his name, pending
SF News One Killed, Three Shot at Oakland's First Friday/Art Murmur Event The future of the big outdoor party in Oakland's Uptown known as both First Fridays and Art Murmur may be in question after a shooting last night that took the life of an
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Upside Downton Abbey' Yes! In the vein of Birdwalk Empire, the brilliant folks at Sesame Street have done a Downton Abbey spoof, clearly aimed (partly) at adults, and it's kind of funny.
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Glorious, Elaborate, Almodovar-Inspired Trailer for the Hard French Winter Ball Please enjoy this lengthy (10 minute) but totally worth it tribute to Almodovar created by Aron Kantor (a.k.a. DirtyGlitter), and starring Ambrosia Salad and Stanley Frank. It's a promotional trailer, of
SF News Trans Basketball Player Receives Warm Welcome In Santa Cruz Trans woman Gabrielle Ludwig, who had the distinction this past December of becoming the first trans woman to play college basketball, has been receiving the sort of shitty reception at basketball games that
SF News Marin Is Getting Less White! Marin County will no longer be the bastion of wealthy white people that it is today in about 50 years, according to new projections by the California Department of Finance. It's a trend
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fresh Guacamole,' Another Oscar-Nominated Short Again from the animated category of Oscar-nominated short films comes this brief delight from filmmaker PES, who previously made the similarly stop-motion, culinary-dysmorphia piece http://www.eatpes.com/">Western Spaghetti. It's called
SF News It Gets Worse: 49ers Who Appeared In 'It Gets Better' Video Deny Making Video [Update] We get it. The NFL is a more homophobic arena than most. But suffice it to say, following on the whole Chris Culliver debacle, the 49ers need to keep their damn mouths shut
SF News Prime Suspect In Kevin Collins Case Is Deceased Yesterday we learned of an FBI search of a home at 1106-1108 Masonic Avenue relating to the cold case of the disappearance of 10-year-old Kevin Collins in 1984. Investigators busted through the concrete
