Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin Has A 'Stalker' Tales of the City author - and therefore San Francisco's unofficial novelist laureate - Armistead Maupin, as you may recall, relocated full-time with husband Christopher Turner to Santa Fe last summer. Well, he's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Paperman', A Partly Hand-Drawn, Oscar-Nominated Animated Short From Disney 'Paperman,' done in (mostly) black and white, has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short. It tells the story of a mid-century commuter who falls in love with a woman
SF News Check Out This Awesome '60s Sign Unearthed Beneath Awning In North Beach Friend of SFist Chad Fox just snapped this photo of a ca. 1968 sign for a hippie women's clothing boutique called Middle Earth at 1317 Grant Avenue in North Beach. Middle Earth, as
SF News 49er Chris Culliver Is a Huge Homophobe [Updates] Never before in the history of the Super Bowl have gay people and gay subject matter been so intricately linked with football! But today we have another headline, following on Kwame Harris's forced
SF News S.F. Nudity Ban Upheld; Federal Judge Says Nudity Isn't Speech You'll recall the protest outside the federal courthouse we showed you on Thursday where a hearing was taking place about S.F.'s nudity ban? Well, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen says
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, The New Gay Sports Bar, Lands In 'Sports Illustrated' A photo of two dudes mid-smooch at the bar at Hi Tops (2247 Market Street), shot just as the 49ers clinched the NFC championship, has landed in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Old Dog-With-Stick Meets Fence Chestnut There are things in this world, even in the YouTube world, that will never get old. One of them is the confusion of a dog, long stick in mouth, faced with having to
SF News PG&E Spoiling The Fun Of Oakland's Utility Pole Gnomes Oaklanders began noticing tiny painted portraits of gnomes appearing at the bases of utility poles around town exactly a year ago, adding a splash of whimsy and mystery to the otherwise bullet-riddled landscape.
Arts & Entertainment Petition To Rename Turk Street Block After Late Transgender Performer Vicki Marlane The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club is petitioning the Board of Supervisors to rename the 100 block of Turk Street after pioneering transgender drag performer Vicki Marlane. And since "lane" is already in
SF News Video: John McAfee Opens Up to NBC's Raj Mathai Well, it isn't Oprah, but billionaire "madman" John McAfee has given another interview, this time from the comfort his new digs in Portland (where else?), to NBC Bay Area's Raj Mathai. He insists
SF News Bay to Breakers Needs a New Sponsor, Again For the third time in ten years, San Francisco's naked-est, drunkenest footrace has lost its sponsor. Redwood City-based Zazzle, which specializes in printed t-shirts and accessories, has pulled out of sponsoring Bay to
SF News Man Stabbed in SoMa Ten Days Ago Dies Your latest update on citywide knife crime is a tragic one: 34-year-old Scott Nau of San Francisco, who was stabbed near 11th and Mission on January 18, has died. He succumbed to his
SF News Boy Scouts Possibly Doing An About-Face On Gay Ban In a surprising turn of events, the Boy Scouts of America is apparently close to reversing its stance on allowing gay scouts and scout leaders, just six months after the organization reaffirmed its
SF News More Footage of Saturday's 880 Sideshow Call it a souped-up auto flash mob, but here's yet more footage of the sideshow that briefly shut down the northbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland in the middle of Saturday afternoon, shot
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: '4000 Miles' At A.C.T. Winter is a time for quieter plays on the A.C.T. calendar, and the current production, 4000 Miles, is no exception. It's a new play by Amy Herzog having its West Coast
SF News Big-Wave Surfer Breaks Neck At Ocean Beach Day Before Mavericks Renowned big-wave surfer Mike Parsons, catching some practice breaks last Saturday at Ocean Beach before Mavericks on Sunday, severely injured himself after he was knocked down and his head hit the water "really
SF News Wave Of Muggings Hits Bernal Heights We told you two days ago about the guy who got shot in the hand during an armed robbery at 30th and Mission. Well, move up the hill from La Lengua and there's
SF News Dolores Park Renovations Set To Begin In The Fall Last we'd heard, the first stage of the partial closing and renovation of Dolores Park was set to begin right about now. But today we learn from Dolores Park Works that the project
SF News Kaepernick Wants To Trademark Kaepernicking A full week before the 49ers clinched a spot in Super Bowl XLVII, quarterback Colin Kaepernick applied to trademark the term "Kaepernicking," the widely repeated move of flexing his right bicep and moving
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Bookshop Still Kicking, Will Become a Co-Op We've been hearing since 2010 about the impending demise of beloved, raggedy used bookstore Adobe Bookshop on 16th Street. Well, now it looks like owner Andrew McKinley has come up with a plan
Arts & Entertainment Expect Lines To See 'Girl With A Pearl Earring' At DeYoung Starting this weekend, the DeYoung Museum becomes the exclusive West Coast venue for a tour of Dutch masters paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis at The Hague. The centerpiece of the exhibition
SF News After Another Extra-Long Meeting, Oakland City Council Approves Hiring Controversial Police Consultant We thought this hiring was already done in December, but it turns out that Bill Bratton, formerly Chief of Police in L.A., still needed formal Council approval to begin his consulting gig
SF News Oakland Police Officer Shot, Two Men Arrested An undercover OPD officer was shot in the arm last night in an incident in East Oakland near Seminary Avenue and 17th Street. Police arrested two men in connection with the shooting but
SF News Two Bay Area Men Drowned in High Surf in Kauai Two more Bay Area residents have lost their lives while in Hawaii. Best friends Adam Griffiths, 46, and Brian Baker, 47, were hiking with Griffiths' fiancée Jennifer Kwong on the rocky north shore
SF News Mugging at 30th and Mission Ends In Shooting Word to the wise, everyone: When you are mugged at 4 a.m., assuming you are not armed, you are best to hand over your wallet or cell phone. A 30-year-old man was
