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
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sign Flipping Mastery On the Ellen show Friday, she flew out Atlanta-based sign-flipper extraordinaire Julian Falkenstein and Nonstop (a.k.a. Marquese Scott), after their YouTube video racked up 5 million views in the last two
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen's San Francisco Movie Has a Name: 'Blue Jasmine' Because you've obviously all been dying to know, the title of the upcoming Woody Allen film that he shot primarily in San Francisco last year will be Blue Jasmine. The title apparently refers
SF News Guy Who Burgled Steve Jobs' House Gets Seven-Year Sentence Kariem McFarlin, who unknowingly broke in to the under-construction home of the late Steve Jobs last summer and stole iPads and jewelry, among other items, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
SF News Niners Fan Punched, Knifed By Falcons Fan in Atlanta A 49ers fan got in a scuffle with a Falcons fan outside the Georgia Dome after the NFC Championship game yesterday, resulting in the 49ers fan getting cut with his own knife. Way
SF News Nathan Burris, Convicted Murderer Who Dared the Jury to Give Him the Death Penalty, Given Death Penalty Nathan Burris, the 49-year-old man who killed his longtime girlfriend and a man who was courting her at the Richmond Bridge toll plaza in August 2009, has been sentenced to death. Burris admitted
SF News TSA Removing Some Whole Body Scanners From Bay Area Airports [Updated] Amid concerns from airline passengers of allowing TSA workers to see what they look like naked, the agency has finally relented and will remove the controversial full-body scanner machines. The government had previously
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Lengthy Time-Lapse of Burning Man '12 Attn: All those of you who still really miss Burning Man. Here is an endless (12-minute) time-lapse video of last year's Black Rock City just to help you get through your day. It
SF News San Jose Mother Fakes Kidnapping of Her Toddler A San Jose mother, perhaps in search of attention, concocted a story about a man dressed in a ball cap and bluejeans, smelling of motor oil, who came up to her yard and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Gay Men Talking About Vaginas For a cleansing bit of hilarity (?) this mid-afternoon we bring you this video from Canadian gay-internet-famous vlogger Davey Wavey, in which he asks a bunch of gay men to describe, and discuss their
Arts & Entertainment 'Wicked' Opens Next Week (Again) With $25 Daily Ticket Lottery Wicked, the Wizard of Oz-inspired Broadway musical, is returning to S.F. next week, with a four-week run from January 23 to February 17. During this run, they'll be doing a daily lottery
SF News Latest Gang War in Oakland Tied to August Murder of Teenage Girl The recent uptick in gun violence in Oakland, including last weekend's shocking number of shootings (fifteen), can be tied back, in large part, to the August murder of a 16-year-old East Oakland girl.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silent Disco on BART You know which side of the generational divide you fall on if this looks fun to you. It's a DJ. On BART. He handed out wireless headphones and some flash-mob-inclined kids rocked out
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dogs Who Skype-Howl This is funny. Dog owner Ali Wasel has found that her wire-haired fox terrier Gaytor enjoys Skyping with other dogs. Then she decided to show him a video of another dog howling. Enjoyment
SF News Man Grazed By Bullet in Early Morning Home Invasion in Mission Terrace Two suspects, described only as men in their twenties, invaded a home on the 200 block of San Juan Avenue in Mission Terrace on Tuesday morning around 10:40 a.m. The two
SF News Mavericks to Happen Sunday for the First Time in Three Years [Updated] The Mavericks surf competition, which gets announced with a minimum of 24 hours notice based on swells off the coast at Pillar Point (near Half Moon Bay), was just announced for this coming
SF News Berkeley Students Whoring Themselves on Sugar Daddy Site to Pay Tuition An "increasing number" of Berkeley students are earning thousands of dollars a month through the website SeekingArrangement.com, which is a "dating" site for sugar daddies and their "sugar babies" seeking "mutually beneficial
SF News Several South Lake Tahoe Casinos Flooded After Freezing Temps Harrah's, Harveys, and the Horizon casinos in South Lake Tahoe all suffered flooding yesterday following below-zero temps on the weekend that froze sprinkler pipes and caused them to burst. According to the AP,
SF News 31-Year-Old Man Killed Near Santa Rosa in Possible Case of Domestic Violence Revenge A 31-year-old male's body was found in the trunk of a car across the street from Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park last night. The body and the car are believed to have
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Troublemaker' At Berkeley Rep Over the last couple of decades, Berkeley Rep has become a hotbed for new work, where young playwrights are not only sought out but cultivated, nurtured, and given room to grow. Such was
SF News BART Ridership Way Up; BART Discussing Turning Riders Away? People commuting to work from the East Bay may have noticed that BART has been ridiculously crowded lately, with some cars so packed as they roll into Oakland stations in the morning that
SF News Seriously: Fifteen Shot, Four Dead This Weekend In Oakland Four people were killed Friday in separate incidents in Oakland within six hours. This gave way to an extraordinarily violent weekend in Oakland in which another eleven people were shot, some likely in
Arts & Entertainment The 'Weekly' Does Not Get One Direction At All! SF Weekly's music team has been doing this "Worst New Song of the Week" feature, and this week's honoree is the new single and video from the wildly popular British boy group One
SF News PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford Dies at 92 Jeanne Manford, who in 1973 decided to march beside her gay son in the Christopher Street Liberation Day March (later known as the New York Gay Pride parade) and went on to found
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'F&%@in Cruise Ship' We'd never heard of this guy Greg Benson, but we think we love him. If you like this little video in which he wanders around a Princess Cruise ship and shows us all
