SF News 16th and Mission: Not a Good Place to Go to the ATM 16th and Mission, a.k.a. the Mission's Sixth Street, is not the best place to be going to take out cash, especially after 2 a.m. when you're by yourself. Case in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: God and Puppets This is a condensed, two-minute version of (clearly) a classic of Christian family films of the early 1980s. It involves Christian puppeteer who comes to a school, and some pissed off teens who
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Year in Pictures: Our Favorite Naked People of 2012 [NSFW] Wow, time sure does fly. One minute we're having a gloriously balmy January, then it's February and a large naked woman is stomping windshields in Noe Valley, then it's December and we're outlawing
Arts & Entertainment James Franco's Doc About S.F. Porn Producing Company Premiering At Sundance James Franco has had his hands in a lot of pots and has been attending a lot of schools in the last few years. Well, while he was in S.F. in 2011
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F.'s Own DJ Earworm Unveils The United State of Pop 2012 It's that time again, friends! DJ Earworm just released his annual mashup of the year's hit pop songs, dubbed his United State of Pop. See the list of songs below, and download the
SF News Bayview Woman Who Left Her Newborn For Dead Pleads Not Guilty Candidate for least favorite San Franciscan of 2012, Nneka Nash, 39, appeared in court today to face charges stemming from a bloody, newborn infant she left at a shelter in the Bayview around
SF News 16-Year-Old Girl Found Dead in Bayview May Mark S.F.'s 64th Homicide; Oakland Murder Count Hits 123 Nearing the end of the year, the murder counts for 2012 in both San Francisco and Oakland are up over last year, ending what had been a two-year lull of relatively low violent
Arts & Entertainment Get Tickets for a New Year's Eve Party With Juanita More at The NWBLK New Design District showroom and event space The NWBLK (18th and Bryant) is playing host to a New Year's Eve party this year from drag queen bee Juanita More. If you've been in
SF News Domestic Dispute on Nob Hill Results in Four-Hour Standoff With Police A loud fight between a man and a woman in an apartment building at California and Hyde Saturday night led to the police being called, and a four-hour standoff ensuing after police determined
SF News Dianne Feinstein to Introduce Law Banning Assault Weapons On Meet the Press this morning, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said she was planning to introduce a bill that would ban "weapons of war" on American streets. Specifically, the law would ban the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hard Candy Christmas' by Tracey Thorn Tracey Thorn, of Everything But the Girl fame, has put out a Christmas album called Tinsel and Lights, and we have to say it's pretty good. It has a few originals on it,
SF News PG&E Fires or Suspends 18 Employees In Scandal Over 1,200 Fraudulent Inspections PG&E is supposed to be more vigilant and safety-oriented these days, after blowing up a cul de sac in 2010 and killing eight people in San Bruno, but as it happens,
SF News Obama Makes Some More Vague Remarks About Pot Not Being Priority You all remember 2009, when stoners the nation over rejoiced to the sound of President Obama implying that the war on pot was over? Well, we all know how that turned out in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Drag Queen Prank Featuring Sharon Needles and Latrice Royale Fans of Rupaul's Drag Race will appreciate this one. On board the Drag Stars at Sea cruise organized by AlandChuck.Travel the same cruise on which Carnival Cruise lines forbid drag queens to
SF News Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko Closing Amidst Allegations of Racism Popular cabaret venue the Rrazz Room which has played host during its four years to a wide variety of drag acts, jazz musicians, New York cabaret notables, and performers even your mother may
SF News John McAfee Is In Miami Now, Says His Crazy Talk Was Just An Act Big talker John McAfee, who may or may not be abusing meth but who has got some pressing concerns about the government of Belize being out to get him, is now in Miami
SF News Google Maps App Released for the iPhone Fret no more, iPhone users who downloaded iOS 6.0 before understanding that Apple Maps sucked! Google just released the much-awaited Google Maps app for the iPhone and iPod touch. And, what's more,
SF News Woman Trapped in Car in the Sierras Makes Tearful Goodbye Video For Kids Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy This time of year there's always a cautionary tale or two about driving where you're not supposed to in the
SF News Man Shot Four Times at South Van Ness and 14th A man was shot four times and critically wounded on the 1300 block of Natoma Monday night, just before 8 p.m., near the intersection of 14th and South Van Ness. Police say
Arts & Entertainment Crazy, Enormous 'Living Bethlehem,' With 115 Live Actors, Opens Tomorrow in Livermore A Livermore contractor has invested four years of his life into creating an elaborate, 35,000-square-foot live Nativity in downtown Livermore, and it's called "Living Bethlehem." Shows run every 30 minutes, and it
SF News Stockton Man on Trial For Murdering Girlfriend, Letting Body Rot for Six Months In His Apartment A Stockton man appeared in court last week to face charges in a gruesome murder, after which he allegedly left his dead girlfriend's corpse to rot in his bathroom for six months before
Arts & Entertainment Video: Regarding Jay DeFeo's 'The Rose,' On View at SFMOMA Artist Jay DeFeo lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area, working as an artist in the Upper Fillmore in the 1950s and 60s, and ultimately ending up on the faculty
SF News Man Found Bound & Gagged ID'd The man who was part of the couple found bound and gagged in Visitacion Valley Sunday night, who later died at the hospital, has been identified as 26-year-old Stephen Reid. (Though NBC is
SF News Local Man Flips Out On Facebook Shuttle Driver, Yells at Him To Get Out Of Muni Stop As we've discussed before, there is a quiet war happening every day between our very own Muni buses and those corporate shuttles from Facebook, Google, Genentech and the like which enjoy stopping in
SF News Corporations May Soon Bear More Tax Burden Via Changes to Prop 13 Democrats now have supermajorities in both the California State Senate and Assembly, and this means that some long overdue changes to the state tax code with regard to corporate property are soon on
