SF News More Wiener Drama: Blogger Arrested for Taking Photo Of Supervisor? It may be difficult to see the drama in this if one is not ensconced deeply in the politics of the Castro, but bear with us. Local blogger and activist Michael Petrelis claims
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Book of Mormon' at the Curran Theater "Africa is NOTHING like The Lion King!" exclaims Elder Price in one of about a thousand funny moments in The Book of Mormon. And if there's one phrase that sums up the story
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Muppets Doing Blow Well, isn't this... cute? It's a video for a song featuring a lot of kazoos called "Your Parents' Cocaine," by Oakland-based outfit The Coup. And it features some shoddily made muppets, a bouncy
SF News Kink.com Offers Sex Ed Classes With Live Demonstrations, Porn Star Models Over at the Kink.com Armory there's a new series of public educational classes geared toward bettering one's sex life. But instead of the plastic models and animated video demonstrations of your junior
SF News Noe Valley Woman Nabs Package Thief, Chases Him Down With Sword, Sprays Him With Bear Spray Thanks to the bravery and frustration of one Noe Valley resident who was tired of her Amazon boxes being stolen, the man the neighborhood had dubbed the Bicycle Bandit is now in custody.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santigold's 'The Keepers' Santigold, a.k.a. Santi White, is coming to the Fox, ladies and gents, on December 12, and there are still tickets. Above, her video for "The Keepers," off her 2012 release, Masters
SF News Scott Wiener Seeking to Make Environmental Review Process Easier For Developers On the Planning Commission agenda this week is the continuation of a somewhat controversial item introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener earlier this month that would limit the citizenry's ability to hold up development
SF News Two Teenage Girls Found Dead in Oakland Sunday Were Best Friends We heard a report earlier about two women found dead together in the early morning hours of Sunday in East Oakland, and they've now been identified as two teenage best friends: Bobbie Sartain,
SF News Today in History: The Assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk On November 27, 1978, recently resigned Supervisor Dan White walked into City Hall and shot both Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in retaliation for his not having been reappointed to the
Arts & Entertainment Nevius: All You Fools With Tattoos Are Gonna Be Sorry What does Chuck Nevius want out of his yard this week? Tattoos. The Chronicle columnist penned his first blog post since the election today on the topic of tattoos, and how the young
SF News With Five Weeks Left in the Year, Oakland Homicide Count Hits 115 Oakland is on track to close out a particularly violent year, perhaps the most violent since 2008, when the murder total hit 125. Interestingly, the homicide rate can't be blamed on an uptick
SF News Fremont Man Arrested, Charged With Attempted Hanging of His Girlfriend A Fremont man is in custody after apparently trying to hang his girlfriend from a tree in the backyard. Somehow she managed to get on a cell phone while tied up and gave
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The White Snake' at Berkeley Rep About once a year the Bay Area gets treated to a magical theater gem that transcends time and genre, and this may be it. The latest main stage production at Berkeley Rep, running
SF News Rose Pak Once Thought 'Motherf***er' Was a Term of Endearment The cover story in the new issue of San Francisco Magazine is all about Rose Pak. Call her whatever you like kingmaker, ballbuster, politico, Mayor but she's getting kind of sick of the
SF News Mother, Father, Teenage Son All Drown Trying to Save Dog In an effort to save the family dog, who was swept into rough surf on a beach north of Eureka on Saturday, a 16-year-old boy dove into the waves and was followed by
SF News BART To Add Express Trains, Further Expand In Coming Decades Big news coming out of BART today as officials at the rail line discuss the preliminaries of BART Metro, a multibillion-dollar expansion to be complete by 2025 that hopes to accommodate 50 percent
SF News Black Friday Crash in Palo Alto Claims Lives of Two Sisters A collision on Highway 101 in the early morning hours Friday between an SUV and a parked CHP vehicle resulted in a family of six sustaining injuries, and the deaths of two daughters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Are You Still Doing in the Office? No, seriously. Dear reader, isn't there a bird you should brining or a flight you need to catch or a cocktail you should be mixing or an iPhone game you could be playing
SF News Port of Oakland Shut Down By Strike Tuesday Morning, Reopened Today A strike by SEIU Local 1021 that began at 5 a.m. yesterday morning succeeded in shutting off the entrance to the Port of Oakland and causing a big backup of semi trucks
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Gobbles, Turkeys Gobble Back The French man's laugh in this video is pretty infectious as a he riles a pen full of turkeys from his car. Lucky for him, since turkeys are super dangerous, and relentless. Happy
Arts & Entertainment Tickets for the Giants 2013 Season Go On Sale Friday If you're not elbowing your way through a Target, or similar, all day Friday, please be aware that you can sit in your pajamas, shop on BlueFly or Amazon, and begin purchasing tickets
SF News Man Convicted in Richmond Bridge Toll Plaza Shooting, Laughs In Court at Victims' Families Nathan Burris, 49, was convicted today in a Martinez court in the 2009 shooting deaths of his girlfriend of 13 years, Deborah Ross, 51, and another man, Ersie "Chuckie" Everette, 58. Throughout the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Doing the Charleston to Daft Punk This has been making the rounds today, and it's kind of an amazing cleanser for your palate. Someone only needed to slow down the Daft Punk track ("Around the World") just slightly to
SF News Former Anti-Virus Software Giant John McAfee Suspected of Murder, Blogs About Being on the Lam John McAfee, the millionaire anti-virus software developer who started McAfee Associates in his home in Santa Clara in 1989, has been living for years in Belize and on the Belizean island of Ambergris
Arts & Entertainment Lauryn Hill Predictably Erratic, But Not Awful, Says Critic At last night's Lauryn Hill/Nas show at the Fox in Oakland, Nas sounded great and cycled through all his hits, while Hill, the one time megastar, sang along to some strange arrangements,
