SF News Transgender Pride Flag Raised For the First Time in the Castro Tonight, in a ceremony at Harvey Milk Plaza following a march from Civic Center, trans activists and LGBT supporters raised the transgender pride flag on the big Castro flagpole for the first time.
SF News Mirkarimi to Attend 'Healing Arts' Festival to Combat Violence Against Women; Rejects Mayor's Proposal About Domestic Violence Oversight Just to update you on the still ongoing saga of reinstated Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. We learn today he'll be attending a "healing arts" festival on November 24 at Dance Mission Theater, along with
Arts & Entertainment Honey Mahogany to Be First San Francisco Queen to Appear on 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Over the weekend, RuPaul released the first trailer and teaser interviews with the cast of Season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race, which premieres in January. And finally, finally, we have someone to represent
SF News Homeless Man Killed in Santa Cruz Campsite; Three People Arrested A 51-year-old homeless man was found dead Friday in a park in Santa Cruz, and three people have been jailed in connection with his murder. The victim was found dead at a campsite
Arts & Entertainment Many People Annoyed That Unionmade Clothing Is Neither Union-Made, Nor Affordable Local clothier Unionmade, which has been establishing itself as a growing brand of old-timey, hipster-Americana clothing and accessories since opening a little shop on Sanchez and 18th just a couple years ago, has
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Blue' a New R.E.M. Video By James Franco, Starring Lindsay Lohan R.E.M. released their fifteenth and final studio album last year, Collapse Into Now. It's the only album of songs that the band has never performed live, since they broke up right
SF News Regarding Those Lower-Case Street Signs The SFMTA is slowly but surely replacing all the street signage around town, doing away with the lovely, modern, all-caps typography they've employed for the better part of the last century, and going
SF News If Only BART Had Built the Geary Line What if we could say, without laughing, that the Outer Richmond was the new Mission? That would only really have been possible if BART had gotten it together to build the proposed Geary
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Movember Edition Funny man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) is joined by a few fellow mustache models (and stars of The Office) in this amusing PSA for Movember. "To all of you out there rocking
SF News Jury Acquits Spaniard In Battery Case Involving Drag Queen, SoMa Bar File under: It's complicated. The visiting boyfriend of a local woman landed in jail on battery charges following a confused incident of drunken jealousy at a Folsom Street nightclub. It seems the man,
SF News Peninsula Teen Crashes Two Cars While on Whip-Its A 19-year-old in Belmont stands accused of crashing not one, but two friends' vehicles in the span of two days last month, both while high on whip-its. Daniel Evenbach was arrested on felony
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Festival to Get Even Bigger Next Year The organizers of Outside Lands, Another Planet Entertainment, have just renegotiated their contract with Rec & Parks and raised the attendance cap for the 2013 festival from 65,000 to 75,000. Additionally,
SF News Oakland Woman Gives Birth at Gas Station With Help of Several Cops Sometimes you go into labor, and it all happens way too fast. Not that we'd know. But that's what happened to Kimberly Thomas of Oakland, whose baby son was waiting for no trip
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grandviews at the Grand Hyatt Closes to Make Way for New Restaurant Off Lobby All over town, hotel restaurants are turning over. Seasons at the Four Seasons closed this week and will be reborn as something else next summer. Silks at the Mandarin Oriental closed earlier this
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man's Hand Slashed on Muni in Haight An altercation between two middle-aged men aboard a Muni bus Monday afternoon resulted in one of the men getting his hand cut up from the other man's knife. The incident happened around 3:
SF News Hey Guys, Did You Know We Have a Hockey Team Now? The cover story in tomorrow's Weekly is all about SF's new minor-league hockey team, the San Francisco Bulls, and how they're doing in their nascent few weeks over at the Cow Palace. It's
SF News Nudists Hire a Lawyer Our city's gaggle of fervent nudists has lawyered up, ladies and gentlemen. This is about to get fun. Today we get word via Mitch Hightower, nudist ringleader, that he and his birthday-suited cohort
SF News An Open Letter to C.W. Nevius Regarding His Third Recent Column About the Same Shoeshine Guy We don't even know where to start. We know, Mr. Nevius, that the pressures of coming up with something new to complain about, analyze, or denigrate three times a week for your opinion
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kittens Watching Tennis Doesn't get much better than this, folks, and it needs no introduction. You're quite welcome. [Death and Taxes via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Reschedules Davies Appearance for February We know some of you were getting girlfriend-in-a-coma-level bereft the other week when you heard that Morrissey had cancelled yet another SF concert date, his second cancellation in under a year. Well, good
SF News Lynette Sweet Ousted as BART Director By 25-Year-Old Zakhary Mallett Longtime BART board member and board president Lynette Sweet lost her re-election bid in a close race last week that's finally been called for her challenger, 25-year-old Zakhary Mallett. Sweet lost her long-held
SF News 'Made In San Francisco' Label Starts Showing Up in China A new label being embraced by local manufacturers trying to break into the Chinese market shows how the Chinese may be gaining appreciation for American goods, and those from S.F. in particular.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: French Twisters So, this trippy little video by French artists Adrien M/Claire B was done using time remapping and the slit-scan photographic process something that was once hugely labor intensive and only possible from
SF News Lightning Strike Blows Out Transformers in Noe Valley About 100 households lost power in Noe Valley last night when a freak lightning strike took out five transformers near 24th and Hoffman Streets. Some of you who were awake around 1 a.
SF News CBS Cameraman Robbed of Camera Outside Oakland School Just after doing a live shot yesterday outside the Oakland Technical High School on Broadway, for a report on the passage of Prop 30, KPIX/CBS5 cameraman Gregg Welk and reporter Anne Makovec
