SF News One Half Of Gay Couple Shot and Killed By Vallejo Police During Alleged Bath Salts Incident Police were called to the 2500 block of Alameda Drive in Vallejo early Sunday after reports from neighbors of two naked men walking down the middle of the street and breaking car windows.
SF News Man Shot, Killed Near 16th and Valencia A 22-year-old man was shot in the upper torso while walking either on Caledonia Street or 15th Street early Saturday morning at around 2:45 a.m. He seems to have run to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Parade of Conservative Paradoxes Here's a little moment in which we preach to the choir. That's you, San Francisco, and we even mean those of you who might call yourselves conservative but you aren't really because, well,
SF News Mid-Market Redevelopment Plows On As Trinity Plaza Marks Halfway Point The second of four apartment towers in the massive Trinity Place complex was "topped off" this week, marking a major milestone in one of the key projects in that redevelopment of mid-Market you've
SF News SFPD Arrest 44 People in Tenderloin Sweep In a move that will hopefully quiet critics who say that cops ignore the crime-ridden Tenderloin, the SFPD along with the Sheriff's Department and California State Parole Agents conducted a five-hour sweep of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'An Iliad' at Berkeley Rep Homer's Iliad is not the sort of story you expect to find performed on an intimate stage, with no costumes, let alone by a single man. But how can one tell the legend
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Onion Talks (a Parody of TED Talks) If you're like us, you're pretty fed-up with all the optimism, pomposity, and theoretical jibbajabba that derive from the "brain spa" that is the TED Conference, which now happens three times a year
SF News Woman Choked and Robbed of Cell Phone Near City College A 19-year-old woman was grabbed from behind by a suspect who put his arm around her neck, stole her cell phone, and shoved her to the ground before running off yesterday morning. This
SF News Big Meteor Brightens Skies Over East Bay, Goes Boom Near Martinez A lot of people in the East Bay saw a big, bright ball of light streak across the sky last night, and it appears to have been a big chunk of meteor. This
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ice Jumper We know this is totally weather-inappropriate, but check it out! It might make you feel a little cooler. A German guy attempts to cannonball into a semi-frozen pool in the dead of German
Arts & Entertainment Today in History: Loma Prieta Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, which occurred during the World Series between the Giants and the Oakland A's, October 17, 1989. Thousands were injured in the 6.9
SF News Fell and Oak Streets to Become Less Deadly for Bicyclists At yesterday's SFMTA Board meeting, a proposed Fell and Oak Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Project was unanimously approved. This means that the two parallel throughways, upon which thousands of cars careen everyday to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Birthday to Sugar Pie DeSanto Today's the 77th birthday of Bay Area soul singer Sugar Pie DeSanto. She was born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton in Brooklyn but grew up in San Francisco, and was a girlhood friend of Etta
SF News West Portal Doctor, Whose Office Burned Last Week, Seeks New Lincecum Jersey Dr. Fred Warren, an SF orthodontist whose West Portal office burned in that big, four-alarm blaze Friday morning which also claimed a Squat & Gobble and a ground-floor wine shop, is mostly just
SF News Girl Gang Terrorizes Union Square Store An APB is going out about a gang of seven young women who stormed a boutique on Maiden Lane last Friday and brazenly began shoving big-ticket items into empty shopping bags. This all
SF News Hide Your Kids: 'Evil Elmo' Descends On San Francisco A man known for dressing up in an Elmo costume and harassing tourists in Times Square with anti-Semitic rants has apparently decamped to San Francisco for the week, where he's doing the same
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Buys Pied a Terre in S.F.'s Hipster 'Hood There have been plenty of Mark Zuckerberg sightings around S.F.'s Mission District this year, in Dolores Park and elsewhere. Well, it seems he wasn't just couch surfing: Buzzfeed confirms that the
SF News City of Oakland Sues Federal Government on Behalf of Pot Club The City of Oakland has officially joined the fight to preserve medical marijuana in Northern California. Last week they filed suit against the federal government on behalf of Harborside Health Center, the largest
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: 'Death Becomes Her' With Drag At The Castro Local legend and midnight-movie enthusiast Peaches Christ is doing a first-ever screening of the modern classic Death Becomes Her Saturday night at the Castro Theatre, and it will, like all of Peaches' events,
Arts & Entertainment Totally Rad Big BMX And Skateboarding Show This Thursday If you were hopping on or off a shuttle to the Treasure Island Music Fest this weekend, or if you were otherwise wandering around Civic Center, you may have noticed a heavy amount
SF News Man Tries to Walk to Oakland Through the Transbay Tube, Prompts BART Shutdown A man was captured on BART surveillance cameras Sunday evening around 6:45 p.m. hopping down into the tracks at Embarcadero Station and walking into the Transbay Tube. This caused BART service
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'The Fifth Element': Live! at the Darkroom Theater Well, this is fun. The kooky kids at the Darkroom Theater (2263 Mission Street) who brought you the staged reenactment of The Princess Bride over the summer are now doing a rendition of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Sexy' Halloween Costumes That Are Just Wrong What's that? You're a female/gay male/metrosexual who likes to show off his body and you're not sure what to be for Halloween this year? Allow us to advise you to please,
SF News Missing Redwood City Man Found Dead Along 280 54-year-old Christopher Ryan, a retired English teacher at James Logan High School in Union City, was found dead Thursday afternoon in unincoporated San Mateo County, south of Belmont along Highway 280. The cause
SF News Central Subway Secures Federal Funding; Park Property Lawsuit Moves Forward The federal Department of Transportation yesterday issued their Full Funding Grant Agreement to Muni's Central Subway project, which means they can breathe a sigh of relief having secured $942 million in federal money.
