Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christopher Walken Does 'Honey Boo Boo' Actually, he reads the part of Honey Boo Boo Child's mom, June Shannon, and Screen Junkies manages to get him to say the words "vajiggle jaggle." Also, Colin Farrel is there and reads
Arts & Entertainment Mitchell Brothers' Daughter Seeks Funding for One-Woman Show Liberty Bradford Mitchell, one of ten kids in the Mitchell Brothers' clan and daughter of Art Mitchell, is a yogi down in L.A. and appears to be leading a happy, stable life
SF News Richard Meier-Designed One Van Ness Moves to Proposal Stage The gorgeous proposed condo tower at the foot of Van Ness Avenue, dubbed One Van Ness, has moved one step forward toward becoming a reality with a more fully fleshed out design proposal.
SF News City Target Softly Opens at the Metreon It's here. The new Target store at Mission and 4th debuted yesterday, following Mayor Lee's ribbon cutting on Tuesday night (in the midst of the Mirkarimi proceedings). It's softly open now, with the
SF News Corte Madera Bans Marijuana Dispensaries, Again Corte Madera is really concerned about the pot clubs! The Corte Madera town council is expected to vote on a new moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries to replace a previous moratorium that was
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: What If Jim Lehrer Were a Badass Moderator? Not so many people watch debates anymore, and we're more likely, as voters, to be influenced by the internet, etc. So maybe some will be fooled into thinking this is how last week's
SF News Muni Bus Hits F-Line Streetcar, Flees Scene? [Update] A Muni bus, possibly a 38, just collided with an F-Line streetcar at the intersection of Kearny and Market Streets, causing damage to the streetcar and a possible derailment. The driver of the
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Stabbed in Neck in Tenderloin In addition to the savage stabbing of that teenager at 21st and Valencia last evening, there was another knife-crime incident in the Tenderloin yesterday afternoon. A 46-year-old man was stabbed in the neck
SF News Sea Lion Entangled in Fishing Net Rescued From Pier 39 [Updated] A crew from the Marine Mammal Center arrived this afternoon at Pier 39 to rescue a sea lion that had become entangled in a fishing net. The sea lion was loaded onto a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Young Woman Elaborates on Why She's Voting for Mitt Romney Meet Trisha Paytas. She describes herself as "a mix between Woody Allen and your local hooker," by which we think she means she fancies herself an intellectual, or maybe just a nebbishy hypochondriac,
SF News Alleged Black Bloc Members Identified By SFPD After Saturday Protests The SFPD has released the names and mugshots of twenty people who they claim are members of the loosely organized Black Bloc anarchist collective. The protesters were arrested Saturday following an "anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist"
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Might Lose His Job Today, Or Not The fate of suspended sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will likely be finalized today after the Board of Supervisors meets to discuss the Ethics Commission recommendation that he be permanently removed from office. As discussed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: Big Bird, in Breakfast Cereal Last week's debate meme with Big Bird has already become this week's high art as San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier produces this fine mosaic portrait of the puppet using all sugary cereal. Mecier,
SF News Obama Arrives in California, Dedicates Cesar Chavez Home a National Monument Today President Obama lands in California for a couple of fundraisers up here in SF, and he's currently attending a ceremony in Keene, California at the onetime home of labor and civil rights
SF News BART Breaks Ridership Record! Over this past weekend when absolutely everything was happening all at once in San Francisco, it's no surprise that ridership on BART broke an all-time record. 319,484 people rode BART on Saturday,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mumford & Sons' 'I Will Wait' In honor of the fact that British folk rockers Mumford & Sons just became the first band since the Beatles to have so many concurrent Hot 100 singles at one time (they have
SF News Manson Family Member Bruce Davis Gets Recommended for Parole for Second Time One of the perhaps less vicious but inarguably still guilty members of the Manson Family, Bruce Davis, was just recommended for parole on the eve of his 70th birthday. Davis has been serving
Arts & Entertainment Pearl Jam Reluctantly Jams for Oracle World, And Someone Recorded It Pearl Jam, for obvious reasons, didn't publicize the concert they just did on Treasure Island Wednesday night for Oracle World. But they had a private audience of some 50,000 people, and Eddie
SF News Justice Scalia Says Bans On Abortion, Sodomy Are 'Absolutely Easy' At a speaking engagement at Washington’s American Enterprise Institute this week, Justice Antonin Scalia was just being himself as he made several off-hand remarks about how easy it would be, constitutionally, to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A History of the World in 2 Minutes This video, created by a young genius named Joe Bush for a high-school video production class, gives you a quick overview of life on earth from the dawn of time until the not
SF News Police Seek Help Finding Suspect in June Murder Outside Double Dutch On June 8, S.F.'s 29th homicide victim was brutally beaten and shot in the head outside Double Dutch on 16th Street. His name was Lorenzo Jimenez, he lived in Sacramento, and
SF News Murder Case of Oikos University Shooter Suspended on Mental Grounds One Goh, the lone suspect in the mass shooting at Oakland's Oikos University in April, may not be mentally fit to stand trial, says his attorney, and now the case has been suspended
SF News Veteran Arrested for Shooting Two Neighbors In Vallejo There's a curious case of a double homicide yesterday evening in Vallejo, just as the presidential debate was kicking off, in which a 65-year-old Vietnam vet shot his two male neighbors, with whom
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cartoon Network Celebrates 20th Birthday Yay! The stoners of America have kept the Cartoon Network monstrously successful (no pun intended) since its inception in 1992, and this week the network celebrates is 20th anniversary with this fun and
SF News Rush Limbaugh Thinks Whiny San Franciscans Should Shut Up and Enjoy Their Gentrification Well then. That SF Mag piece by Salon's David Talbot about whether the new tech boom is ruining the character of SF somehow caught the attention of Rush Limbaugh. It seems Rush really
