SF News 1983 Murder Case Ends In Deadlocked Jury The unsolved murder of Nikolaus Crumbley, a 41-year-old man who was found dead after an apparent gay tryst near McLaren Park in 1983, appeared to be nearing some closure earlier this year with
SF News Designer of Dangerous Octavia Intersection Says Accidents Not His Fault According to a recent report on traffic collisions commissioned by the city, there have been 30 injury crashes at Octavia and Market in the last three years, more than any other intersection in
SF News Ed Lee Says Don't Worry About Weekend Traffic Nightmare You know how everything upon everything is happening this weekend in our fair city? The hordes are coming, but Mayor Ed Lee insisted in a quickie press conference today, "I know there will
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Somebody That I Used to Know' on Antiquated Devices A musical obsessive/genius with a fair amount of time on his hands just put up this version of 2012's inescapable hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye. He's done similar
SF News Video: Crazed Woman Attacks Bicyclists With Road Flare An obviously frustrated and possibly socially conservative female got out of her idling vehicle during Friday night's 20th Anniversary Critical Mass ride, and began stabbing willy-nilly at cyclists with a road flare. She
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Leaving' by the Pet Shop Boys The Pet Shop Boys have a new album, you guys. It's called Elysium, and they're returning to their true, moody, 80s form with the help of L.A.-based producer Andrew Dawson. They
SF News Office of Vallejo Mayor Torched Stuff is crazy up in Vallejo. The somewhat troubled town, known for having quite a lot of prostitutes as well as being one of the first cities in the nation to file for
SF News Roseanne Barr Appears at Marijuana College to Give Presidential Campaign Speech In case you missed it, Roseanne Barr is running for president. She's been nominated as the official candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, Cindy Sheehan is her running mate, and here's her
SF News Big Rave in Oakland Upsets Many Oaklanders A big electronic music fest called Beyond Wonderland happened on Saturday night in the parking lot outside Oracle Arena in Oakland. There were three tents/stages, a ferris wheel, and enough thumping oontz-oontz
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Honey Boo Boo, Auto-Tuned Please don't watch that suicide video. Watch this instead. It's from Jimmy Kimmel last night, and features Honey Boo Boo fighting for equality in her own special way.
Arts & Entertainment Former Guardian Reporter Becomes Character on HBO's 'Treme' Local journalist A.C. Thompson, who recently returned to the Bay Area after spending three years in New York, is the model for a character on the new season of HBO's series Treme,
SF News Schwarzenegger Pimps New Book, Says Maid Affair Was Stupid Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new tell-all memoir to promote, and he'll be on 60 Minutes this Sunday doing just that. The book is called (ahem) Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Future Map of the United States' Speaking of earthquakes, we once knew a dude who claimed to have visions and things, and he had this "Future Map of the United States" hanging in the living room. It's a map
SF News Berkeley Study Says Big Earthquakes Can, In Fact, Trigger Other Earthquakes Elsewhere The 8.6-magnitude earthquake that happened in the middle of the Indian Ocean on April 11 appears to have triggered four more earthquakes in the following days, all over 6.0 in magnitude,
Arts & Entertainment A Look at What $6,500/Month Will Get You In SoMa/South Beach SFGate's On the Block blog is once again flipping their lids over rising rents around town, and they highlight some of the more egregious examples in what we'd call the rip-off department. Take,
SF News IPad Thievery Leads to Car Chase, Big Crash In Hayes Valley Three suspects are in custody and one person was seriously injured after a collision in Hayes Valley that followed a high-speed chase stemming from a mugging in Pacific Heights. The three men, suspects
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Stereo, a 3D Party Featuring Ladytron, Ms. Pac-Man A first-of-its-kind annual shindig is happening this weekend at 550 Barneveld, and it's called Stereo. It's a multi-room, multi-media affair featuring a DJ set from Ladytron, famed Sugar DJ Ellen Ferrato, an 80s
Arts & Entertainment Critical Mass Opens Pop-Up Merch Shop for 20th Anniversary Critical Mass: You either do it and love it, or you hate it and like to comment very virulently about how annoying it is. It's celebratory, it's rag-tag, it's kind of anarchist, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Father Sends Boy's Toy Train to Space We hope this isn't just another viral promotional tool for a video camera (we think not, because there are no brand names mentioned), but here's a stunning, kind of moving little HD video
SF News SFPD Holds Meetings to Discuss Shooting; Wounded Suspect Is Three-Strikes Candidate For those of you still concerned about last week's officer-involved shooting in the Mission and the subsequent protest and vandalism at Mission Police Station and elsewhere, we thought we should update you on
SF News Regarding Last Week's Strange Explosive Incident at Civic Center BART They say it was really nothing. Really. It happens about once a year. But somehow, some sort of "metallic debris" ended up on the BART tracks at Civic Center on September 16 and
SF News Weather Report: A Two-Week Heatwave? Finally, finally, a real spate of Indian summer arrives this week with a warm-up this weekend that should bring some actual beach weather, with temps hitting 80 at the coast on Saturday. And
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 'Vamps' Trailer from Amy Heckerling Thank god for Amy Heckerling. Her new comedy Vamps is due out November 2, and it looks kind of fantastic. It's like True Blood meets Clueless meets Fight Club, or something like that.
SF News Behold the Secret Corporate Shuttle-Stop Map of S.F. We're all well aware of the Google, Facebook, Apple and other shuttles ferrying their workers to and from the Peninsula so that they don't have to suffer the pains of Caltrain shuttles which
SF News USF School Dean Tired of Dealing With Non-English-Speaking Chinese Students Dayle Smith, an associate dean at USF's undergraduate School of Management, has resigned citing his disagreement with the school's aggressive recruitment of Chinese nationals with poor English language skills. Smith believed that the
