SF News Supervisors to Consider Allowing Even Tinier Micro-Apartments At tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting there's a proposal on the docket to change the city's building code to allow for the tiniest dwelling spaces in the country. The new micro-condos/mini-apartments would
SF News Jury Selection Begins in Trial of Accused Cokey Crime Lab Worker Deborah Madden Poor Deborah Madden, the hard-working 29-year vet of the SFPD's crime lab, is in federal court this week and jury selection just began this morning in her trial for a charge of stealing
SF News Toilet Torcher Returns? Porta Potty Torched in Lake Merced Following on a couple of porta-potty torchings two weeks back in the Richmond, we're getting news today of another incident from last week of another porta-potty torched near Lake Merced. Is the infamous
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Normal Heart' at A.C.T. Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is an idiosyncratic, complicated play. It is, at once, a time capsule of the terrifying early days of the AIDS crisis in New York, an angry letter in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sarah Silverman's Voter Disenfranchisement Screed Sarah Silverman just put out this very funny, fairly NSFW (audio-wise anyway) video railing against Republican efforts at voter suppression across the country. Basically, they're requiring students, the elderly, and many a black
SF News City Target on Target for October 14 Opening Get ready: There's going to be a Target at the new Metreon complex in just a few short weeks. Traffic will, undoubtedly, be all that much more of a nightmare around Fourth and
SF News Indie Cinema The Lumiere Will Close Sunday After 45 Years Lower Nob Hill indie cinema the Lumiere, which has been a movie theater since 1967 and has been under the operation of Landmark Cinemas since 1991, is shutting its doors Sunday after Landmark
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burning Man Has a Kiki Just to prove that Scissor Sisters do, in fact, have crossover appeal with the straights, here's a video shot by some Burners of a bunch of (mostly) heterosexual Burners lip syching to the
SF News Protesters Target Mission Police Station After Officer-Involved Shooting Nearby An armed suspected gang member was shot while fleeing from an undercover police officer last night, and the incident sparked an almost immediate, angry protest, at least 100 strong, outside Mission Police Station.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: One Direction's 'Live While We're Young' We hope it's not too saccharine for your palate cleansing (we don't think so!), but here's the new video from teen pop sensation One Direction, which was released days earlier than expected OMG!
SF News Petition Drive to Preserve the Right to Public Nudity Kicks Off Well, this was inevitable. Following on last week's kerfuffle over the possibility that Supervisor Scott Wiener might propose some legislation banning nudity in certain sectors of the city on days that are not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Greek Festival Comes to the Mission This Weekend In addition to Folsom Street Fair and the hugely popular Eat Real Fest in Oakland this weekend, there is also another fest happening on this side of the Bay that will be chock
SF News Public Toilet in Tenderloin Plays Host to Two Muggings It is a fact well known to San Franciscans that those seemingly attractive, green-painted public toilets on city streets are frightening havens of drug use, drug dealing, and prostitution. Not to mention they're
SF News Supervisors Consider Ban on Overnight RV Parking You know that RV across the street that never seems to go anywhere and out of which occasionally stumbles a disheveled person? Well, Supervisor Carmen Chu wants to do something about that nonsense.
SF News BART Turns 40; Will Hand Out Free Tickets, Ice Cream Once upon a time in September 1972, just as President Nixon was vehemently denying any involvement with the Watergate break-in and Maude was premiering on television, BART was born. The Bay Area Rapid
SF News Glossy Mag Asks: Is the New Tech Boom Destroying the City? The October issue of San Francisco Magazine is out, and the cover story deals with something pretty much everyone has been talking about for the last two years. The headline: "How Much Tech
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Cancels Gay Wedding Dinner, Allegedly Blames Bad Feng Shui Setting aside the sadness of having one's wedding reception catered by an Asian-fusion restaurant, allow us to relay the tale of a gay wedding plan gone bad in New York City after the
SF News Woman Whose Body Was Found Burning in Rockridge Was Apparently Bound and Raped By Boyfriend, Others A witness in the case of the murder of 21-year-old Monica Rodas-Alfaro, whose burning body was found dumped in Rockridge last July, says that three men, including Rodas-Alfaro's boyfriend, bound her hands with
SF News Gold's Gym Becomes Fitness SF Following 2010 Anti-Gay Donations As promised, Gold's Gym this week will become Fitness SF as its contract with the Gold's brand has just run out. Some of you may recall that in 2010, Gold's Gym members (the
SF News Skydiver Killed in Napa A 43-year-old man was killed near Byron Airport on Saturday while skydiving and "attempting a maneuver prior to landing," AFTER pulling his chute. Details are few, but the man was from American Canyon,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Sh*t Girls Say' Is Back Well, we're not sure why late-2011 viral video sensation Shit Girls Say, which spawned a trillion imitators (only a few of which were good, though 'Shit San Franciscans Say' remains pretty quotable), deserves
SF News Occupy Celebrates First Anniversary With Financial District Protests [Schedule] If San Francisco's Occupy enthusiasts take their cues from Occupy Wall Street today in ringing in the first anniversary of the movement, you should be able to expect some traffic disruption, fresh street
SF News City Attorney Dennis Herrera Makes 'Call Me Maybe' Parody Video to Pimp Money Mart Class Action San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has reached a settlement with payday loan giant Money Mart to repay California consumers $7.5 million in money bilked from cash advances and such. This has
SF News Chuck Nevius Weighs In on Castro Nudists, Again What'd we tell you? C.W. Nevius couldn't wait to chime in once more about the nudists in the Castro, this time voicing his full support and commendation for Supervisor Scott Wiener's most
Arts & Entertainment Video: Critical Ass Brings It On, With Spandex We don't really know what this is. Is it performance art? A rag-tag hipster flash-mob? Is it actually a dance class? In any event, it's called Critical Ass, they've made this awesome video,
