SF News They're Having Trouble Washing Anti-Yuppie Graffiti Away at 299 Valencia Remember how those scrappy, and some might say misguided anarchists went about defacing the lobby windows and sidewalk outside the new condo complex 299 Valencia with phrases like "Fuck Off Yuppies"? Well, the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Best Word Ever Is Diphthong Some nerds got together, via the blog Questionable Skills, and just went through the dictionary and created a sports-style bracket for every letter of the alphabet, trying to determine the best words in
SF News As in S.F., Homeless Camp Cleanup in San Jose Kind of Useless A cleanup effort that cost the city of San Jose $700,000 has not succeeded in keeping several homeless encampments from springing back up pretty much where they were pre-cleanup, as the Mercury
SF News Occupy Anniversary Just Might Ruin Your Monday Commute Monday marks the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and yesterday Occupy SF announced a Financial District protest beginning at 5 p.m. on Monday, which is sure to disrupt something, but how
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 'Rupaul's Drag Race All-Stars' Trailer Get More: Watch RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race Full Episodes, Logo TV Speaking of drag, the very first all-stars season of Rupaul's Drag Race kicks off October 22 on Logo, and the trailer
Arts & Entertainment SomeThing Does Some 'Chorus Line' Drag Friday; Faux Queen Pageant Happens Sunday at DNA As an aid to San Francisco's thriving, though sometimes not so well publicized drag scene, we may have to start bringing you weekly highlights of drag queen (and king) events you should check
SF News Mirkarimi Supporters Circulate Talking Points as Legal Team Appeals to Delay Supervisors' Vote It's time for your requisite Ross Mirkarimi update for the week: The embattled sheriff, who has been suspended without pay since this past winter and who faces the permanent loss of the job
SF News UC Berkeley Fraternity Mourns Loss of Alum, Ambassador Chris Stevens Members of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at UC Berkeley held a candlelight vigil last night in honor of slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed Tuesday in
Arts & Entertainment Marina Bar Hosts 90s Night 'Every F***ing Thursday' We don't generally help promote your average bar nights, however we thought this flyer/tagline was a little better than average. The HiFi Lounge in the Marina (2125 Lombard Street) is doing a
Arts & Entertainment 'Book of Mormon' Pre-Sale Ends; Tickets Go on Sale September 21 Attention musical theater fans, South Park fans and showmos: Book of Mormon tickets are finally, officially going on sale next week, September 21. The American Express cardholder pre-sale is now sold out and
Arts & Entertainment Regarding the Secret Plot of the S.F.-Based Woody Allen Movie You may have caught wind of the fact that Woody Allen was in San Francisco this summer filming his newest, untitled project. Well, SF Mag has it on good authority that the super-secret
SF News Man Who Kidnapped Kids on Yacht Admits He Was Crazy Christopher Maffei, the handsome gentleman who absconded with his two small children last week in a stolen yacht and started sailing down the California coast, has spoken out from prison via the Chronicle.
SF News SF Dad Argues That Pot Makes Him a Better Parent We've been remiss in not checking the mommy blogs, but just over the weekend there was an Op-Ed in the NYT that's causing a stir from art dealer and San Francisco dad Mark
SF News This Is Why You Should Live In Dogpatch/Mission/Potrero A lovely new satellite image from NASA illustrates what San Francisco's infamous marine layer looks like from above on an average summer day. Once and for all, this is why the Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Virgo Song by Harvey Sid Fisher Please excuse us if you're a blog-consuming vet and you saw the wonders of Harvey Sid Fisher and his astrology songs years ago. We did too. Don't scoff. But for those just joining
SF News Not Cool: Ganja Treat Man Arrested in Dolores Park! It's been three months since we sounded the alarm bells about SFPD's totally asinine crackdown on pot edibles and cold beer in Dolores Park. Now that it's finally sunny again, it seems the
SF News Update On Charlie, the 18-Month-Old Dog Who Was Sentenced to Die We told you two weeks ago about Charlie, the American Staffordshire terrier who chased and attacked a U.S. Park Police horse in Crissy Field on August 6, and has since been ordered
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco From a Plane ca. 1941 Check out this recently surfaced color film, a home movie from the Prelinger Archive, shot from a United Airlines plane circling and landing at SFO in 1941. It has some lovely shots of
SF News Foreigners Scooping Up Lots of Bay Area Real Estate You know who's grabbing a lot of deals as housing prices remain sluggish around the Bay Area? Canadians. Also, British folks, the French, and some Chinese, Australians, and Germans too. As the dollar
SF News Day Around the Bay: Touring the Tenderloin's Better Drug-Sellers Take a fascinating trip through the Tenderloin via straight-shooting tour guide Deleano Seymour, who will be sure to tell you where you can buy the best in stolen goods, heroin, and prescription drugs.
SF News The New Bay Bridge Eastern Span! It's Kind of Almost Done! We're actually, miraculously, finally nearing the end of the construction of the new, earthquake-safe, eastern span of the Bay Bridge, and CalTrans is starting to talk about how long they'll need to close
Arts & Entertainment CalShakes Closes Out Season With 'Hamlet' A week from Wednesday will mark the opening of Hamlet, the fourth and final production in the season for the California Shakespeare Theater. It promises to be an inventive production of Shakespeare's seminal
SF News Castro Nudists Draw More Controversy Over Cock Rings The band of birthday-suited dudes who enjoy strutting the plaza at 17th and Castro and taking pictures with tourists has come under some fire recently from what they're referring to as "cock ring
SF News It's Going to Be a 'Weak' El Niño Year, But That May Mean Nothing Here we go again: Meterologists are predicting a "weak" El Niño this winter, for whatever that's worth. The National Weather Service is saying the area of the Pacific closest to the equator rose
SF News Grindr Gets Political With 'Grindr For Equality' Launch Grindr, the popular sex-radar app that every gay friend of yours has used at least once and is probably logged into as we speak, is going to use its vast reach across the
