SF News One of Six Accused Richmond High School Rapists Pleads Guilty The accused men involved in the gang-rape of a teenage girl in October 2009 during a Richmond High School homecoming dance remain behind bars awaiting trial, but one of the six just copped
SF News Man and Woman Shot, Killed Inside Vallejo Home While Toddler Slept A 28-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man were shot by two assailants inside their home on the 1000 block of Atherton Street in Vallejo last night. The incident happened around 9:18 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'War Horse' at the Curran Theater Broadway comes to San Francisco just a handful of times a year, and one of the biggest hits from the 2011 season in New York was War Horse, an import from London based
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bear Pit BBQ Touting themselves as "the best BBQ this side of the San Fernando Valley," The Bear Pit recently made this little advertisement for themselves, complete with a rapping lady and the phrase, "If you
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Molly Ringwald Reads Molly Ringwald has, lately, become a novelist. She's written a spare collection of interrelated stories a "novel in stories" on the subject of marriage, friends, and betrayal called When It Happens to You,
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie, Balboa Theatre Lead Nationwide Trend in Small Cinemas Turning Not-for-Profit Every couple of years some new alarmist story appears about the Castro Theatre closing down, and each time it gets debunked. But the panic comes from the nationwide death knell for small, single-screen,
SF News San Jose Hit-Run Suspect Gets Trapped Between Buildings While Fleeing Cops, Has to Be Rescued A bumbling suspected criminal in San Jose didn't quite make the daring escape from authorities that he hoped last night after allegedly committing a felony hit-and-run. The 32-year-old suspect became the victim of
SF News Fake Married Couple in Super PAC Ad Mildly Disturbed By Gay Marriage Super PACs may have the funds to produce campaign ads about whatever they see fit, but there's no accounting for taste! Or art direction! Check out this hilariously mild, gauzy, and poorly acted
SF News More On Those Pink Mustache Cars, And Why They're Good Just a few days ago some friends were remarking on the uptick of cars around town with pink mustaches on them. Was this some sort of baseball reference they did not understand? A
SF News 21-Year-Old Shot and Gravely Wounded in Tenderloin Around 1 a.m. this morning a man was shot on the 200 block of Leavenworth Street, near the infamous heroin-selling deli. He was described as being in life-threatening condition upon being taken
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Little Fanny Fart-Fart Maybe this will be less cleansing than grossly amusing, but anyway, here's a Korean babydoll that farts, loudly, and appears to poop little smiley-faced turds, flushing toilet included. Unlike Baby Wee-Wee and other
SF News 18-Year-Old Running for Mayor of Fremont, California It's a wide open race for mayor in Fremont, and an 18-year-old college freshman is hoping to take the head office of his hometown. Aziz Akbari says that "Over the last 8 years
SF News Eighth Grader in South S.F. Arrested for Having a Handgun in School Police were called to an undisclosed school in South San Francisco Tuesday afternoon on a report of a 14-year-old with a handgun and ammunition in a classroom. They arrived just before 1 p.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Academic Tim Gunn Today we have an amusing little slideshow for you to cleanse that internet palate with this afternoon. It's a Tumblr thingy, actually, called Academic Tim Gunn. They take images of the great Project
Arts & Entertainment Regarding Michael Chabon's New Oakland-Set Novel, <em>Telegraph Avenue</em> We haven't yet had the time to read it ourselves, but the reviews are coming in for Michael Chabon's new novel Telegraph Avenue, which is set in 2004 in Oakland but which reaches
SF News Motorcyclist Killed in Golden Gate Park; Another Motorcyclist Ejected Off 101 in Marin A motorcyclist, described only as a man in his 30s, was killed Saturday night around 9:40 p.m. when his motorcycle crashed into a light pole at Kezar and Martin Luther King
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Clint Eastwood Talking to a Chair (the Song) It took the internet all of about eighteen hours to cough up this little ditty, in which one verse has Clint Eastwood "talking to a pterodactyl" and also "talkin' to a bucket a
SF News Will Incumbent Supervisors Be Punished In the Election For How They Vote on Mirkarimi? Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, as you should know by now, remains suspended pending a decision by the Board of Supervisors as to whether his admitted "false imprisonment" and presumed abuse of his wife rises
SF News Bevan Dufty Still Wants a 'Wet House' in S.F. Where Homeless Drunks Can Drink In Peace Back in 2010 we first heard about the push to open a 'wet house' in San Francisco, modeled on a similar one in Seattle, in which homeless, chronic drunks can live in peace
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Chinglish' at Berkeley Rep Are you an American? Do you speak a foreign language with any fluency? Of course not. This assumption forms one of the core jokes in David Henry Hwang's new play Chinglish, which comes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mission: Brooklyn Meets Facebook, With Good Burritos A former Portlander who's spent four years in San Francisco pens a Mission restaurant roundup for Oregon Live that's mostly focused on the new and hip spots that have opened in the last
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Sucker-Stabbing, Two Armed Robberies in the Mission Sometime around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning a young drummer in town from New York was sucker-stabbed by a crazy dude wielding a large switchblade at 16th and Mission. The guy was just
SF News High-Speed Chase From Vallejo to Oakland Ends in Crash, Two Arrests A car containing a burglary suspect or suspects took off at high speeds this afternoon on I-780 in Vallejo, ultimately crashing near Oakland's Rockridge district on Highway 24, and causing an elementary school
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drawer and Mouse and Maru It's the return of Maru! The Japanese cat who loves boxes! Yay! In today's episode, Maru's owner covers a toy mouse in catnip, puts the mouse in a Container Store plastic drawer, and
SF News Frank Ogawa Plaza Finally Getting New, Post-Occupy Grass Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza which Occupy folk liked to refer to as Oscar Grant Plaza for reasons that only sort of make sense is finally getting restored after looking brown and patchy for
