SF News City Clears Out Huge Homeless Encampment at Fifth and King An army of city workers from various agencies descended on San Francisco's biggest street camp yesterday morning and cleared out about 50 people and their various belongings, carts, trailers, and a community garden
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Cloud Atlas,' the Extended Trailer This movie looks amazing, you guys. We are actually in the middle of this very acclaimed, rather difficult book, Cloud Atlas, published in 2004 by David Mitchell, and therefore we can barely stand
SF News Big Tall Building Planned at Third and Mission Scares John King, Others A strikingly tall tower proposed for 706 Mission Street (at Third), which is currently undergoing Planning review, doesn't seem to sit well with architecture critic John King. He mostly seems bothered by the
SF News Gay Couple Sues Airline Over Dildo Shaming A gay couple is suing Continental Airlines (now part of United) over a May 2011 incident in which a certain private item was removed from their luggage and put on display for everyone
SF News 18-Month-Old Dog That Attacked Police Horse To Be Killed Charlie, an 18-month-old Staffordshire terrier that allegedly attacked and spooked a US Park Police horse in Crissy Field on August 6, has been sentenced to death by Animal Care and Control's Vicious and
SF News Drunk Livermore Man Severs Foot in DUI-Related Accident A rather inebriated man, who was apparently trying to park his car at or remove his car from a storage facility in Livermore last Wednesday, accidentally severed his left foot at the ankle
SF News SFMOMA Expansion Architect Snohetta Selected for Warriors Stadium If they can do a nice museum, they must be able to do a good sports arena, right? Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta, the innovative folks who were chosen by the SFMOMA board to
SF News Introducing the E Line, Which Is Just the F for America's Cup Tourists Over the weekend the SFMTA tested out the E line in the first of two pilot runs. What is this E line, you ask? It's just the F, but rerouted so that it
SF News That Muni/BART Entrance at the Apple Store Will Be Closed for Six Years The Stockton and Ellis entrance/exit from BART and Muni, with the escalator that dumped you off right by the door of the Apple Store, is closing today due to the construction of
Arts & Entertainment Mission to Go Mad for LCD Soundsystem Concert Flick This Weekend Back in January we told you about the new concert documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits which follows LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy in the days surrounding the band's final show at Madison
SF News Samurai Sword Killer Was Pals With Quarry Shooter We told you the grim tale last week about the homeless woman, dubbed by neighbors as The Screaming Lady, who was fatally stabbed and had her throat slashed with a samurai sword outside
SF News Artists Use Salvaged Solyndra Stuff in Artwork, Cause Right-Wing Media to Go Ballistic Everyone knows conservatives hate art. They especially hate contemporary art that was funded by any source other than one's parents' old money, especially if that source is the NEA. Well, a couple of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bulldog Puppy Whines, Growls, Pains Us With Adorableness Bentley the bulldog puppy just wants some attention, or a nap, and he's feeling fussy and unhappy as his owner heartlessly takes this video of him. His cuteness is almost painful. The end.
SF News Bold Italic Tries to Rename La Lengua 'Bernal Flats' As we all know, some neighborhoods have names that are still up for debate in popular parlanceif we had a dime for every time some friend (or commenter) whined about the uselessness
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Gets Throat Slashed on Sixth Street Never a dull moment on Sixth Street as police are looking for a 50-year-old male suspect in a throat slashing last night. It happened around 12:50 a.m. near Sixth and Mission,
Arts & Entertainment Nobody's Watching the America's Cup Preliminary Regatta Have the preliminary, World Series races for the America's Cup been overhyped? Do yachting enthusiasts really give a rat's ascot about them? It appears the answers to those question are yes, and not
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Origin of Homer Simpson's 'D'oh!' Fascinating! Did you know that Dan Castellaneta's signature exclamation in the voice of Homer Simpson was derived from Laurel and Hardy? Listen and learn. [via WOW]
SF News Fiona Ma Does Not Care For Carpool Lanes State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, who represents the Richmond, Sunset, parts of southern S.F. and Daly City, is tired of seeing an empty carpool lane on her morning commute up I-80 from S.
SF News Some Missionites Still Unhappy That Mission Has Gentrified [Updated] We're well into the second (some might say third) decade of gentrification in the Mission, but nevertheless there are still some residents in the vicinity who would like things to be more like
Arts & Entertainment This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 11 Today we're reviving this feature, after a year's hiatus, in which we ask those of you ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner C.W.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Gay iPhone Ad for the Castro This guy made a little spoof of the iPhone 4S/Siri ads, featuring stuff in the Castro. And it's mildly amusing. In case you didn't know, Hand Job is actually a nail salon
SF News Weather Report: Fogust We can't stop listening to The Cure and Beirut. We actually turned the heat on this morning and have been craving hot cocoa. Yes, San Francisco, August has gotten ridiculous once again. And
SF News Hibernia Bank Building Might Finally Become Something Next Year This morning's dispatch from the Tenderloin by Chuck Nevius because he is ever interested in how to gentrify our city's crackiest blocks brings news that there has been a little recent movement with
SF News Steve Jobs House Burglar Is Sorry, Says He Was Desperate Suspected burglar Kariem McFarlin, the 35-year-old former San Jose State football player who was nabbed for burglarizing the under-construction home of the late Steve Jobs, has told authorities that he wants to write
SF News Man Arrested In Apartment Shooting of Emeryville Woman 19-year-old DeAngelo Eagleton was arrested last week in Chico on an Emeryville Police warrant for the June 4th shooting death of 18 year-old Taranda Monique Jones. Jones was shot inside her home on
