SF News How Will Traffic Suck in S.F. This Year? Let Us Count the Ways Despite one pending lawsuit and one already filed, construction of the Central Subway begins next week, and that is going to entail the partial closure of Columbus Avenue near Washington Square Park. That's
Arts & Entertainment 'The Lost Boys' Celebrates 25 Years Of Cool Vampires and Dim-Witted Mothers You know The Lost Boys was shot partly in Santa Cruz, right? And the fictional town of Santa Carla, with that beach boardwalk and those sexy teenage vampires? Yep, Santa Cruz, except with
Arts & Entertainment Twitter, Instagram Severely Frowned Upon While Jack White Is On Stage at Outside Lands It's hard out there for a rock star. Especially he who longs for the glories of yesteryear, when he could stand on stage, strumming through his 70s-influenced songbook and see nothing before him
SF News Two Sex Workers Robbed On Capp Two ladies of the evening were minding their own business, trying to make a buck Saturday night at the corner of 20th and Capp, when they were robbed of their cellphones and purses.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Sells Out Let the scalping begin! For the first time in its five years, Outside Lands has completely sold out of all ticket options, including all single-day tickets, as of this morning. In previous years,
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep Announces Return of Britain's Kneehigh Troupe, Hints at Upcoming Partnership Britain's Kneehigh Theatre Company, which has brought a couple of notable and pretty fantastic shows to the Bay Area in the last three years, will be bringing back their hit The Wild Bride
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Falls Off Billionaire Top Ten List As Facebook's share price took another tumble last week, Mark Zuckerberg got knocked off a list of the world's ten richest techie billionaires. He temporarily lost $423 million of his personal, on-paper fortune
SF News The Mirkarimi Saga May Not End Until October We're sorry to inform you, ladies and gentlemen, that suspended sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will still be making headlines well into the fall. Also, in the latest news surrounding his Ethics Commission hearing, the
SF News Hooker Put Up in Expensive Hotel By City to Testify Against Pimp Who Got Acquitted An admitted prostitute was put up in a San Francisco hotel, at taxpayers' expense to the tune of $2,000, while testifying against one Anthony Dorton, 23. Dorton, a laid off cable installer,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Single Ladies' as Sung by Olympic Diver Matthew Mitcham Openly gay Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham, who hails from Australia, just uploaded this charming cover of "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" in which he proves that he's not only a great
SF News Bay Area 19-Year-Old Kristian Ipsen Scores Bronze in Synchronized Diving If you've been keeping up with the Americans' medal count thus far at the Olympics, you may have seen a pair of handsome American men who took home bronze medals the other night
Arts & Entertainment Oaklander Laments, Celebrates, The Age-Old 'Oakland Diss' Today over on Oakland North we have a little op-ed regarding The Oakland Diss. It's that thing where everyone who's never lived in Oakland or never set foot in Oakland immediately reacts to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Boys' (a 'Girls' Parody) There have been various parodies of the popular (and really quite well written) HBO series Girls, which concluded its first season in June. Now, from some clever blokes in L.A., we have
SF News Another Gas Leak In San Bruno; This Time, a Contractor's Fault Just yards from where the high-pressure gas pipe sprung a leak and caused a massive fireball in San Bruno in 2010, a private contractor busted open another gas pipe yesterday, letting loose some
SF News On Anniversary of Chauncey Bailey Murder, Yusuf Bey Abuse Victim Steps Forward Today marks the fifth anniversary of the murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey at the hands of members of the Your Black Muslim Bakery cult. It's also been a year since Yusuf Bey
SF News Jane Kim: Bed Bug Warrior District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim is launching a new offensive against bed bugs, which have now become a citywide epidemic. She's introduced an ordinance that will codify several recommendations made by a working
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Air Hostess Here's a little bit of 60s lounge to ease you into the afternoon, along with some footage of 1960s stewardesses, and vintage poster art for various airlines from the era, including Iran Air
SF News New Gang War in S.F.?: Two More Men Shot Tuesday Night [Updated] Following Monday's double-homicide of two alleged Towerside gang members in Visitacion Valley, another man was killed and one other injured Tuesday night nearby in the Portola district, on the 3000 block of San
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. to Host Benefit Reading of Dustin Lance Black's Prop 8 Play '8' This fall, A.C.T. will be hosting the Bay Area premiere of Dustin Lance Black's play based on the 2010 Prop 8 trial in federal district court in San Francisco. The event
SF News Oakland Police Deface Photo of Mayor Jean Quan as Department Faces Possible Federal Takeover The Oakland Police Department is in some serious hot water as it faces a possible takeover by the federal government. Meanwhile, a federal monitor has just issued a quarterly report that details the
SF News San Francisco Olympic Fencer Freaks Out When He Loses to a Russian One of the Bay Area's 70 some-odd Olympic hopefuls is out of the running, and he threw a bit of a fit as he was losing. San Francisco-born Alexander Massialas, 18, lost a
SF News Mother of Kenneth Harding Sues SFPD Over Son Accidentally Shooting Himself Denika Chatman, the mother of parolee Kenneth Harding who died during a chase with San Francisco police last year in which he accidentally shot himself in the neck while apparently attempting to shoot
Arts & Entertainment Kink.com Armory Featured in Fashion Shoots, New James Franco Movie Have you been inside the Armory? Chances are your friend has. We have. It's pretty cool, but also not for the faint of heart. For instance, there are machines that perform sexual acts
SF News 9th Circuit Delays Plans to Hear DOMA Case, May Defer to Supreme Court In a brief order issued today, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided not to hear a case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act as planned in September. The decision to delay hearing
SF News Facebook Earnings Not Impressive, Say Investors While Facebook continues to grow at a modest rate, Wall Street types were dismayed by the unimpressive rate of that growth in a new earnings report, sending the stock price tumbling yet again.
