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.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kitty Batman and Kitty Superman You know what's hilarious and wonderful about this video? Everything. Nothing much happens, and these two cats, Cooper and Pancake, do very little to fight crime or save humanity. But they do sport
SF News Details Emerge in Assault Case Involving Sheriff's Deputy Vincent Calvarese Gay sheriff's deputy Vincent Calvarese appeared in court this morning to face charges of domestic violence, assault, and false imprisonment relating to an arrest last Thursday. He pleaded not guilty. Calvarese, 48, is
SF News Los Angeles Outlaws Pot Dispensaries, May Not Be Able to Enforce Ban The L.A. City Council just voted 14-0 to ban marijuana dispensaries in the city, and it's a move that may or may not mean anything for the 900 or so dispensaries that
Arts & Entertainment Theater Preview: 'Humor Abuse' Returns for Second Run at A.C.T. Back by popular demand, the one-man show Humor Abuse by writer/performer Lorenzo Pisoni is re-opening next week at A.C.T. for another two-week run. The show got a rave from Hurwitt
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Artist David Shrigley Draws an Elephant English artist David Shrigley is known best for crude, child-like drawings used to illustrate and comment on the absurdities of life. He's got a new exhibition on at the Yerba Buena Center for
SF News Feds Tell Cargo Ships to Slow Down Nearing Bay to Avoid Hitting Whales Whales have been showing up in droves just off the Northern California coast this year, and it's now prompted federal officials to issue an advisory to all shipping vessels to slow down to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Boy George Covers Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games' Here, ladies and gentlemen, is a brand new video from a scratchy-voiced Boy George featuring a bleaker, Britishy version of Lana Del Rey's hit "Video Games." The video features Angel Rose and Cesar
SF News Dramatic Standoff In East Oakland Ends With One Man Arrested, Another Still At Large Oakland Police were engaged in a dramatic shootout in East Oakland Saturday night in which an attempted traffic stop turned chaotic and near deadly. Cops were trying to pull over a van (allegedly
SF News SFMTA Gets Federal Grant for 18 New Buses The SFMTA just got a $21 million federal grant, most of which they'll be putting toward the purchase of eighteen 40-foot biodiesel-electric hybrid buses to replace a fleet of 20-year-old buses that are
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Swedish Band Sorts 65,000 LEGOs in 3 Minutes Swedish band Rymdreglage made a YouTube-popular, LEGO-based animated video in 2009 for their song "8-Bit Trip," which was a tribute to early 80s video games. That video has racked up over 12 million
SF News Video: Inside San Francisco's Last Remaining Old-School Blacksmith Shop Driving around SoMa you've likely noticed the tiny shingled building, now dwarfed on all sides by condo towers and other modern structures, with the sign that says Klockars’ Blacksmith & Metal at 443
Arts & Entertainment 'One-Man Star Wars' Guy Returns to San Jose With 'One-Man Lord of the Rings' Canadian performer Charles Ross, who delighted the geeks of geekdome down in Silicon Valley last year with his One-Man Star Wars, returns to San Jose Rep to do his other show, a one-man
SF News Two Juveniles Shot Over the Weekend, One in Fillmore, One in Bayview On Saturday afternoon a boy whose age has still not been released was shot on the 1500 block of Eddy Street. Early reports said that he was being pursued by another juvenile who
SF News 22-Year-Old Man Murdered in Bayview Housing Project Friday The 22-year-old victim of a fatal shooting Friday night in the Alice Griffith public-housing complex has been identified as Henry Tautolo of San Francisco. He was shot multiple times in the torso. The
Arts & Entertainment Judy Blume Coming to the Castro Theatre Sunday! Perhaps the most important young-adult author of the twentieth century, Judy Blume, is coming to the Castro Theater on Sunday to take part in a screening of a new film by her son,
SF News Sonoma Gun Enthusiast Accidentally Shoots Himself in the Chest Here's some more tragic gun-death news for you today. A Sonoma man who had just been skeet shooting at a Sonoma rifle range accidentally shot himself in the chest while reaching for a
SF News Elderly Man Critically Injured During North Beach Fight A 64-year-old man sustained critical injuries when he was pushed to the ground during an argument in North Beach last night. The incident happened at 11:40 p.m. when a man in
Arts & Entertainment In Response to Colorado Tragedy, Local Paper Interviews 'Dark Knight' Fans In a move we'd associate more with local TV news than with a print publication, the San Jose Mercury-News sent a couple of cub reporters to interview people standing in line this morning
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Music Video Featuring S.F., Bare Asses [NSFW] The video for the pop tune "Human Condition" by local band Nova Albion features a couple of attractive twentysomethings, a girl and a guy, walking naked through various parts of town besides but
SF News Oakland Man Pleads Guilty to Double Murder of Mother and Infant Some of you may recall the gruesome discoveries of the bodies of 23-year-old Zoelina Toney of West Oakland and her 17-month-old son Jashon Williams back in November 2009, both of whom were found
SF News DreamWorks Opens Massive New Redwood City Campus DreamWorks Animation, the digital animation studio co-founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen and based in Glendale, has about 600 employees in the Bay Area. For a while now they've spread
SF News Eliana Lopez A 'Bundle of Character' On Witness Stand In the end, the Venezuelan telenovela actress who remains married to suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi did fly back to San Francisco to be a witness in his Ethics Commission hearing on Wednesday. Did
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mr. Wizard Was a D*ck Every later-born Gen Xer out there should remember Mr. Wizard's World, the Nickelodeon show featuring a sometimes curt and grumpy Don Herbert teaching cute kids about the wonders of science. Herbert actually did
SF News Is the War on Fun Winding Down? The unoffical War on Fun, in which the city and the SFPD excessively try to crack down on street-fair drinking and curtail all nightlife, might be finally waning. Or at least that's what
