Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Falling' by Digitalism You may not be a fan of German electro-house music in general, or Digitalism in specific, but you will probably enjoy this video, with its early-80s-esque computer graphics, and early-80s-esque shots of children
SF News Grandmother Dies After San Bruno House Fire Kills Grandson A second victim has died following Friday's fire inside a home on Lake Drive in San Bruno. Lila Prasad, the 62-year-old grandmother who was found in a back bedroom suffering from smoke inhalation
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Goes On the Road, Won't Reopen Until Late Next Year Ever since being evicted after New Year's Eve from their semi-permanent spot on Pier 29 to make way for the America's Cup, dinner circus Teatro ZinZanni has been in limbo. The city offered
SF News Second Petition Effort to Repeal Gay History Law Fails The California law requiring public schools to acknowledge the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in history lessons will live on without challenge another few years. A petition drive to get
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Detroit, via Drone Please enjoy this haunting, vaguely art-y video of some of the well lit decay in Detroit. It also features some shots of a park on the water, but yes, lots of urban decay,
SF News Courthouse Workers Strike, Closing S.F. Courtrooms Today A surprise one-day strike by courtroom clerks and support personnel today has postponed at least one jury trial and closed most of the courtrooms in San Francisco. About 200 members of the Service
SF News Middle-Finger Building Will Get Shorter Finger Next to It Starting Today Groundbreaking begins today on the long-delayed second tower at One Rincon Hill, originally set to be built just as the financial crisis began. The new, shorter tower will hopefully make the much maligned
Arts & Entertainment 'Chron' Outdoors Columnist Calls for Generational War Tom Stienstra, the longtime Outdoors columnist for the Chronicle, got a bit "get-off-my-lawn" in this morning's column about the Rafters Gone Wild event on the American River in Sacramento. He laments the fact
SF News 25-Year-Old Man Murdered on Sixth Street Friday Night [Updated] The city marked its 40th homicide of 2012 last night with the shooting of a 25-year-old man near Sixth and Stevenson around 11 p.m. The man was found by arriving officers lying
SF News Tenderloin Store Owner Shot, Critically Wounded A 59-year-old shopkeeper on the 300 block of Hyde Street was critically wounded Wednesday when he was caught in the crossfire of a shootout. The man was standing outside his store around 6:
SF News Child Dies, Woman Injured in San Bruno House Fire A fire broke out in a home in San Bruno this morning around 8:45 a.m. It only got to two alarms and was contained in about fifteen minutes, however one woman
SF News Regarding Willie Brown and How He Will Never Stop Being Mayor For those just tuning in or just recently transplanted here from elsewhere, Willie Brown is still, for all intents and purposes, running San Francisco. Many of you know this already, and understand that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Two Guys, a Car, and That Gotye Song "Somebody That I Used to Know." Heard it? Yes you have. It is pretty much our national anthem at this point, because everyone effing loves a breakup song, and can relate, and it's
SF News Elderly Chinese Women Targeted By Young Asian Female Con Artists About 30 elderly members of the San Francisco Chinese community have been conned out of money and jewelry by several young Asian female con artists who have been preying on their cultural beliefs.
SF News Lawrence Livermore Lab Successfully Shoots Mega-Laser That Could Kill Us All Big news in the physics community arrives this week: Lawrence Livermore National Lab just successfully shot a 500 terawatt fusion laser at a single tiny target this week, which was the result of
SF News Tiburon Lady Produces Film About Mayan Prophecies, Invites Spiritual Leader to Cocktail Party Area kook Elisabeth Thieriot, who describes herself in a press release as "a San Francisco-based business woman, co-founder of PhoneCharge, Inc., [?] philanthropist and author of Be Fabulous at Any Age" just threw a
SF News High-Speed Rail Not in the Clear Yet Though the California legislature has given the green-light for the long-awaited, long-debated high-speed rail connecting L.A. to S.F., there still remain five persnickety lawsuits to be settled or litigated in the
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Mayor Ed Lee Accused of Perjury So here's an interesting twist: Attorneys for suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi say that a proxy for Mayor Ed Lee, city insider Walter Wong, approached Mirkarimi around the time of his guilty plea in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Blue Velvette' by Cancer Merchant We're pretty sure rap music has never, ever been as white as this. Cancer Merchant is the rap name of L.A.-based artist Daveo Mathias, and this video for his track "Blue
SF News Video: Watch Nancy Pelosi Dancing at Barney Frank's Gay Wedding House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi cut a rug over the weekend at the wedding of Barney Frank and Jim Ready in Newton, Massachusetts. Here she is dancing with co-Best Man Terry Bean, the
SF News Google Slapped With $22.5 Million Fine for Privacy Violation The Federal Trade Commission is trying to have our backs when it comes to privacy and the data we are all, every minute, inadvertently sharing with our Google and Facebook overlords. On Monday,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Spunk' at CalShakes The second show of CalShakes' four-play season is often the most adventurous, typically being one of the two non-Shakespeare productions that this always creative company puts on each summer. And the latest, Spunk,
SF News Indybay Photographer Sues Oakland Police For Constitutional Violations Local news photographer John Weston Osburn, who has worked primarily for Indybay Media, has filed a federal suit in Alameda County against the City of Oakland and several Oakland police officers claiming unreasonable
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Abortion Explained, Via the Bible If you're not familiar with America's Best Christian Mrs. Betty Bowers (a character created by L.A. comedienne Deven Green), you probably should be. She did a rather internet-famous explication of traditional marriage
SF News Movie Theater Shooting Caps Off Especially Violent Weekend in Oakland; Four Homicides In Total It was yet another violent weekend in Oakland, with three fatal shootings Friday and five people shot outside the Regal Cinemas Jack London Square on Sunday. This of course doesn't help the city's
