SF News Bank Robbed Near Union Square On Monday Have you heard? It's easy as pie to rob a bank these days. You just quietly approach the teller, hand him/her a note, and walk away with a murse full of cash!
Arts & Entertainment Video: Intoxicated Women Struggle To Sit/Stand For 15 Grueling Minutes Meet Lisa. Her friends really want her to sit down, but also to stand up. This marvelous video was captured by SFist friend Jack Shamama in the hours just following Saturday's Dyke March
SF News Big Rig Spontaneously Combusts On Oakland Off-Ramp A big rig on its way to the Port of Oakland at 5 a.m. this morning, just arrived from Long Beach, suffered a sudden engine fire that basically reduced the truck to
SF News Lives of the 1%: Marin Couple Razes $4.2 Million House Because It Blocked Their View Perhaps you don't understand how absurdly rich people are up in Marin. Especially in Belvedere. Well, Clark and Sharon Winslow, who own an 11,000-square-foot, $19 million mansion with its own "resort-style health
SF News Man Falls Off Pier After Giants Game, Feared Dead; Search Called Off A 27-year-old man who attended last night's Giants-Dodger's game at AT&T Park disappeared suddenly off of Pier 30/32 where his friend had parked his car. The friend was replying to
SF News Missing 22-y-o Man Found Safe!; Overreactive Mother Relieved 22-year-old Evan Flanary, who "disappeared" on June 19 all because his mother couldn't reach him and he took a break from Facebook, turns out not really to have been missing. He was just
SF News Local Bath Salts Company Has Business Hurt By 'Bath Salts' Craze You've heard about bath salts, obviously. They're so hot right now. Everyone is (talking about) doing them. By "them" we mean the drug known as "bath salts," which in actuality we've never really
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cat Walks Human We enjoy cats who act like dogs. Here we bring you a kitten named Kodi giving a little lesson in how to walk a human. Look at him pull! Watch him trot. [Laughing
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Pride 2012, In Pictures [Updated] OccuPride may have disrupted the flow a bit yesterday morning, but otherwise most of the big LGBT love fest went off without a hitch. NBC says the parade and Civic Center festivities were
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Civic Center Stabbing After Pride Fest Saturday A 47-year-old man was stabbed Saturday night around 9:20 p.m. on the 1100 block of Market Street near U.N. Plaza. The man was allegedly in a fight with about six
SF News Friday Bayview Homicide Brings S.F. Murder Count to 35 Not quite halfway through the year and the homicide rate in San Francisco is ticking up faster than it has in several years. Friday night saw the city's 35th murder of 2012, when
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Rip Tide' by Beirut Take a look at this brand new and lovely video from Beirut, for the tune "The Rip Tide" of the outfit's newest album of the same name. Beirut, and young front man Zach
SF News Video: VICE Mashes Up the Week's News, and Wow It's Freaky VICE has a new web video series called Current Laments, which they describe thusly: "[It's] the zombie-apocalypse-mashup equivalent of newscaster blather, sensationalized soundbites, and sleazebags who should know better. In more laymanish terms,
SF News Police Are Still Seeking Tips in Brutal Murder of Castro Hairstylist The murder in Diamond Heights that we reported on a couple of weeks back is still without any suspects, and friends of the victim have been flyering and poster around the Castro to
SF News Woman's Body Found By On-Ramp In Oakland Hills A woman's body was discovered last night by people driving near an on-ramp on Highway 13 in the Oakland hills, at Joaquin Miller Road. Someone in a passing vehicle spotted the body in
SF News 28-Year-Old Woman Cracks Skull During Glen Park Purse Snatching A purse-snatching led to a woman getting critically injured last night just before midnight in the Glen Park neighborhood. The 28-year-old woman was walking near the intersection of Bosworth Street and Brompton Avenue
SF News Video: 'Call Me Kuchu,' a Documentary About Being Gay in Uganda We've already heard a number of people talking about this documentary, which screened at the Castro Theater as part of Frameline on Tuesday. The screening and the directors, Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax
SF News Man Robbed By Dastardly Taser Thief In Outer Sunset A 34-year-old man was shocked with a stun gun and lost consciousness Saturday night, only to awaken with a pain in his abdomen and his wallet and iPod missing. There was also a
SF News Middle-Finger Building Still Having Trouble Selling Priciest Units One Rincon Hill, which is not so affectionately known around town as the Middle Finger building because of its position, off by itself in the skyline (and its, ahem, uninspired design), just brought
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'All You' by The Cataracs The Cataracs are a white-boy hip-hop outfit that came out of Berkeley High School featuring two guys with hyphenated names, and nicknames: David “Campa” Benjamin Singer-Vine and Niles “Cyrano” Hollowell-Dhar. They live in
SF News Weather Report 877 minutes of daylight. What will you do with it all? It's the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, and while it's a mucky, cloudy 92 degrees in New York right
SF News Brian Luc, Brother Of Quintuple Murder Suspect Binh Luc, Out On Probation Brian Luc, who was arrested along with his brother Binh Luc on March 25 following the murders of five people at a home at 16 Howth Street, has been released from custody as
SF News Dead Body Found Weighted Down In Oakland Estuary [Updated] Despite being weighted down with four 25-pound weights, a man's body at least his feet floated to the surface of the Oakland Estuary and was spotted early this morning when a fisherman near
SF News Mirkarimi Hearing Begins; Ivory Madison Lashes Back Via Written Testimony Followers of the Ross Mirkarimi domestic abuse saga will be familiar with the name Ivory Madison the neighbor who consoled Mirkarimi's wife Eliana Lopez after the New Year's Eve incident that spurred this
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin, Chronicler of '70s City Life, Leaving the City Sad news! Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales of the City novels among others and a writer more fully identified with San Francisco than any other living writer we can think of (don't
