SF News New Public Utilities Commission Tower Is Greenest Building in the Country The shiny new glass tower at the corner of Golden Gate and Polk is set to be the greenest building in the country, once it becomes fully operational and inhabited by the S.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters Has A Kiki With S.F. Drag Queen Glamamore Last night, Scissor Sisters played the Fox Theater in Oakland, and afterwards there was a crowded afterparty at the Redwood Room in San Francisco attended by many a young gay man wearing eyeliner.
SF News Facebook's Ugly IPO Mess Blamed on One Guy at Morgan Stanley So, Facebook shares are still at about $32, which isn't quite as bad as a couple of weeks ago but still 15% below the IPO price of $38. Today the Wall Street Journal
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Teen Attends One Direction Concert, Screams, Cries, Writes Awesome Column About It We did not know about this, but the Contra Costa Times/Bay Area News Group have been soliciting and publishing pieces by high school students we'll refrain from making jokes here about print
Arts & Entertainment Theater Preview: 'Salomania' at the Aurora Theater Closing out the 20th annual season at Berkeley's Aurora Theater is a new play by Mark Jackson, and it's the theater's first new play commission under artistic director Tom Ross. It's called Salomania,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 'Game of Thrones' Theme, via Squeaky Toys Some dude found that while watching Game of Thrones, the sound coming out of his dog's squeaky toy sounded uncannily like the theme song. So he recorded a full version, naturally. Ah, internet.
SF News No More Pot Truffles In Dolores Park?!? The idea that the SFPD might try to remove one of the most charming aspects of Dolores Park namely the rampant sale of mushroom chocolates, THC-laced candies, and everyone's favorite truffle guy should
SF News S.F. Couple Allegedly Killed Man They Thought Was Pimping Out Their Daughter The Bayview homicide we reported about on June 4th turns out to have been a case of vigilante justice. A couple, Barry Gilton, 38, and his longtime girlfriend, Lupe Mercado, 37, tracked a
SF News Porn Community Mourns of the Loss of Erik Rhodes, Dead at Age 30 The gay porn community lost one of its last true "stars" early this morning with the passing of Erik Rhodes, a.k.a. James Elliott Naughtin. He died in his sleep, reportedly, at
SF News Two People Killed Last Night in Silver Terrace Neighborhood Two people were murdered last night in a shooting that took place on Silver Avenue and Elmira street. A third person was injured, but survived the incident which occurred just before 10:30
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ads From the First Dot-Com Bubble Many have said we're in another tech bubble, and the Facebook IPO flop only proves it but isn't this a better, more skeptical sort of bubble? Hell, even we were pretty sure Facebook's
SF News PG&E Has Valve Shutoff Problem Again in Last Night's Four-Alarm Portola Blaze Yet again, PG&E is being blamed by firefighters for taking way too long to shut off a gas main during a four-alarm fire at a construction site yesterday afternoon. Two hours
SF News 16th Street Murder Victim Called 'Gentle Giant' A few more details have emerged about the murder that occurred outside Double Dutch on Friday night, though still no arrests have been made. The victim, Lorenzo Jimenez, 24, was allegedly confronted inside
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sex Ed, Belgian-Style [NSFW!] Allegedly, this video was shown at 7 a.m. on Belgian television as some kind of demented sex education for children. We suppose little Belgian boys need to understand what masturbation is before
SF News Picasso Stolen During Marin Teen Party Found Remember that $30,000 Picasso lithograph we mentioned that was stolen at that big teen party at an abandoned mansion in Novato? Well, a high-schooler apparently got cold feet, and fearing getting caught,
SF News Another Non-Knife Stabbing: Woman Stabbed in Chest With Screwdriver in the Mission A 35-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver in an apparent domestic dispute yesterday in the Mission, on 26th Street between York and Hampshire. The suspect, a 27-year-old male, was
SF News Weird Odor Prompts Southwest Jet To Turn Around At Oakland Airport A Southwest flight bound for Burbank that took off from Oakland Airport just after 7 a.m. this morning had to turn around and land twenty minutes later after a mysterious odor filled
SF News Oakland Sees 50th Homicide of 2012, Multiple Sunday Shootings Unfortunately, there are still a lot of shootings in Oakland. This past warm weekend saw a spate of seven separate incidents in different parts of East Oakland that left one 26-year-old Alameda resident
Arts & Entertainment Oops: Google Shuttle Stuck At Bottom Of Noe Valley Hill Uh oh. Looks like those massive Google shuttle buses need to be a little more careful which hills they try to conquer. Uptown Almanac brings us a photo and video of one of
SF News A Bunch of Golf People Are In Town This Week The U.S. Open is happening in San Francisco, and that means a bunch of golf fans are descending on the city. The 112th annual golf tournament starts Thursday at the Olympic Club,
SF News Shooting On 16th Street Leaves 24-Year-Old Dead [Updated] A man was shot at 16th and Albion Friday night, and he sustained fatal injuries as a result. No suspects have been identified despite the fact that this part of the Mission would
SF News Northern California Man Shoots Mother Bear, Tries to Sell Her Cubs On up in Gold Country, in the teeny town of North San Juan in Nevada County, a dude with approximately one tooth in his head named Chris Pruett killed a mother bear and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mr. Rogers, Auto-Tuned Never forget! "You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind." No, seriously, this is really pretty awesome. And we got kind of choked up! [PBS Digital Studios via WOW]
Arts & Entertainment Teens Ransack Abandoned Marin Mansion, Throw Massive Party, Steal a Picasso Some industrious teenagers up in Marin have made fine use of the abandoned manse of one Pavlo Lazarenko, the imprisoned former Ukrainian prime minister who sits in a federal prison in Dublin. A
SF News Mirkarimi Wants City To Pay For His Legal Bills You can bet that City Attorney Dennis Herrera laughed when he heard the latest request from embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his lawyers. Mirkarimi's lawyers (who may or may not be working pro
