SF News CityPlace To Move Forward Again On Market Street With JCPenney As Anchor Thank the lord: That depressing, long-vacant block of Market Street between Fifth and Sixth is finally seeing some action again. The approved CityPlace development billed as a discount-anchored mall with 260,000 square
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Lazuli' by Beach House Have you heard the new Beach House album? It's good. Anyway, this video is more than good. It is rad. We miss videos. Nobody makes awesome videos anymore. Be advised that Beach House
Arts & Entertainment Get Yourself Some Tickets For Pride Weekend Festivities While You Can Gay Pride is almost upon us, and there are a few rainbow flags on Market Street to prove it. The governor has, in fact, declared this whole month Gay Pride Month. So if
SF News Daly City Intervention Goes Horribly Wrong, Family Charged Daly City matriarch Vita Marcum sounds like a battle axe. During a February intervention in which she, her daughter, her son, and her son's girlfriend attempted to remove another daughter from the clutches
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Tempest' at CalShakes All Shakespeare plays were once done in outdoor theaters in the daylight, but certain works lend themselves best to being done in the open air. Along with A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adorable Tiny Pig Climbs Down Stairs for Oatmeal Oh god. We couldn't resist. He's so tiny! He's some kind of teacup potbelly pig, and his name is Hamlet, and in this video he overcomes his fear of stairs to dive into
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Only the Horses' by Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters has never enjoyed the huge success here in the States as they have in the UK, but the American band does have a big gay following, and they've done Coachella and
SF News 14-Year-Old Boy Shot By Police After Allegedly Drawing Gun A 14-year-old boy was shot by a SFPD officer after he gave chase and allegedly brandished a weapon in South San Francisco yesterday. The boy, who has not been identified, was taken to
Arts & Entertainment British Ex-Pat in S.F. Attempts to Explain the Queen's Bizarre Diamond Jubilee Concert Fans of royalty and the under-employed may have caught some or all of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, which unfolded over the course of the last four days in London. The preamble to the
SF News Cigarette Tax (Probably) Defeated By Narrow Margin, But Absentee Ballots May Decide It Big Tobacco seems to have gotten their way yesterday, and Californians who made it to the polls voted down Prop 29, the cigarette tax by about a one-point margin. After spending millions of
SF News Piles Of Mysterious White Powder Cause Richmond Hazmat Scare Some dude was spotted running around the Richmond leaving piles of white powder next to telephone poles, all along Balboa from the beach eastward. The SFFD hazmat team was subsequently called in to
SF News There's An Election Today, You Know Given that the California Presidential Primary is utterly irrelevant, some of you may have forgotten that there was an election today. But there is! And Dianne Feinstein needs your vote! Well, not really.
SF News Friends Gather for Memorial Service for Slain Oakland Trans Activist Brandy Martell Oakland North has a melancholy but excellent account of a small celebration of life held over the weekend for slain trans woman Brandy Martell. Friends and acquaintances gathered to look at pictures and
SF News Romney Campaign Misspells Something Else Seriously? Again? Check out this new Facebook ad for the Mitt Romney campaign, encouraging supporters to text in a number to get a "sneak peak" of their new TV ad. We suppose that's
SF News N-Judah and J-Church Lines Reopen; N-Judah Promptly Breaks Down [Updated] Glory be. After a ten-day shutdown that made the Sunset sad, the N-Judah and J-Church lines reopened for business this morning. Now the new section of track at the always sluggish intersection of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Black N Blue Boys/Broken Men' at Berkeley Rep One-person shows are always a test of both the performer and the audience. Can this actor tell a story and capture an audience's attention for ninety minutes with no help? Can one, as
Arts & Entertainment Mission Playground: Now Open For Playtime We mentioned it in passing last week, but in case you missed it, and because we just took our own photo: The newly redesigned and spiffed up Mission Playground, on Valencia near 20th,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Catlandia' So, it's a PSA for the SPCA, but it's also meant to be a funny viral video. It's two San Franciscans, you see, engaging in a bit of San Frandlandia/Portlandia-style one-upsmanship ("I
Arts & Entertainment 'Portrait of George,' A Controversial Bust of Moscone, Returns to S.F. SFMOMA director Neal Benezra, long a fan of Bay Area sculptor Robert Arneson, has spent a decade chasing after a bust of slain mayor George Moscone which the city commissioned from Arneson but
SF News Berkeley Mayor Wants His Own Sit-Lie Ordinance Even the hippies in Berkeley want the hippies to stop plopping themselves down all day on Telegraph Avenue! Berkeley mayor Tom Bates is asking the City Council to consider putting a sit-lie ordinance
SF News Another Pot Dispensary Down, This Time Due to Fire Remember that fire the other week that gutted the apartment building at Duboce and Valencia? Well, it took with it a neighboring marijuana dispensary, 208 Valencia Street Caregivers, which sustained damage though it
SF News Sex Offenders Fight for Their Right to Facebook Is Facebook an inalienable right? It's certainly a pleasure that no modern human who desires to has any problem wasting many, many minutes of their precious lives poring over. And now convicted sex
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Club-Dancing Tutorial Hopefully none of you need this little viral how-to. And what this guy calls "The Disco" is actually called "The Swim," or "The Pulp Fiction," are we wrong? Also: He's already done a
SF News Romney Holds Fundraiser at Peninsula Chateau, Site of Famed '80s Abduction and Murder Republican candidate and loyal Amercian Mitt Romney is having held a fundraiser last night at this insane historic chateau on the San Francisco Peninsula, and you better believe it's owned by Republicans! Also,
SF News George Gascon, Mark Leno Want To Downgrade Drug Possession to Misdemeanor District Attorney George Gascon spoke yesterday at a drug reform panel and said that after years working in law enforcement and public policy, he believes "the war on drugs has been a failure.
