Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Dance Magick' The only difference between this video and a Saturday night in SoMa is a) it features someone underage, and b) furries don't tend to prefer flower costumes. [Everything Is Terrible]
SF News BART Agent Fired For Being Charitable A BART station agent who took pity on an impoverished teen was fired yesterday, on his 66th birthday. Jim Stanek admits that he gave a 16-year-old boy $300 in paid BART tickets because
SF News Meanwhile, In Oakland, 23 Occupiers Arrested; 3,500 Rallied at Frank Ogawa Plaza Since when are there more Occupy arrests in San Francisco on a day of planned action than there are in Oakland? Oakland Police clearly exercised much greater restraint than they did in 2011
SF News How To Shoo Away the Homeless, Vol. 364: Noise Pollution Speaking of being cruel to the homeless, the managers of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium have taken to using loud and offensive noise as a last-ditch effort to shoo homeless people away from
Arts & Entertainment Lower Haight Laundromat Dubbed 'The Worst Place In The World' Hell hath no fury like a neighborhood blogger who can't find a functioning washing machine. Over at Haighteration, Andrew Dudley has got a bone to pick with the extremely sad Oak and Scott
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Stabbed On Folsom And Eighth A man was found critically injured from a stab wound just before 6 a.m. this morning on Folsom Street near Eighth. There aren't any details except that the victim was transported to
SF News May Day: This Is What Downtown Oakland Looks Like Right Now [Updated] General Strike Day is well under way over in downtown Oakland, and we've got this almost-live picture of the scene, shot moments ago by SFist intern Owen. It's basically a street party right
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Lopez Staying In Venezuela Until June; Cell Phone Records May Not Be Subpoenaed At least for now, a judge has ruled that the cell phone records of Ross Mirkarimi's former campaign manager can not be subpoenaed in the Mayor's Ethics Commission investigation of the suspended sheriff.
SF News Man Shot in Potrero Sunday Night Clings To Life A 23-year-old man was shot while sitting inside a car Saturday night/early Sunday at the intersection of Missouri Street and Turner Terrace, near the Potrero Hill Playground. The incident happened just after
SF News Behold The New Presidio Parkway And Tunnel Doyle Drive, or whatever they're going to call it going forward, reopened this morning right on schedule, just before 5 a.m. The new roadway to the Golden Gate Bridge is very pretty
SF News Dolores Park: Cops Harass Drinkers; Brick Church Building Across The Street To Become Children's School Yesterday was another lovely day in Dolores Park, and there were once again thousands jamming onto Hipster Hill, the Gay Beach, the dog area, and elsewhere. Also, there were many, many kids at
SF News Apple Barely Pays Any Taxes As part of a series they're doing on the "i-economy," the NYT published a piece over the weekend pointing out that Apple, despite making insane, record-breaking profits last year, paid hardly a dime
SF News Fight Erupts at Democratic Womens' Gathering There weren't any Louboutins flying, but there was an upturned chair, accusations of living in the Marina, and references to 'Mean Girls' following a recent gathering of the eighteen women who are all
SF News Reminder: Don't Try To Get To The North Bay Tonight After 8 As we told you the other day, and as every other news outlet has hopefully told you, Doyle Drive comes down this weekend starting at 8 p.m. tonight. That means getting to
SF News Beware The Rise Of The 'Brogrammer' Sometime in the last ten or twelve years, the stereotypical image of the Silicon Valley programmer has shifted from socially awkward, Utili-kilt-wearing geek to something far more sinister, and fratty, and sexist. Mother
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adorable Puppy In Box We do love ourselves some funny pet tricks, and cats in boxes. Now comes an adorable dog in a box which we just had to share. [via The Soup]
Arts & Entertainment Gay Jesus Play Still Drawing Conservative Ire Over A Decade Later It's been fourteen years since Terence McNally's play "Corpus Christi" debuted in New York, off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1998, and because this country of ours is really slow to grow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Not Everyone On 18th Street Can Afford A Two-Dollar Bi-Rite Tomato We've all heard the arguments and counter-arguments for lovely, organic, sustainable produce and the amazing community of artisans and food producers represented on 18th Street alone, in our own gourmet ghetto. Between Tartine's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Your Food, Rapping This little stop-motion animation short just arrived, produced by these guys and featuring music by DJ Nick Castle. (It's a compilation of the "best culinary lines in rap history.") And check out them
Arts & Entertainment Sinead O'Connor Cancels Summer Tour, Won't Be Coming To The Fox Due to mental health issues, singer Sinead O'Connor has just announced that she's cancelling her planned North American tour this summer. She was scheduled to play the Mountain Winery and the Fox Theater
Arts & Entertainment Dolores Park Playground Parents Now Want A Fence To Keep Out <strike>Gays</strike> Dogs We've discussed before our trepidation about the infringing upon gay space that happened when that new Dolores Park playground got renovated and drastically enlarged. Though most of the gay beach remains intact, there
Arts & Entertainment Regarding This Richard Meier-Designed Condo Tower That May Never Get Built John King pens a column today about a lovely, white, 34-story residential tower that could eventually rise at the corner of Van Ness and Market (where that little doughnut shop is now), designed
SF News Dirty DUI Cases Involving Sketchy P.I. Pile Up In East Bay This American Life fans should recall the recent story of the 'P.I. Moms,' which aired last fall, and which was based on a story originally broken in Diablo Magazine. It involved
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: John Waters' 'A Dirty Shame' Part-time San Francisco resident John Waters is screening his 2004 film A Dirty Shame tonight at 7 p.m. at CCA, and doing a Q&A afterward. It's free, and he'll probably
SF News Another Day, Another Story About How Scary The Apartment Market Is Getting Back in November the press was kvelling about how the vacancy rate for apartment rentals was reaching dot-com-era levels, and, yeah, it's only gotten worse in six months. There was a story on
