SF News Don't Try To Get To The Golden Gate Bridge Via The Marina This Weekend You know all that construction that's been happening along Doyle Drive on the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge? Well, it's called the Presidio Parkway, and it's all coming to a head this
SF News Woman Stabbed With Fork On 22-Fillmore Well, we can't exactly file it under Knife Crime 2012, but a 23-year-old Oakland woman who was riding the 22-Fillmore near 16th and Potrero got stabbed in the hand with a fork by
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Gays, Others Rally Support For Sharon Needles To Win 'Drag Race' If you've been breathlessly following Rupaul's Drag Race in its fourth season, then you already know by now that last night's finale wasn't the finale. It was a non-finale. And kind of frustrating
Arts & Entertainment Someone Should Fund These Old Testament Billboards Atheists, the generally religion-averse, and the rest of us who are just goddamn tired of fundamentalist Christians quoting the Old Testament as evidence that the "word of God" is unimpeachable and homosexuality isn't
SF News Google's Going To Drive Our Car For Us? Oh Wait... Google Drive launched today, as you may have heard everywhere on the internet. It's like Apple iCloud, or any other cloud-storage thing, only it's a virtual hard drive, and syncs up with your
SF News Tenderloin Man Sentenced for Perving All Over Some Nuns A 44-year-old Tenderloin denizen has been sentenced to three years in prison for stalking and harassing a group of French nuns who run a soup kitchen on Turk Street. Dionn Taylor was accused
SF News Mirkarimi's Ethics Commission 'Trial' Begins With Much Procedural Brouhaha It's looking more and more like the Ethics Commission hearing for suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is going to be an ersatz trial for the domestic abuse charges for which he almost but wasn't
SF News Japanese Tsunami Survivor's Soccer Ball Washes Up In Alaska Remember how we talked about all that free-floating debris from last year's tsunami floating out in the Pacific and gradually making it onto our shores? Well, in case you doubted us, here's a
SF News Man Run Over By Muni Train at Civic Center, Dies [Updated] A person who either fell or jumped into the outbound Muni track at Civic Center Station this morning has caused a major Muni undergound shut-down affecting service in both directions. Though our earlier,
SF News Feds Slap Burning Man Organizers With Probation, Threaten Event's Future Uh oh! The federal Bureau of Land Management has just put Black Rock City LLC on probation, citing a violation of the 50,000-person attendance cap placed on the event last year. The
SF News Occupiers Till Some Soil In East Bay, 'Take Back' UC Land For Farming A group calling themselves Occupy the Farm to Take Back the Gill Tract broke open a fence on Sunday surrounding some vacant land in Albany and, in honor of Earth Day, started building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Sparkling Chrysanthemum Spritzer at Wo Hing General Store The drinks are kind of the star over at six-month-old Wo Hing General Store in the Mission, though many have said some nice things about the food (it's good mind you, but we
SF News Facebook Backlash Heats Up It's now been over two months since the announcement of the Facebook IPO, after which some kind of press backlash was inevitable. But now that they just bought Instagram last week, things have
SF News Small-Time Motel Pimp Sentenced to Nine Years Mahender "Mike" Singh was sentenced in federal court yesterday to nine years in federal prison for pimping out four teenage girls, two of whom were underage, via local motels and the internet. Singh
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Judge Rules Suspension Was Valid [Updated] Ross Mirkarimi was back in court today with his lawyers arguing before Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn that he should not have been suspended from duty as Sheriff pending his Ethics Commission hearing,
Arts & Entertainment Sigh: 'Travel + Leisure' Names SF Number-Three Hipster City Right up there with your grandmother on Facebook and David Letterman introducing the Naked and Famous we bring you the latest listicle from Travel + Leisure magazine in which the editors attempt to quantify
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Justin Bieber Covered By Marina & The Diamonds It's a Justin Bieber song. But this version, obviously, is way better. The singer is up-and-coming British singer-songwriter Marina Lambrini Diamandis, a.k.a. Marina and the Diamonds. [WOW]
Arts & Entertainment Video: Documentary Explores Weird Local Role-Playing Game Some of you well connected nerds out there have probably heard of the Jejune Institute, which lately has become known by the moniker Games of Nonchalance. It's an elaborate "alternative reality game" which
SF News Vacaville School Terrorized By Huge Swarm Of Bees Did you know it's swarming season for bees right now?!?! Those of us who don't live in the country maybe don't have to worry quite so much, but with all the various rooftop
SF News Four Men In Car Plunge Off Freeway In Oakland, All Survive Just after 5:30 a.m. this morning a car containing four men plunged 60 feet down an embankment off eastbound I-580 between Seminary and Keller Avenues. The crash was reported by a
Arts & Entertainment Gotye Doesn't Like Being Compared to Sting Gotye (it is pronounced just like Gaultier, btw) is performing tonight at Bill Graham, and there are still tickets available, guys! As you'll recall, they had to postpone his earlier show and move
Arts & Entertainment 'Elektra,' 'Streetcar,' and 'Arcadia' All Part of A.C.T.'s Upcoming Season The American Conservatory Theater announced their 2012-13 season today, and it includes a new translation of Elektra which will feature Olympia Dukakis and be directed by artistic director Carey Perloff, and a new
SF News A Man Named Butt And A Man Named Booze Are At War Sometimes it takes a minute for big news in the city of Richmond to reach us over here across the Bay, but today we bring you a developing story involving two city councilmen
SF News Mirkarimi Tells His Side, Cries on 'Forum' Embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi finally went public today with his entire side of the story on KQED's 'Forum.' He explained how wife Eliana Lopez's arm got bruised on New Year's Eve, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Monkey Vs. Cat Battle A very tenacious little monkey plays with, and pokes, a very patient feline in this viral vid that's been making the rounds. The cat actually seems to not mind being prodded and pushed
