SF News Knife Crime 2012: 19-Year-Old Stabbed In Tenderloin; Suspect Arrested A 19-year-old male was stabbed multiple times at about 2:20 a.m. Saturday on the 200 block of Leavenworth Street for no apparent reason. A 32-year-old suspect, who was later arrested and
SF News Survivors Of 1906 Earthquake Gather Today For Annual Dinner Like it did in 1906, April 18 falls on a Wednesday this year. And tomorrow morning at 5:11 a.m. the annual commemoration of the Great Quake and fire will take place
SF News One Man Fatally Shot Inside Car in East Oakland; Another Man Shot In East Oakland Corner Store A man was found dead in the passenger seat of a crashed Chevy Camaro Monday afternoon, near Mills College in East Oakland. The man was killed while riding in the car near an
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Safe Sex For Seniors Did you know that STDs were on the rise among elderly people in Florida? Yeah, it's kind of been a thing. The Daily Show even covered it. Rates of STDs are up 70%
SF News Mission Thought to Be Incredibly Dangerous By East Bay Folk Many older people who reside in the East Bay (and probably elsewhere) continue to believe that the Mission is nothing but a cesspit of crime and poverty, and that "white girls shouldn't be
SF News Knife Crime Wave Claims Female Victim In The Mission Another weekend brings another bit of knife-crime news: A 28-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest and slashed across the face during a fight with another woman in her 20s on Friday afternoon.
SF News Man Occupies BART Track, Almost Dies A fellow named Michael, who may or may not be officially affiliated with the Occupy movement, jumped down onto the BART tracks at 24th Street Station yesterday afternoon and was almost hit by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Basil Peach Punch At The Burritt Room The Burritt Room (417 Stockton Street) just reopened this week after a brief remodel that now connects it to a full-service restaurant, the Burritt Tavern, from celebrity chef Charlie Palmer. The hotel where
SF News Family Of Murdered Berkeley Man Still Pissed At Police The sons of murdered Berkeley Hills resident Peter Cukor, who was 67 when he died on February 18 of a bludgeoning with a flower pot at the hands of a mentally ill man,
SF News Lightning Struck A Plane Leaving SFO Last Night! An outbound flight from SFO to London was forced to land shortly after takeoff last night after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. That storm wasn't playin' around! The United plane
SF News Excuse Us, BART: WTF With All the Broken Escalators? Is it really so hard to fix an escalator? In the world of BART, apparently, it is. At least one two escalators are currently out of service at Embarcadero Station, and SFist has
SF News Weather Report: How About That Lightning? Thunderstorms and snow are to San Franciscans what earthquakes and culture are to Midwesterners, so last night was pretty special. Hopefully you kept dry and drank a hot toddy or three and maybe
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Maple & Vine' at A.C.T. Wouldn't it be swell if we could just unplug ourselves from contemporary life completely and live like it was 1955? That's the question posed by the play Maple & Vine which made its
SF News Mirkarimi Trying To Get Herrera Off His Case Attorneys for Ross Mirkarimi, who now include local attorney David Waggoner and Shepard Kopp from L.A., filed a petition today to get City Attorney Dennis Herrera disqualified from Mirkarimi's upcoming hearing regarding
SF News Redwood City Kung Fu Teacher Charged With Fondling Girls Meng "Ricky" Wong, 36, a kung fu instructor for more than a decade at Tat Wong Kung Fu Academy in Redwood City, was arrested last month on charges of lewd acts with a
Arts & Entertainment Thom Yorke Shows Off New Ponytail At Pre-Coachella Concert All your Radiohead-fan friends hoofed it to San Jose last night to see Radiohead, and we hear it was a good set, heavy on material from last year's King of Limbs but with
SF News Oakland Hills Man Shot While Walking Dog; Two Others Shot in Unrelated Incident A man returning home from walking his dog on the 7000 block of Elverton Drive in the Oakland hills was shot last night around 10:30 p.m. while trying to enter his
SF News Is Oakland Cooler Than San Francisco, Asks 'SF Bay Guardian' The cover of this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian bears the headline "Is Oakland Cooler Than San Francisco?" Not that we haven't heard this before, like, from our Oakland friends, but lots of
Arts & Entertainment Some Advice For Straight People In Gay Bars This being San Francisco, we have a lot of gay bars and clubs where go-go boys dance in tiny underwear, and drag shows that straight women like to go to, etc. Increasingly, gay
SF News After 15 Years, George Lucas Caves to NIMBYs in Lucas Valley Project Filmmaker and billionaire George Lucas has withdrawn plans to build a 263,700-square-foot digital production studio in Marin for which he originally got approval in 1996 due to the ongoing resistance from neighbors.
SF News Police Seeking Binh Luc's Weapons in Howth Street Murders, Still Cagey About His Motive The SFPD held a community meeting in Ingleside last night to discuss the developments in the investigation of the Howth Street murders on March 23. They tried to allay neighbors' fears that this
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Persian In The Pool Today on Anderson Cooper's talk show he brought on Animal Planet's John Fulton and animal columnist Mary Ellen to show off Nimbus a very pretty, wide-eyed Persian cat whom Mary Ellen has taught
SF News Castro Bike Fatality Leads 'Chron' To Call For Stricter Bike Enforcement The debate rages on about the city's bicyclists and whether or not they should be held responsible, en masse, for the few bad apples who blow through red lights and occasionally kill pedestrians.
SF News Mirkarimi Hires Michael Jackson's Attorney So this is funny/expensive: Embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, whose legal arguments against his suspension are lately getting laughed at by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, has just hired a high-profile L.A. attorney
SF News Edwin Ramos Takes Stand In Trial For 2008 Triple Murder Some of you may recall the horrible incident in June of 2008, originally thought to have been connected to road rage, which claimed the lives of a father and his two sons while
