SF News Jeff Adachi Really Wants To Defend Howth Street Murder Suspect City public defender Jeff Adachi made a bid in court today to try to represent quintuple murder suspect Binh Thai Luc, and we're not totally clear why, except it will bring him attention?
SF News PBR, Tecate Blamed For Mission Dive-Bar Tagging Owners of divey Mission bars where people like to tag bathroom (and exterior) walls are increasingly sad about this culture of tagging that they seem to be a part of. As Uptown Almanac
Arts & Entertainment South Park Mocks Internet Memes; Internet Laughs Faith HillingGet More: SOUTHPARKEric Cartman,Leopold "Butters" Stotch,more... Last night's episode of South Park centered around all the fleeting internet memes that make up a part of our collective cultural dialogue these
SF News Eliana Lopez Speaks Out, Via Friend, About Disempowerment, Her Troubled Marriage It seems clear at this point that some irreparable damage has been done to Ross Mirkarimi and Eliana Lopez's marriage during this recent domestic violence scandal. But their marriage was likely headed for
SF News Howth Street Murder Suspect Also Charged With Lying In Wait Binh Thai Luc, the 35-year-old illegal immigrant and possible gang member who is accused of killing five people in an Ingleside home last week, is now facing an additional charge in addition to
SF News Supreme Court Seeming Likely To Kill Entire Health Care Plan Is the Supreme Court about to axe the entire health care initiative that dominated headlines in late 2009, caused many a Congressperson to lose their seat, and could have potentially saved millions of
SF News Berkeley Police Chief Taking A Lot Of Flack Over Cukor Murder The fallout from the sad and unnecessary murder of 67-year-old Peter Cukor last month, outside his home in the Berkeley hills, continues to rain down on Berkeley police chief Michael Meehan. And now
SF News Densest Cities In The U.S. Are In California, Including L.A., S.F., And, Uh, Delano So this is odd: According to a new study by the U.S. Census Bureau, the four densest "urbanized areas" of the country are now all in California, and Los Angeles and the
SF News Supreme Court Upholds 9th Circuit Decision On Religious Speech in Schools SCOTUS yesterday effectively decided to uphold an earlier decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the use of religious messages and textbooks in classrooms. The two cases one involving a San
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cat + Ceiling Fan Light = Fun Here's the briefest, most perfect palate cleanser for you this gray afternoon. It's a mere animated GIF in fact. Enjoy. [bebelstrange via WOW]
SF News Drunk Dude Walks Into Wrong House, Gets Shot A guy who (likely) thought he was walking into a friend's house at 4:20 a.m. Sunday in Foster City was shot multiple times by a guest in the home who thought
SF News Knife Crime 2012: A Second Stabbing At Occupy SF The small but stalwart crew that still occupies the sidewalk outside the Federal Reserve at 101 Market Street was hit with another act of violence last night. A 27-year-old man was stabbed in
SF News Quintuple Murder Victims Identified Earlier today we reported on the various updates, both official and unofficial, regarding Friday's gruesome Howth Street murders. Today the medical examiner has officially identified the victims, and makes it official that the
Arts & Entertainment Rave That Led to Ecstasy Death Returning This Weekend, But In Oakland The POP2012 electronic music fest, which is the latest incarnation of the party that contributed to the MDMA-related deaths of 23-year-old Anthony Mata and 25-year-old Trung Nguyen in 2010, is set to happen
SF News Actually, Three Pedestrians Were Struck By Vehicles Over Weekend, Two Dead Something may have been in the stars regarding cars and busses colliding with humans this past weekend, as there were three separate incidents and two fatalities involving pedestrians one on Lombard Street, one
SF News S.F. Becoming Test Case For Erosion Management Photo of cyclists on the Great Highway by Bob Horowitz. Ocean Beach, especially the south end, is disappearing at an alarming clip, and the NYT published a piece over the weekend about how
SF News Supervisors Very Concerned About Cardboard Thieves, Bottle-and-Can Scavengers Here's a problem we didn't know was a problem: recycling theft. All those little Asian ladies and various other scavengers who go around pulling bottles and cans and cardboard out of bins in
SF News Gambling Debt Cited As Possible Motive For Quintuple S.F. Murder There's been some misinformation and telephone-game reporting happening with Friday morning's grisly quintuple murder in the Ingleside district originally thought to be a murder-suicide but a key bit of intel from sources found
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Red' at Berkeley Rep A perfect play should provoke, inspire, educate, entertain, and delight its audience, and Red is certainly a near-perfect play. Berkeley Rep's latest import from Broadway won the Tony Award for Best Play in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Aguamiel at Fifth Floor New Fifth Floor bar manager Brian Means has just unveiled an entirely new and rather extensive cocktail list at the tucked-away bar inside the Palomar Hotel. (See all the details over here at
Arts & Entertainment Looking For Something To Wear To The Gaultier Opening? The town is abuzz with the opening of this retrospective of the work of fashion designer John Paul Gaultier, opening this weekend at the De Young Museum which we should note is becoming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drama Continues Among Richmond Anti-Jack in the Box NIMBYs We thought the story was over, but no! A group of neighborhood activists in the Richmond who were all part of a police advisory board that was instrumental in making the case to
SF News BREAKING: Five Discovered Dead This Morning Near SF City College In Apparent Murder-Suicide [Updated] Five family members were reportedly found dead around 7:45 this morning inside a home on the first block of Howth Street, near City College. Early reports this morning, via a police department
Arts & Entertainment Local Promoters Seriously Underestimated How Huge Gotye Is; April Show Moved to Bill Graham We first heard "Somebody That I Used to Know" back around the new year, and it was already a hit on YouTube. But Another Planet Entertainment had underestimated the fame that Australian singer
Arts & Entertainment The Rrazz Room Turned Four, And Linda Lavin Was There The Rrazz Room (and yes, it has two Rs), the cabaret venue located off the lobby in the Hotel Nikko, celebrated its fourth anniversary Rrazziversary last night with a star-studded cast of favorite
