Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Camel Cigarette Promo From The '90s This makes the early '90s feel like a really, truly, long-ass time ago. Not only was Camel brazenly trying to sell nightclub owners on hosting moronic parties with Joe the Camel there, but
SF News Murder-Suicide Marks First Killing in Brentwood in Two Years The quiet, deep-East Bay city of Brentwood was the site of a tragic scene Wednesday afternoon when a husband and wife were killed in an apparent murder-suicide. The couple, who were in their
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jackie Beat Parodies Madonna Madonna has this new album coming out. Your over-35 gay male friends probably know all about it and have listened to all the "leaked" tracks, so you can ask them about it if
SF News Want to Yell At Your Muni Overlords? Tonight You Can The SFMTA is having what is sure to be a swell town hall meeting tonight in West Portal to discuss their budget, and the topic of charging for parking meters on Sundays. Let
Arts & Entertainment Why We Never Liked Mike Daisey Anyway Hindsight is 20/20 and blah blah. It's easy for us to go negative on the much-besmirched character of Mike Daisey, the monologist who took on Apple and has come away just sounding
SF News PG&E Trying To Get Out Of Paying Fine For Deadly San Bruno Disaster Get this: PG&E actually had the balls to ask the state this week if they wouldn't please be so kind as to offset the fine they're expected to be on the
SF News S.F. Gay Couple Make Plea To Prevent One Partner's Deportation San Francisco couple Brian Willingham and Alfonso Garcia have been together over a decade, after meeting in the Castro on Halloween (remember when they had that?). Recently, Alfonso was detained and thrown in
SF News All Medical Marijuana In S.F. Might Be Doomed SFist has been hearing rumblings from the medical marijuana community of late that that first wave of dispensary closures by the feds was just the beginning, and there were more closures to come.
SF News Airlines To Consider Letting You Keep Your iPad On During Takeoff Do a few Kindles and iPods and iPads really pose a threat to airline safety? We have always wondered this. Especially while sitting on the ground at JFK waiting an hour to take
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Ivory Madison's Husband Is Pissed; Lopez To Give Press Conference; Mayor Lee Steps In Topping the headlines this morning relating to embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi we have a somewhat damning piece in the Chronicle by Ivory Madison's husband, Abraham Mertens. He tells of multiple phone calls from
SF News Economy Rebounding Big Time In S.F., Says S.F. Business Org A new biennial report by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute declares that the San Francisco Bay Area is now the 19th largest economy in the world, and our innovation-driven, $535 billion economy
Arts & Entertainment Al Pacino Brings Oscar Wilde Doc To Sold-Out Castro Theatre This Week Al Pacino directed a new documentary called Wilde Salome that's described as "unconventional" and "an intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse into Oscar Wilde's life." It also features actress Jessica Chastain, and the U.S. premiere
SF News Berkeley To Get Some Tall(ish) Buildings The Berkeley City Council is set to vote tomorrow night on a revised Downtown Area Plan that has been (*cough*) seven years in the making. Such long-range planning initiatives tend to come with
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Sentencing Happening Now; Willie Brown Chimes In; So Do Matier & Ross [Updated] For all those of you who aren't entirely disinterested and bored with this story by now (and you know who you are, avid Mirkarimi fans and detractors with your many emphatic comments!), allow
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From the 2012 San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Parade The rain held off and despite the grayness, a good time was had by many this afternoon during the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade up Market Street. It doesn't really hold a candle
SF News Two Underground Explosions Rock Chinatown/North Beach [Updated] We're getting reports of a manhole explosion in the last hour near the corner of Grant and Pine, and PG&E is reportedly already on the scene. Emergency In SF reports that
Arts & Entertainment Local Mashup Wunderkind DJ Earworm Returns With 'Mama' Here's a little music to help you through the remainder of your Friday. DJ Earworm, the SF-based DJ whom we last heard from in December with his annual year-end roundup of pop hits,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Green Room at Absinthe The bar program at Absinthe recently got a makeover from one of its original bar managers, Jeff Hollinger, who is now co-owner of the Absinthe-affiliated Comstock Saloon. One of the drinks on Hollinger's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 'Dark Shadows' Trailer from Tim Burton It's all the rage on the 'nets right now: Tim Burton's trailer for his film adaptation of '60s/early 70s television melodrama Dark Shadows is on its way to theaters this summer. It
SF News Gascon Is Not Going to Let Mirkarimi Off Without a Fight Chomping at the bit to get Ross Mirkarimi to stand trial for domestic abuse, apparently, District Attorney George Gascon has some more fighting words for the sheriff, who pleaded guilty Monday to a
SF News Deplorable Crooks Rufie-ing and Robbing Guys in Castro Here's an unwelcome bit of news out of the Castro gay-bar scene: There have been a string of incidents recently involving gay men getting rufied, led back woozily to their homes by crooks
SF News NYT Now Intrigued By Our Demand-Based Parking System The front page of the New York Times website right now is a story about San Francisco's new demand-based, variably priced parking system, which they claim is already making parking spots easier to
SF News ... And, Another Stabbing On top of the dude who was stabbed whilst minding his own business at Market and 7th Street Wednesday morning, an 18-year-old kid was stabbed near Balboa Park BART Wednesday night during a
SF News Nevius, 'No Fan of Mirkarimi,' Says He Should Stay In Office At least one person at the Chronicle has had enough with the Mirkarimi debacle and doesn't care to see the guy publicly flogged any further, and shockingly, it's Chuck Nevius. The man of
Arts & Entertainment Pam Grier Is Coming To The Castro Theatre Saturday Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the great Pam Grier, the queen of blaxploitation and longtime obsession of Quentin Tarantino, is appearing at the Castro Theatre on Saturday night as part of a double bill
