SF News You Do, In Fact, Live In The Most Expensive Place In All The Land We already knew that apartments were harder to get than ever, and a new study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition has found that even as home prices continue to decline nationally,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Theme From 'Match Game' Slowed Down 800% Basically everything is trippy slowed down by 800%. The true music geeks among you should enjoy this, as well as the same thing done to the Sanford & Son theme song. [via Lady
Arts & Entertainment ODC/Dance Kicks Off Season With Piece About 'Mad Men'-Era Women One of the pieces that are part of the inaugural program of ODC/Dance's 41st season is called "Breathing Underwater," and the piece grew out of an earlier work by choreographer/ODC founder
SF News Beloved Haight Street Bulldog Dies At Age 11 Jake, the 11-year-old English bulldog who sat outside Bladerunners Hair Studio for the past decade, has passed on to a better place. Jake's owner guardian, David Wilson, the owner of Bladerunners, says Jake
SF News Oakland Shelter Swimming In Rabbits You know the old chestnut about "[copulating] like bunnies"? Yeah, well, an Oakland family whose developmentally disabled son was given two rabbits, believing both were female, was surprised by a litter of rabbits,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fake Telekinesis, Hot Karate Behold, James Hydrick ca. the mid-70s, who in this video appears to have been using the name Craig Murray, promoting his martial arts/telekinesis classes for children in Salt Lake City. (Look! He
SF News Man Throws Chemicals In Cashier's Face, Stabs Another Man After Robbing Polk Gulch Market 54-year-old John Ellis was arrested and charged after robbing a market on the 1400 block of Polk Street Friday evening. Ellis allegedly waited in line for the cashier, and when the young woman
SF News Cyclist Randolph Ang Sentenced To Probation In Death Of Tourist 23-year-old Randolph Ang, who ran down 68-year-old tourist Dionette 'Didi' Cherney on his bicycle last July, ultimately causing her death, was sentenced yesterday to three years probation and 500 hours of community service,
SF News <em>SF Bay Guardian</em> Is Sad About Mirkarimi Plea, Defends Him One More Time Hey, everyone! The San Francisco Bay Guardian really kinda likes and respects Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and they hope that after this plea deal and everything, you'll all stop harshing on him and stuff.
SF News Boo! Transbay Tower Gets Shorter In news that is likely to annoy all those of us who like tall buildings and despise San Franciscans' general aversion to them, a revamped design for the Transbay Tower was just unveiled
SF News Rash Of Burglaries Hits Parkmerced In the far off land known as Parkmerced, a string of recent home burglaries all within blocks (or yards) of each other has the neighborhood freaking out. As CBS reports, the same stretch
SF News BREAKING: Ross Mirkarimi Accepts Plea Deal According to Examiner and other sources, Sheriff Ross Mikarimi has accepted a plea deal, pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of false imprisonment. In exchange for his plea, Mirkarimi will face three years
SF News Castro Basement Fire Damages Apartment Building, Closes Barbershop A blaze at a three-story residential building at 2148 Market Street early Sunday morning has closed the popular Joe's Barbershop, and caused damage to the building. The fire was under control within a
Arts & Entertainment 'On the Road' Movie Finally Getting Released; Watch the Trailer You'll recall way back in 2010 there were some Kirsten Dunst sightings in S.F. when the crew was here shooting this On the Road movie, directed by Walter Salles. Now we finally
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Video Remains Admissible, Says Appeal Panel Yep. That video that Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife Eliana Lopez made with neighbor Ivory Madison, depicting her arm bruises on January 1, will be admissible in court. The appeals decision is a big
SF News With Barely Any Kids In S.F., That Dolores Park Playground Is Opening Soon New census figures only confirm what we already suspected: There are barely any children left in this town to use that oversize playground they just built for them, which is using up practically
SF News Are Americans Just Too Dumb For Democracy? We'll admit we've often asked ourselves this same question ... but now some actual scientists have gone ahead and put the scientific stamp of authority on the notion that if a person is kind
SF News Harold Camping Admits He's A Fool Armageddon enthusiast Harold Camping, who clearly never read the story of Chicken Little and probably should drink more, admitted in a letter to listeners Thursday that he's been a fool and that his
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Things That Seem Normal When You Live Alone Working from home as we do, we totally relate to the "not wearing pants for three days" thing. That is totes normal, btw. [via UCB Comedy]
SF News Bay Area Singing Twins Die Within Hours Of One Another The Miller Twins, two performing young girls who grew up in the Bay Area performing on local TV show The Hoffman Hayride and others, just died in their home in South Lake Tahoe
SF News Woman Found Dead Near Wharf ID'd The woman whose body was found floating near Fisherman's Wharf Tuesday morning, near Pier 45, has been identified as 60-year-old Mi Ryong Park, of San Francisco. Her cause of death remains undetermined, pending
SF News Weather Report: Solar Storm We've had another in a series of early springs this week, with last Sunday being the big, beach-going, park-sitting height of it. Mark Zuckerberg couldn't resist coming out to prove he does, really,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Wallpaper's 'Best Song Everr' San Francisco band Wallpaper made their national TV debut last week, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, with their totally fun song "Best Song Everr." They'll be playing at the Rickshaw on March 23, and
SF News New Book Tells Crazy Story Of Your Black Muslim Bakery, Murder Of Chauncey Bailey A new book by Oakland writer Thomas Peele called Killing the Messenger just recently hit shelves. The subtitle, "A story of radical faith, racism's backlash, and the assassination of a journalist," sums up
SF News Man Who Struck Kid After Giants Game Pleads Guilty To Hit-Run DUI Andrew Vargas, the Hayward 22-year-old who drunkenly plowed into that 9-year-old kid last August after a Giants game, pleaded guilty today to felony DUI in exchange for having hit-and-run charges dropped. He will
