Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hummingbird Snoring Please observe this darling little Peruvian hummingbird, called an Amethyst-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus amethysticollis), and listen to it snore. Ahhh. For more fun from the same videographer, please see this darling baby swallow-tailed nightjar.
Arts & Entertainment Notable New York Club, Mr. Black, Debuts In SF Thursday Homosexual visitors to New York in the mid- and latter 2000s may have found themselves in the downtown club known as Mr. Black, which was the brain-child of promoter Stuart Black and originated
SF News Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill Increasingly Seen Elsewhere, Like Brisbane The squawking parrots of Telegraph Hill, loved by everyone who doesn't have to live near them, are increasingly spreading out to other areas of the city, and down the peninsula. As the Chron
SF News Some Yoga Freaks Want To Make Yoga An Olympic Sport A group called USA Yoga thinks that rabbit pose and standing bow-pulling pose should be part of an Olympic event, and we're seriously curious if the Olympic committee is even half listening. A
SF News Salesforce.com May Not Build Enormous Mission Bay Campus After All Salesforce.com just dropped a bombshell on the Mayor's office, announcing that they are indefinitely suspending plans for that enormous, 14-acre office campus in Mission Bay. Instead, company officials say they are focusing
SF News Man Stabbed On Julian Avenue Also Hit By Truck Well, this is just sad: 47-year-old Richard Sprague, the man who was left dying on Julian Avenue on February 19 and lay there moaning for five hours before anyone took notice, actually walked
SF News Is There A Subway-Groping Epidemic No One Is Talking About? While we're aware that women get inappropriately hit on and outright harassed on buses and in the streets of San Francisco, we're taking this new, semi-sensational piece by the Bay Citizen with a
SF News Mirkarimi Video Evidence Deemed Admissible Things got a little worse for Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi today as his trial kicks off and the new judge, Garrett Wong, sided with the prosecution and will allow the use of Eliana Lopez's
SF News Are Cyclists On The Wiggle Out To Kill Pedestrians? Resident Chron curmudgeon Chuck Nevius, who's never been shy when it comes to carping about hot-button topics like off-leash laws and hobo feces, returned to another favorite beat last week: pissing off cyclists.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Park City at Zero Zero If you haven't heard, Zero Zero is a good place for drinks, and food. Not only are the pizzas solid and the small plates excellent, they make a mean, well balanced cocktail. One
SF News Woman Killed Running Across I-580 This Morning; Allegedly Drunk Lady Kills Three We have two sad highway tragedies to share with you today. The first occurred this morning in Pleasanton when a woman tried to run across six lanes of speeding traffic on I-580 around
Arts & Entertainment Gerard Butler Blames Mavericks Accident For Pill Addiction Actor Gerard Butler who stars in the upcoming Of Men and Mavericks, shot near Santa Cruz is checking out of rehab today, and he blames his recent slip down the rabbit hole of
SF News Photo: Large Naked Woman Stomps On Car In Noe Valley [NSFW] A woman described as "heavyset" and naked except for her shoes was pulled off the J-Church line on Tuesday morning, and while cops and medical personnel were evaluating her near the intersection of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Scorched' at ACT Sometimes watching a play about torture in a war-torn country can be torturous in and of itself. And while we would not say that about A.C.T.'s latest offering, Scorched, we
SF News Woman Trapped Beneath N-Judah Today in Sunset A woman was briefly trapped under a N-Judah metro car this afternoon, requiring the SFFD to lift the car in order to free her. The details of the incident remain unclear, but suffice
SF News Jeremy Lin-sanity Shows No Sign Of Abating The media's love for New York Knicks star point guard (and Palo Alto native) Jeremy Lin is in high gear, and this week finds Lin popping up in all kinds of headlines. He's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Avett Brothers' 'Kick Drum Heart' Today is the pre-sale date for the Avett Brothers at the Berkeley Greek on Saturday, June 23 (get tickets here, and under APE pre-sae type the password: love). So, here's a video of
SF News Hey, Everyone Thinks California Sucks! A new poll, by an organization we can't endorse called Public Policy Polling, found that in a nationwide survey, California ranks dead last in a popularity contest of all 50 states. We do
SF News Mirkarimi Lawyer Moves To Exclude Wife's Statements S.F. Sheriff and accused domestic abuser Ross Mirkarimi is set to return to court next week for trial proceedings, and in advance of a judge even being assigned to the case, Mirkarimi's
SF News Schizophrenic Who (Allegedly) Killed Berkeley Man Thought He Was Psychic The suspect in the murder of 67-year-old Peter Cukor over the weekend believed that he was psychic and that he could find his fiancé on the victim's property. Cukor's wife has already said
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bob Ross Talks Dirty Behold this montage of a number of beautiful works by the late Bob Ross, as well as a collection of things he said on air, totally out of context, that actually sound quite
SF News Speed Freak Killer Wants His Money Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine, whose tips recently led investigators to three separate abandoned well sites in San Joaquin County containing over 1000 bones and fragments from murder victims of decades past, is
SF News Oakland Cop Shoots Oscar Grant's Cousin The OPD has yet more blood on their hands and another potentially disastrous PR problem to contend with as news arrives today that the victim in an officer-involved shooting in East Oakland on
Arts & Entertainment Marin Man Rebuilds Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Doghouse Only in the Marin Independent Journal do we get such stories... Novato resident Jim Berger, a Marin native, grew up in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in San Anselmo. His father, a college
SF News Documentary Filmmaker Trailing <em>Examiner</em> Crime Reporters Filmmaker Max Cherney has been hanging out with Examiner crime reporters, and writers on their Law & Disorder blog, Mike Aldax and Rob Nagle. Cherney first caught wind of their work via a
