SF News Puppies Stolen in Bayview Burglary Two favorite SFist subjects converged in a story this week: crime, and puppies. Thieves broke into a Bayview district home Tuesday morning and, after attacking the two adult parent dogs in the house,
SF News Cow Hollow's Historic Metro Cinema To Become Equinox Gym A plan to convert Cow Hollow's historic Metro movie theater (2055 Union) to an Equinox gymnasium went before the Planning Commission yesterday, and SFist learns today that it was approved. Alas, another historic
Arts & Entertainment 'Of Men and Mavericks' Continues Shooting Near Santa Cruz Remember that Mavericks movie that's in production, during the shooting of which actor Gerard Butler kind of almost drowned in December? Well, the crew is back in order to capture more shots of
SF News Google At Work On Some Sort Of Home Entertainment System Sigh. Remember Google TV? Yeah, we barely do. Anyway, the Bay Area's most well publicized employer is working on their first real foray into the world of entertainment hardware, with the intent of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Love Piñata' by Tammie Brown Some of you might remember Tammie Brown from RuPaul's Drag Race Season 1, or from this kooky Cinco de Mayo video. She's a little bit twisted! And here's her latest single, "Love Piñata.
SF News Woman's Poop-Covered Necklace Returned Via Sewer; She Is Elated A woman's prized gold necklace, which she accidentally flushed down the toilet last fall, was returned to her this week by a San Rafael sanitation worker who fished it out of a city
SF News Did You Get VD Last Year? A Lot of People in S.F. Did So, San Francisco is a regular hotbed of STDs, according to the Bay Area Reporter and the public health department, with cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia soaring in particular in 2011. The only
SF News Two Cases Of Mad-Cow Disease, One Already Fatal, Reported In Marin [Updated] Yikes. So, a 59-year-old San Rafael woman died in recent weeks of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a.k.a. mad-cow disease, and a second woman in Marin County has been diagnosed with it. According
SF News San Francisco's Five Worst Walgreens Walgreens. It's a great equalizer. We all need toothpaste (well, most of us), Advil, Band-aids, tampons, and deodorant (yes, you do), not to mention hastily selected non-porn birthday cards and toilet paper. Thus,
SF News Body Found Under BART Tracks Near Hayward [Updated] A dead man was found this morning in a ravine in the unincorporated Alameda County territory known as Cherryland, underneath some elevated BART tracks near Hayward. A neighborhood woman has surmised it may
SF News Ingleside Home Explodes, Two People Burned, Drugs Are Blamed [Updated] A home near the intersection of Capitol and Ocean Avenues in the Ingleside neighborhood sort of blew up last night around 9 p.m. sending a woman and a 12-year-old to the hospital
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: S.F. Beer Week Kicks Off Friday Friday marks the kickoff of every local beer geek's wet dream made real: S.F. Beer Week. We may not be Portland or San Diego when it comes to the quality and proliferation
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Psycho Siri' We think we smell a Siri meme brewing on YouTube, lo these many months after she was i-born. Yesterday we brought you this, and today we find a new short film called 'Psycho
SF News Suspect In Santa Rosa Murder Steps In Front of Big Rig, Dies The suspect in the murder of 61-year-old Carole Marie Brooks on Sunday in Santa Rosa died yesterday while being pursued by police. 46-year-old John Quincy Ellis of Stockton, whose relationship to Brooks is
SF News Anonymous Releases Personal Data On Jean Quan, Oakland Officials In response to what they view as an unnecessarily violent response by the City of Oakland to Occupy protesters, the internet collective known as Anonymous struck out against Oakland officials today by posting
SF News Man Murdered In SoMa Homeless Shelter Last Night [Updated] A man was stabbed to death last night just before 7 p.m. in a Fifth Street homeless shelter run by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. An assailant fled the scene and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Scotsman v. Siri Lolz. Tagline: "Apple Scotland: Havin' a wee bit of trouble." Siri has English and Australian accent options, but maybe it's time for a Scottish one as well? [via WOW]
SF News 61-Year-Old Woman Shot And Killed In Her Home In Santa Rosa A 61-year-old woman was shot and killed in her Santa Rosa home Sunday afternoon, just before the Super Bowl kickoff around 2 p.m. Neighbors heard a gunshot, followed by a woman screaming,
SF News Bricks Fall Off Liquor Store In Oakland; Every Journalist In Town Covers It So, a piece of antique brick wall adorning the cornice of an East Oakland liquor store crumbled and fell to the sidewalk early this morning, and for lack of any new Occupy shenanigans
SF News Mother Of Three Assaults, Robs Another Woman On Muni An enraged mother aboard a crowded Muni bus (we believe it was the 12-Folsom) on Thursday evening clobbered another woman in the head screaming "I need my space," then stole the woman's bag
SF News Mirkarimi's Wife Eliana Lopez Lawyers Up The saga of Ross Mirkarimi and the ongoing domestic abuse trial involving his Venezuelan-born wife Eliana Lopez continues this week with Lopez hiring her own lawyer for the upcoming trial, and another hearing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Restaurants Doing Pretty Well, All Things Considered After a couple of years of everyone bemoaning "the economy," we get some more encouraging news today, including the employment numbers, and this bit from the Chron about how well Bay Area restaurants
SF News House Republicans Trying to Kill CA's High-Speed Rail? More sad news for the LA-to-SF high-speed rail line: House GOP members adopted an amendment late last night that "would prohibit California from receiving any high speed rail money in a huge five-year
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: 'Midnight Matt' Dodt Convicted for People's Park Tree-Sitting 55-year-old professional tree-sitter Matthew "Midnight Matt" Dodt was convicted yesterday in an Alameda County court of two misdemeanor counts of of illegal lodging and pointing a laser at a police officer, following a
SF News Three Overnight Shootings In Oakland, One Fatal In addition to the shootings on this side of the Bay last night, three separate shootings in Oakland left one 48-year-old man dead and two others wounded. The fatal incident occurred around 8:
