SF News Michele Bachmann, <strike>Rick Perry,</strike> Dropping Out of Race [Updated] Not that we could even muster a minute of enthusiasm to pay attention to the Iowa caucuses last night wake us up when they decide to make California an early primary state but
SF News Silly Burglar Gets Himself Stuck on Cliff on Telegraph Hill [Updated] A bumbling cat burglar managed to get himself trapped, and surrounded by cops, while trying to escape down a brush-covered cliff on the eastern face of Telegraph Hill last evening. The drop is
SF News Illegal Overnight Bonfire Kills Occupy Oakland's Teepee The city of Oakland has revoked a permit that had allowed Occupy Oakland to erect its symbolic teepee daily on Frank Ogawa Plaza which protesters still insist on calling "Oscar Grant Plaza." The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Madonna, In Translation The brilliant Jennifer Saunders (Ab Fab) and Dawn French (French and Saunders) have done us a little "reading from literature," in this case the translated transcript of an interview done by a Hungarian
SF News New Year's Day Fire On Masonic Ruled Accidental That unfortunate fire we told you about yesterday that scorched three buildings on Masonic between Waller and Frederick on New Year's Day has been ruled an accident by fire department investigators. The blaze
SF News Oakland Sears Store Safe From Closure For Now Last week brought the big news that Sears Holdings would be closing 100 to 120 Sears and Kmart stores around the country following a dismal year of stagnant or declining sales. But as
SF News Vallejo Man Arrested For Allegedly Beating, Stabbing His Mother 'Tis the season of violent domestic disputes? 22-year-old Felix Rivera of Vallejo was arrested last night for allegedly beating and stabbing his mother, whose name has not been released. The incident occurred at
SF News 65-Year-Old San Jose Woman Killed With "Machete-Type Weapon" Police were called to a home in the 1900 block of Johnston Avenue in San Jose Friday night to find two injured women, one of them fatally injured with a "machete-type weapon." The
SF News Banana Sam Returned, Slightly Shaken, to San Francisco Zoo! Abducted squirrel monkey and Twitter sensation Banana Sam has been returned, only slightly worse for wear, to the San Francisco Zoo. The 17-year-old, 2-pound monkey was found Saturday evening by someone in Stern
SF News L.A. Terrorized By Carsonist, Person of Interest Detained as Fires Continue Los Angeles has their very own carsonist(s), and it's been a tense holiday weekend for residents of Hollywood and West Hollywood as at least 55 cars were "firebombed" by what investigators believe
SF News Upper Haight Apartment Fire Displaces Ten, Injures One It's been a fiery start to the new year both here and down in L.A., and a three-alarm fire last night on Masonic between Frederick and Waller damaged three buildings and displaced
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Regarding This Calendar Year Thing Time, man. You think you get it. And then you realize that the Ancient Greeks and Romans were so calendar-challenged that they had to insert random months every few years to make sure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Flash Gordon At Haven Over in Oakland, chef-restaurateur Daniel Patterson has just opened a fourth new restaurant, after just recently opening Plum Bar next to his one-year-old Plum at Webster and Broadway (he also owns the Michelin
SF News Pinole Man Charged in the 1999 Murder of Girlfriend Alice Sin 40-year-old Raymond Wong of Pinole was arrested Christmas Eve and charged yesterday in a 12-year-old murder case that had gone cold years ago. Wong is accused of murdering his one-time girlfriend, Alice Sin,
SF News Muni T-Line Train and Police Car Collide in Dogpatch, Injuring Four A collision just before 6 a.m. this morning at 3rd and 22nd Street is still tying up traffic and slowing down Muni trains, according to Alert SF, which recommends avoiding the area.
SF News Five Busloads Of Bay Area Teens Busted With Enormous Drug Cache Five busloads of Bay Area high school students bound for a ski trip in Utah were busted by cops in Elko, Nevada for a truly impressive drug stash that looks to amount to
SF News Nancy Pelosi Really Wants To Retire, Says Daughter According to daughter (and independent filmmaker) Alexandra Pelosi, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi really wants to retire from Congress, but her biggest donors won't let her. Now, perhaps we should take this with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mean Cat Shoves Another Cat Down Ladder In case you needed any further evidence that cats are adorable yet cold-hearted bitches, watch this. [Thx, Walter] P.S. The mean cat is apparently named Kimba, and her poor victim is Bella.
SF News Berkeley Hills Fire Damages Two Homes, Fire Truck Two multi-million-dollar homes in the Berkeley hills sustained heavy damage last night as a fire spread quickly from one to the other. The homes are on Miller Avenue near Keeler Avenue and Grizzly
SF News BART To Run Trains Until 3 a.m. New Year's Day, Still Doing Asinine Skip-Stop Thing Despite not being able to remove their collective heads from their tushes to figure out late-night service on a regular basis, BART has managed to make one good decision for New Year's Eve
Arts & Entertainment Epic Beard Man To Be Immortalized/Fictionalized In New Film Wow. That was fast. No sooner was Epic Beard Man a modest viral sensation, after beating the crap out of a young African American man aboard an AC Transit bus last year, but
SF News Burglar Alarms Basically Meaningless In San Jose The San Jose Police Department has decided that they aren't going to respond to burglar alarms anymore unless someone can confirm that an actual crime is taking place, or has taken place. There
SF News Refugees Compare East Oakland Unfavorably To Iraq The cause of Iraqi refugees, thousands of whom aided the U.S. military during the Iraq War in exchange for visas, was much in the news in the last 24 hours. There was
SF News Overnight Shooting In Western Addition [Updated] An unidentified victim (we're not even clear if he/she was male or female) was shot last night around 8:40 p.m. near the intersection of Divisadero and Eddy Streets. The victim's
SF News New Occupy Encampment Springs Up In West Oakland Just when you thought they might be hibernating, more than a dozen tents went up last night at a new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway.
