SF News Sears And Kmart Closing 100+ Stores; Oakland's Likely To Go The big retail news today came from Sears Holdings, the company that since 2005 has owned both Sears and Kmart, which announced that it would be closing "at least" 100 under-performing stores nationwide
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'S**t Vegans Say' We mentioned last week that this meme didn't seem quite yet ready to die, and alas, here it is again, this time poking fun at vegans! But of course, the lad responsible for
SF News Teen Girl Pistol-Whipped, Boyfriend Shot During Mission Mugging Just after 7 p.m. on Friday a teenage girl was robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by a 30-year-old thief on the 100 block of Valencia, near Market Street. When her boyfriend tried
SF News Deadly Fell-Masonic Intersection Gets New Red-Light Cameras Here's an item of keen interest to drivers who reside in the Haight and Sunset: The intersection of Fell and Masonic has just been equipped with new red-light cameras, the kind that will
SF News Woman And Her Two Dogs Die In San Leandro House Fire 48-year-old Valorie Rogers-Rumph and her two dogs, a rottweiler and a pit bull, were found dead in a San Leandro home Monday morning after neighbors reported fire coming out of the home. The
Arts & Entertainment DJ Earworm Unveils United State Of Pop 2011 As we have for several years running, here's the annual, always incredible mash-up of the year's pop hits by SF-based DJ, DJ Earworm. He released it just in time for Xmas, and it's
SF News Rural Californians Unhappy That They Have to Pay to Have All Those Wildfires Put Out Earlier this year, Jerry Brown was threatening to impose a $150 fee on all rural residents of the state in order to offset the costs of Cal Fire programs, which costs the state
SF News Gay-Friendly Castro Church Forced To Disinvite Gay-Friendly Clergy From Pre-Christmas Services The gay-friendly but nevertheless Catholic Most Holy Redeemer Church on Diamond Street in the Castro, which has a heavily gay and lesbian congregation, was recently asked by the city's Catholic archdiocese to rescind
SF News Another Holiday-Season Shooting At That Same San Leandro Wal-Mart The Wal-Mart in San Leandro is apparently the kind of place you want to arrive at armed: Last night the parking lot was the scene of the second shooting in less than a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink War Between Mediocre Downtown Lunch Spots And Food Trucks Rages On If you're a Financial District worker who has been dying a slow death of salad and bland soup consumption ever since you started working down there, you were probably thrilled to find fun
Arts & Entertainment Regarding This 'S**t ___s Say' YouTube Meme As many of you know, we here at the ists love a good meme. And for the past couple of weeks the webs have been ablaze with video variations all stemming from "S*
SF News Oakland Drops $100,000+ On Independent Investigation Into Police Conduct During Occupy We're not sure what's worse: Spending millions of dollars to protect a concrete and grass plaza from a few dozen earnest hippies and ultimately brutalizing several protesters and launching a nationally vilified tear-gas
Arts & Entertainment Kreayshawn Almost Became A Janitor, Once Worked At IKEA Oakland-born rapper Kreayshawn is headlining a New Year's Eve show at the Regency Ballroom (tickets still available), winding a year in which a single YouTube video landed her a record deal and a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Very Naughty Chanukah Sexy sexy Jewess Chevonne brings us this instant holiday classic, "My Menorah," in honor of the first night of Chanukah. It's full of totally ridiculous double entrendres, and we adore it. As Chevonne
SF News East Bay Foundation Gives Christmas Gifts To Murder Victims' Children Christmas came early for a group of 48 families touched by violence in Oakland. An organization called the Nemo Foundation, along with a battered women’s program, A Safe Place, threw a special
SF News Giselle Esteban Indicted For Michelle Le Murder In an effort to make the trial process "more efficient," Alameda County prosecutors had a three-day grand jury hearing last week in the murder case of Michelle Le and obtained a grand jury
SF News Oakland City Council Decides Not To Sic Cops On Every Last Protester At their meeting last night, the Oakland City Council rejected a proposed resolution which we discussed yesterday that would have authorized Oakland police to use "whatever lawful tools" necessary to prevent another shutdown
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dog That Says 'Oh No' It's been a while since we had a simple, pet-related palate cleanser. And this dog expresses an emotion we experience every hour on the hour. Cheers, pooch. After-work drinks on us. [BuzzFeed]
SF News Man Shot By Cops In Tenderloin Was Facing Third Strike 33-year-old Steven Michael Young of San Carlos was stopped by SFPD officers last Wednesday at Bush and Larkin for a vehicle registration inspection, after he'd driven into the city for what his family
SF News Marin Medical Alliance, One of the Oldest Pot Dispensaries in the State, Closes Its Doors The Marin Medical Alliance, which was founded in 1990 as the Hemp Renaissance Council of West Marin and opened at 6 School Street in Fairfax in 1996, was forced to close over the
Arts & Entertainment Gerard Butler Almost Drowned at Mavericks, You Guys The local webs are abuzz this a.m. with news that movie star and convincing Greek warrior Gerard Butler got held under water and maybe could have drowned yesterday while filming a scene
SF News Occupy SFers Still Being Arrested; Oakland Wants Occupier Shenanigans Stopped at All Costs [Updated] You and the rest of the planet are tired of reading Occupy headlines, but you might like to know that the SFPD arrested yet another person, under the Sit/Lie law, for plopping
SF News Power Outage at San Luis Obispo Sewage Plant Sends 10,000 Gallons of the Stuff Into the Ocean The beaches around Cambria on the central coast are a lot more like the beaches of northwest Mexico these days with 10,000 gallons of fresh sewage having just been spilled out of
SF News Is Apple Developing a TV? There is a fresh "assault" in the works from Apple on the TV industry, and a piece in today's Wall Street Journal focuses on some recent meetings that Apple execs have been having
SF News Prolific Local Sperm Donor Still On His Press Tour A couple weeks ago we told you about Trent Arsenault, the dude the FDA is now persecuting because he's giving away his sperm via a personal website but isn't doing all the appropriate
