SF News One Killed, Five Wounded in Multiple Oakland Shootings The holiday season appears to have brought with it a new wave of violence in Oakland, with "at least" six separate shootings occurring between Saturday and Sunday, injuring five and killing one man.
SF News R.I.P. Warren Hellman, Banjo Player and Billionaire Local billionaire and philanthropist Warren Hellman has died at age 77. The cause was complications from leukemia. He's well loved of course for creating and bankrolling the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, and fear
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hot Damn' by Serious Business Serious Business is a Portland-based duo (Jason Mampel and Danny Diana-Peebles), one gay, one straight, with a fun, electro-rap thing going on. Their debut single "Hot Damn" features Jason and Danny each talking
SF News Santa Cruz Lady Flips Out Over SmartMeter, Disconnects It, PG&E Cuts Off Her Power Even if you're not a Marin homeowner yourself, you've likely heard tell about the battles being waged in communities around the Bay Area over PG&E's SmartMeters electronic power meters which transmit
SF News Weather Report: A Real La Niña The Sierra-bound skiers and Christmas music fans will be singing "Let It Snow," but that ain't really happening, at least for a couple of weeks. Nor will it be a typically drizzly December
SF News Man Killed By Charter Bus While Trying to Repair It A man was crushed Thursday morning in the charter-bus yard belonging to Cali Party Bus and Lucky Tours while he was attempting to repair one of the companies' vehicles. The man was lying
SF News What's Your Slavery Footprint Number? You may not think that slavery is still a major problem worldwide, and you'd be wrong. As Oakland-based Slavery Footprint can show you via their handy web-based survey, you might have as many
SF News UC Berkeley Gives Tuition Price Break To Middle Class Following the lead of several elite Ivy League schools, UC Berkeley chancellors announced yesterday that they'll be cutting tuition costs for families with annual incomes between $80,000 and $140,000. In a
Arts & Entertainment XXI Forever, The Forever 21 Spinoff For Older Gals, Coming To Former Virgin Megastore Space Forever 21, which last year signed a lease for the enormous former Virgin Megastore space at Stockton and Market, is about to get its second Union Square-adjacent store. The chain's spinoff brand, XXI
SF News More Arrests Made In Deadly Shooting Near Occupy Oakland You'll recall the dramatic incident in which a man was shot and killed near the Occupy Oakland encampment on November 10, after which protesters got really testy with camera crews and journalists believing
SF News Pot Dispensary Hosts Pot Giveaway As It Shuts Its Doors A marijuana dispensary near Sacramento, under pressure from the federal government during the current crackdown on medical marijuana in California, is hosting a going-out-of-business party of sorts Friday complete with pot giveaways for
SF News Husband Sole Suspect In Murder Of Elderly Bernal Heights Woman Hao Mei Wu, the 72-year-old murder victim found unconscious in her Bernal Heights home on Friday night, appears to have been manually strangled by her husband. Police are still weighing a murder charge
Arts & Entertainment Short Film To Become Public Art Piece About Energy Waste, Sadness Light from Sunday Paper on Vimeo. “Light” is a semi-creepy short film directed by David Parker, and as Sunday-Paper.com tells us, it "initially began as a project intended to bring awareness to
SF News PG&E Finally Admits Liability In San Bruno Blast Fifteen months after a high-pressure gas line explosion killed eight people and decimated a neighborhood in San Bruno, PG&E may finally be willing admit they might have done something wrong. It's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Whiskey Christmas' We've got an audio cleanser for you today: "Whiskey Christmas," a song off the 2007 album Christmas Songs for Drunken Atheists by Irish folk-punk band Darby O'Gill and the Little People. San Francisco
SF News Fashionista Cat Burglar Gets Released From Jail, Gets To Keep Stuff She Stole Judge Angela Bradstreet might have some fashionista sympathy for prolific cat burglar Pooja Gandhi (remember her?), because the judge has ordered that SFPD return to Gandhi all of the unclaimed stolen hats, shoes,
SF News Facebook, Your Cell Phone Would Like You Not To Kill Yourself A new mobile phone app and a new service/button on Facebook are trying to help the suicide prevention cause. The smartphone app, specifically geared toward soldiers and military vets, is called Guard
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: SNL's Meth-Filled Holiday Short Yay! SNL's Digital Shorts are often the only reason to watch the show, and this weekend's episode included one that's not exception. It's a holiday-themed ditty called "Best Friends" featuring Katy Perry and
SF News Wiener Wants To Legislate Dog Walking Now Supervisor Scott Wiener has taken the bold step of authoring some new legislation that will make it illegal for dog walkers in San Francisco to walk more than seven pooches at a time.
SF News New Twitter HQ To Feature Fancy Cafeteria, Roof Garden The town remains abuzz with Twitter's upcoming move to upper-mid-Market, to the former Furniture Exchange/SFMart building at 1355 Market Street. And now we have a couple architect's renderings via a press conference
SF News Russian Hill Murderer Gary Scott Holland Sentenced Today Gary Scott Holland, the creepy dude with a thing for the occult who posed as a PG&E repairman in order to enter the Russian Hill home of 46-year-old Kate Horan and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: AQ's New Amsterdam #1 So, check it out: There's a new restaurant in central SoMa, directly across Mission Street from the 9th Circuit, and it's called AQ (1085 Mission Street between 6th and 7th). They're taking the
SF News Vacant Storefronts Become 'Popuphood' In Old Oakland Today Oakland hasn't exactly been a hotbed of retail activity in recent decades, and efforts to bring more retail downtown, and to revive the foundering Jack London Square have been mostly stalled (though Coi/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Wild Bride' At Berkeley Rep Those of you who read these reviews know that our complaints about the lack of imagination and freshness in Bay Area theater, at least among the established companies, go back quite a while.
SF News Attorney General Insists Marijuana Enforcement Still A Low Priority. Wtvr. "No really," attorney general Eric Holder seems to be saying. "We still don't care that much about medical marijuana enforcement. But California's got their own stuff to deal with." In a House Judiciary
