Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Mr. Belvedere' AIDS Joke We have a mid-80s sitcom zinger for you here about having AIDS, delivered by a child (the delivery could have used a little more rehearsal, we think). This was probably a real uncomfortable
SF News Prop 8 Returns To 9th Circuit This Afternoon So, yeah. Prop 8. It's still being kicked back and forth around the courts like a bullied gay child on an unfriendly playground, and today it goes back to the Ninth Circuit Court
SF News Manhunt Underway In East Oakland For Black Friday Shooter [Update] Oakland police are currently surrounding a house in East Oakland where they believe a suspect in the November 25 shooting that injured a San Lorenzo man outside the Wal-Mart in San Leandro. Police
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Club Med Dance School! Can you do the tequila boom-boom? [Everything is Terrible]
Arts & Entertainment 'God's Plot' Brings Puritan Comedy To Berkeley The current production in The Shotgun Players' 20th anniversary season is God's Plot, a world premiere by Bay Area playwright and director Mark Jackson. It takes as its subject the first play ever
SF News Oakland Pimp Couple Indicted In Teen Sex Trafficking Ring We reported in September on the teen prostitution ring that got busted at a South San Francisco Travelodge, and now the couple behind it all, Mahendar "Mike" Singh, 40, and his wife, Helen
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Stop Regular Movie Screenings? [Updated] Hold the phone! According to a local film industry source (via Michael Petrelis) the venerable and universally adored Castro Theatre is allegedly going to cease to be a movie house in January, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Justin Bieber's Steampunk Xmas Every lesbian's dream girlfriend is back with a new Christmas video, and it's for a funk-i-fied version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Also, this means the steampunk aesthetic has officially, once
SF News Daily Show Makes Fun Of California's Ballot Initiative System Once again, the Daily Show sees fit to make fun of us, and this time it's the entire state of California that takes the brunt of their comedic reportage. On last night's Daily
SF News Occupy SF And Oakland To Occupy Individual Homes Facing Foreclosure Today We want to be supportive of the Occupy movement. We do. But as with all things (and like most Americans), we bore easily. But we're trying to stay alert and remain positive as
SF News Holiday Shoppers Pepper-Sprayed In Walnut Creek, Frightened By Quacking Homeless Man in Union Square In separate incidents last week, some holiday shoppers trying to subdue a thief got pepper-sprayed in their faces; and some other shoppers in Union Square found themselves being pursued by a crazed, aggressive
SF News Elderly Lady Arrested For Trying To Snip Husband's Penis With Scissors We do love a good tabloid headline ... 69-year-old Virginia Valdez of Palm Springs must not have been having a very good night on Saturday with her 62-year-old husband seeing as she tried to
SF News Well Known Skateboarder Peter Starrs Dies In Motorcycle Accident 24-year-old skater Peter Starrs has been identified as the victim in a fatal motorcycle accident that occurred near the 101-80 connector ramp in S.F. early Saturday. According to the CHP (via the
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour Guerrilla wire sculpture on Russian Hill. Photo: Brian Wiedenmeier.
SF News Weather Report Brrr, right? You were probably walking around the Mission without a scarf last night and totally regretted that. And it was something like 40 degrees when you woke up this morning, and despite
SF News Occupy Comes To The Castro, Bayview, Tenderloin, And The Mission Today Neighborhood-specific Occupy protests are happening simultaneously today in four 'hoods around the city which organizers say have experienced the highest rates of "eviction for profit." 99-percenters are being called to gather in the
SF News Giselle Esteban, Accused Murder Suspect, Gives Birth The former best friend accused of murdering nursing student Michelle Le gave birth to a baby boy last week while in custody of Alameda County authorities, just before Thanksgiving. Giselle Esteban was reportedly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Seasonal Punch At Harry Denton's Starlight Room What better time of year to do a little hotel-bar drinking around Union Square than December, right? It's about the only place in the city that feels truly Christmas-y, if you ask us,
Arts & Entertainment Newsflash: Bookstore Actually Opens, Instead Of Closes, In The Mission Here's something you don't read every day: A new bookstore opens today on 24th Street (near Humphrey Slocombe at Treat) called Alley Cat Books, from the same owner of Dog Eared Books on
SF News Good Samaritan Killed In Fairfield After Helping Jump-Start RV Well, this is terrible. Good samaritan Rudy Gonzales, 70, of Hayward was struck and killed by an RV at about 10 a.m. Thursday, in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Fairfield.
SF News Flush With Prospective Renters, Landlords Now Charging Application Fees You've heard the unfortunate news, right? With a shiny new tech boom getting into full swing, apartment hunting in S.F. is once again a contact sport that may require you to maim
SF News SFPD Putting Up Barricades Around Occupy SF Encampment [Updated] Uh oh, you guys. We're getting word that the SFPD is throwing up barricades around the Occupy SF camp at Justin Herman Plaza. We don't yet know what this means, but a confrontation
SF News <em>Examiner</em> Announces Editorial Shifts, Talks Trash About The <em>Chronicle</em> The Examiner, as we mentioned, was recently sold to a news consortium led by Black Press Group, and taking over as publisher is San Francisco resident Todd Vogt. Today the paper announced that
Arts & Entertainment In Honor of World AIDS Day: AIDS-in-S.F. Doc Shortlisted for Oscar; Who Was the Real Patient Zero? It's World AIDS Day everyone! Therefore you should be putting on a condom right now and/or trying to combat HIV in the streets or the laboratory! In lieu of that, you may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Two Songs About The Grubstake Diner Many of you are probably intimately familiar with the Grubstake at Pine and Polk, which serves burgers to the drunken masses every night until 4 a.m. Well, long before Polk Street became
