SF News 'Betty Boop' Murder Victim Exhumed For DNA Testing A woman known only to police as Jane Doe No. 89-3, found dead almost 23 years ago in Pacifica and never identified, was exhumed yesterday from her anonymous grave in Colma so her
SF News Bad News for Hulu Addicts: Usage-Based Internet Fees Are On The Way Just when you thought corporate America couldn't find one more way to drain your bank account, news arrives this week that at least one, if not several, U.S. cable companies are considering
SF News UC Berkeley Receives Early Warning Earthquake Grant A couple times in the last two years we've mentioned talk of developing an earthquake early warning system -- something like what they have in Japan -- which would give all of us
SF News Checking In On The Occupy Oakland Teepee, And A Planned Port Blockade So, as SFist noted yesterday, Occupy Oakland, under the leadership of veteran tree-sitter and activist Zachary RunningWolf, erected an 8-foot tall teepee under an oak tree in Frank Ogawa Plaza to serve as
SF News DA's Office Filing Criminal Charges Against Pedestrian-Killing Drivers, Cyclists District Attorney George Gascon announced yesterday that in addition to filing manslaughter charges against the 23-year-old cyclist who struck and killed 67-year-old Dionette Cherney at Mission and Embarcadero on July 15 (she died
SF News Bisexual Players OK On Gay Softball Team, But Straight Players Can Be Limited Remember this case, in which the National Center for Lesbian Rights took on a discrimination case on behalf of three allegedly straight players on San Francisco's D2, a softball team that is part
SF News Occupy Oakland Attempting Re-Occupation Of Frank Ogawa Plaza Today Occupy Oakland issued a statement today that they intend, presumably after dark and after their non-camping supporters get off work, to attempt to re-occupy Oscar Grant Frank Ogawa Plaza today. After being kicked
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour "The Day-Glo Rainbow Xmas Angel of Union Square" by Jay Barmann/SFist.
SF News Yet Again, 16th & Mission Becomes Site Of Random Shooting Last night around 7 p.m. a 41-year-old man, minding his own business and sitting in a bus shelter at 16th and Mission, got shot in the foot by a stray bullet. He
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Steve Jobs And Jesus Bless Pippa Middleton Stalker Ok, so there's this guy in England named Barry Kooperschmidt. He makes art devoted to Pippa Middleton which is sort of scary looking, but may be totally ironic and he's in on the
SF News Last-Call Booze Run At Excelsior Safeway Turns Into Chaotic Hit-Run Injuring Cop We know it's probably been a boozy few days for some of you, but this story kind of takes it: A couple of dudes attempting to shoplift two bottles of vodka after the
SF News Harvey Milk And George Moscone Remembered In Candlelight Vigil, Lively March Sunday marked the 33rd anniversary of the slayings of Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone, and a group of 100 or so LGBT folk and their admirers gathered at the corner of Castro
SF News Alt-Weekly Cover-Art Smackdown: November 23, 2011 We're doing away with our weekly roundups in which we read the weeklies for you because, well, reading is hard! No, but seriously, it's usually the cover pieces that are of worthy note
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Holiday Palate Cleanser: Larry David's Thanksgiving [Updated] "One thing I could count on every Thanksgiving, and you could bank on it, was at the beginning of the meal my mother saying, 'Larry and I like the dark meat.' It's
SF News Weather Report It's as though the gods want you to suffer this Thanksgiving, to just put the fucking turkey in the oven and hunker down with your Pinot and whiskey and give thanks that at
SF News Mayor Lee To Move Occupy SF To Sketchy Mission Block The SF Occupiers have been on the edge of their sleeping bags the past few days waiting for the next raid, but Matier & Ross have a bead on the behind-the-scenes negotiations happening
SF News Confessed Cop-Shooter In 43-Year-Old Case Talks About Where He's Been All These Years Two weeks ago we told you about Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, who emerged out of hiding to turn himself in to San Mateo County authorities in a shooting case dating back to 1968 that
SF News Marking The Kennedy Assassination, 48 Years Later The decades tick on, but the nation's fascination with and collective grief for John F. Kennedy's assassination remains constant, even today as we mark the 48th anniversary. Above you can see a stabilized
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soon You May Pay Fifty Cents Every Time You Say 'Double-Bag It' The Board of Supervisors will be taking a vote today about a long-discussed proposal to charge customers a fee for every bag they take from a grocery store or retail outlet. Ross Mirkarimi
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Most Adorable Owl Video You've Ever Seen It doesn't get much cuter than that l'il one that likes being pet on the head. [via HuffPo]
SF News SFist Blotter: Man Shoots Sister In South S.F.; Carjacking Foiled By Stick Shift South San Francisco / Shooting, Hostage Situation: A man who's believed to have shot his own sister and then held his family hostage last night has been arrested. Alvin Baja Luis, 55, of San
Arts & Entertainment 'Portlandia' Goes On Tour, Comes To S.F.'s Mezzanine December 30 Oh yes. The brilliant Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, stars and co-creators of IFC's hit Portlandia, are coming to town as part of a quick, six-liberal-city tour called Portlandia: The Tour. They'll be
SF News American Indian Occupation Gets Permanent Exhibit At Alcatraz Some forty years after a group of protesters which swelled at one point to 800 people occupied the island of Alcatraz for 19 months to protest the unfair seizing of Native American lands,
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'Against the Grain' by Hudson Check out this rad stop-motion animation video for a song by a Melbourne-based indie-folk artist called Hudson (download the track at that link). It totally makes us want to go draw, and reminds
