SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Naked in the Rain from Oakland's Sidebar Closing out SF Cocktail Week on Sunday was a party over in Alameda at the St. George distillery, in celebration of the release of their three new gins which we mentioned vis a
SF News Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Will Defend Himself, Wants His Shackles Removed Scary accused serial killer Joseph Naso, 77, who's in the preliminary hearing stage of what should be a pretty interesting quadruple-murder trial in a Marin County court, has asked a judge to let
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Broken Social Scene's 'Cause = Time' Here's a tune that's a few years old from a band/collective we've always loved, Broken Social Scene. They'll be here in S.F. this weekend performing for free (you may have heard)
SF News Mendocino Murder Suspect Aaron Bassler: Not Going Down Without a Gunfight There's a manhunt straight out of the movies happening in the dense woodland around Fort Bragg, up in typically quiet Mendocino County. The other day we posted about a surveillance-camera sighting of murder
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Once in a Lifetime' at ACT Nothing ever changes in Hollywood. They think they want intelligent people to write screenplays and make creative decisions, but meanwhile they fly by the seat of their pants and often the dumbest movies
SF News Accused Murderer Giselle Esteban Keeps Using Pregnancy As Excuse to Avoid Court For the second time, the woman accused of murdering nursing student Michelle Le declined to appear in court yesterday, claiming medical issues relating to her pregnancy. Giselle Esteban, who is now in her
SF News 700 Convicted Criminals Soon Returning to S.F. You've heard about this thing called "realignment," right? Because the Supreme Court ruled that California's prisons were too ridiculously overcrowded, prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes are getting "realigned" and sent back to city
SF News We Read the Weeklies: September 28, 2011 We know the glare on your iPad will make it tough to read our quick summary of the alt-weeklies' hits and misses this week while lounging on Hipster Hill, but please, try your
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Broken Cat' A particularly flexible feline, ladies and gentlemen. Sidenote: We love the British morning television playing in the background. [via Laughing Squid]
SF News SFist Blotter: Delfina Robbed of a Crostata; Shooting at East Bay Dragons HQ Dolores Park / Dessert Theft: Delfina chef Craig Stoll reports that a homeless man has just, in the last hour, stolen an entire huckleberry crostata from a picnic lunch the restaurant is currently catering
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Shop Owner, Accused of Murder, Dying of Starvation After Hunger Strike 56-year-old Hong Ri Wu, accused of a double murder last winter and whom a court-appointed psychiatrist has already deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, is in his fourth week of a hunger strike
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Taming of the Shrew' at CalShakes We love when repertory companies, whose duty it is to cycle through Shakespeare's entire body of work, tackle the "tough" plays that have been deemed by modern minds to be too controversial/un-PC/
SF News SFist Blotter: Two Women Shot on 6th Street; Man Stabs Parking Meter Sixth Street / Shooting: A 15-year-old girl and a 43-year-old woman were both shot at the intersection of 6th and Minna on Saturday around 2:15 a.m. The girl was struck in both
SF News Mendocino Authorities Say They're Closing In on Accused Murderer Aaron Bassler The manhunt continues for the fourth straight week for murder suspect Aaron Bassler, who allegedly shot and killed a Fort Bragg city councilman on August 27 in the woods outside of town. New
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dubstep Slow-Dance We'll admit right now that we're old and we don't really *get* dubstep. Like, here we are in 2011, so much has been done with dance music at this point that they've run
SF News The Safest City in California: Belvedere Sleepy, richy rich Belvedere, that little island made of gold up in Marin, next to Tiburon (where Tony Bennett has a mansion), has been noted by the FBI as the safest city in
SF News SFist Blotter: Women Robbed, Beaten at Market Street Travelodge Mission / Mid-Market: Two women, aged 26 and 23, were robbed and pistol-whipped early Thursday after one stepped out of their hotel room around 2 a.m., at the Travelodge at Market and Valencia.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bon Iver at the Greek Bon Iver played the Greek Theater in Berkeley last night. We were not there. Probably neither were most of you. But we bet some of you were! For those who are sad to
SF News Al Gore Coming to S.F. in Support of Alioto-Pier for Mayor Yes, kids. Michela Alioto-Pier has some friends in high places, and last week we saw the announcement that Al Gore had officially endorsed her for mayor. The campaign announces today that the former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scenes From a Farm-to-Table Dinner Cooked By a Drag Queen Chef Remember Gourmet magazine? Where you could reliably turn to find some gorgeous photo spread of beautiful people enjoying a perfect summer lunch at someone's family manse at Lake Como, or in a rustic-chic
SF News Muni Bus Rolls Over Woman's Arm, Keeps Going A female cyclist was injured on September 14, on Broadway in North Beach, when her bicycle collided with an 8X bus and she was subsequently run over by its rear wheel. Muni and
SF News Police Cracking Down on Red-Light-Blowing Cyclists Following a spate of accidents involving cyclists who don't obey traffic signals, the SFPD is in crack-down mode this morning. Joe Eskenazi reports on The Snitch that "a phalanx of motorcycle cops" were
SF News The iPhone 5 To Be Unveiled October 4; Will Go On Sale a Few Weeks Later Well thank god. Are we the only ones whose iPhone 3's are on their last legs, constantly crashing the minute we open up the Map app? Yeah, we thought not. And so it
SF News Dog That Discovered Michelle Le's Remains Was Named for Murdered Girl The volunteer responsible for finding the remains of murdered nursing student Michelle Le on Saturday morning was the mother of a young girl who was murdered just two years ago. Carrie McGonigle of
SF News Hikers Freed From Iranian Prison, Flown Out of Tehran In what may have been a piece of political stagecraft, Iran announced the release of the two UC Berkeley-grad hikers they've been holding prisoner for two years just moments before President Barack Obama
