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
SF News SFist Blotter: Woman Stabs Man, Claims He Was Intruder; 14-Year-Old Shot in South S.F.; Valencia Gardens Shooting Bayview / Stabbing: Athena Wortham, 42, stabbed and killed a man at her Bayview home whom she claimed was an intruder. This all happened around 4 a.m. Sunday. Police have now booked Wortham
SF News Popular San Jose Radio Host Carjacked, Killed Cindy Nguyen, 60, a Vietnamese-language radio host on AM 1290 KAZA in San Jose, was carjacked Saturday night after having some reported "car trouble" and pulling into a Target shopping center. She called
SF News Michelle Le's Body Found, Identified The case against accused murderer Giselle Esteban just got a lot stronger as authorities have ID'd the remains found over the weekend in Niles Canyon as those of missing nursing student Michelle Le.
SF News Dreams of a High-Speed Rail to L.A. Being Slowly Smothered By Litigious Towns, Farmers As we've discussed, there are some well-off folks on the Peninsula who would like to see the California high-speed rail project die or at the very least get re-routed over a new bridge
SF News 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Ends Tonight at Midnight Your lesbian cousin in the Marines and that hot gay daddy you've been corresponding with in secret from his base in Afghanistan will no longer have to keep their loves undercover as of
SF News Remains That Could Be Michele Le's Found in Niles Canyon; Murder Suspect Giselle Esteban to Enter Plea Volunteers on one of many searches in the East Bay wilderness around Niles Canyon came across human remains over the weekend, and investigators are trying to determine if they could belong to missing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Little Orphan Annie (at Cocktail Week) St. George Spirits, the Alameda-based distillery best known for Hangar One vodka and a very expensive but very delicious absinthe, has just come out with three distinctive new gins. SFist had a chance
SF News A Million Or So Customers Say Bye to Netflix Netflix had to lower its expectations of how many subscribers it would have by the end of the third quarter yesterday, putting that number at 24 million instead of the 25 million they
SF News SFist Blotter: Man Beaten Almost to Death at Civic Center Hotel, Oakland Stabbing/Fire Victims ID'd Civic Center / Assault: A clerk at the totally shady Civic Center Hotel at 12th and Market got severely beaten last evening after refusing entry to a man in his 20s. The 59-year-old victim
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Woman Wins Guinness Record For Longest Nails A lady who likes to be called The Dutchess, whose real name is Chris Walton, has just overtaken the Guinness world record for the lady with the longest fingernails. The Dutchess has been
SF News Anyone Want To Buy A Castle? Albion Castle is a historic building that once was the site of Albion Brewery on Hunter's Point, ca. 1870 until Prohibition, but was later converted to a residence in 1939. It's been on
SF News South S.F. Travelodge Becomes Center Of Small Teenage Prostitution Ring Fast on the heels of the news of this disturbing rape in a South S.F. home, we get word of a prostitution bust at a nearby motel involving three teenage girls, two
SF News We Read the Weeklies: September 14, 2011 Jeez. This September weather ain't all it's cracked up to be. Good thing we can stay in the warmth of the indoors and read the weeklies from the comfort of our laptops, rather
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Winklevoss Twins Like To Crack Nuts Submitted without comment.
SF News Horrific Details Emerge About South S.F. Rape Last week we made mention in the Blotter about a kidnapping and rape of a 28-year-old woman that occurred after the woman was picked up, maybe voluntarily, for sex around 5:30 a.
SF News SFist Blotter: Sketchy Robbery In Mission Hotel, Arsenal Found In San Jose Mission / Robbery: Here's a sketchy-sounding tale: A 30-year-old man was lured Monday night up to a hotel room near 16th and Mission (!) by a 25-year-old woman, who proceeded to summon her boyfriend to
SF News Missoni For Target Madness In Full Gear! You may have heard, via the big national ad campaign, that iconic Italian design house Missoni released their line of inexpensive clothing and home goods today at Target. Though we do not yet
Arts & Entertainment Drunk Break Dancing Comes To Oakland Rords of the Froor, a Seattle-based dance-battle event that requires all participants to do a shot before performing one-minute routines, came to Oakland for the first time on Sunday, at the New Parish.
SF News Pedestrian Struck, Gravely Injured In Lower Haight A pedestrian was struck by a car at the intersection of Page and Divisadero streets last night just after midnight. The unidentified victim was rushed to a hospital with what the Fire Department
SF News Conan O'Brien Spoofs The Missing iPhone 5 Story Parodic Apple employee: "We will find this person and redefine the world of genital torture." [The Week] PREVIOUSLY: SFPD Now Investigating Their Own iPhone 5 Investigation Apple Employing Secret Police Force? iPhone 5
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Greg' on Last Night's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Now listen up any of you who might find some offense in this, or think we are somehow making fun of this kid: Any regular readers of this site ought to know that
SF News Central Subway Entrance At Union Square Revealed; It's Not That Exciting Call it a subway to nowhere, or call it the greatest thing ever to happen to riders of the Dirty 30, the Central Subway is going to be a fact of life for
SF News Two Bodies Found In Suspicious Fire In Oakland The bodies of two as-yet-unidentified victims were found dead Saturday night/early Sunday on the 3100 block of Coolidge Avenue in Oakland, in burning second-floor apartment above an acupuncture clinic. Investigators are now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Jalapeno Lemonade At Trace Trace just opened over at the W Hotel on Third Street, replacing XYZ and bringing some new design cred to the space -- it was designed by acclaimed residential architect Stanley Saitowitz, who
