SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye to the King Burger King has decided to retire their creepy/amazing masked mascot of the last few years, in favor of promoting their, uh, "healthier" choices. Fast food restaurants, you see, are feeling the heat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Street Food Punch Tomorrow marks the third annual San Francisco Street Food Festival, and now that we've already told you what to eat when you get there, allow us to suggest what to drink. The team
SF News Clumsy Burglar Tumbles Into Bathtub, Gets Arrested Today in fun crime news: A man was sleeping in the living room of his Sunset district home early yesterday morning when he heard a loud crash in his bathroom. It turned out
SF News SFist Blotter: Teen Shot in Visitacion Valley, Bling Thefts In Oakland Visitacion Valley / Murder: An 18-year-old was shot and killed by two gunmen last night at the corner of Ray and Garrison around 10 p.m. The gang task force is seeking leads. [Examiner]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'She's Dope' by Bell Biv Devoe Bell Biv Devoe is here! Yes. They're performing their special brand of "New Jack Swing" at Yoshi's SF tonight and tomorrow. Tickets are $35. Now, please enjoy this classic video from their oeuvre,
SF News Video: Survival Research Labs' 1994 Armageddon Show on Pier 70 People who have lived here a long while may have heard about this show. But let's just take a moment and a little YouTube time-machine-action here to look at a newly edited clip
SF News Hostage Standoff at San Rafael Hotel Causes All-Day Traffic Nightmare on 580 If you were trying to get anywhere between the East and North Bays yesterday you might have noticed miles of traffic snaking up 580, where police shut down a section of the freeway
SF News We Read the Weeklies: August 17, 2011 What's that? You've never heard the term 'alt-weekly' because you're of the new generation that gets all their news hourly, and online, free of ink-stains? You are likely not alone. But sometimes our
Arts & Entertainment The Bold Italic Mocks Our 'Wet Cold' Summer People don't really move to San Francisco to bask in the sun, at least not in the summer months, but anyway, we all continually like to complain about the weather, especially as August
SF News Was Oakland 3-Year-Old Carlos Nava Killed Because of the State's Penchant for Plea Bargaining? You may have heard that California's prisons are quite crowded. Well, now some folks are sounding alarm bells around last week's slaying of Carlos Nava, the three-year-old who was tragically shot in East
SF News More Reactions, Pro and Con, to BART's Cell Service Shutdown Did BART Police violate everyone's civil liberties by switching off cell phone service last week, or were they simply acting in the name of public safety? An editorial in the Examiner today argues
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Internet-Famous Cat, Maru, to Become Book-Famous Remember Maru, the cat who loves boxes of all shapes and sizes? Maru's fame on the webs has become very, very great, and now his Japanese owner is publishing an English-language book about
SF News Meanwhile, In Berkeley: They're Getting an Apple Store! Apple is opening their 11th Bay Area store on Saturday morning in the outskirts of Berkeley, at 1823 Fourth Street -- in the retail district adjacent to the University Ave exit on I-80.
SF News Community Theater Actor-Turned-Bank Robber in Half Moon Bay Sentenced to Life for Third Strike A "star" of the local theater scene in Half Moon Bay who had supposedly given up a life of crime after a previous string of bank robberies in the 80s, suddenly returned to
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chapelle Gives First Interview in Five Years to 94.9FM, Says Why He Loves the Bay Area Dave Chapelle gave his first interview in five years last week to morning radio hosts Rico, JV, and Selena on Wild 94.9 here in S.F. (This was just before he awkwardly
SF News Another Candidate Throws Hat In the Mayor's Race Ring, Bringing Total to 16 The already stupidly crowded to become Mayor of San Francisco just got more crowded, as the Ex reports on the candidacy of Emil Lawrence, a San Francisco cab driver who paid the $5,
SF News SFist Blotter: More Shootings In Oakland Last Night; Santa Cruz Auto Shop Gets Busted for Dealing Drugs Tenderloin / Baseball Bat Assault: A 72-year-old man was attacked by a man in his 20s with a baseball bat around 1:25 a.m. this morning for no apparent reason. The attacker stole
SF News A Dozen or So Drunk People Arrested After Outside Lands Last Night Folks got a little drunk and disorderly as they streamed out of Golden Gate Park last night after the Arcade Fire and Deadmau5 sets. The SFPD reports they arrested about twelve people after
SF News SFist Blotter: 'Let's Pretend' Edition Parkmerced / Robbery: A 21-year-old man, pretending first to be a police officer (perhaps to get his victim to stop walking), ended up chasing down and beating up a 19-year-old man in the 300
SF News Gizmodo Editor Not Being Charged in iPhone 4 Theft Case, But Two Other Guys Are Remember that whole kerfuffle over the lost and subsequently stolen/unreturned iPhone 4 prototype, which an Apple engineer left at the bar Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City on March, 2010? You may
SF News Safeway Is Trying to Rid Itself of Pesky Petition People Safeway is taking aggressive steps, including filing injunctions against specific individuals, in a fight to remove unauthorized signature-gatherers and restore sanity to store entrances. Safeway stores are popular spots for paid petition-signature-gatherers to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Loves Barbequoi L.A.-based drag artist and humorist Drew Droege has created a drag version of actress Chloe Sevigny that is as much performance art as it is drag satire. All of his many
SF News Constituent Asks Jane Kim Why She's Still Single During a campaign walk-around in the Mission today with mayoral hopeful Ed Lee, stunningly beautiful District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim faced some tough questioning from a constituent. As Mike Aldax reports in the
SF News Netflix to Build Big New Campus in Los Gatos The Los Gatos Town Council last night voted 3-2 to approve a new 550,000-square-foot office campus for Netflix, despite some concerns from residents about obstructing views and removal of mature trees. As
SF News High-Speed Rail Could Now Cost a Whole Lot More? We're starting to wonder if this whole high-speed rail thing is just a pipe-dream we'll tell our grandkids about when they ask why they still have to drive up and down I-5 to
