SF News Emerging Census Data Shows Over 34,000 Same-Sex Couples in Bay Area, 125,500 Statewide More details emerge this week as the U.S. Census Bureau releases another round of summary data from the 2010 Census, and guess what!? San Francisco has a lot of same-sex couples! Over
SF News Winklevoss Twins Drop Their Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook Those greedy, seemingly quite stubborn Winklevoss twins (portrayed by the handsome and strapping Armie Hammer in The Social Network), have finally decided to throw in the towel and stop trying to undo the
SF News We Read the Weeklies: June 22, 2011 Well, here we are again with the (virtual) weeklies. [Insert crack about ink-stained old media here.] And we're off. SF Weekly This week, SF Weekly treats us to their Summer Guide, which starts
SF News Jane Kim, Supervisors, Quietly Trying to Rewrite Care Not Cash A ballot measure spearheaded by District 6's Jane Kim was "quietly" added to the November ballot yesterday, setting the stage for the first revision -- and arguable dismantling -- of Gavin Newsom's controversial
SF News BART Still Pussy-Footing Around the Late-Night Thing You may recall that in recent months BART broached the topic of extending service by one hour, only on Fridays, and apparently even this extremely cautious but nevertheless welcome proposal has hit a
SF News SFist Blotter: A Body in the Marina, Several Shot in Oakland, Woman Kidnapped and Driven Cross-Country Marina / Homicide: A body was found floating in the yacht harbor near Buchanan Street this morning around 6:30 a.m. The body is male, and police think it's likely connected to a
SF News United Airlines Computer Meltdown Strands Thousands Over the Weekend A computer glitch that caused passenger data to disappear off of United Airlines computer systems caused the airline to have to cancel several dozen flights Friday night, including some out of SFO, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Archangelo at Locanda The newest cocktail bar in the Mission is at Delfina's Roman offshoot, Locanda (577 Valencia), where bar manager Michael Sager is mixing up a bunch of fun drinks, often under the auspices of
SF News Joseph Naso Had a Hit List of Women in His Apartment Suspected serial killer Joseph Naso, who's acting as his own attorney in a trial that's ongoing at Marin County Superior Court after being arrested in April in connection with the deaths of multiple
SF News SFist Blotter: Bayview Shooting, Car Chase Up North, and More Bayview / Shooting: A Bayview man in his 20s was shot multiple times last night near Third and Newcomb around 11:15 p.m. His condition is not currently known. [Examiner] East Oakland: A
SF News Once Again Folks, There's a Big Mess on the Muni Underground [Updated] Hope you don't need to get anywhere in a hurry right now on the Muni Metro. We're receiving reports from the Ex and Twitter (via Muni Diaries) that the Muni underground is running
SF News Planning for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in S.F. Is Very Complicated Because two-thirds of S.F.'s population live in multi-unit housing and 80% of us are renters, planning for public charging stations for electric vehicles is rather complicated. As Bay City News reports,
SF News Richmond Kid Tried in Suede Nightclub Shooting Most of you should recall the shooting outside Suede nightclub near Fisherman's Wharf back in Feb. 2010 that left three wounded and one man dead. The incident prompted a judge to order the
SF News Confirmed: San Francisco Both Dirty and Slutty Well, would you look at this... a pair of lists drop this week which rank San Francisco as both one of the dirtiest cities in the nation (dirty as in filthy and full
SF News Transit Strike Watch!: No Sign of Muni Strike, But the Cabbies Are Restless There might not be a Muni strike after all! During the first full workday since an independent arbitrator imposed a three-year contract that the Muni operators' union rejected last week, only 31 drivers
SF News Crack Pipe Sales Now Illegal in Exactly Five Smoke Shops in S.F. Today in useless law enforcement news: The City Attorney's office has reached a settlement with five smoke shops around town which it sued for selling illegal drug paraphernalia, namely crack pipes. An injunction
SF News Prop 8 Backers Back In Court Today for More Legal Theater Over Judge Vaughn Walker Supporters of Prop 8, who are still fighting a losing battle in the California courts over an unconstitutional law that neither the governor nor the attorney general care to support, are back in
SF News America's Cup Team to Take Boat Out for Spin on the Bay Today People will have a chance to check out the fancy catamaran owned by Oracle Racing that they're testing for the America's Cup race in 2013. This won't be the exact boat they'll be
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: Train's 'Save Me, San Francisco' Excuse us for not following the discography of Train -- this song appears to be a couple of years old already. But now there's a video? Which is newer? And it has a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Titus Andronicus' at CalShakes Titus Andronicus is one of those Shakespeare plays that doesn't get performed much and that nobody reads in school unless they're a Shakespeare scholar. And here's why: It's ridiculously bloody, and racist, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hell's Angel at Rebel Have you been to Rebel yet? It's fun. It's the new motorcycle-themed bar that took over the Triple Crown space, once upon a time the Octavia Lounge, and with an already pretty active
Arts & Entertainment Watch Dianne Feinstein, ca. 1970, Go Off About the 'Very Depraved Wares' of Pornographers Last fall we alerted you to a documentary in the works about the history of San Francisco as a pioneering capital of porn cinema. That documentary short, Smut Capital of America, by filmmaker
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Let Me Down Easy' at Berkeley Rep Get ready for some superlative praise: When it comes to a mastery of accents, dialects, and the ability to embody another person's idiosyncratic language, Anna Deveare Smith rivals Meryl Streep. Both actresses are
SF News Even Mothers With Toddlers Embrace Anarchic Spirit of Dolores Park So, Missionites and fans of Dolores Park may have already noticed the ugly fencing that went up around the playground and central meadow of Dolores Park earlier this week, marking the first stage
SF News SFist Blotter: SoMa Carjacking, Van Ness Mugging, Storage Locker Stabbing Victim ID'd SoMa / Carjacking: A man in his 20s jumped into a car at 1st and Howard at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. He told the 26-year-old male driver and another male passenger that
