SF News We Read the Weeklies: June 8, 2011 Too lazy to walk those couple of blocks to the news boxes? No matter. Herein we bring you the pertinent highlights from this week's batch of alt weelies. SF Weekly OK. On the
SF News Sonoma Man Moves to NH Because He Knows His Vote Doesn't Count Here Loyal SFist readers will recall how we got a little worked up last week talking about how California ought to be made an early primary state, and now CBS has found themselves a
SF News Missing Nursing Student In Hayward Now Presumed Dead We haven't been following the case of missing nursing student Michelle Le -- who disappeared May 27 from Kaiser Hospital in Hayward -- too closely, perhaps optimistic that she'd turn up. But police
SF News A Handful of People Have Received Sit-Lie Citations Thus Far We're sure many of you have been idly wondering what's been going on up in the Upper Haight with regard to the Sit/Lie ordinance. And perhaps those of you who don't live
SF News SFist Blotter: Body Parts Found in Sunnyvale, Man Punched 20 Times While Being Mugged Sunnyvale / Homicide: Police made a gruesome discovery Sunday after neighbors reported seeing blood seeping out of a loosely cinched garbage bag on the sidewalk, tucked between two bushes. There turned out to be
SF News Weather Report: Prepare for the Wet Maybe you're in a singing-and-dancing-in-the-rain kind of mood. That's nice for you. There's a shit-ton of it on its way tonight, so that should make you awesomely happy. Get out those rubbers, a
SF News This is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 9 We return again for an installment of this ofttimes confusing feature, in which we ask those ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner C.W.
SF News SFist Blotter: All Oakland Edition Oakland / Train Death: An unidentified man, carrying no identification, was struck and killed by an Amtrak train just south of Jack London Square station yesterday around noon. The train was due in San
SF News Levi's, Maybe Twitter HQ to Become Tourist Attractions? San Franciscans may be anti-corporate in their politics, but the nation's tourists who visit here just might be fascinated enough with our brands to make them stops on their sight-seeing trips. That's what
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City' at A.C.T. It's not often that San Francisco gets to see a potentially Broadway-bound new musical have its world premiere here, and when it's a musical about San Francisco based on a beloved serial that
SF News It Remains Hard Out There for a Pimp One Jomo Zambia, a convicted pimp, took his case to the California Supreme Court arguing that the wording of the law defining illegal pandering is unclear when it comes to recruiting hos who
SF News SFist Blotter: Armed Robbers Target Car Buyers on Craigslist, Toddler Shoots Sister Portola / Armed Robbery: On May 25, the second of two reported cases occurred in which prospective car buyers were lured, via craigslist, to an address that didn't exist in an unfamiliar neighborhood, only
SF News An Immodest Proposal: Make California an Early Primary State Two political economists, writing in the Journal of Political Economy, have concluded that being a voter in the primaries in New Hampshire or Iowa makes you essentially as powerful as five voters on
SF News 19-Year-Old Convicted in 2007 Metreon Escalator Murder A 19-year-old man was convicted of second-degree murder yesterday in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Prince Jr. in 2007 at the Metreon. The two were arguing over whether Prince was "clogging" the
SF News That Service Animal You Like to Bring Everywhere For Emotional Support? You May Soon Be Denied. We're just now catching wind of the fact that, back in March, the federal government quietly changed the definition of "service animal" under the Americans With Disabilities Act to include only dogs and
SF News Weather Report: The Come-Down Maybe you took a four-day weekend and drove up the coast, got a welcome reminder of the landscape that's so close, yet seems so far from the city for reasons that must have
SF News Oakland Block Party/Sideshow Leaves Two Dead A block party in East Oakland Sunday night, which turned into a sideshow with cars doing donuts, etc., turned deadly when an unknown assailant (or multiple assailants) began shooting into the crowd, critically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Pimm's #3 at Range Since it's now, surprisingly, already Memorial Day weekend, you might as well celebrate the passage of time and the dawn of summer with this twist on a traditional English country summer refresher: the
SF News We Read the Weeklies: May 25, 2011 What's that? You haven't picked up an actual newspaper since the early aughts? Neither have we. But luckily most everything in the free weeklies is online, and therefore no trees need be killed.
Arts & Entertainment Another Battle Lost in War on Fun: Booze Banned at Union Street Festival Thanks to the SFPD, the Marina and Cow Hollow will have one less opportunity to get shitfaced together in the out-of-doors. The Union Street Festival, billed -- laughably -- as an "arts and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch Beyoncé Rip-Off an Aging Italian Pop Star Aging Italian performer, singer, and pop-star Lorella Cuccarini hasn't gotten this much American press in her whole damn life. But ever since Beyoncé did a major number at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday
SF News MacArthur BART Transit Village Project Finally Gets Underway 17 years in the making, the MacArthur Transit Village project has finally broken ground, making way for what will be a huge and potentially transformative development in a fairly desolate part of Oakland.
SF News Supreme Court Orders California to Release 30,000+ Prisoners; Scalia Freaks Out The Supreme Court today issued what amounts to an injunction against the State of California and its prisons, ordering the state to release 30,000 prisoners from the overcrowded system. The 5-4 majority
SF News This Guy Is Running for Mayor Now, Too Literally hundreds or at least a modest gaggle of people are abuzz today with the announcement of the candidacy of Harold Miller for Mayor of San Francisco. The Examiner is calling Miller the
SF News Teens Stab Man on 14-Mission Bus With Screwdriver Around 8 p.m. Friday night, a group of teenagers, both male and female, allegedly got into a fight with a guy on a Muni bus whom they then proceeded to stab multiple
