SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Narguja at Gitane Alex Smith, bar manager at Gitane (6 Claude Lane), created this drink to usher in the summer months with a whiff of Europe. It's kind of a twist on a Negroni, with the
SF News Angry Gilroy Man With Violent Crime Record May Get Life in Prison For Killing Chihuahua A Gilroy man who already has four felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon under his belt may face a 25-years-to-life sentence in the death of his wife's six-week-old chihuahua puppy. Bud
SF News Oakland Atheists Mount Anti-Rapture Billboard, Host Rapture Day Party The East Bay Express this week pointed us to the "coffee klatsch" of local atheists behind this billboard, near the foot of the Bay Bridge, which cost $27,000 to produce. The organization
SF News Police Kill Two Suspects In East Oakland Shootout Oakland police responded to a tip yesterday that an act of violent crime was going to take place on the 3000 block of Curran Way. When they arrived, they saw a blue van
SF News Overall Homeless Count Doesn't Change Dramatically, But Huge Spike In Bayview San Francisco's biennial census of the homeless population gets released today, and the numbers are predictably depressing. Though the overall number of homeless people went down by a paltry 60 (from 6,514
SF News Evening Palate Cleanser: Hook'd 4 Lyfe Another gem of VHS-dom from Everything Is Terrible, this one an anti-smoking PSA aimed at teenagers, featuring a young but still pouty Michael Pitt. Didn't think the internet would ever find this one,
SF News Police Raid Nine Homes In SF and Daly City, Seize $450K in Pot The San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force conducted a coordinated raid of nine homes Monday, in both S.F. and Daly City, all of which are thought to be connected to the same
SF News Shriver Went On Final Oprah, Only Talked About Oprah The same day that the world learned that her husband the former Governator had fathered a child with an employee, Maria Shriver hopped over to Chicago to appear on one of Oprah Winfrey's
SF News Schwarzenegger Extramarital Baby Shocker! Arnold has an 8-year-old baby Maria didn't know about! The LA Times broke the news last night, via a statement former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gave them in response to questions, that the one-time
SF News Kink.com Armory to Open Up for Use as 'Community Center' If you've been inside the Armory at Mission and 14th, better known these days as the headquarters of Kink.com [link NSFW], you may have seen the ginormous, gymnasium-like space at the rear
SF News Want to Buy an Island in the Bay? Got $22 Mil You Can Scrape Together? Red Rock Island is just a pile of rock in the middle of San Francisco Bay, over near the Richmond Bridge, but it's a privately owned pile of rock that spans three different
SF News SFist Blotter: A Bernal Heights Birthday Shootout, Oakland Shooting, Richmond Shooting Bernal Heights / Shooting: Two men attending a friend's 31st birthday party at a public housing project near Holly Park, were shot following a brawl in which one man shot a gun in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Summer in the City at Michael Mina Ah summer. What is it, really? Kate Bolton, bartender at Michael Mina, created this bright and refreshing drink to celebrate the season that takes a long time to arrive in our fair city.
SF News SFist Blotter: An Arrest in a 1995 Murder, A Marin Crack Bust, and a Beheading Mission / Long-Ago Murder: A man turned himself in in connection with the shooting deaths of Vincent Betancourt, 31, and his nephew Ruben Solis, 24 in Garfield Park in 1995. The murders happened during
SF News Zennie Gives Us a Preview of Bay to Breakers Our old comrade Zennie, who plugs away daily with his blogging, and vlogging, and sports coverage, dropped in on the Bay to Breakers office. It's a long (15 minute) video, in which he
SF News Weather Report Consider this your rest period. A break in the clouds. It may not be as warm as you'd like, but when is it ever? It also may not be as calm, or as
Arts & Entertainment Lauryn Hill to Do One-Off Show at Mezzanine Next Week Ok, get your clickers ready: Lauryn Hill is doing a one-off Bob Marley tribute show at Mezzanine next Wednesday, May 18, and there are still early-bird tickets available at $60 apiece plus service
SF News We Read the Weeklies: May 11, 2011 The New York Times may be charging to read their web content now, but the Weeklies are still free, in print or online, because who'd actually pay money for that shiz? And even
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chinchillas In Wine Glasses, In Love We now must try this at home. A pet that stays put in a wine glass is our kind of pet. [via Laughing Squid]
SF News Epic Beard Man Is Homeless! The fellow known as Epic Beard Man who gained wide notoriety 'round the Bay Area last year for losing his mind on an AC Transit bus and letting several passengers feel the full,
SF News 'The Daily Show' Visits S.F. Again to Find Out Why We Aren't the Gayest City Anymore Remember that asinine list that The Advocate came up with ranking U.S. cities based on how many lesbian music festivals they had or whatever, and thereby determining which cities are now the
SF News SFist Blotter: Man Beaten With Bat, Man Beaten With Hammer, Old Lady Slashed Outer Richmond / Brawl With Bat: A major brawl broke out between two men around 10 p.m. Saturday on the 800 block of 47th Avenue, with one bludgeoning the other with a baseball
SF News Guy Goes Nuts Aboard SFO-Bound Flight, Gets Taken Down By Retired San Mateo Cop A 28-year-old Yemeni man named Rageit (or Rageh?) Almurisi was aboard an American Airlines flight from Chicago to SFO when he walked briskly out of coach, through first class, and began banging on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Strawberry Punch at Zero Zero It's kinda summer, everybody! And even though it's not as hot as it was on Wednesday, we're still in a springy/summery mood. Thus our choice of cocktail this week is a seasonal
SF News Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso Allowed to Act As His Own Attorney Confirming what everyone already suspects about the scary, lunatic-seeming man who's about to stand trial for the murders of four women in Northern California between 1977 and the mid-1990s, Joseph Naso has refused
