SF News 'Miracle Chihuahua' from SoMa Fire Reunited With Owner Paco, a wee little dog who miraculously survived the three-alarm fire at the Park Hotel on Wednesday by hiding in a third-floor closet, was reunited with his owner yesterday. Rolando Walker, 47, went
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Extra: First Thursday Tonight brings another of those First Thursdays where all the galleries around downtown have openings and free wine and such. 111 Minna has a group show debuting tonight called, obscurely, The Presence of
Arts & Entertainment KQED, Rolling Stone Offer Previews of 'Tales of the City: The Musical' Michael Krasny today did a show on KQED all about the Tales of the City musical that's about to premiere at A.C.T. at the end of the month (they actually start
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Surreal Cinco de Mayo Involving Drag Queens Please enjoy this tribute to Cinco de Mayo, complete with requisite history lesson, from Damiana Garcia (a.k.a. Michael Lucid) and WOW's Daily Freak Show. Damiana's guest for this festive holiday is
SF News The Royals Are Coming! The Royals Are Coming! Not satisfied to have the death of Osama bin Laden overshadowing their internationally riveting nuptials, Prince William and Kate Middleton are now plotting a trip to the U.S., which would be Kate's
SF News Updated: Nine Months Later, SFPD to Announce Arrests in Shooting of German Tourist Last August, Mechthild Schröer was shot near Union Square while visiting San Francisco from Germany with her husband and family. The story was some teenagers, spilling out of an overcrowded under-18 party at
SF News Defense Begins in Your Black Muslim Bakery Trial The triple-murder trial of Yusuf Bey IV and Antoine Mackey is nearing its end in Oakland, as the defense begins putting witnesses on the stand today. Defense attorney Gene Peretti, who's serving as
SF News Weather Report It's funny how things seem to slow down. You step outside when the wind's died down, the sun actually hot like it only ever is in May and September here (with a few
SF News Glen Park Condo Buyer Has Buyer's Remorse After Finding Out Neighbor Is an S&M Enthusiast [Updated] It's not every day that the Business Times runs a story like this, so we we simply had to mention it. A fellow named Jack Hagerty closed on a condo unit last week
SF News SFist Blotter: Woman Hides from Burning Curtain, Potrero Man Shot Ingleside / Apartment Fire: Here's a case of a news story that sounds totally incomplete, and therefore comes off as bizarre, but for all we know really was simply a bizarro incident. A a
SF News Twitter Given Credit for Breaking News of Osama Assassination (Or for Allowing the News to Be Broken) San Francisco-based Twitter is getting a bunch of credit for helping leak the huge of news of last night. Without Twitter, many news sources might not have gotten the pre-White House announcement heads
SF News Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, Body ID'd By DNA Nearly ten years after the September 11th attacks, Osama bin Laden has been killed. An anonymous government or military official who is familiar with the circumstances of bin Laden's death and the capture
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Lily's Revenge at The Magic Theater We're going to say something that may not be so controversial , but we hope no one takes this wrong way: Every so often San Francisco theater really needs an injection of energy from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Lavanda Niño at Colibri Have you noticed that ever since SFist started doing a Friday cocktail column two years ago, SFoodie and The Examiner have both followed suit? Just sayin. Anyhow, we're grateful for it today because
SF News Surfer Dies at Ocean Beach A surfer was spotted floating unconscious in the water near Ocean Beach around 1 p.m. yesterday. He was later identified as Jonathan Luhn, age 44, after being pulled from the water by
Arts & Entertainment Cheersies to the Royal Wedding Late Tonight at Home, or Tomorrow at a Pub There aren't many S.F. bars or pubs staying open tonight with any planned, live royal-wedding-watching parties maybe because most of said pubs are Irish? Just sayin' at least according to MSNBC. Things
SF News We Read the Weeklies: April 27, 2011 Have all the nearby homeless come by your local newsbox and swiped all the copies of the free weeklies in order to make pillow-stuffing? No matter. Everything's online these days, and we've scanned
SF News Meanwhile, In Vallejo: Still Lots o' Prostitutes Vallejo's been having a rough go of it, you guys. There was the town's bankruptcy, and then this trouble with violent teen mobs and vigilanteism, and the occasional body. Now they're facing gentrification-through-prostitution,
SF News Halleloo: BART May Test Late-Night Service This Fall Lawda mercy, BART's board of directors today will be discussing a proposal to test out "late-night" train service one extra hour of service actually, only on Fridays come September, as part of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>No Exit</em> at A.C.T. Praise be, A.C.T. has managed to pull another hit out of their collective hat by way of Canadian theater company Electric Company Theatre, whose new and totally original re-imagining of Jean-Paul
SF News There's Still Gold Up In Them There Hills A man with a metal detector and a pick-axe went wandering his property in Nevada County last year and found what is apparently the largest single gold nugget ever discovered in the Sierra
SF News Weather Report In the Eastern Orthodox church, the Monday after Easter is known as Bright Monday or Renewal Monday. It won't be that bright today, probably. You'll feel a need for a hot lunch, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Strange Love at Lafitte Embarcadero restaurant Lafitte (on Pier 5) celebrates one year in business this month, and chef Russell Jackson remains steadfastly dedicated to his ingredients, his craft, and newly revamped brasserie menu all, as he
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mr. Toots, The Unicorn Who Farts Deadly Rainbows This made our morning. Allow it to make your afternoon. [Freddie Wong via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Flash Mob to Annoy/Delight Union Square Shoppers Today S.F. loves a good flash mob (don't you? we don't) and today a mob of several hundred, if not more, are expected to irritate and confuse Union Square tourists around noon. The
