SF News <em>The Advocate</em> Creates Stupid Formula, Somehow Thinks St. Louis Is Gayer Than San Francisco The Advocate, a gay magazine born of struggle for equality back in the day but which has seen better days itself, just published a list of the 'Gayest Cities in America,' and
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Cat Who Lives In a Tree Almond the Cat was born in a tree in Madison, Wisconsin. Her mother birthed her and several siblings up there, but when it came time to move she took all the kittens but
SF News Why San Francisco Was Never Much of a Mafia Town, or Was It? You heard about that big mob bust late last week on the East Coast? Well, NBC went to local crime author and retired policeman Kevin J. Mullen to find out why we haven't
SF News Female Body Found In Burning Car In Lower Haight Overnight Around 3:30 a.m. last night firefighters responded to reports of a burning car at Webster and Rose Streets (between Page and Haight). A two-door gray Pontiac was fully engulfed in flames,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Bourbon Raspberry Splash at The Brixton Just last Friday, over in the Cow Hollow/Marina environs, a new rock-and-roll themed lounge opened called The Brixton (2140 Union Street). They've got vintage concert photos from the long gone Winterland Ballroom
Arts & Entertainment Be an Extra in a Movie Starring Jude Law! (and Matt Damon.) Hollywood is coming to town again, with director Steven Soderbergh descending next month to shoot Contagion, an action-thriller starring Jude Law(!) involving disease and the CDC that's being shot in San Francisco. It
Arts & Entertainment Janet Jackson Coming to Bill Graham in April, Pre-Sale Tix Still Available Janet Jackson is coming to San Francisco, everyone! She's just announced her latest tour, and fans are going wild. Though some 96% of pre-sale tickets for the announced dates have already sold out,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Night by Night' by Chromeo The electro-poppy Canadian duo Chromeo comes to the Fox February 18 (get tix here), but for now, please enjoy this performance of their single "Night by Night" from Letterman last fall, not long
SF News Crazy San Carlos Lady Ducks Out of Court, Jumps Bail, Gets Found Two Months Later 37-year-old Jennifer Lynn Dickerson, who was convicted for robbery in November, tried jumping bail by running away during a court recess. She was awaiting sentencing for robbing a San Carlos home two years
SF News Bay Area Traffic Not So Bad Lately, But Is That a Good Thing? Several commuting friends of ours have noted that traffic getting into the city over the Bay Bridge is quite light most mornings lately around 8 a.m., and now the Chron informs us
SF News SoCal Surf Shop Apologies for MLK Day 'Black Sale' Oh, SoCal, you know not what you do. A Laguna Beach surf shop has issued an apology saying they "meant no harm" in their Martin Luther King Day promotional material, advertising a 20%
SF News SFist Blotter: Thieves, Thieves, and More Thieves Noe Valley / Burglary: A thief broke into a home near Dolores and 27th Street late last week and made off with $138,000 in jewelry and gold Mexican coins. That's a lot of
SF News A Quarter Of You Are Facebooking While In The John A new study by Atlanta-based AIS Media says that a full 27% use Facebook while on the toilet (or, less advisably, while standing at urinals), a figure which only tells us that at
SF News Pot Smoking Is Not for Infants The image/idea of a pot-smoking baby might be amusing -- even hilarious -- to many, but this is no laughing matter, kids. A SoCal couple has been charged with cruelty to a
Arts & Entertainment A Drag Queen Plays Miss Peacock, and Other Highlights of the Boxcar Theatre's Production of <em>Clue</em> We haven't had the chance to review it ourselves, but please take a moment, if you're a fan of the 1985 film Clue (which was rumored to be targeted for a remake... sigh)
SF News SNOOZEFLASH: Muni Not So On-Time Would an 85% on-time record be enough to satisfy the disgruntled riders of Muni trains and buses? That was the voter-mandated percentage as of 1999, but the best Muni has done so far
SF News Jean Quan and Ed Lee to Attend White House State Dinner Newly elected Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has gotten a ton of press in China for being the first Chinese- or Asian-American mayor in her city, and thus she was invited to attend a
SF News SFist Blotter: Twin Peaks Shooting, Oakland Hit and Run Twin Peaks / Shooting: A 24-year-old man was murdered last night around 3 a.m. at the lookout point on Twin Peaks. The victim was with a group of friends, exchanged words with someone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>The Last Cargo Cult</em> at Berkeley Rep In theory, we enjoy one-person shows. A charismatic performer, alone on a stage, speaking truths and telling good stories, can captivate an audience in a way that multi-person performances can't. All you have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Barrel-Aged Bonnie & Clyde Cocktail at Blackbird Have you heard of barrel-aged cocktails? No? Well, you're not alone, since there's only one bar in S.F. doing them at the moment, but you're soon to see plenty more if we
SF News Oh, God: A New Study Predicts the Toll of Massive Winter Storms Could Be Greater Than The Big One In case you needed another apocalyptic scenario to keep you up nights... Climate scientists are referring to it as "the other Big One," and what they're talking about is a series of torrential
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hipster Shore' Hipster Shore - watch more funny videos Welcome to Hipster Shore, ladies and gentlemen, a fictional reality series in which no one would self-describe as "hipster," but where everyone has plastic sunglasses, and
SF News Dog Owners to Riot, Cry Over New Leash Rules On Beaches Via a new management plan from the federal government, a number of coastal spots where dog owners are currently allowed to let their pooches roam off-leash will become on-leash areas, or no-dog areas.
SF News The Carnival Splendor, That Poor Broken Cruise Ship, Comes to S.F. to Get Fixed Remember the Carnival Splendor, that ship that lost all power last fall and got stranded for days 200 miles off the coast of San Diego, leaving its passengers to sweat and stink up
SF News We Read the Weeklies: January 12, 2011 Assuming you don't have a fireplace (it's bad for the environment anyway!) and therefore aren't hurting for kindling, allow us to summarize for you this week's top stories from the alt-weeklies, and save
