SF News Groupon Weighs $6 Billion Offer from Google Groupon, the collective discount peddler that is a dream come true for bargain-addicted Marina girls and can mean a slow death by coupon for some small businesses, is in talks to sell itself
SF News Salon Decides It's Time to Sell Itself We ask you this: Has Salon ever made money? We've always wondered. But the company is still kicking lo these many years since the dot.com boom gave it life (remember when they
SF News New Park Project Moves Forward at 17th and Folsom Hear this, Joni Mitchell: Sometimes they un-pave the parking lot to make paradise. According to city planners, the area of the Mission at 17th and Folsom has a high need for open space,
SF News Just to Clarify: It's a La Niña Year, But That May or May Not Mean Less Rain We've lived in the Bay Area a pretty long time, but there still seems to be perennial confusion over the El Niño/La Niña cycle like what year we're in, when the last
SF News Your Black Muslim Bakery Pretrial Hearing Already Getting Interesting Jury selection in the triple-murder trial of Yusuf Bey IV and his associate Antoine Mackey doesn't begin until January, but a number of salient details about the crime spree connected to Oakland's Your
SF News Two Men Try to Snatch Woman's Cell, She Freaks Them Out By Biting One of Their Noses Today, from the always enticing crime reportage of Mike Aldax at the Examiner, we have the story of a badass woman who fended off some crooks by getting all freaky on their asses
Arts & Entertainment Robyn Rocks It for an "85% Gay Crowd" at the Warfield SFist, sadly, wasn't at the Robyn show at the Warfield last night. But SF Weekly's All Shook Down blog and just about every gay man in town sure was! As blogger Joseph Schell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ike's Place May Be Moving Once Again Yes, we know, some of you think Ike's is overrated and others of you think Ike's is the bomb. Feel free to continue fighting this out. In the meantime, please be advised that
SF News <em>Chron</em> Discusses the Fight for a Progressive Interim Mayor The Chron treads into Guardian territory today to discuss the drama surrounding the choice for interim mayor, which will be made by a liberal-majority Board of Supervisors in a simple majority vote. Do
SF News Gary Scott Holland Studied White Magic, Possibly Satanism In a pattern similar to a number of murder stories, the gruesome murder of Kate Horan at the hands of parolee Gary Scott Holland is now taking on some memes concerning the occult.
SF News Two Men Rob, Assault Woman and Her Two Roommates in Oakland News is just coming out of the Oakland PD today about a robbery and triple rape on Saturday night, near the West Oakland BART station. Two men sexually assaulted a young woman just
SF News Yes, It Will Remain Chilly and Wet Until Wednesday How about that rain and thunder over the weekend, huh? In case, like us, you're usually too distracted or lazy to check the weather, we'd like to inform you that it's going to
SF News New York Dealing With Backlash Against Bike Lanes We're not the only city where bikes and cars are at war: the Bloomberg administration in New York has vastly expanded the bike lanes in the city to about 250 miles worth, and
SF News Chandra Levy's Killer Convicted Ingmar Guandique, a 29-year-old Salvadoran immigrant, was found guilty today for the murder of Chandra Levy, the intern who was said to be having an affair with CA congressman Gary Condit. Guandique was
SF News Oakland Again Among Top 5 'Most Dangerous' Cities Everyone loves a ranking! In an annual ranking by the CQ Press (pdf), Oakland now stands as the fifth most dangerous city in the country for 2009, just below St. Louis (#1), Camden,
SF News Day Around the Bay Target will come to the Metreon, pending Planning approvals, and so will Brandy Ho's, Chipotle, Mixt Greens, and other restaurants that actually face the street. Also, it's getting a facelift next year. [Chron,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Chartreuse Swizzle from Clock Bar For this week's cocktail, we turn to a new listicle on Tasting Table SF featuring what they consider the 15 best cocktails in the city, along with recipes for each. The list is
SF News Women Who Can Hold Their Liquor Get Sicker According to a new study comparing men and women who abuse alcohol, women run a greater risk of liver damage, heart disease, breast cancer, and dying in a fatal car crash than men.
SF News Gruesome Updates From the Richmond Gang Rape Trial: Victim Was Blacked Out the Whole Time More details emerge each day as the men accused of gang-raping Jane Doe at that Richmond homecoming dance last year stand trial in a preliminary hearing in Contra Costa County. According to the
SF News Gun Drawn at UCSF Protest Per @Emergency_in_SF and elsewhere, a protest turned violent yesterday morning at UCSF, with rocks being thrown and nine campus police squad cars on the scene. The protest was over the UC
SF News J-Church Line Evacuated According to an SFist tipster, the J-Church line was just backed up several trains deep near 18th and Church due to a medical emergency. Multiple fire trucks were on the scene, and a
SF News 40-Year-Old Antioch Man, Determined to Avoid Prison, Attempts Two Carjackings 40-year-old Lloyd Harris, who was wanted under two local warrants for domestic violence as well as by U.S. Marshals for a probation violation, attempted to flee from police yesterday evening by first
SF News Researchers from U.C. Berkeley Trap Antimatter, Universe Fails to Implode Researchers from U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Labs were part of a team of scientists from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) who reported yesterday that they had successfully created and
SF News We Read the Weeklies: Bad Water, Bad Sex, Drug Addiction Therapies, and More It's Wednesday. You know what that means. San Francisco Bay Guardian Today, we open up first to the Guardian, and their cover story about state efforts to improve water quality in Sacramento River
SF News Nancy Pelosi Re-Elected to Lead House Democrats It was predicted she would take it with a large majority, and it's true: House Democrats just voted to elect Nancy Pelosi as minority leader in a closed-door vote of 150-43. Steny Hoyer
