SF News Teen Pepper-Sprays Alleged Assailant on 14 Mission, Plus Two Elderly Passengers, Driver A 17-year-old girl told police she was accosted by an older man on a crowded southbound 14 Mission bus this afternoon at 16th and Mission a little after 3:30 p.m. Acting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: San Francisco Performances presents Dance, a groundbreaking revival of the 1979 minimalist masterpiece performed by its original collaborators -- choreographer Lucinda Childs' current company will recreate the dance piece on stage with
SF News [Updated] Breaking: The Return of the Laser Kitties! Generik11 / Erik Wilson spotted everyone's favorite Laser Cats in a new mural this morning. Tell us where they're located in the comments. Update: The mural's located in the Space Gallery window above the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Oakland-based Goapele (pronounced Gwa-pa-lay), who's inspired by a tradition of soulful singers like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, and Miriam Makeba, "mixes sweet soul vocals, jazz funk instrumentation and hip hop
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: How Weird Street Faire, Art in the Alley, Noodle Fest, Dutch Queen's Day, Vagabond Craft Fair, and Glen Park Festival It's that glorious time of year again in which there are dozens of things going on over the weekend. Here is mere handful of choices. Enjoy! How Weird Street Fair: Pull out that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: SF Camerawork presents the second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit, an evening of music, photography, and a silent auction benefiting First Exposures, which provides free weekly photography classes for underserved youth,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: New York-based artist group, The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF), hits the Bay Area tonight on their national Teach 4 Amerika tour which is inspired by the spectacle and energy of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Take advantage of the fact that the Eagle Tavern is open for at least another month and head over to see Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Carletta Sue Kay and The Sandwitches
SF News Developments In German Tourist's Murder Case Coincide With Family's Visit To SF Interim Police Chief Jeff Godown announced yesterday that the case involving the shooting of Mechthild Schröer, the German elementary school headmaster who was killed by a stray bullet as the result of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight WORKSHOP: It's easy to forget that we have such a gorgeous and historic green space such as the Presidio right in our backyards. As part of the ongoing Presidio Visitor Experience workshop series,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Set in a circular system of labyrinthine streets, much like the film’s twisting narrative, Asleep in the Sun, which is "a wildly inventive mix of Kafkaesque nightmare and political allegory," delves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight STORYTELLING: Celebrate three years of the fabulous Muni Diaries at Muni Diaries Live 5 tonight. Bring a Muni tale with you and hit the stage with H.P. Mendoza, screen writer and composer
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Hunky Jesus Contest, Bring Your Own Big Wheel, John Waters B-Day Weekend, Earth Day, And Union Street Celebration & Easter Parade The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's HARE at Dolores Park: It wouldn't be Easter without the Hunky Jesus and Easter Bonnet Contests along with all the other fabulous tongue-in-cheek activities put on by San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival opens tonight with a screening of the new film Beginners, starring Christopher Plummer as a senior who comes out of the closet in the wake
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: The saga of killer plants prevails at Conservatory of Flowers' new Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins exhibit, and tonight's after hours event, Plants Behind Bars, will provide an extra eerie take
SF News Richmond Mother Fatally Shot Near West Oakland Park Beatrice Burton, a 33-year-old mother of two, was involved in a fatal drive-by shooting in West Oakland last night near Poplar Park at 30th and Union streets at 9:45 p.m. Burton,
Arts & Entertainment The Devil Makes Three Bring Drug-Fueled Honkey Tonk Americana Hard-On 'Do Wrong Right,' Play At Slim's 4/28 by Erick Pressman Upon first listen, one would think the notorious folk/bluegrass/Americana outfit Devil Makes Three hailed from West Virginia, deep in the backwoods where everything from moonshine to high grade
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight TALK: Wired's Steven Levy speaks in conversation with journalist John Battelle at Inside Google: The Myths, the Culture and the Secret Sauce, about his book In the Plex, in which Levy dives deep
SF News CHP Confirms That Sunday's Jumper Was Attempting Suicide, Was In Town From So-Cal It's been confirmed that the 16-year-old girl who survived a fall off the Golden Gate Bridge this morning was attempting to commit suicide. California Highway Patrol spokesman Patrick Roth told Contra Costa Times
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Peptastic ensemble of super-star musicians, The New Pornographers, visits the Regency Ballroom to lift you out of your dreary, tax day doldrums and warm your weary heart, with special guests Menomena. 7
Arts & Entertainment Tickets On Sale For Impromptu Dave Chappelle At Cobbs On Monday Night Luckily for the Bay Area, Dave Chappelle loves to hang out here for prolonged periods of time and ends up performing impromptu shows while he's here. After performing two sets of sold-out, last-minute
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Jackeline Rago directs Venezuelan Music Project, a dynamic ensemble that performs a wide range of music combining Indigenous-Venezuelan, West African and Spanish-European influences -- from folklore-driven songs (executed with traditional instruments) to
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour "Unfortunately For Damien, The Exorcism Didn't Stick" by Bob Horowitz (taken at yesterday's DogFest at Duboce Park).
SF News Couple Describes Being Targeted By Suspected Serial Killer And One-Time Mission District Neighbor Joseph Naso Thaddeus Iorizzo and Margaret Prisco, a couple from upstate New York who briefly moved to San Francisco in 1981 when they were in their early 20s, tell of their experience with having Joseph
