SF News 48 Displaced After North Beach Fire Early New Year's Day A two-alarm fire broke out in a North Beach apartment building early New Year's Day, displacing 48 residents, two-thirds of whom only speak Cantonese and many of them low-income. The fire was reported
SF News It's Official: America's Cup 2013 To Be Held in S.F. Suck it, Newport, Rhode Island. San Francisco has been chosen to host the next America's Cup. Our fair city was chosen much in part due to our "natural amphitheater" in which spectators can
SF News New Year's Eve Fatalities Up, DUIs Down The CHP made 64 DUI-related arrests in the Bay Area during New Year's Eve this year, as opposed to 92 last year. Four fatal collisions occurred in the Bay Area between 6 p.
SF News S.F.'s First Homicide of 2011 Yesterday San Francisco's first homicide of 2011 occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Tenderloin at Turk and Taylor Streets. The victim has been identified as Larry Lacy, aged 20, who was sitting with a
SF News Tips on Catching a Cab Tomorrow Night The Examiner came out with some handy tips on catching that elusive cab tomorrow night, or any busy night, for that matter. The biggest suggestion is to learn the city's traffic patterns and
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Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: SF Chamber Orchestra presents their Rush Hour Concert, featuring 17-year cello sensation, Nathan Chan, and the orchestra's principal bass player, Michel Taddei, along with lyric soprano Anja Strauss as the most beautiful
SF News Stamp Advisory Committee Considering Milk Stamp Speaking of cool postage stamps -- Remember when Bay Area Reporter talked about an effort that's underway to get San Francisco artist Jim Leff's stamp memorializing Harvey Milk made into an official U.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Persephone's Bees return to the Bay Area for a special S.F. Food Bank Benefit Fundraiser show. Marc & the Casuals and Virgil Shaw w/Peacock Gap and the Wagoneers will also
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Legendary L.A. punk band X rock Slim's tonight and tomorrow night with X-mas with X, along with special guest Ray Manzarek (just don't get him talking about The Doors). 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: It's a night of classic indie rock performed by a couple of its originators, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Get a double-dose of David Lowery and Frank Funaro. 7:30 p.m.
SF News Couple Safe After Falling Overboard Near Bodega Bay A man and a woman who were crab fishing off of Bodega Bay on Sunday morning were thrown overboard after a large wave hit their 15-foot boat. They were both wearing life jackets
SF News Take BART Until 3 a.m. on New Year's Day BART will extend its service until 3 a.m. on New Year's Day to accommodate the large number of people attending the New Year's Eve fireworks show along Embarcadero. Trains will be running
SF News Heading Northeast Out of SFO? Check Flight Status Beforehand. Holiday travel has been particularly hellish this year for lots of folks, and it's not getting better any time soon. Incessant rain in the Bay Area caused delays for passengers traveling out of
SF News The Sun Might Come Out Tomorrow Monday will see a brief respite from the relentless rain before another storm front is expected to pass through the Bay Area on Tuesday evening. Tomorrow's forecast is partly cloudy with a high
SF News Christmas Giving Around Town On Christmas Eve, Lefty O'Doul's collected 15,000 toys for the annual Firefighters Toy Program, and many more toys were dropped off at local fire stations or picked up and delivered for free
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Get out some of your holiday aggression vicariously through your favorite watermelon-smashing '80s comedian at Gallagher's Holiday Smash Bash. See the Sledge-O-Matic in action! MUSIC: Tonight kicks off the week-long Fifth Kwanzaa
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Ensemble perform an intimate version of their annual Paramount Holiday Concert in a more relaxed setting, expressing "the power of spirit" and bringing "a message of faith, hope,
SF News Two Women Zapped With Stun Guns, Robbed Two women who were sitting in a car last night in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood were approached by two robbers with a stun gun at around 7:30 p.m. One of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: A onetime SF denizen and “One Woman Pixar” (as coined by Wired Magazine), Nina Paley, expands the artistic boundaries of animation with Sita Sings the Blues, which is animated in a dazzling
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Polar Bears' Snow Day at S.F. Zoo The polar bears at the San Francisco Zoo, Uulu and Pike, rolled around in the snow yesterday and enjoyed a special holiday-themed treat. (Sorry to get all depressing, but this makes us wonder
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks take on the holidays with Holidaze In Hicksville, featuring their "signature violin and guitar and two girls backing me up and the tongue-in-cheek approach to the
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misc Twitter User Threatens Jumping Off Third Bridge The Examiner posted a story about Twitter user Nick Starr, who publicly threatened on Twitter to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2008, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in 2007,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Bay Area comedian Will Franken performs his latest one-man show, Texas Chainsaw Yuletide, in which he'll "employ his manifold, manic, multiple personalities to bring life to characters such as Father McJagger, who
