Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Down At Fraggle Rock FYI, Hulu just started streaming all of Jim Henson's brilliant '80s Muppets spinoff, Fraggle Rock, and for many of you, the antics of Gobo, Red, Mokey, Wembley, and Boober will bring back nice
SF News $30,000 Reward In Slaying Of 20-Year-Old Father And Son Andrew "Drew" Thomas, 20, and his son, Drew Jackson, 16 months old, were shot and killed on August 7 when someone fired shots into their Brookfield Village home on Ghormley Avenue. The reward
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Place To Bring The Kids In SF We here at SFist feel confident enough to tell you what to do with your little blessings. So much so that, notwithstanding day care centers, we have the top 10 spots to bring
SF News Oakland: Father, 20, And Son, 1, Fatally Shot While Sleeping While a 20-year-old father and his 1-year-old son, Drew Jackson, slept inside a bedroom of a Brookfield Village home Wednesday night, someone entered the backyard and fired into the house. Both father and
SF News Calif. Elementary School Offering Toy Gun 'Buyback' Program While police departments in Oakland and San Francisco have seen success by offering cash in exchange for firearms, one Bay Area school administrator found a new opportunity to reduce gun deaths. This Saturday,
SF News Boy Scouts Vote To Allow Gay Youths, But No Gay Leaders With 60% in favor, the Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to allow openly gay youth in the Scouts. The 22-year-old ban was based on a quote from the organization's oath, which
SF News Missing Autistic Girl Found Dead Near Family's Vacation Home After a massive four-day search, nine-year-old Sunset Elementary School student Mikaela Lynch was found dead in Cache Creek near her family's Lake County vacation home. The search for Mikaela, who was autistic included
SF News City Of Richmond: 1-Year-Old Takes Bullet To The Neck A 1-year-old boy was whisked to Children's Hospital Oakland after taking a bullet fragment to the neck. The incident, innocently enough, happened while he was being fed by his grandparents inside an apartment
SF News 8-Year-Old Girl Shot With Arrow In Berkeley While sitting on whale sculpture at Lawrence Hall of Science, just above the UC Berkeley campus, an 8-year-old girl was shot in the leg with an arrow. Which: what?! She did not suffer
SF News Toddler-Kicking Woman Too Volatile For Court Sabryna Bell, 24, the woman who stands accused of kicking a two-year-old in the torso in Golden Gate Park on Monday, didn't appear in court on Thursday. Why? Because she's mentally unwell. To
SF News Pleasanton Preschool Teacher Allegedly Tied Up A Two-Year-Old Girl, Showed Off Photos To Her Mother In Pleasanton, California a former preschool teacher at the Centrepointe Christian Preschool is being investigated for allegedly binding a two-year-old girl in masking tape and making her sit on a cot while she
SF News Tale Of Missing Daly City Boy Ends In Relief This is so something we would've done: 11-year-old Hontzuo Ren is presumably in a world of trouble after his parents and Daly City police "used every resource available" to find him on Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Could This Be The Greatest Photo Ever Taken In San Francisco? Well, we sure think it is. A bunch of kids (in school uniforms no less!) giving high fives to passing cyclists on Market Street? Call it a red-letter day, folks. Snapped on a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Up In Arms Over Monster Energy Drinks The City Attorney office's most pressing issue this week is Monster Energy drinks. Of course. (If Dennis Herrera gets bored, SFist would gladly hand him a list of SF ordinance violators he could
SF News Video: Castro Theatre Manager Goes Off On Nudists, Journalist George Davis, a transplant from Tennessee who once ran for mayor of San Francisco, likes to get naked in the Castro. And good for him. The Castro, famous for being the queer historic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 10 S.F. Spots for Drinkers with Kids No need to bring your kid into Bender's or Tradition to prove you and your kid are cool. Neither of you are—especially you. You have a child. You cannot be cool. You
Arts & Entertainment Too Cute: Children Mob Window To Catch Glimpse Of Kitten Via Mission Mission, we came across this photo by Abby featuring a gaggle of adorable children clamoring around a window to stare at an even more adorable kitten. And then we died.
Arts & Entertainment Leukemia-stricken SF Child Needs Your Airline Miles, You Guys! Kiona from San Francisco is a bright little nine-year old who is battling leukemia. She really wants to travel to Hawaii with her family to swim with dolphins. Who wouldn't? But Kiona deserves
Arts & Entertainment Judy Blume Coming to the Castro Theatre Sunday! Perhaps the most important young-adult author of the twentieth century, Judy Blume, is coming to the Castro Theater on Sunday to take part in a screening of a new film by her son,
Arts & Entertainment Things That Should Horrify You: A 10-Year-Old's Stripping Schedule We tend to ignore Kickstarter-related missives as a general rule, but local filmmaker Hima B.'s recent email regarding funding for her new documentary took us by surprise. She features an actual fantasy
SF News 15-Year-Old Oakland Boy Shot, Killed On Tuesday night, a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in Oakland near the Coliseum. Hadari Askari "was shot about 8:08 p.m. in the 6700 block of Leona Creek Drive in the
Arts & Entertainment Does San Francisco Need A Dutch Urban Cycling Infrastructure? By Alissa de Vogel Amsterdam is frequently and enthusiastically heralded as the best city in the world for cyclists, and for good reason. The entire city and outlying areas are covered with physically
SF News Elderly Woman Attacked In Golden Gate Park For Scolding Bothersome Youth An 82-year-old woman landed in the hospital with a life-threatening head injury after a 40-something jerk pushed her to the ground near Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park on Friday. According to police,
SF News Alleged Gay Rights 'Icon' Larry Brinkin Busted For Child Porn Larry Brinkin, a local gay rights advocate, was busted on child porn charges Friday. According to reports, the man was an "icon" of sorts within the LGBT community; however, this is the first
SF News Teens Punched, Burned With Cigarette During Mugging A triplet of horrible men around the ages of "25 and 35" brutally mugged a pair of teens Monday night in the city's Western Addition. Near the intersection of McAllister and Laguna at
