SF News Update: FBI Raids Hayes Valley Den of Iniquity After this morning's FBI raids in San Francisco and Oakland, a total of five people were arrested. For what, you ask? Well, not human trafficking. Not treason. Not even hardcore gang activity. The
misc What's Their Names Tie the Knot This Weekend Oh yeah, we almost forgot. They're getting married this weekend somewhere in Canada at some sort of horse breeding ranch. Or wherever. Billed as an "old-fashioned wedding social," featuring "wrangler events, a cowboy
misc Crack Monkey This ancient picture (1999!) of this contributor blasting a wallie off this sketchy bump-to-wall was taken on 15th Street, between Mission and South Van Ness. He was 20-years-old at the time. The angle
SF News Fruit-Flavor Infusions Makes Cocaine Even Livelier As if cucumber- and celery-infused vodkas haven't rocked your world enough, the latest trend in intoxication is fruit-flavored blow. The DEA has come across loads of the sweet treat, most recently finding the
SF News We Lost Sonoma County to Meth, Drug Bust Biggest In Years What's brilliant about Wine Country is that it's secretly a methamphatimine-making hot spot. No amount of police presence and Fume Blanc tastings will change that fact. Take, for example, Sonoma County, which played
SF News Colored Crack Lightens Up the Holidays Asked by TSG if he had ever seen drugs marketed in such a fashion, Mincks said that several years ago some dealers used food coloring to dye their crack red during the Christmas
Arts & Entertainment <i>Degrassi: TNG</i> Stereotypes Ring True Characters such as Manny, the school slut, Paige, the pig-faced "mean girl," and Marco, the Latino gay resonate with tweens and adults alike. One of the most unforgettable Degrassi characters is Rick, who
SF News 6 a.m. Oakland Drug Raid: One of the Largest Busts Ever Although a press conference happening this afternoon will tell us all of the gory details, this morning an Oakland drug bust went down. It was one of the largest of its kind in
SF News Creepies Crawlies Full of Grace Because a day can't go by without some sort of cocaine mention, behold: Shipped from Peru to the Netherlands, each of these (dead) little felllas were busted for transporting 10oz ($11,000) of
SF News Ross Saving The Day -- Vigilantes In The Backstory So hey, remember that shooting that Ross Mirkarimi helped solve? According to the Chron, the cops are saying it was a vigilante father-son duo, out for revenge after the victim stole a gold
Arts & Entertainment Matt Smith Draws! Who knew he could control a pen (charcoal? Sharpie?) the same way he does a keyboard over at the SF Weekly offices? We sure didn't. And although we love Newsom -- we do,
SF News Did Barry Give Mustard Gas to Saddam Hussein? There's big legal news concerning the Barry, none of which involves Curt Schilling or Grand Juries. Oh no. Barry has just been slapped with a lawsuit by an inmate in a South Carolina
Arts & Entertainment Faux Blow Gets Addict/Consumer Watchdog Arrested The spectrum of coke rage runs wide. It can go from harmless rolling of the eyes and a sigh to unnecessary shouting to Lindsay Lohan. For some, it goes much further. Take, for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cheap, Loud, And Drug-Laden: Taqueria's Owner And Chef Busted There aren't a lot of reviews out there for Lol Tun Restaurant, on Folsom between 19th & 20th streets. The folks participating on Yelp generally say the food is good and cheap, but
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Dodgers 6 Giants 4- Before we begin the fun, we'd like to draw your attention to a pretty interesting article by the LA Times' Bill Plaschke who writes how that two game series
SF News Ruby Rippey-Tourk: Self-Help Scribe? KGO7's Dan Noyes has it that cocaine-and-booze-free Ruby Tourk has already written two chapters of a hopefully-soon-to-be-published self-help book, which will detail her “‘hitting rock bottom with Newsom after 20 years of alcoholism
SF News Tsk, Tsk: The Latest On The Board Of Supes Code Of Conduct Proposals As you may remember, Alioto-Pier (or MAP, as we like to call her) is spearheading the push to institute a code of conduct for supervisors, after the flap about Chris Daly saying that
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: SF"Chron"-Gate! Most people can't comprehend our near OCD level obsession with Chris Daly, Ed Jew, Gavin, and the Board of Supes. So, we're cool when people ask us questions like, "How do you know
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Theater: <em>No Parole</em> At an efficient 90 minutes, Peruvian-born D’Amore seamlessly breaks down (in more ways than one) his trajectory from wide-eyed, Italian/Latin-American kid in 1980s Peru to neurotic adult living with his too-brilliant
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Photo Gallery Yay! Tapioca Ed's back! Puckish commenter KWillets passes along this picture, from yesterday's Ed Jew Open House in District 4. Originally posted on Craigslist, it's somehow gotten included on Ed Jew's own webpage.
SF News Day Around The Bay --An ABC 7 blog doesn't think all this Chris Daly and Ed Jew stuff is funny! Of it's funny! [ABC 7's The Kitchen Think.] --Thought today in the SFist comments were bad? It
SF News Day Around The Bay --Your Two Cents: what career advice would you give Chris Daly? [Chron Two Cents]. --Beth Spotswood finds some hilarious pictures of crush object Gavin Newsom! [Chron Culture Blog.] --The SF Weekly starts their
SF News Gavin Speaks! The big money quote? Gavin channeling Popeye to say "I am who I am, imperfect and a work in progress." He also denied cocaine use, said he was going to Delancey Street almost
SF News Crack Kills So here's what we know. A man was pulled over by the cops for not having a license plate. That's where they discovered the bag. The cops say they brought him out of
