SF News Marin Man Nabbed For Squeezing Chihuahuas A San Rafael man remains in custody today after witnesses say he was violently squeezing and biting two small Chihuahuas. Jennifer Parker, who lives in the area of Merrydale Road in San Rafael,
SF News Allegedly Drunk Mom Plows Car Into Swamp, With Kid Inside An apparently very drunk 25-year-old San Francisco woman is in a Marin County jail after taking her 7-year-old son on a ride to San Rafael, getting lost, losing control of her car, and
SF News Girl Goes Missing In Marin Park, Prompts Massive Search And Rescue Operation A 9-year-old New Mexico girl wandered away from her family's campsite on Friday in Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin, and the report of her going missing prompted a 200-person search-and-rescue effort.
SF News LGBT Teen Who Committed Fake Hate Crimes Against Herself 10 Years Ago Speaks Out This is likely a story you only noticed or cared about if you were a) growing up in Marin in 2004-05, or b) paying close attention to LGBT hate-crime news, but it did
Arts & Entertainment Class War: S.F. Streets Hungry, Marin Porsche Drunk In Perfect Photo Well, would you look at this. A photo captured by Twitter user David Bellona, himself a designer at Twitter, is making the rounds for its perfect evocation of San Francisco's much-ballyhooed incipient class
SF News Guy Fieri Testifies In Final Day of Lamborghini Thief's Trial Does everyone remember the story of celebrity nacho chef Guy Fieri's Lamborghini getting stolen out of a dealership showroom? This all happened over two years ago, and the kid who supposedly did it
SF News Joseph Naso Found Guilty Joseph Naso, the man accused of murdering four women in the Bay Area and Yuba County between 1977 and 1994, was found guilty by a jury today. Naso was found guilty of killing
SF News George Lucas and Mellody Hobson Got Married on Saturday We learned of George Lucas's engagement to high-powered Chicago finance gal Mellody Hobson back in January, and on Saturday the two were wed at a small ceremony at Skywalker Ranch attended by everyone
SF News San Anselmo Park Gets Its Own Yoda, Indiana Jones Statues Marin loves George Lucas, and George Lucas loves Marin. Thus he donated some land in downtown San Anselmo for the creation of Imagination Park, now almost complete, and he put up money for
Arts & Entertainment 6 Other 'Free' Seasons Marin County Should Declare After news broke this morning that Marin County wants to help eradicate childhood obesity by declaring a Summer without soda, we couldn't help but wonder what other suburban Northern California issues our neighbors
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marin County Declares 'Soda Free Summer' No more Mr. Pibb. No more Diet Rite. No more Shasta. No more Slice. This summer in Marin, soda is as out as driving a black 1999 Range Rover. Marin County, sprawling hippie
SF News Famous 'Rumors' Recording Studio To Become Yoga Studio The famous Record Plant Studio in Sausalito — where Stevie Wonder laid down Songs in the Key of Life, Metallica Load'ed then ReLoad'ed and Fleetwood Mac sent Rumors swirling — is getting one of those
SF News Marin Man Who Really Hates Plaid Pleads Guilty To Assault Eugene Thomas Anderson, 31, "took a plea deal and admitted to assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury" on Thursday in connection to a viciously vehicular sartorial and crime. On July
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bombing Hawk Hill On A BMX Bike Is Thrillingly Scenic (Also Terrifying) We here at SFist cannot in good conscience endorse high-speed helmetless bicycling, no matter how good the wind feels in your hair, but we can fully endorse the backdrop on this BMX descent
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'I Want It All Now' 1978 Doc Exposes Marin County's Hedonism "On the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco," this 1978 NBC News exposé begins, "a woman can buy the services of two nude masseurs." And with that, we think
Arts & Entertainment Marin Man Rebuilds Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Doghouse Only in the Marin Independent Journal do we get such stories... Novato resident Jim Berger, a Marin native, grew up in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in San Anselmo. His father, a college
SF News Marin Medical Alliance, One of the Oldest Pot Dispensaries in the State, Closes Its Doors The Marin Medical Alliance, which was founded in 1990 as the Hemp Renaissance Council of West Marin and opened at 6 School Street in Fairfax in 1996, was forced to close over the
SF News Three-Alarm Fire Breaks Out at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch In the North Bay, a chimney fire in the Main House of George Lucas' bucolic retreat sparked three alarms after it became too much to handle for the Star Wars director's private Skywalker
SF News Marin Authorities Destroy Nearly 13,000 Pot Plants On Thursday, Marin authorities eradicated an estimated 13,000 baby marijuana plants found on Bolinas Ridge near Kent Lake. Marin Municipal Water District, National Park Service, California Department of Justice and U.S.
SF News Gavin Newsom Moves to Marin When we first got wind that former San Francisco Mayor / current Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom moved to Marin, our first thought was, "Oh God, which town?" Everything in Marin, you see, hinges upon
SF News San Quentin Riot Injures 4 After a dining hall riot broke out at San Quentin on Sunday, four prisoners were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The minor melee involved at least 200 convicts. No idea what, exactly, prompted the
SF News Field Trip Sickness Diarrhea, vomiting — just your typical school field trip, right? CBS is reporting a sickening wave of flu-like illness amongst 50 Bay Area students and adults on a five-day educational trip at Walker Creek
SF News Pizza Orgasmica Exterior Color Too Loud For Marin Pizza Orgasmica opened a new shop in San Rafael recently. In an ode to Brazil's soccer team, they used garish yellow and green paint for the exterior. This, it seems, didn't sit well
misc Meanwhile, In Marin County... Ticklefight found this irie license place in Marin County. (Thanks goes out to Allan Hough for sending this our way.)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Beth Behrs, a Direct-to-DVD <em>American Pie</em> Sequel Actress from Marin by Amy Crocker How does a girl from Marin County end up with a role in American Pie? According to Beth Behrs, with lots of luck. A graduate of the UCLA School of
