Obama is still not actually down with gay marriage. [TheAwl] Important (tiny) hamburger news: SliderBar Café slips in to the new Castro meat district. [GrubSF] The San Francisco Mint turns 75 next month,

Wayne Shannon, witty former KRON commentator dies in Idaho. [Chron] San Franciscans bring startup approach to homeless. [KTVU] Dolores Park in cartoon form. [Mission Mission] Car break-ins and home burglaries rattle the Lower

After buying Instagram, Facebook is trying to level the playing field (against themselves?) by introducing new photo filters for their mobile apps. Those filters are creatively called "Normal", "Sepia" and "Black & White"

Ketchup and Ranch battle it out on the Dolores Park Playground in a fight for potato-dipping supremacy. Also: some sort of viral marketing campaign. [Mission Mission] The new Bay Bridge East Span should

Hungry this morning? Occupy SF is serving a Solidarity Breakfast, free to all at their new commune at 888 Turk Street. (Sidenote: chances are high SFPD will show up and raid your coffee.

Hidden Histories: SF Baseball Stadiums. Can we bring back the part where the ballpark had a "booze cage" surrounded in chicken wire, and ticket price included your choice of a sandwich or shot

You should go take a look at the new Lands End Lookout. [Chron] Gavin Newsom sighting: at the California Academy of Sciences' Big Bang Gala. [SFWire] Valencia Street tree swing returns and it's

Fancy people things: Photos from SFMOMA's Modern Ball. [SFWire] War on Earth Day: vandals destroy thousands of plants at Candlestick Point park. [SFEx] A Chinatown restaurant named "Chinatown Restaurant" is opening in the

Today in alternate headlines, Fox Nation calls Obama's (much-loved!) Jimmy Fallon appearance an "embarrassment". [MotherJones] Watch Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien eat his way through Sichuan. [GrubSF] Would you give free, on-demand massages

Farallones wreck survivor: Experience was like being in "a washing machine filed with boulders." [Chron] How to kill that awful Meebo bar that lives at the bottom of SFGate.com forever. [Gizmodo] The

Video of crews recovering yacht wreckage from the Farrallon Islands. [Appeal] Man beats his roommate for making him watch a "disrespectful and tasteless" movie [SFEx] Kelly Malone walks us through the changes happening

John Waters spotted at noted Mission District dive bar Friday night. [UptownAlmanac] Waldo spotted in Dolores Park, naturally. [Mission Mission] District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar spotted in a hot tub at the Richmond

A Costco shipping truck collided with a stalled pickup on the Westbound San Mateo Bridge this morning, setting off more crashes involving a Highway Patrol cruiser and a fire truck. Making things worse,

Even though it's smack in the middle of that big renovation, the Metreon just got sold off to Starwood Capital. [Chron] City Attorney allowed to stay on the Mirkarimi Case, because Mirkarimi's argument

The occasionally controversial and sometimes inconsistent Lafitte on the Embarcadero's Pier 5 shutters. Chef and foie gras aficionado Russel Jackson will be headed to New York. [EaterSF] Mission District neighbors are bummed about

The Larry vs. Larry, Google vs. Oracle copyright trial officially kicks off in a San Francisco federal court today. [BCN] Speaking of Google: with all the crap the the tech giant is placing

A Pomeranian in a jean jacket and other scenes from DogFest 2012 in Duboce Park. [Haighteration] Be advised: overnight closures begin tonight on the Doyle Drive approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. [BCN/

Mid-air drama as lightning struck a London-bound 777 leaving from SFO. The bird had to come back in for a landing, but everybody was just fine. [KTVU] Tutorial: How to get tossed out

As of this writing, results in our Who Does San Francisco Hate More? Poll are literally neck-and-neck, with the Castro Pedestrian Killer leading the Marina Louboutin Lobotomist by only two votes. [SFist] Parts

The Facebook + Instagram love affair has given us another treasure. Meet Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom and girlfriend: the tech industry/San Francisco's newest power couple. Something tells us we'll be sharing plenty of

Interim Sheriff Vicki Hennessy takes a tour of the city's jails, somehow comes off looking way more badass in photos than Mirkarimi ever did. Dear Startup Boys: Please Tuck In Your Shirts. [TheAwl]

On the state of tanning and undress at Dolores Park (among straight people, natch). [UptownAlmanac] These people got up way earlier than you yesterday to celebrate Easter on the top of Mt. Davidson.

Jack Kerouac: The original hipster foodie. (Also, he wrote On the Road on one long scroll, you know. That's basically blogging by typewriter.) [GrubSF] Here's what's on Ross Mirkarimi's social calendar: two important

Here's President Obama looking dapper in a locally sourced, SF-made fedora. [RichmondSF] Local Chef Chris Cosentino creates a "Bitter Hipster" pasta dish. Get it? Because rotelli looks like bike wheels, duh. [@offalchris] AirBnB

Camper English chronicles the recent evolution of cocktails in San Francisco. [BoldItalic] And speaking of SF Cocktail Culture, there's some creative new mixology happening on Muni. [MuniDiaries] This weeks Guardian cover story: hanging