SF News Today's Afternoon SF Murder Post We're starting to run out of ways to introduce these stories about the murder count in SF, so we're going with a clip of "Miss Murder" by AFI, above. So here's the latest:
SF News Latest Murder News (And A Suggestion To The Chron) Following up on yesterday's blotter, we're sorry to pass along word from today's Chronicle that one of the murder victims over the weekend, David Sterling, was killed on the way home Monday afternoon,
misc Losing the Fuzz Via Gender Reassignment: John Mark Karr God bless the Bay Area Reporter. In this week's issue, Ed Walsh reports that former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect and one-time possible kiddie porn connoisseur, John Mark Karr, "had sought gender reassignment surgery,
SF News Follow Ups On Blotter News In response to allegations by deceased Stanford engineering grad student May Zhou's father earlier this week that his daughter's death was a homicide and not self-inflicted, the Santa Rosa police released additional information
SF News Your Second SFist Blotter Of The Day First up, remember May Zhou, the Stanford graduate student who was found dead in her car trunk in Santa Rosa? Well, her father remains convinced it was not a suicide, and cites a
SF News SFist Blotter [sorry we're late today!] Close call! A truck driver careened off the San Mateo Bridge yesterday afternoon, but managed to miss both the bay and a shed full of explosive material right by
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Anniversary of a Flesh Wound The violent melodrama characterizing the recent murder of a journalist investigating "Your Black Muslim Bakery" has conjured the entire Bay Area history of political violence into our memories. Dan White, James P. Casey,
misc Week Around the -ists Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one
SF News Day Around the Bay -- East Bay movie studio/shopping center deal? Fin. [Chron] -- #70: Early morning Hunters Point murder. [SF Crime] -- Lawsuit over AT&T Wireless' ability to suck. [Examiner] -- OMG: High
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- hey willpower at Glitterbox: At this "funk punk thrash electro discotheque" (what, no show tunes? Bah), local pop/R&B/dance band performs. DJs Javier Natureboy and Junkyard spin funk, punk,
SF News SFist Blotter Yet another pedestrian hit by yet another MUNI bus in the Richmond -- this time, the 1 California at 22nd Ave. Plus, Caltrain hit a car this morning too. More murder counts for
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 8.8-foot-long Smart Fortwo cars in SF. Squash. [Chron] -- No surprise: Gap Inc. sales suck. (Hint: Burn all billboards promoting horizontal pastels.) [Examiner] -- Hayward murder-suicide.[Chron] -- Barry Bonds bash.
SF News Bailey's Suspected Assassin: Taking the Fall? Devaughndre Broussard, 19 -- the infamous handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery who is/was at the top of the list of Bailey's murder suspects -- says that he was "ordered by someone"
SF News SFist Blotter Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Deep Fried Murder: A play about the world of competitive eating, veganism, and breaking up. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. at the Climate Theatre, 285 - 9th Street; $12. -- Altered
SF News SFist Blotter Your Black Muslim Bakery update: the business is being liquidated in an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding (they have almost $1 million in debt) after a number of unnamed potential buyers dropped out, and the
SF News Day Around The Bay -- No official Halloween bash happening in the Castro, anywhere in SF. Hmm, this will be interesting/scary to watch come 10/31. [Chron, The Snitch] -- One dies in crash on the
SF News Chauncey Bailey's Source The Chronicle reports that Yusuf Bey's son-in-law, Saleem Bey, 43, who worked at Your Black Muslim Bakery for ten years, was the main source for journalist Chauncey Bailey's unpublished stories about the bakery.
SF News Chicken v. Wolf v. Audience Last night's innovative Chicken John/Josh Wolf Mayoral debate brought in "a dozen or so citizens," artists, and political fetishists. Even though it was on a Sunday night, anyone who cares about politics,
SF News Day Around The Bay - The Alcatraz Challenge Aquathlon's motto "Swim or Die" proves literal after a competitor dies during race. [Chron, Examiner] -- Police get Devandre (or Devaughndre) Broussard -- 19-year-old handyman and a UC youth
SF News Day Around The Bay What a day, what a day, what a day... -- Man who killed cop in 2005 receives death sentence. [Chron] -- Dow Jones down. [Chron] -- Police raid Your Black Muslim Bakery, arrests
SF News SFist Blotter Sorry we missed this story the first time around -- the cops are still looking for the assailants in a stabbing on 19th and Castro back in June. Two gay men were walking
SF News News From The Animal Point Of View They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one
SF News A Brutal Murder In San Jose Last Sunday, San had walked a mile from her home in East San Jose at 6 a.m. to catch the bus to her job as a janitor at a doughnut shop in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Double Indemnity (1944) and Clash by Night (1952): Barbara Stanwyck sears the screen tonight in two gems: Billy Wilder's shadow-heavy, film noir hit about adultery and murder, followed by Fritz Lang's fick