Arts & Entertainment Richmond Embraces Home-Grown Rap Star Macho Hip-hop is borne of the ghetto, and Richmond Confidential -- as part of a two-part series they're writing with RichmondPulse.org -- profiles a self-styled "Prince of the Projects" by the name of
SF News Richmond Mayor Skips Veterans Event for Occupy Rally Obvious anti-'Merica Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin spit in the eye of a crying bald eagle making heterosexual love to Michelle Malkin today after skipping a Chevron-sponsored Veterans Day hour for an Occupy rally.
Arts & Entertainment Fecal Face Dot Gallery Reopens Tomorrow in Inner Richmond Due to the September house blaze at Haight and Fillmore, Fecal Face Dot Galley had to shutter its smokey doors. Sad. But! They will reopen (temporarily) on Friday in the Inner Richmond (at
SF News Officer-Involved Shooting in the Richmond Follows Domestic Stabbing [Updated] The intersection on Funston and Balboa is blocked off this morning after an SFPD officer-involved shooting occurred. According to KRON 4 Morning News, two people were carried off by ambulances and a woman
SF News Citizens In Richmond to Gather This Evening to Discuss Gang War We mentioned earlier today that Saturday's homicide in Richmond brings the murder rate on par, for the first seven months of the year, with the city's total homicides in 2010, totaling 21. Much
SF News SFist Blotter: Man With Coke All Over Face Arrested in Mission, Richmond Murder Marks Number 21 Mission / Gun Possession & Narcotics Possession: A man was arrested during a routine police check at a bar on the 3700 block of Mission on Saturday night. We're thinking this is one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Q Restaurant Boasts Charming Buster Posey DL Mural As the Giants drop (ever so slightly and briefly!) to second place, we have something to cheer up irked fans. And Buster Posey too! Cartoonist Andy George created this mural in honor of
SF News San Francisco to Ban Goldfish? R&B duo Matier & Ross have word that the San Francisco Animal Control Commission suggests a citywide ban on goldfish sales. While buying pets from puppy and kittens mills are a
SF News SFist Blotter: Bystander Caught in Mission Shootout, Shootings Continue in Richmond, Fatal Stabbing in Concord Mission / Shooting: Around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, two suspects near Alabama and 16th Street in the Mission fired shots at each other, hitting an uninvolved bystander in the process. The victim was
SF News SFist Blotter: A Mission Stabbing, and a Gang War Erupting In Richmond Mission / Stabbing: A 44-year-old man was slashed/stabbed near the intersection of 16th and Mission last night just before 10 p.m., following an argument with four unidentified males whom he did not
SF News Cliff House Street Vendors Don't Seem to Like Each Other Meanwhile out by the Cliff House, a "turf war" is raging between the (ahem) artisans who are fighting for sidewalk space from which to peddle their handmade jewelry, crafts and other assorted trinkets
misc Saturday: Inner Richmond Pub Crawl On Saturday night, Feb. 19, Pubcrawl-SF will host a pub crawl covering 10 bars in the Inner Richmond. Saturday night's roster includes: - Happy Lounge - 2nd Ave & Geary (8 p.m.
SF News Richmond Neighbors Try To Keep PETCO Out PETCO, it seems, wants to open one of their Unleashed stores in the spot that used to house Walgreens at 18th Avenue and Geary. But Richmond businesses and residents aren't having any of
SF News Muni Operations Chief Would Like You to Suck it Up, Outerlands Train Riders In a hearing yesterday regarding unscheduled "switch-backs" on the N-Judah and L-Taraval lines, Supes Carmen Chu and John Avalos voiced concerns from their constituents in the Sunset and Excelsior districts about what a
SF News Person Falls From Balboa Street Fire Escape, Dies An unidentified person fell to their death from a fire escape at 4730 Balboa near La Playa around 3 a.m. this morning. "The victim had fallen approximately 25 feet from the 2nd
SF News Youngest Richmond High School Gang Rape Suspect Set Free As we mentioned yesterday, Cody Smith, the 15-year-old who lured at Richmond High School gang rape victim into a harrowing two-and-a-half-hour ordeal, will be set free today. Why? Well, according to ABC 7,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Re-Visiting Delano's Wine Aisle Meltdown Yes, we first posted this footage back in June. However, seeing as how Delano's now faces almost certain closure in the Bay Area, we thought we would re-introduce you to a "crazy Russian
SF News Girlfriend of Murder Suspect Efren Valdemoro Spoke to Boss During Car Chase The girlfriend of now deceased suspected killer Efren Valdemoro spoke to her boss at the nail salon where she worked, on her cell phone, from the car she was in with Valdemoro during
SF News 18-Year-Old Richmond Woman Arrested for Pimping Teen Runaway Tia Trashae Powell, 18, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of pimping out a 14-year-old runaway girl. An officer, according to BCN (via KTVU), saw that "Powell and the girl had been exchanging text
SF News Five-Year-Old Found Safe After Car Thief Mistakenly Abducts Her A Richmond car thief took off with a Cadillac sedan around 5:40 a.m. this morning from a gas station on Carlson Boulevard, only to discover there was a five-year-old girl in
SF News SFist Blotter: Richmond Robbery At around 9 p.m. on Thursday on the 3000 block of Fulton, a 40-year-old man approached a woman sitting in her car, brandished a gun and demanded her property. The suspect, according
SF News Richmond City Council Picks Unfortunate Moment to Vote on More Tasers At last night's meeting of the City Council in Richmond, an ill-timed request from the police department for the purchase of 75 new Tasers led to some extended and awkward discussion. The request,
SF News Video: Lady Destroys Liquor Aisle at Richmond Delano's The sanity-estranged who roam among us. Where would we be without them? This "crazy Russian lady" went on a rampage at a Richmond store over the weekend. ManicVulva captured the tail-end of her
SF News Richmond Shooting on Fulton and 11th The damp Richmond district played host to a shooting late Monday night. The fuzz, according to reports, responded to a shooting at 11th Avenue and Fulton Street near Golden Gate Park. The grittiness
SF News Richmond Sinkhole Gets Worse We haven't so much been covering this story over in Richmond about the sinkhole that appeared along the residential road Via Verde, but now that it's been ongoing and getting worse we'll give
