Arts & Entertainment Baby Swans At Palace Of Fine Arts Disappear, Predator Suspected Well, we knew it was a possibility, but it's still a little sad: Those baby swans at the Palace of Fine Arts we told you about on Wednesday appear to have been consumed
Arts & Entertainment Seahawks-49ers NFC Championship Game Was Rigged, Says Conspiracy Theory Video At the risk of ripping off your scabs without giving the wounds time to heal, here's a 15-minute YouTube conspiracy theory video about how the NFL rigged the NFC Championship in favor of
SF News Banana Sam, World-Famous SF Zoo Monkey, Died We have some horrible news for you, folks. Banana Sam, the 19-year-old world-famous squirrel monkey who was kidnapped in 2011, died on Thursday. He was 19. Via SF Zoo's press release: With great
SF News Your Morning Cry: Stranded Stinson Beach Whale Dies #PHOTO just in shows stranded fin whale that died at Stinson Beach in Marin County http://t.co/Tj8heJlUlW pic.twitter.com/CuDSupqHVV— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) August 19, 2013 Perhaps your editor's
SF News Study: Facebook Makes People Sad Another study confirms what we've always believed: Facebook makes you feel lonely and bad about yourself. The study followed a group of 82 young adults and monitored them at different points throughout the
SF News Windsurfers Rescue Puppy Stranded In The Bay A pair of windsurfers and a boat commuter (!) banded together Monday evening to rescue a dog found paddling frantically in the middle of the Bay. The pup, a labrador mix or mastiff, was
SF News The Beanstalk: Last. Place. (By e.Chang) The Week That Was: Won 1, lost 3 against the Reds. Won 0, lost 3 against the Cubs. 46-58 for the season; last place in the NL West. The Week
Arts & Entertainment The Scutaro RainGlobe Makes Us Kinda Sad It should have been a great idea. It is a great idea. Take that unforgettable moment last year when the heavens opened and Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro spread his arms wide in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Beloved Merritt Restaurant & Bakery Closed After Major Fire The Merritt Bakery in Oakland, popular especially with the elderly but embraced by hipsters too, is closed today after an early morning fire that started in a storage room at the rear of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-You-Can-Drink Saturdays at Golden Gate Fields Cancelled That was fast. Much like your friend who gets sent home drunk before the party even begins, Golden Gate Fields has prematurely cancelled its All-You-Can-Drink Saturday special. As we reported Wednesday, Golden Gate
SF News Ha Ha: You Have To Work Today While It's Gorgeous Outside Cruelty, thy name is a gorgeous Wednesday. Today is the day we give you permission to defriend and unfollow with impunity anyone who boasts or brags about being outside on this gorgeous April
SF News Two Bay Area Men Drowned in High Surf in Kauai Two more Bay Area residents have lost their lives while in Hawaii. Best friends Adam Griffiths, 46, and Brian Baker, 47, were hiking with Griffiths' fiancée Jennifer Kwong on the rocky north shore
SF News One Of Twin Brown Sisters Has Died Terrible news today. One half of the iconic Brown twins died on Wednesday night. Vivian Brown passed in her sleep at an assisted care facility in the city. She was 85. According to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why, God, Why: Marlena's Closing [Updated] Please don't call in a 5150, concerned readers, but we don't want to live in a world with no Marlena's, Hayes Valley's single greatest bar, gay or otherwise. Why, just last Friday your
SF News Wells Fargo Dodges $203 Million In Overdraft Fees Sad news for anyone who has ever felt the sting of an overdraft fee from the nation's largest bank: a federal appeals court in San Francisco declared yesterday that Wells Fargo Bank does
SF News Reminder: Your Evenings Will Be Extra Dark Starting Sunday Heads up, seasonal depressives, Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend. That means we all get an extra hour of sleep on Sunday before we enter that SAD-inducing part of the year where it
SF News West Portal Doctor, Whose Office Burned Last Week, Seeks New Lincecum Jersey Dr. Fred Warren, an SF orthodontist whose West Portal office burned in that big, four-alarm blaze Friday morning which also claimed a Squat & Gobble and a ground-floor wine shop, is mostly just
SF News Schwarzenegger Talks 'Total Recall,' Recalls Other Dumb Things To Say Aging action star, noted adulterer, and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzeneggar has a new book out today: the highly anticipated and partially crowdsourced autobiography Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. The
SF News Sad-Eyed Dog Dies On United Flight to San Francisco A 140-pound mastiff failed to make the flight from Miami to San Francisco International Airport last month. The cause of death: a sweltering four-hour layover in Houston, apparently. According to the dog's owner,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let's All Guess Who This Rude Bravo Reality Star Is, And Then Shun Her Tacolicious spilled dirt on a godawful customer who came into their Marina location and tried flashing their Bravo reality-star card to get a seat in lieu of waiting in line. Which: haha. Idiot.
SF News Giants Cancel Order for 20,000 Melky Cabrera T-shirts An order for 20,000 Melky Cabrera T-shirts were nixed soon after revelations came to light that the 28-year-old All-star MVP player tested positive for testosterone. He received a 50 game suspension (and
SF News Dumb: Melky Cabrera Created Phony Website To Dodge Drug Suspension You and the Giants have greater issues at hand (e.g., we're one half a game behind LA) than the stupid, stupid thing Melky Cabrera did, so we will try to be brief
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Falls Off Billionaire Top Ten List As Facebook's share price took another tumble last week, Mark Zuckerberg got knocked off a list of the world's ten richest techie billionaires. He temporarily lost $423 million of his personal, on-paper fortune
SF News San Francisco Olympic Fencer Freaks Out When He Loses to a Russian One of the Bay Area's 70 some-odd Olympic hopefuls is out of the running, and he threw a bit of a fit as he was losing. San Francisco-born Alexander Massialas, 18, lost a
Arts & Entertainment To The Chagrin of Dickey'd Over Fans, Matt Cain Picked To Lead All-Star Game This week marks the annual like-it-or-hate-it week of baseball since it's the kickoff of the 2012 All-Star Game for the National League. Also this week, it was announced that Giants perfect-gamer Matt Cain,
