SF News Yemeni-American Man From SF Sues State Department For Revoking His Passport, Stranding Him In Yemen According to the Asian Law Caucus, dozens of American citizens who may have been born in Yemen are being held in the war-torn country, stranded, and unable to return to the U.S.
SF News SF Man Gets Out Of War-Torn Yemen, With Great Difficulty It's been a story in local TV news broadcasts the past week, and SFist noted it briefly here: 26-year-old Mokhtar Alkhanshali, who grew up in San Francisco, became trapped in the capital city
SF News The Blue Angels Will Buzz San Francisco Again In 2014 After being grounded in 2013 due to budget cuts, the U.S. Navy promises the loud and awesome Blue Angels will return in 2014 as part of the annual Fleet Week celebration. Not
SF News Latest Gang War in Oakland Tied to August Murder of Teenage Girl The recent uptick in gun violence in Oakland, including last weekend's shocking number of shootings (fifteen), can be tied back, in large part, to the August murder of a 16-year-old East Oakland girl.
Arts & Entertainment 5 Photos Of The Blue Angels Practicing In anticipation of this weekend's Fleet Week air show, the Blue Angles took to the skies above San Francisco to practice acrobatics and make very, very loud sounds. Here are five images of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PETA Releases Statement Regarding Federal Ruling On Delicious, Succulent Foie Gras Charcuterie-haters PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a statement today regarding the federal ruling on California's ornamental foie-gras ban. In a written statement, PETA peta'd: "The greedy producers and gluttonous
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Official Bête Wants France To Boycott Calif. Wines Because we aren't the only people silly enough to boycott other regions, an official in the land of baguettes poking through wicker bike baskets has urged his country to boycott California wines in
Arts & Entertainment Cold War Photo Fun: Nike Hercules Missile Site Here's some Cold War fun for a warm day: Bhautik Joshi snapped these pics of the Nike Hercules Missile Site in Marin County. Can't you just picture Harrison Ford and/or Alec Baldwin
Arts & Entertainment It's On: Mission Bicycle Slams Noe Valley Via Faux Bike For Kids Mission Bicycle recently unveiled via Facebook a bicycle for children named after the area's neighboring 'hood, Noe Valley (a neighborhood stereotypically teeming with families and lesbians and lesbians with families) called "The Noe.
SF News First-Ever Nationwide Emergency Alert Test at 11 AM At 11 a..m. (PST) today, radio broadcasters and TV will take part in the first-ever nationwide emergency alert system test. Although emergency alert system tests have been done at the local level,
SF News Cindy Sheehan Crazily Denies Osama Bin Laden's Death It was only a matter of time before conspiracy gibberish surrounding Osama bin Laden's death sprang forth. Enter Cindy Sheehan. Today, the American anti-war activist angrily denied reports of the the Al-Qaeda leader's
SF News SF Soldier Killed In Afghanistan on XMas Day Former San Francisco resident Sgt. David Gutierrez, CBS 5/AP reports, "died early on Christmas Day in Kandahar from wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device went off." Gutierrez, it seems was patrolling
SF News Cindy Sheehan Rocks Travis Air Force Base While we typically like to poke fun at Cindy Sheehan and the loopy ladies of Code Pink --because, let's face it, they usually deserve a good ribbing -- we have too hand it
SF News CodePink Hand Delivers Message to Obama They sure are crafty, those CodePink dames. First they manage to get within a few inches of Condoleezza Rice. Now they waltz up to Barack Obama and give him some paper. See, while
SF News Get Your Own Timely Nancy Pelosi Waterboarding Doll For those of you who still find political satire knee-slappingly hilarious -- i.e., those of you who laugh a bit too loudly at Shakespeare comedy previews at the Embarcadero Cinemas -- you
SF News Poor, Innocent Pelosi Lied to By Big, Bad CIA Dainty House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has come under fire recently for allegedly knowing that the U.S. was committing illegal acts of torture, has refuted statements saying that the top Democrat knew
SF News School Board Votes to Keep JROTC In SF Schools After a weary battle to permanently remove Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) from San Francisco schools, the school board voted 4-3 Tuesday night to reinstate the program. If you recall, the army
SF News Something Exciting Happening at SF Israeli Consulate Oh boy. According to IndyBay, who is never one to disappoint, "over 1000 dead in Gaza." But wait, there's more! It seems there's also a "lockdown" going on at the Israeli Consulate over
SF News Pro-Palestine Protesters Early AM Protest Blocks Traffic Protesters livid about Israel's (offensive? defensive? you decide!) action in Gaza are blocking streets in as they head toward the Federal Building on Golden Gate Ave. This is an "emergency protest," if you
SF News Photos from Violence in Gaza Protest, 12/30 Last night the streets of San Francisco saw its second night of anger at Israel's assault in the Gaza Strip. The protest over the never-ending war started on Montgomery Street at the Israeli
SF News Gaza Strip Silent Vigil at Feinstein's Office Anti-Zionists, cranky over Israel's brazen smack down in the Gaza Strip, which left 220 people dead, will have a whisper-quiet protest over at DiFi's office later this afternoon at 5 p.m. Co-Sponsored
SF News Sunnyvale Councilman/Former Mayor Leaves for Iraq On Dec. 29, U.S. Navy reservist/attorney/councilman Otto Lee, 41, will start a trepidatious, sourjourn deployment in Iraq. The Sunnyvale representative and father of two received his deployment orders three weeks
SF News Code Pink Holds Farewell Kiss Shoe-In Protest in Berkeley Code Pink is having yet another Bush/war protest today. This time they're using the shoe -- made popular last week by Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who hurled his footwear at President Bush
SF News Pardon Muntader al-Zaidi? After hurling his black dress shoes at President George Bush last week, Muntader al-Zaidi, a journalist for an independent Iraqi television station, is being hailed as somewhat of a hero. (Word is that
misc Big Bad Blonde Wig Bar Crawl Taskes Over the Marina While we wait for Eater to tell us just what San Francisco bar stands as the most body cavity-cleansing, check out theses glamor shots from the Second Annual Big Bad Blond Wig Bar
