SF News Sunday Links: Tech Worker Who Was Stabbing Roommate Fatally Shot by Santa Clara Police The Valkyries played a strong game but lost against the Minnesota Lynx; posts on social media are saying salt trucks have been deployed across Chicago in anticipation of ICE; and an unemployed tech worker was shot and killed by police during a knife attack.
SF Politics London Breed and Billionaire Friend Throw SF Boosterism Bash In Chicago, Featuring The Killers In an effort to flex some muscle on a national stage and counter the Republicans' tired narrative about San Francisco being a hellhole, billionaire Chris Larsen and Mayor London Breed threw an SF image-boosting party on Night Two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
SF News Could the Stockton Serial Killer Be Chicago's 'Duck Walk Killer' Who Randomly Murdered Two Men In 2018? Investigators are trying to determine if a suspect who shot two men, execution-style, four years ago in Chicago could be the same suspect responsible for six murders in the last year and a half in Stockton and Oakland.
SF News Murderous Sex Fantasy, Hatched In Chat Room, Was Allegedly Behind Bizarre Chicago Murder Case Prosecutors in Chicago revealed details for the first time Sunday in the gruesome homicide there on July 27 that ended with two suspects being arrested and briefly held here in the Bay Area.
SF News As Chicago Plan Stalls, Oakland Hints At Second Bid For Lucas Museum For several years now, filmmaker and extremely rich person George Lucas has been working to create a massive museum dedicated to showcasing his collection of movie memorabilia, illustrations, and graphic art. After his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rick Bayless Bored By S.F. Food Scene [Update] Top Chef Master winner and noted chef Rick Bayless paid San Francisco a visit recently. But Mr. Bayless was not tickled by the food found here -- specifically, at several noted restaurants (e.g.
SF News Threatening Sticker Diverts SFO Flight to Germany A United Airlines flight from SFO to Frankfurt, Germany needed to make an emergency stop in Chicago on Sunday. It seems that a crew member discovered a "sticker with a threatening message
SF News 24 Hours of NERT Earth! Oh, and here are some tips from the NERT (National Neighborhood Emergency Response Team), care of Ed Chu of the San Francisco Fire department. It's not the most entertaining bit of
misc Living Oprah Lives Best Life For One Year Have you read Living Oprah, the greatest thing in the world, ever? Penned by a 35-year-old writer, performer, and artist living in Chicago--who doesn't give her name--for
Arts & Entertainment <i>Girls Rock! The Movie</i> Premieres Tonight at Embarcadero The film also opens at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley today, with a grand opening event tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m., featuring performances by campers As Ifs and Shattuck Cinemas' band
SF News Global Monopoly Game Embroiled in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In January we mentioned a global Monopoly board game where you could vote on which cities you want on Hasbro's latest version of the popular board game, Monopoly Here and Now:
misc Interview: Jeff Ross What is the best thing about Indie Fest? Having filmgoers get to meet filmmakers and talk movies. What are some standout movies this year? One of my personal favorites is POP SKULL, this
SF News Um, Would You Please Shut It, <i>Chicago Tribune</i> Readers? Thanks. The Chicago Tribune is, in 2008, finally getting around to dealing with the glorious, frustrating, and all-knowing voice of the commenter. This week the Tribune shut down their comment boards on all
SF News San Francisco's Big Brother Cinéma Vérité Sucks, Claim Critics And speaking of cameras... While Chicago has seen crime rates plummet to their lowest numbers in over four decades due to the windy city's Big Brother program, San Francisco's
misc Week Around the -Ists * Torontoist discovered their city's most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video. * Chicago tragically loses one of its most
SF News American Football Spectacular: A Level Of Sadness Akin To Elliott Smith Reporting from the snow-dappled streets of Chicago, it's your American Football Spectacular preview for this Saturday night's battle at The Stick as The Queen City's feline
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: December 10-16 David Bazan is traveling up the West Coast before he jumps over Europe to finish his tour. He'll be stopping in at the Bottom of the Hill, where he'll
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: December 3-8 Now that the bets are in (okay, so no one really cast any bets - how boring is that?), you can go to Cafe du Nord, tonight, to check out San Francisco's
Arts & Entertainment Touched by an Angela: La Rondine at SF Opera. Now, Angela has some redeeming qualities: one could excuse her for her behavior; being diva in the truest operatic sense of the word, that's her job after all. Plus, she brings
SF News American Football Spectacular: All That Glimmers For both the New Orleans Saints and the 49ers, this season has . There's no worse feeling in fandom than unmet expectations. And both of the NFL's gold-helmeted teams
SF News SFist Blotter Hey, remember angry Sarah Nome, the lady who refused to move out of the Kaiser hospital in Marin for over a year, and ran up a $1.4 million bill? Well, Kaiser'
SF News Now Boarding Group A.... Out Of SFO Southwest has gone a little nuts about the news themselves -- are you also getting emails where they're giving you triple Rapid Rewards credit if you book a ticket online out of
Arts & Entertainment We're Number One! San Francisco Is Top City For Singles Hey, all you singles in San Francisco/Oakland, looks like you live in the right place. Our fair city was tops in Forbes 7th Annual Best Cities for Singles Report. The magazine made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- "Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone": Local legend/songstress pays tribute to Dr. Nina Simone's brilliance, goddamn. Nalley blesses us with two sets at 8 p.m. and 10 p.
Arts & Entertainment You Can Be On Top (Chef). We'd Like It. The next season of Top Chef is looking for a few good contestants, right here in San Francisco. Applicants that aren't able to attend can submit video profiles instead, but Sunday
