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"The Last Stand": Arnold Does Arnold

Top 10 Bay Area Music Scandals of 2012

The Bay Area music scene had a particular flair for making headlines for reasons other than actual music in 2012. Some of these 10 incidents are totally tabloid, others are cold and criminal, but none of them are boring. From Ecstasy rings and instrument thievery to lascivious infidelity and shockin ... More >>

Facebook Being Blamed in East Coast Porn Fiasco

​Some teens on the East Coast were horrified to discover their innocent Facebook photos had been plastered all over a sleazy porn site. According to media reports, 17 girls from Bay Path Technical Vocational Regional High School in Charlton, Mass., were victims of this Facebook/porn fiasco, but sc ... More >>

Megaupload Bust Highlights Absurdity of SOPA/PIPA

​Last week, just as two ill-conceived anti-piracy bills were disintegrating in Congress in the face of a massive online protest, the FBI, with help from foreign governments, was busting Megaupload, one of the biggest sources of pirated digital goods. The timing was interesting, though the feds s ... More >>

"J. Edgar": Rich Script, Masterful Acting Weave Dense Historical Tale

Marshall McMains Goldberg, Man Accused of Kidnapping Elderly Mom, Could Be in Bay Area

Marshall Goldberg​Federal authorities say Marshall McMains Goldberg, the California man charged with kidnapping his eldery mother from her Ashland, Oregon home, could be hiding out in the San Francisco Bay Area. In May, a Grand Jury indicted Goldberg, 55, on charges that he kidnapped his 85-year-o ... More >>

No. 3: Sichuan Pickles at Mission Chinese Food

Albert Law/porkbellystudioMission Chinese Food's mixed pickles, $3.​SFoodie's countdown of our 92 favorite things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition.The longer Danny Bowien and Anthony Myint's restaurant sticks around, the farther afield it spins, growing wilder and more elaborate wit ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi Wants To Stop FBI's Monitoring of Muslims

Look! Now they're going out to the movies! It's all part of a nefarious plot, I tell you! ​Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi introduced a resolution this week asking his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors to endorse a Human Rights Commission report that shows law enforcement is consistently racial pro ... More >>

Cops Suspended While FBI Investigates Drug Bust

It's like an a TV episode​San Francisco's Chief of Police has decided to suspend the police department's plainclothes unit at the southern station while the city investigates accusations of perjury and police misconduct during a drug bust earlier this year. The officers involved have been reassign ... More >>

San Francisco Hacker Charged with Stealing E-mail Addresses from iPad Owners

iHack​San Francisco is home to some of the smartest and most tech-savvy inventors -- and hackers. Federal authorities arrested Daniel Spitler, a San Francisco resident, on suspicion of stealing and distributing the e-mail addresses of more than 120,000 iPad owners. Spitler, 26, and Andrew Auernhei ... More >>

The Top 10 Closeted Conservatives of All Time

Ken Mehlman has had plenty of dancing partners at the hypocrisy party​When Ken Mehlman crawled out of the closet last week he dragged a legion of filthy dust bunnies along  with him. For years, Mehlman was the mouthpiece -- and brain trust -- of the political party that built its reputation a ... More >>

Google May Launch iTunes Rival, Rock Concert Injuries, Shred Guitar on Your iPhone

Bono, your ruined back totally ruined our week​Google may launch music store to battle with iTunes this fall. [CNET]U2 had to postpone tonight's show in Oakland due to Bono's back injury. Disappointed, the Chron assembles a list of famous rock injury moments. [SF Gate]Members of Oakland noise-psy ... More >>

The Killer of His Daughter's Mother

A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican Cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner.

Accused Child Porn Professor to be Arraigned Today

Kenneth Kyle​Kenneth Kyle, the Cal State East Bay professor arrested earlier this month at San Francisco International Airport on child porn charges, will be arraigned this morning at San Francisco's Hall of Justice. The 47-year-old is facing felony charges of child pornography possession and chil ... More >>

Victims Survive the Night Following Fort Mason Double Shooting

View Larger Map A 17-year-old boy shot in the stomach last night in what appears to be an unprovoked shooting near Fort Mason is out of surgery with his condition upgraded to "non-life-threatening." He may speak to investigators from the Natonal Park Police and FBI as soon as today. The boy and a 22 ... More >>

No Justice

Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

The Informant! gets cute with massive corporate scandal and blows the story

Chronic City: Marijuana Arrests Drop For First Time Since 2002

The November CoalitionDrug War protester at Huntington Beach, Calif.​Marijuana arrests in the United States declined in 2008 -- the first such drop since 2002 -- according to figures released by the FBI today.According to the just-released Uniform Crime Reports, U.S. law enforcement made 847,863 a ... More >>

Chronic City: Aptly Named 'Joint Resolution' Succeeds; California Senate Urges Change in Federal Medical Marijuana Rules

​By a 23-15 vote, the California State Senate yesterday approved a "joint resolution" urging the federal government to stop Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) raids on medical marijuana patients and providers. The Sen. Mark Leno-authored resolution additionally calls for the nation to "create a compreh ... More >>

Misdeeds

An investor finds that he has been swindled, and that the schemer was aided by a mortgage industry lacking oversight.

Jennifer Lynch returns triumphant, bringing Julia Ormond along for the ride in Surveillance

Separated at Birth? Disgraced Illinois Gov and Distinguished Berkeley Prof

Is it just us or does busted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ... look quite a bit like respected U.C. Berkley astronomy professor Alex Filippenko?One helped SF Weekly with some calculations -- and the other is just calculating. One has a Ph.D, the other one was busted by the FBI. One looks at the star ... More >>

Audience member does Keanu Reeves role in Point Break play

Ripping It Up

Get On Board

Authorities Not Impressed By DA's Totally Bitchin' PC

You Kill Me

Following Untraceable's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

Gus Fallay Beats Bribery Rap, Wants Old Job Back at SF Department of Building Inspection

Napa Wine Tour Operator Unmaksed As Highway 101 Bandit

Pages and Pages

Test My Balls of Fury

Answer all correctly and win a Def Leppard album

Spy vs. Spy

Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Get Out of Jail Free

In the process of taking down the city's baddest gangsters, prosecutors and cops set some very scary people free.

Should journalist Josh Wolf be afraid?

The Assistant U.S. Attorney, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the SFPD want to get their hands on a video shot by a San Francisco blogger

The Organization Man

Why is this tale of a criminally undervalued FBI agent told backward?

Keep It Really Real

Willie Brown acknowledges his cronies fed at the city trough? Now that's funny.

Bait and Snitch

Lying under oath, threatening witnesses, revealing the names of federal agents -- it's just another day on the job for one of the DEA's paid drug informants

Remember Los Alamos!

So some computers, disk drives, keys, and uranium have been "misplaced." Don't you still think UC should run the top-secret Los Alamos nuclear lab? Take quiz, find out.

Ugly Duckling

Sandra Bullock fires off another Miss

Facing the Music

The feds catch up with the "homeless hacker" -- and order him off computers

Son of Super Swindler

The unsettling link between a group of firms that sell financial planning services to elderly Californians and one of the most notorious con men in U.S. history

A Vote of Competence

This is no time for softheaded governing. In this election, Prop. F and Dennis Herrera pass the confidence test; MUD fails completely.

Trouble in Mind

The Cell dives into the brain of a killer, but it's a shallow pool

Silicon Valley Shakedown

A con man feeds on fear and paranoia in the software business

Online Pirates of the Caribbean

Three San Francisco men found riches in Antiqua with their Internet gambling site. Now they're federal fugitives. Caribbean

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Spammer-Jamming Hammered

The Internet's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys just escalated

Dead Heat

Despite the deaths of Aaron Williams and Mark Garcia, the SFPD continues to use pepper spray on suspects who stand a good chance of dying in custody.

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