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Sarah Klein, Local Burlesque Performer Known As Sparkly Devil, Dies in Car Accident

The San Francisco burlesque community is grieving today after losing "a gem" of a person and performer. Sarah Klein, 36, better known as Sparkly Devil, died Sunday morning in a car collision hours after performing a show in San Francisco. According to press reports, Klein, who co-produced The Hubb ... More >>

Bouncer Gets Fancy at the Redwood Room

Damien Ford, James Ross Accused of Series of Armed Robberies

San Francisco police have arrested two men who allegedly committed two back-to-back armed robberies in less than an hour on Saturday.Officer Albie Esparza tells us that about 9 p.m. the two robbers walked into a store on the 200 block of Noe Street -- one was armed with a shotgun, and both men had t ... More >>

Michelle Le Murder: Experts Say Giselle Esteban Did Extensive Computer Search for Le's Name

Prosecutors introduced some disturbing testimony today, claiming that Giselle Esteban, the woman accused of murdering Michelle Le last year, had conducted a comprehensive search on Le as well as tactics to harm someone just before the nursing student went missing. According to KTVU, FBI compute ... More >>

Hiding in Plain Sight: A Homicide Suspect Spent Four Years on the Lam

Woman Details Violent Home-Invasion Robbery in the Haight

Lower Haight neighbors are bit shaken after hearing of this scary home-invasion robbery where armed men forced their way into a home and attacked the residents. The crime happened just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday; the suspects surprised the sleeping residents, one of whom was punched repeatedly, acco ... More >>

Fernando Sanchez-Sanchez Identified as Motorcyclist Who Died During CHP Chase

Medical authorities identified the motorcyclist who died in a solo crash on Monday night as 26-year-old Fernando Sanchez-Sanchez. Police told reporters that officers attempted to stop Sanchez-Sanchez who was allegedly speeding on Highway 101 near Candlestick Park at about 8:10 p.m. CHP officers chas ... More >>

IHOP Gives Away Pancakes on National Pancake Day (It's a Thing)

What: Free Pancakes! Where: IHOP When: Tues., February 28, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Cost: Free (duh) The rundown: Bet you didn't know that it's National Pancake Day. It's probably also the day for blind babies and little people with dyslexia but the only one we care about is delicious pancakes. Not caus ... More >>

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson and the Rabid Right

Silence Is Death at Cobb's Comedy Club

Bouncer: Silence Is the Worst at Cobb's Comedy Club

​From this week's Bouncer column: I just made the mistake of reading all of the comments that followed a Yahoo News article on the legalization of gay marriage in New York state -- thousands of hateful people being viciously mean, woefully ignorant, or both. It reminds me of road rage, those ... More >>

Derek Kerr, Laguna Honda Physician Fired After Whistleblowing, Pressures City for Documents

​Most people who have been paying any attention to San Francisco's questionable ethics policies probably weren't surprised when the Grand Jury issued a scathing report calling San Francisco's Whistleblower Program a colossal failure. We know Doctor Derek Kerr wasn't.The report only strengthened th ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Police Tell TV Station to Check Its Facts

The fact is ... Le is still missing​A San Diego television station added a new twist to the mysterious case of Michelle Le, the 26-year-old nursing student who went missing last month. The station reported yesterday that two phone calls were made from Le's cell phone shortly after she went missing ... More >>

Officer Shoots Wanted Man in Western Addition

officer shooting​Police shot and wounded a man near Ellis and Gough streets just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, according to media reports. The man, whom police had reportedly been searching for over the last three days, was taken to the hospital. SF Weekly called police, who have not yet responded beca ... More >>

San Francycle: Your Bike to the Future

​Oh, sure, you may think that the fantasies of municipal infrastructure bureaucrats are boring. But allow us to shatter your misconceptions with just five words: Two-Stage Turn Queue Boxes. National Association of City Transportation Officials is a sort of national clearinghouse for transportat ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Blood Found at Kaiser Parking Lot Where Missing Student Was Last Seen

Blood found​Last week, police ruled the Michelle Le case a homicide, without revealing any evidence of why. But now police are saying that they found blood evidence in the parking garage at Kaiser where the missing nursing student was last seen on May 26. According to media outlets, police believe ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Missing Student Case Now a Homicide Investigation

Michelle Le was set to graduate from nursing school next year​UPDATE: Police are now telling reporters that all signs point to homicide in the case of Michelle Le, the missing nursing student. Police released as statement, saying after extensive interviews and forensic investigations of her abando ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Vigil Tonight for Missing Student, Reward Increases to $40,000

Michelle Le​Family and friends of Michelle Le, the nursing student who went missing a week ago, will gather tonight for a vigil at the site where her abandoned car was found last Friday.The vigil will be held at Ponderosa Court in Hayward, about a half-mile from Kaiser Hospital, where Le, 26, was ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Police Issue Search Warrants and Question 20 People

Michelle Le has been missing since Friday ​Over the last five days, police have interviewed some 20 people -- even arresting one briefly. They've issued search warrants and tracked down a few "persons of interest," only to remained stumped as to what happened to Michelle Le, the 26-year-old nursin ... More >>

Inspecting Modernist Cuisine, Preventing Recipe Theft, Sympathizing for the Guy

​1. The critics take on Modernist Cuisine. As SFoodie mentioned yesterday, Nathan Myhrvold's 2,438-page Modernist Cuisine is now out, and most of the big papers are running reviews today. Legendary cookbook author Michael Ruhlman, writing in the New York Times, and Washington Post contributor Andr ... More >>

Police Release Sketch of Victor Zheng's Suspected Killer

Man of interest​San Francisco police provided a composite sketch of a man they want to question about last week's stabbing of 16-year-old Victor Zheng.Zheng, a Balboa High School student, died at San Francisco General Hospital after he was punched and then stabbed in the chest as he walked with a ... More >>

Robyn Celebrates 'Dykes and Trannies' at the Warfield

Joseph SchellRobyn at the Warfield last night.​Robyn Maluca November 23, 2010 @ The Warfield Better than: Dancing on your own. So we know that Robyn is obsessed with robots, but it might be time to consider the possibility that she actually is one. Last night at the Warfield, the Swedish lass d ... More >>

Obstruction of Justice

A kidnapping victim watched his case linger needlessly in court 
for years. In S.F., he has company.

'Batman' Vampire Robs McDonalds

Tough times at Stately Wayne Manor? ​Holy Hamburgers, Batman! Say it ain't so! A man outfitted in the not-memorable-at-all disguise of a Batman mask and false vampire teeth entered a McDonald's in nearby Belmont at around 9 p.m. last night. It's unclear what device man pulled from his utility belt ... More >>

Only In SF: Folsom Street Fair, Open-Air Sex Fest, Deemed Too Mainstream

​Two weekends ago, throngs descended on Folsom Street for the world's biggest and most famous leather festival. No, not a trunk show of fine riding boots or Italian aviator jackets. As any true San Franciscan knows, "leather" refers to bondage, S&M, fetish gear and the people who get off on it ... More >>

Yours Truly Makes a Kelley Stoltz Video That Makes Us (And Will Make You) Happy

Stoltz recording in his studio, from the new Yours Truly video​Have no choice but to share this cozy little clip of local dude Kelley Stoltz doing his music/kumquat thing, because 1) you will get to hear some of the songs coming out on Stoltz's excessively pleasant new album, To Dreamers (drops on ... More >>

An Open Letter from Blue Bottle to the Dolores Park Community

Blue Bottle Coffee Co.Rendering of Blue Bottle's proposed coffee trailer and its site in Dolores Park.​Organizers of tonight's community meeting at Dolores Park Church to discuss Rec and Park's vendor plans for Dolores Park are finalizing the final agenda. And while representatives of would-be ... More >>

'Bait Car' comes to San Francisco

Gun-Toting Thief Apologizes to Victim, Returns Her Phone

Stealer's remorse? ​The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a contrite thief who asked nicely for a woman's phone, then demanded it at gunpoint -- and then apologized and handed it back to her. The bizarre turn of events took place on Samoset Street near Bernal Heights Park.

Janitors Descend From Skyscrapers to Protest Immigration Raids

​At 9 p.m. on Monday night, long after the white-collar workers that make the Financial District hum had gone home, the janitors started to trickle out of the skyscrapers into the dark plaza in front of 101 California.It was like sighting a secret society, a gathering of workers whose job lends on ... More >>

Supe's Tweet: Hey, I Just Almost Got Killed!

Image | Audrey FukumanSupervisor Mar! Both ways! Look both ways! ​For some legislators, Twitter is a useful means for letting people know that you've passed a bill. This weekend for Supervisor Eric Mar, however, it was a means for letting folks know that he'd almost passed into the great beyon ... More >>

The ABCs of Ditching School

Schools are trying to contain their truancy epidemic. How're they doing? Just ask the students smoking pot less than a block from campus.

Worms in the Apple

Two rebels take on America's most beloved computer company.

Ride in Sweet Style with Neiman Marcus This Christmas

Neiman MarcusTwenty-five large will buy you a Honda, Mazda, or cupcake.​If you're already struggling with your Christmas wish list, here's a sweet suggestion from Neiman Marcus via its annual Christmas Book: Your own customized cupcake car designed by Lisa Pongrace of East Bay design firm Pomegran ... More >>

Police: Weekend's Flaming Car Had Nothing to Do With Other Flaming Cars

www.lcpstc.orgWait! This time there was a logical reason for a car to be found on fire.​San Francisco cops arriving at the scene of a blazing automobile must now ask themselves a modified version of the most famous of Passover queries: "How is this burning vehicle different from all other burning ... More >>

One Day After Media Reports Car Arsons Have Abated Since Arrest of Homeless Woman ... They're Back Again!

​On the heels of both the Chronicle and KRON-TV noting that the July string of 13 car arsons abruptly ceased with the arrest of a homeless woman in her 60s named Fafa Chan -- that's no longer the case. Firefighters doused a flaming Honda not long after 3 a.m. this morning at 21st and Balboa, not f ... More >>

Breaking News: State to Pay Out $335K Settlement for Carole Migden's Erratic Driving

Boom! There goes another $335K.The state of California will pay out a $335,000 settlement in the matter of a former senator's case of DWM -- Driving While Migden. The San Franciscan's much-publicized 2007 highway incident left a 30-mile trail of terrified 911 callers and ended with the veteran ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: These Are Not the Budget Numbers You're Looking For

The excitement stops here. I know ... I know ... that today's the day Gubernatorial Candidate Gavin Newsom releases his budget for San Francisco (a California city he occasionally resides in for campaign purposes). And I know that, when he does, we're all going to die a little. I know. But ... More >>

Trial by Fire

A jury considers whether a store clerk in the Bayview acted in cold blood or in self-defense when he shot a woman he accused of shoplifting.

Laptop Stolen? The Police Might Just Have Found Your Man.

If you're reading this blog post on a brand new laptop screen because your last one was jacked, read on.Five times between March 31st and April 8th, the crime went down like this: A Latin male suspect would stride into a coffee shop, grab an unsuspecting java drinker's laptop, and run out to an awai ... More >>

Tackled By National Federation, Creators of Two-Quarterback Football Offense Look Downfield

As SF Weekly foreshadowed, the National Federation of State High School Associations last month voted, 46-2, for rule changes that effectively kill the innovative, two-quarterback A-11 offense -- which is every bit as lopsided a tally when it comes to governing high school sports or playing a foot ... More >>

Lady with the Little Dog

Kelly Reichardt's modest but cosmic Wendy and Lucy.

More Frenchified, Bastille Day Decadence!

Supervisors play "You cut WHAT?" with the Mayor while city code gets tighter, and tighter. It's ...

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In the ancient martial art of Kyudo, archers hunt only for truth

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