Palm Springs

The Great Food Truck Race Features Lame Truck Design, Tyler Florence's Neck Beard

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, The Great Food Truck Race, a one-hour show that once saw a food truck drive past it, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. Part of the fun of eating at a food truck is hanging around the trucks themselves, with t ... More >>

Pros and Condoms: S.F. Emphasizes HIV Treatment, but a New Generation Advocates Bareback Sex

Summer Guide: How to Get to Pioneertown

Summer Guide: Pioneertown's Faux Frontier Paradise

California Cougar Convention Coming to South San Francisco

​It is that time of year again. Virile young men, dissatisfied with the sight of twenty-something females in idiotic animal costumes sprawling on the slopes of Dolores Park, feel an ancient song stirring in the blood. They long for something different: Hotel bars thick with cloying perfume, the ra ... More >>

David Replogle, S.F. Attorney, Gets Life in Prison for Role in Palm Springs Murder

Life with no parole for ex- S.F. attorney​David Replogle, who was heralded in a mid-2000s series of San Francisco Chronicle stories as an international crusader fighting sexual abuse, will spend the rest of his life in prison without possibility of parole for his role in the 2008 disappearance of ... More >>

Bevan Dufty Brings in the Big Bucks

Money is good, but votes are better​Earlier this month, SF Weekly first reported that Bevan Dufty was officially rebuilding his beleaguered mayoral campaign. When it came to raising cash, Dufty knew he was in a bad position. At the time, he challenged us to call back in a month, promising that he ... More >>

Tide Turns Against Kaushal Niroula in Murder Trial

Have the old boy's powers failed him?​A Palm Springs judge has refused to dismiss murder conspiracy charges against Kaushal Niroula and Danny Garcia, a rare setback in a pretrial process that seemed to favor the two alleged masterminds of the December 2008 murder of retiree Cliff Lambert.SF Weekly ... More >>

County Buys Reputed Hacker Danny Garcia a Laptop for Use in Murder Defense

I'm harmless, really...​Danny Garcia, who is facing trial in the killing of Palm Springs retiree Clifford Lambert, will be allowed to use a government-purchased laptop for his jailhouse defense, a judge has decided. A City News Service story on the decision reported that Garcia will not have Inter ... More >>

David Replogle, San Francisco Attorney, Guilty in 'Gay Grifter' Murder

Replogle's trading his white-shoe financial district law practice for a prison jumpsuit​San Francisco attorney David Repogle was convicted Monday of helping to kill and attempting to loot the assets of a Palm Springs retiree. Also convicted was Miguel Bustamante, a Daly City barkeep purportedly h ... More >>

Gay Grifter Case: Palm Springs Jury Weighs Murder Charges Against San Francisco Attorney

David Replogle has seen better days​A Palm Springs jury today weighs evidence against a downtown San Francisco attorney and his alleged henchman, after a prosecutor entered closing arguments claiming lawyer David Replogle and Miguel Bustamante helped murder retiree Clifford Lambert and loot his as ... More >>

Mistrial Declared in 'Gay Grifter' Murder Trial

Matt SmithWill this case blow up in prosecutors' faces?​Danny Garcia, 28, an alleged mastermind of a purported plot to murder Palm Springs retiree Clifford Lambert and loot his assets won a reprieve this morning. A judge granted his request for several more months to prepare for trial by declaring ... More >>

Gay Grifter Henchman Cops Plea in Palm Springs Murder Case

A local henchman of alleged murderer and con man Kaushal Niroula has pleaded guilty to robbery, attempted murder, and other charges in connection with the Dec. 2008 disappearance of retired Palm Springs art dealer Cliff Lambert, The Desert Sun reports. Matt SmithGrifters allegedly hid an old man's ... More >>

Oliver Stone, Zsa Zsa Gabor on Witness List in Gay Grifter Trial

Zsa Zsa Gabor in "The Diva Defense"​​Danny Garcia, the 27-year-old alleged San Francisco con man awaiting trial in Palm Springs on murder charges, has produced a defense witness list that reads like a Hollywood A- and B-list.Garcia is representing himself against murder, larceny, and other charg ... More >>

IF YOU GO

Chron Paywall Pitch: $1.50 Gets You Free SF Weekly Story

Apparently SF Weekly is the only place where jailed alleged con man and murderer Kaushal Niroula is free​The San Francisco Chronicle has joined the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in erecting partial paywalls around stories, requiring readers in some instances to pay to read individual ... More >>

Bank Botches Payment, Check Bounces, and 62-Year-Old Woman Is Evicted -- and Homeless

Joe EskenaziHeda Boscoe, 62, says she's been sleeping in her car since her eviction earlier this month​Heda Boscoe can trace all the steps that led her to be a panicky, nervous wreck sitting amid a sheaf of crumpled, loose documents in a San Francisco cafe with nowhere else to go -- literally. The ... More >>

Alleged 'Supernatural' Gay Grifter Murder Ringleader Hires Self as Attorney

Now representing Kaushal Niroula -- Kaushal Niroula! ​Kaushal Niroula, the Nepalese-born purported con man on trial for allegedly masterminding a plan to murder and loot a Palm Springs retiree, has been given a judge's blessing to act as his own attorney, according to The Desert Sun.Niroula, 28, w ... More >>

The Punchline Hits Again: Morrissey Cancels Palm Springs Show

Gretchen Robinette​For those who thought Morrissey was getting better about canceling his performances, some bad news arrived over the weekend. Marc Hawthorne, the writer who detailed the Moz's most memorable cancellations for SF Weekly, forwarded me a note over the weekend that the singer had, on ... More >>

When it comes to S.F. politics, Cleve Jones isn't here to recruit you

Judge Orders Murder Trial for Gay Grifter Suspects Niroula, McCarthy

Kaushal Niroula​ A Southern California judge today ordered a murder trial for two of five men charged in the "Gay Grifter" case, in which a crew led by a San Francisco-based Nepalese immigrant allegedly killed a Palm Springs retiree and and looted his assets.Testimony during a preliminary hearing ... More >>

Testimony: S.F. Gay Grifter Murder Suspects Coddle Dog After Allegedly Killing its Owner

​Are the alleged Gay Grifter killers pet fanciers? According to two independent accounts of new testimony in the Gay Grifter case -- in which a crew of alleged San Francisco con men are charged with killing and robbing a Palm Springs retiree -- the suspects stabbed their victim to death, then tend ... More >>

Getting the Band Back Together: S.F. Art Dealer Becomes Sixth Gay Grifter Suspect

Russell Manning​San Francisco art dealer Russell Manning, 67, has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges related a to the December killing of a Palm Springs collector. He is the sixth suspect charged in the so-called gay grifter murder, in which a group of sex-partner-swapping alleged con ... More >>

Alleged Knife Man Added to Accused Gay Grifter Killers' Lineup

Kaushal Niroula​December's Gay Grifter murder, in which a quartet of sex-partner-swapping purported San Francisco con men allegedly killed a lonely, elderly Palm Springs man then attempted to fraudulently sell his house had, until this week, seemed to lack a key plot element: How did police think ... More >>

S.F. Gay Grifters No Longer Face Death Penalty in Palm Springs Case, Prosecutor Says

Kaushal NiroulaFour San Franciscan alleged con men accused in Palm Springs of robbing and killing a 74-year-old retiree can breathe easier following a meeting last week with prosecutors, according to City News Service ace Jessica E. Davis. Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco had filed cha ... More >>

Alleged Gay Grifter Ringleader Collapses in Court

Kaushal NiroulaKaushal Niroula, prime suspect in the Gay Grifter murder case, in which a group of high-living San Francisco nightlife denizens allegedly killed and robbed a retired Palm Springs art dealer, collapsed in court Monday and was taken to the hospital.Niroula, 27, faces murder charges in c ... More >>

The Dark Prince

He claimed to be Nepalese royalty, but police say Kaushal Niroula is a con man whose crew of gay grifters may have murdered a wealthy Palm Springs man.

Mystery Solved: Alleged Con Man Danny Garcia Isn't a Killer -- He's a Lover

Courtesy Tyson WrenschDaniel GarciaDaniel Garcia, 27, one of five San Francisco alleged con men charged with murdering and robbing a retired Palm Springs art dealer, knew nothing of the purported crimes, his attorney said Wednesday.So how is it that during the two weeks following the Dec. 4 disappea ... More >>

Alleged SF Con Man Possessed By Supernatural Evil, Attorney Claims

Lawyers say the darndest things... Kaushal Niroula, 27, the alleged ringleader of a group of purported San Francisco con men facing capital murder charges in Palm Springs isn't merely a criminal, says a Hawaii attorney representing a woman claiming to be one of Niroula's victims. Rather, ... More >>

Follow the Bouncing Mayor: Gavin Basks in SoCal Crowds' Love ... Mostly

Paris is a city blessed with so much dog shit, you could be excused for pondering if the French import the stuff. So when Willie Brown -- in a column that was, otherwise, so self-congratulatory it was an honest challenge to get through it -- notes of gai Paris, "what an incredibly clean city. ... Sa ... More >>

San Francisco Fraud Suspects Niroula, Garcia Charged with Capital Murder in Palm Springs Case

Courtesy Tyson WrenschDaniel GarciaKaushal Niroula, 27, and Daniel Garcia, 26, both suspects in an alleged scheme to loot the assets of a missing Palm Springs man, have been charged with murder, according to new filings in Riverside County court. Both men face charges of murder while committing a fe ... More >>

S.F. Attorney Charged With Capital Murder in Palm Springs Fraud Case

David Replogle, a San Francisco attorney famed for winning a $7 million sex abuse settlement from prominent local stockbroker Thomas White, has been charged with murder in connection with an unrelated Palm Springs fraud case, according to new charges filed in Riverside County court. Replogle has bee ... More >>

The Thomas White Affair

Palm Springs arrests cast doubt on the prosecution of a San Francisco man in a sex tourism case.

IM Conversation, Purportedly from S.F. Fraud Suspect, Sheds Light on Bizarre Palm Springs Case

Kaushal NiroulaThe recent arrest of San Franciscans Kaushal Niroula, Daniel Garcia and a bevy of alleged cohorts in an alleged Palm Springs identity theft scam, provided a glimpse into an apparently illicit world where a band of young, attractive men used the casual, all-male intimacy of the San Fra ... More >>

Attorney, Ex Client, Alleged Serial Con Man, art consultant, among San Francisco Defendants in Palm Springs Fraud Case

Kaushal NiroulaAttorney David Replogle and three other San Francisco defendants face charges linked to the fraudulent sale of a Palm Springs home whose elderly owner disappeared December 4, police say. Bail is set at $5 million.Prior to the Palm Springs charges filed earlier this month, Replogle's p ... More >>

Shelby Lynne digs into Dusty Springfield’s archives

Salt of the Earth

Funky, stinky, and some kind of beautiful, California's Salton Sea fights extinction

BeatBox

Celebrate Bastille Day, get "Fresh" at Ruby Skye, then take your broke ass to "Broke as Fuck."

House of Tudor

Smackdown in Oaktown: Some saucy picks to lure you into the East Bay mix

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 30, 2003

Reps Etc.

Women who Love Women; A Guy Who Hates Noise

The CW Saloon morphs into a lesbian bar, and Kimo's tries to stay open

On the Waterfront

Crab House

No Sleep Till Indio

Road trip to Coachella

Tales of the Circuit

We follow three San Franciscans to the White Party, one in a continent-spanning series of huge, controversial, dance-filled, and drug-doused "circuit parties" for gay men

Riff Raff

Hats Off to Larry!

Pinstriped Medicine

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

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