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Daniel Hill, Reno Man, Arrested in Connection to 2010 Murder of S.F. Homeless Man

San Francisco police have identified a suspect in a three-year-old unsolved murder case in Golden Gate Park. Police arrested 36-year-old Daniel Hill, a Reno, Nevada resident, on suspicion of killing 53-year-old Michael Ponder, a homeless man who had been residing near Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate ... More >>

It's Not Too Late To Book a Chef's Holiday Dinner at the Ahwahnee Hotel

Itching for a snow outing with magnificent views of Half Dome, Glacier Point and Yosemite Falls ... and an easy drive? Consider Yosemite instead of the usual Tahoe run. Hotel options can be Pricelined as low as $65 a night in neighboring Mariposa or you can pretend you are in your own personal Downt ... More >>

Taking the Bus: Muni Vehicles End Up in the Darndest Places

Cocktail Week Events for Wednesday, Sept. 19

Day three of the extravaganza begins and is building some steam with six events on the schedule tonight. The main event will showcase bartender talents from Oregon to San Diego, and an assortment of happy hours, seminars, and plenty of cocktails, even in the food. Oh, yes, there's also a great FREE ... More >>

Local Punk Doug "Sluggo" Cawley on His Son Blixa's Leukemia and Tonight's Team Blixa Benefit at Bottom of the Hill

Bay Area punk musician Sluggo, aka Doug Cawley, has worn many hats over his more than 20 years on the local scene. Besides being the principle force behind over a decade of hilarious, cross-dressing trash punk with faux-geriatric reprobates The Grannies, the guitarist also played in '90s outfit Ain' ... More >>

Changing Keys: Martuni's Piano Bar Thrives in a Karaoke World

Occupy Bohemian Grove: Protesters Bond at Creation of Care

Summer Guide: Road Trip: Destination Nevada City

Polish Paralympics Athlete Rides on After Special Needs Bike Was Stolen

Just when we thought the world was full of callous thieves, a Berkeley nonprofit helped us see the light. The Chron brings us this uplifting story about the Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program's generosity. The group was kind enough to loan Krzysztof Jarzebski a specialized, hand-cranked bicyc ... More >>

Live Review, 3/24/12: The Magnetic Fields Do Quirk Quietly at the Fox Theater

The Magnetic Fields Saturday, March 24, 2012 The Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Whispering at the library. On Saturday, the Magnetic Fields gave the mellowest performance six people have ever given at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Well, anyway, that's how it felt: Like one long, precious, and ver ... More >>

Roach Gigz's Producer CLoz Used to Sell Beats for $10

CLoz sold his first beat for $10. That less-than-whopping fee came about as the East Bay producer was clawing his way up into the local hip-hop scene. Since then, Cloz has steadily built up an impressive body of beats, most of them hooked around rousing synth lines and synapse-sizzling snares; he's ... More >>

No Tickets? Nine Ways You Can Still Get Into Burning Man 2012

Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

The Bay Area Has Only One Club in the World's Top 100, According to Pollstar. Huh?

Update: Aaron Siuda, vice president of marketing at Live Nation Northern California, says that his firm generally does not report ticket sales to Pollstar. But he said if it had provided numbers, the Fillmore would have been in the Top 10 clubs on the Pollstar list. (Shoreline, also a Live Nation ve ... More >>

Lost in the Night: Go Bang! Proves Disco Is Still Kicking

Lost in the Night: Go Bang! 3 Year Anniversary Deco Lounge Friday, Nov. 26, 2011 Better than: The Shagadelics live in concert. Somewhere in the mid-'00s, the impossible happened. Disco, arguably one of the most reviled (or, really, misunderstood) forms of music, somehow worked its way back into be ... More >>

The Muppets Honors Jim Henson's Spirit After All

We emerged from a Saturday morning sneak preview of The Muppets having experienced an enormous wave of the best kind of nostalgia. The strongly positive reaction of an audience that was largely made up of kids who had never been introduced to these characters before was uplifting. We laughed, we cr ... More >>

Report: Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests Skyrocketing in California

Doubling Up​It's a fine time to be a criminal in California. Arrests in every category of crime are down -- way down: Arrests for rape, murder, and theft have all decreased by two-thirds since 1990, according to a study published last week by the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Every cri ... More >>

Ed Lee Supporters' Latest Scandal Too Late For 50,000 Absentee Voters

FreeFoto.comRight now, the mailbox is Ed Lee's strong ally​It's never good when a campaign facing money-laundering charges has to stop and ask "which one?" Today's front-page Chronicle story -- slipping quickly off the SFGate page in favor of flash mobs, men who ride turtles, and web-only real est ... More >>

Fighting Chance: Boxer Karim Mayfield Fights to Rise in a Dying Sport

Tom Otterness Killed Dog, Got City Contracts. What if He Killed People?

Did Muni give this guy money, too? ​It's almost impossible to stay rational when discussing the plight of dog-slaughtering artist Tom Otterness, who may or may not lose out on millions in city money due to his troubling past. That's because it's hard to conceive of a transgression that would provo ... More >>

Marty Christensen, Homeless Man Reunited With Family With SF Weekly's Help, Moves Home

Marty is homeless no more. ​The saga of Marty Christensen has come to an end -- a happy one, for a change. The homeless man who SF Weekly helped reunite with his daughter earlier this year after 20 years on the streets has decided to leave the streets of San Francisco and move in with his family i ... 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 >>

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 >>

Michelle Le Update: Family Offers $20,000 Reward for Missing Student

Michelle Le​The mystery over what happened to 26-year-old Michelle Hoang Thi Le deepened over the weekend after the nursing student never showed up to Reno where she was supposed to meet friends for the holiday. Her brother, Michael Le, has been too devastated to talk to reporters, but last night ... More >>

Saturday Night: Pinback Sorts Through the Chaos at Bottom of the Hill

Beardo!: Pinback at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday night.​Pinback JP Incorporated January 1, 2011 @ Bottom of the HillBetter than: Not distracting one's self from a seething hangover. Sometimes it sounds like Pinback's Rob Crow and Armistead Burwell Smith IV are singing completely different songs ... More >>

Camels Chided For Using San Francisco in Tobacco Ads. Use These Sh*tholes Instead.

Phallic camels aren't welcome in this here town! ​Earlier this week, City Attorney Dennis Herrera and short-timer Department of Public Health Director Mitch Katz wrote a sternly worded letter to Joe Camel's corporate overlords. The two chided R.J. Reynolds for using the Haight -- as well as Brookl ... More >>

Terminal People

The closure of the Transbay Terminal was a chance to help some of the city’s most hardcore homeless. But many didn’t want help, and others couldn’t be helped.

Guy in Bear Suit Survives Cal-Nevada Game. Cal Doesn't.

Guy in a bear suit catches the attention of media in Reno...​On Friday we wondered how a local guy in a bear suit would fare at the Cal-Nevada football game in Reno. Now we have our answer: Better than the Bears. "Even after they kicked the shit out of us, people were very gracious," said "Leroy," ... More >>

Can Guy in a Bear Suit Get into Cal-Nevada Game?

The bear will not quit. The bear will not die.​When a Bay Area man -- who shall remain nameless, for now -- received the ticket for tonight's U.C. Berkeley-Nevada football game in Reno, it came with the following stipulation from his Nevadan cousin: "You will not root for the Bears. End of discuss ... More >>

Woven Bones Discuss the Infection of Surf Rock and Their Awesome Band Name

​Countless rock bands on countless records over, like, six decades now have distilled seemingly every sound out of the same ol' guitar/bass/drums/vocals format. So it wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to claim that rock is dead. But some bands, like Austin's Woven Bones, manage to arrange ... More >>

S.F. Band Early Graves' Tour Van Crashes in Oregon, Vocalist Killed

Early Graves, with vocalist Makh Daniels on the far right​S.F. metal band Early Graves suffered a terrible tragedy early this morning when its tour van crashed outside Medford, Ore., killing 28-year-old vocalist Makh Daniels and injuring two others in the vehicle, the AP reports.Makh Daniels​Dan ... More >>

"Love Ranch"

The worst little whorehouse movie in Nevada

SF Law Firm Accused of Bilking, Feeing Small Town to Death

Colfax is up to its neck in sue-age​The tiny Sierra foothill town of Colfax, home to 13,000 souls halfway between Sacramento and Reno, wouldn't seem like the obvious target for a white-shoe San Francisco law firm seeking a bonanza in inflated fees. But in a Colfax Record editorial Wednesday, ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

Wanna Win Some Money in a San Francisco Photo Contest? Since *This* Is The Photo On The Web Page Announcing the Prize, We Think You've Got a Shot.

sftravel.comThis is a prize-winner?If you're willing to -- definitely -- grant others "a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide right to copy, crop, edit, publish, display, distribute, sublicense or otherwise use" your photographs, and -- very remotely -- have a chance of winning 100 bucks, boy do w ... More >>

Hard Truth Soldiers Tour Takes Over SF, Major American Cities

dead prezGenerally, when ASD receives a press release boasting about a show with "arguably the strongest lineup of socially-aware, hardcore hip-hop talent in recent memory," we just shrug it off as pure hyperbole (and yes, to paraphrase Harry Allen, we normally don't believe the hyperbole). But holy ... More >>

The Lowbrow Art Sale -- Ekundayo, Skot Olsen, Ahren Hertel

Trannyshack Reno or Bustier

An extreme road trip that's never just a drag

Burning Spin

Organizers of the Burning Man festival pull out all the stops to control the press -- and it's a good thing they do

Biker Babes

Meet the Devil Dolls. They ride their Harleys like demons, swear like sailors, and date Hell's Angels. They're real outlaws. And they've got the calendars and T-shirts to prove it.

Hairballs

Glas Kat Supper Club

All Aboard

Santa Fe Bar & Grill

Sweetbreads and Fried Cream

Road to Redemption

Bad luck and a head injury couldn't kill him. Poverty just made him stronger. Now, freewheeling Bay Area bicycling legend Mike Neel is staging another comeback by coaching professional women's racing.

Fake It to the Limit

For 10 years, Lewis Peter Morgan impersonated Randy Meisner, an obscure former bass guitar player for the Eagles rock group. Morgan smooth-talked his way into a borrowed lifestyle of guitars, girls, and casinos. He could have checked out of the deception

The Great White Nope?

Paul Nave, a polite, well-spoken product of upscale Marin County, has climbed out of boxing obscurity to fight for a world title. He's a polished fighter, but he's probably going to get his ass kicked.

Slap Shots

Runaway Train

Tricia Sullivan fled her Southern Oregon hometown and the confines of her family in April. Arriving in San Francisco, she melded with the street community of young castoffs, misfits, and rebels. Phoning home, she lied and told her dad she was in New Yor

Fire Trek

Why do San Francisco emergency workers live so far away?