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Los Angeles rapper Tyga's March 19 concert in Omaha, Nebraska didn't end well -- after the show, there was a shootout. The rapper told XXL that a local act was mad because Tyga wouldn't let the group open up for him on the spur of the moment, and that the locals started throwing debris on the stage ... More >>

Banana-Sam: Cops Asking Questions After Zoo Claimed "No Questions Asked"

​The San Francisco Zoo may have made a monkey out of the man who graciously returned Banana-Sam, the celebrity critter who was brazenly snatched from the zoo on Friday. Just a few hours after the squirrel monkey was discovered missing last week, SF Weekly talked to Tanya Peterson, the executive di ... More >>

Banana-Sam, Adorable Squirrel Monkey, Stolen from S.F. Zoo

Did we mention he's on a special diet?​The San Francisco Zoo is scrambling to track down the person or people who brazenly stole an adult squirrel monkey from the zoo overnight. According to Tanya Peterson, executive director of the zoo, the monkey thieves cut through the outside gate of the zoo, ... More >>

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Brian Wilson Is the Newest Addition at SF Zoo

via twitter@sfzooBrian Wilson wants his treat​How much Brian Wilson is too much Brian Wilson? Apparently, there is no such thing. The San Francisco Zoo announced that it has a new hippo -- and it named him Brian Wilson. There is reportedly no resemblance between the bearded relief pitcher and the ... More >>

'Skyscraperman' Dan Goodwin May Climb Over Trespassing Charges, Too

Dan Goodwin, possibly not trespassing​You'd think climbing up the side of the Millennium Tower in broad daylight would be an open-and-shut trespassing case. But, then, you'd have thought vaulting a moat and fence to recline in the San Francisco Zoo's Grizzly Bear Grotto would have been a slam dunk ... More >>

'Skyscraperman' Dan Goodwin Arrested After Climbing Millennium Tower

Is that Spider Dan? ​Update, 6:30 p.m.: Police have identified today's Millennium Tower climber as Dan Goodwin. See below for more details. The San Francisco Police Department confirmed that a climber calling himself "Skyscraperman" was arrested at 5:30 after completing an ascent of San Francisco' ... More >>

Grizzly Grotto Trial Had it All -- Even Tyson Beckford

When the voice of Tyson Beckford penetrates your head and tells you to enter a dangerous animal's zoo cage, things have become interesting​There's a fine line between bizarre and transcendentally bizarre, and the just-concluded court trial of Kenneth Herron blazed over it. Herron is the man who, f ... More >>

Law Prof: Yes, You Can Spend Night in Bear Grotto and Not Break Any Laws

More intimidating than trespassing laws, it would seem...​Bob Talbot was shocked when he read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who nearly made the grave -- by crawling into the Grizzly Bear Grotto at the San Francisco Zoo. Yesterday, Judge Wallace Douglass ruled that Kenneth Herron's much ... More >>

Breaking: Bear Baiter Beats the Rap

Kenneth Herron​Kenneth Herron, who yesterday had the trespassing charge tossed following his foray into the San Francisco Zoo Grizzly Grotto, today beat the one remaining charge -- "willfully disturbing a wild and dangerous animal -- to wit, bears."Herron, 21, who has a history of mental illness, ... More >>

Will San Francisco State Cultivate Vegan Venus Flytraps?

To answer the question posed in this article's headline: No. No it will not. In fact, if San Francisco State's greenhouse maven is to be believed, his carnivorous plants will be as far from vegan as possible, feasting on live prey by asphyxiating them in their lethal vise grip before digesting them ... More >>

Lost In the Zoo -- With Hordes and Hordes of Kiddies

Children to right of them, children to left of them, children in front of them... As you can see in the above photograph, one, two, three -- FOUR -- school buses pulled up simultaneously this morning at the San Francisco Zoo, depositing their youthful, hyperenergetic, Miley Cyrus-adoring cargo onto ... More >>

Environmentalists to Answer Letterman-esque Question at S.F. Hearing: Can Man in Bear Suit Hand Petition to Secretary of Interior?

Will bears of color be heard from as well? In this city, you've got to watch yourself when you crack wise about ferocious wild predators gallivanting through the city; after Tatiana the Tiger hopped the fence at the San Francisco Zoo, all bets are off. So when the Center for Biological Diversity ann ... More >>

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