Toyota Motor Corporation

Keep On Truckin': The Toyota That Wrecked a San Francisco Home Does Salesmen Proud

Our Most Corrupt Tax Breaks: 10 Loopholes to Close Right Now

Tricks and Treats

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 >>

The Top Five Parties This Weekend: Warm Leatherette, 120 Minutes, New York Night Train, and More

That's it folks, it's over. Burning Man 2012 came and went much the way it has every year. Life, however, goes on. This might be easy to forget while you lose yourself un-glueing things from the hood of your Toyota. But since research suggests that such activity has the potential to permanently hypn ... More >>

State Supreme Court, Legislature Want to Give Juveniles Serving Life Sentences a Shot at Parole

On June 6, 2007, Rodrigo Caballero, a 16-year-old member of the Vario Lancas gang in Los Angeles, jumped out of a green Toyota and opened fire on three Val Verde gang rivals walking down the street. He missed two of his targets, but the third caught a non-fatal gunshot wound near the shoulder blade. ... More >>

Food Jammers: The Only Mumbly Canadian Foodie Mythbusters-Like Show You Need

​ Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Food Jammers, a half-hour show about our Canadian overlords, Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. on the Cooking Channel. When you first heard the MythBusters cannonball went errant last week, wasn't your lif ... More >>

Andrew Vargas Arrested in Hit-and-Run That Critically Injures 9-Year-Old Boy

Pedestrian hit​Update 1:45 p.m.: Police said they arrested 21-year-old Andrew Vargas on suspicion of driving under the influence. He has been booked on felony charges for hit and run.  Read more after the jump. Hayward police detained the driver they believe hit a San Francisco boy last night ... More >>

Pomplamoose Calls the Tune

No record deal? No CDs? No problem. How Pomplamoose is modifying the music industry.

SF Woman Confronts Thief Driving Her Stolen Car

It's much easier than it seems​Some car thieves steal vehicles for money, others take them so they can run their own errands. Earlier this week, a woman was driving along California and Spruce Streets in the Laurel Heights neighborhood when she recognized a stranger driving her gray Subaru Outback ... More >>

Restaurant Owner Succeeds In Blocking JapaCurry Truck

John BirdsallHarvest and Rowe's Alison Rowe, feeding the meter at the Second Street space where JapaCurry has a permit to sell.​Things are getting messier in JapaCurry's struggle to do business in two spots it has permits for in the FiDi. You'll recall that Harvest and Rowe cafe owner Alison R ... More >>

Virgin Megastore Crash: Eyewitness Account

A record-breaker...​Yesterday we reported on a woman making a hit record of a different kind -- she motored her car straight through a plate glass window at the old Virgin Megastore on Sutter and Market. The incident took place when a big rig clipped a Toyota Camry -- which happened to be 15 feet ... More >>

Virgin Megastore Crash a Hit-and-Run

Earlier today, we reported on a motorist careening through the abandoned Virgin Records megastore on Sutter and Market. It turns out this wasn't a statement about Virgin Records so much as a hit-and-run incident involving a big rig truck. Based on accounts from the driver and eyewitnesses, the San F ... More >>

Big Rig Sought in Lethal Hit-and-Run

'You feel it' says an expert regarding items bumping a big rig's trailer​While authorities seek a big rig involved in a hit-and-run traffic accident that left a man dead in Albany, a trucking expert contacted by SF Weekly said it's doubtful the trucker doesn't realize he struck another vehicle. Wi ... More >>

Travel writer Edward Hasbrouck sues Homeland Security over travel data

Jailbreak! iPhone Users Can Now Legally Download Apps Apple Hasn't Approved.

Tough luck, Steve...​The Library of Congress' copyright office today approved an application submitted by San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation which will allow millions of iPhone owners to get out of jail -- free. It is now legal for iPhoners to break electronic locks and download applic ... More >>

Tesla Motors IPO (TSLA) Trading Above Expectations at $18.13

​Tesla Motors Inc.'s initial public offering of shares was trading at Tuesday at $18.13, above market expectations  of $14 to $16 each, according to NASDAQ.The Bay Area-based electric automaker had hoped to earn $209.7 million if shares sold at $15, with every extra dollar per share worth $11 ... More >>

Fiona Ma Loves Her Some Johnson, NASCAR

Ma on track​The first Asian-American woman to be Speaker Pro Tempore of the state Assembly, SF west-side rep Fiona Ma is also a NASCAR fan.

Kamala Harris' Alleged Stalker Pens Epic 44-Page 'Press Release'

​It came in a manilla envelope with three American flag stamps, entitled "Important Pre-Election Press Release." Return address: David Bavineau (ecstatic), County Jail 4, 850 Bryant St. Over at SF Weekly, we tore the thick envelope open with no small amount of anticipation. Bavineau, as some may r ... More >>

A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs

A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs

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 >>

Shakedown 20: Remembering the Loma Prieta Quake of 1989. Today's Edition: Mama Mia.

​For those who lived through it, it's hard to believe that, come Oct. 17, it'll be 20 years since sportscaster Al Michaels shouted "Tell ya what, we're having an earth...", triggering a massive earthquake that devastated the Bay Area. While professional journalism critics loathe the anniversar ... More >>

Bay Links: Flowers, Mice & Castles

Photo by Toyota​Solar Flower Power! [Laughing Squid]Kick-ass castle for sale. [Curbed SF]Mouse infestation in Presidio. [SF Citizen]Maya Lin debuts a new piece at the Academy of Science Thursday. [Richmond District]You can find anything on the street in the Mission. [People Reading]Muni fare inspe ... More >>

Seen In San Francisco: AT&T Park 9/11 Memorial

​AT&T Park is playing host to a memorial in honor of those slain on Sept. 11. Banners decorated with the names of the victims were strung between the palm trees​.

Pretty Bad Girls

Without parental guidance, they lived wild and free at an early age, but murder will keep them locked up for years.

Walk This Way: SFPD Nails Scads of Drivers in 'Pedestrian Sting'

In the city of San Francisco, it's probably a good idea to assume any stranger you encounter is actually an undercover cop. Particularly if that stranger is A) stumbling around drunk with $20 hanging out of a pocket; B) trying to buy your marijuana; or C) in a crosswalk ... More >>

Why We Love Oil

Cannonball Gum

Hipsters in Ugly Shoes! (Wait, Make That "Uglier Shoes")

Not-So-Fast and Furious: How to Learn to Drive Stick in SF - By Laser-Guided Awesome, The SF Weekly Utility Blog

Oil Spill Alert -- Bay Ships Getting Bigger, Ports To Get Busier

A Winding Path

Why a Bay Area microbiologist turned to the New Age art of building labyrinths -- by hand, out of dirt

Money, Power, Day Care

Andre Nickatina raps about being one of the Fillmore's hardest MCs, so what's he doing driving a Toyota?

Decisions, Decisions

Things to do this week: See Rachel's, see the Darkness, form band, rule world

Bickering Bikram

A copyright dispute pits yoga king Bikram Choudhury against competitors and followers alike

The Russian Card Game

A peek inside a new form of Russian organized crime and an ingenious method of turning credit card mailings into large amounts of cash

Burritoless Bliss

Chava's

Massacre Under the Redwoods

Country spookiness, movies, and the Texas Tranny Two-Step made Guerneville the place to be, pre-Halloween

House Of Tudor

Jewish/Palestinian collaboration, and arty white-trash losers

Running on Empty

Detroit automakers have spent millions attempting to unplug California's effort to put electric cars on the road. And so far, Detroit's succeeding.

Best Auto Shop

Cowden Automotive

The Vintage People

Long before there was a swing-dancing fad, there were the vintagely correct, who live the 1940s all day, every day, everywhere

By Joel P. Engardio

Dog Bites

Art of Betrayal

S.F. artists work in Fairfield, then dissect its consumer culture

Recordings

The Electric Clearlight Acid Mess

The bust of LSD bagman Waldron Vorhees, aka Captain Clearlight, opens a windowpane on the city -- and on the narco-cop nincompoops

Money for Nothing

If you're good at pushing a shopping cart - really good - and establish a lucrative route, you too can make minimum wage by heisting bottles, cans, and newspapers from the blue recycling bins. And incur the wrath of the cops in the process.

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