On Thursday, Juan Zuluaga, 26, was arrested at the SF Zoo following a run-in with a rhinoceros. It seems, according to the Chron, that Zuluaga was busted for throwing acorns at Mashaki, a black rhino: Police said they were summoned to the zoo at 3:30 p.m. Thursday after a patron reported to officials that Zuluaga was picking acorns off a branch and tossing them at the black rhino, a male named Mashaki. Zuluaga was......

A truck filled with 60 cows tipped over in Contra Costa County yesterday. Ha! Despite our most diligent efforts, we are unable to find any pictures from the scene, so we're going with the "Cow Crossing" sign you see to your left. One person is dead after a dramatic shooting in the Sunset early Monday morning -- the shots were fired at a moving car, which then flipped over and crashed. The Chron has some......

It's another music giveaway bonanza this week! First up is a prize pack from Sea Wolf. They've been touring with Silversun Pickups (see a few SSPU members in the video for "You're A Wolf"), but they're a far more mellow outfit: Alex Church's vocals and melodies are gentle, strummy and soothing. Sea Wolf open for Devotchka on Friday night at the Grand Ballroom Bimbo's, and we have a pair of tickets for the winner......

It's looking like a plan is afoot (or in this case apaw-- thank you, we'll be here all night) to make Ocean Beach change hands from the Park Service to the City. Because the city does such a good job on everything else that they can totally take over the beach? Nope, it's because a bunch of dog owners are up at arms. ...

On Thursday, we wrote about Ellen Tauscher's little problem with the netroots, a problem caused in part by her attending a recent meeting with the Prez. In the piece, we used this picture of Ellen hanging out with the President, a photo that wasn't taken at the recent meeting Tauscher had with the President, but at a meeting in 2002 right before the War Resolution vote in 2002, a resolution Tauscher voted for. ...

On Thursday morning, we bent our self imposed no-drinks-before-noon"guideline" and attended a fun food and wine event. What made this invite stand out was that the wine tasting, Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2006, was tied to an important cause, the San Francisco Food Bank. Had we known we would be able to witness and talk to a good natured young woman dressed in a gigantic Beaujolais Nouveau costume we would've RSVP'd even sooner. Oh, and did we mention we dig romantic French accordion music by Odile Lavault while we sip and nibble? ...

On Thursday night, political non-profit organization Music For America presented their inaugural Icon Awards to honor influential musicians, outstanding political achievement, and social responsibility. Honorees included Gavin Newsom, Green Day, Death Cab For Cutie, Oakland-based Youth Movement Records, Working Assets, and MFA Board Member Dan Lipski. With 60,000 members, Music for America endeavors to engage young people in politics through partnerships with musicians and music communities. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, MfA co-founder Dan Droller"......

What's the plan? The War-bloons have basically been treading water for the last couple of months, and like a small-time sucker playing conservative bets at the $5 blackjack tables in Reno, the house odds are starting to take their toll. Yet as their won-loss record sinks further into the red and the playoff dream shrivels up like Adonal Foyle's points per game average, Head Veep Chris Mullett can only watch as opportunities like the NBA trading deadline slip past like Brad Miller blowing by Troy Murphy unabated to the hoop....

The Year 2005 has finally come to an end, and none too soon. It kind of blew. We have higher hopes for 2006. But even though the calendar may say 2006, and even though vacation is officially over, you'd never know it by watching TV. This is another week where the reruns outnumber the new episodes. Come next week, that will no longer be the case, but we're hard-pressed to really find anything to......

If you're wondering why there is a guerilla theater performance going on during your ride to work on the 14 Mission tomorrow, it's because the Central City SRO Collabortive under the auspices of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic will be staging direct-action protests on busses during the morning commute to galvanize MUNI riders and hopefully encourage folks to press the Board of Supervisors to amend the MTA's proposed budget. From the press release: On Thursday,......

You know how on Murder She Wrote, you were always like, why does anyone ever invite Jessica Fletcher anywhere, because someone always gets murdered when she's around? Well, Jessica Fletcher must be in San Francisco, because there's been four separate murders this week. On Thursday, two people were killed in the Alamo Square area (one at McAllister and Lyon, and another at Eddy and Scott), and over the weekend, two people were killed in the Potrero Hill area (one at 20th and Tennessee, another at 22nd and Vermont). In our own Casuistry incident, three teens in Pleasanton have been arrested for murdering a cat and hanging its body from a noose over a train trestle for passersby to see. Who comes up with ideas like this? And Oakland's going with humili-tainment as its latest get-tough-on-prostitution tactic. The Oakland PD will be installing cameras in areas known for prostitution and johns who are arrested for solicitation may have their pictures put up on billboards and bus stops. Dang! Adding insult to injury, they'll also take your car ("Come to Oakland in a Porsche, leave on AC Transit"), so there's that additional risk of waiting for a bus stop that has your picture on it. Oakland's not messing around....

Elections in California are like final exams. You have a bunch of things you're supposed to read, a bunch of study guides you have to study to help you understand what you've read, and then you go check a box next to some question and hope that you get it right. The only difference being that if you get a test question wrong, it doesn't go invade a country without having any idea what to......

Stanford Prison Experiment Lecture...