Results tagged “thevillage”

23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor and Community Breakfast this morning at the San Francisco Hilton

Cal is all over the blotter these days -- this time over a co-op, where 13 fun-loving residents had to go to the hospital after someone put something a little bit too funny in the space brownies. Two students and one recent grad have been arrested, and the cops are doing an analysis of the brownies (and cookie dough) in question. A house manager at the coop said, "We do not officially condone any of their actions." Why the weird use of the adverb "officially" there?

Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing poor beleaguered Chuck Eddy at the helm. What will we do without the Cred Sheet or Down In Front? Who will we crush on in the alt-weekly music realm now? Todd Inoue of the SJ Metro, you're our only hope!

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro: Gary Singh does his best Travis Bickel to help out a friend getting blackmailed for her journal. Cover article: Blogs! Will they change politics? (no.) An experimental Canadian thriller, a documentary about Israel and Palestine: it's Cinequest time. Greek food in Santa Clara -- we were taken by the title, "Your Pal Is Athena." And BET Uncut -- the educational TV program! ("Once an acoustic guitar gets to strumming, a half-naked multicultural boat party will break out." So true!)

To update you on where we're at on the two biggest crime stories in town: the Chron fronts a frightening photo montage of the teenager who allegedly killed Pamela Vitale (check it out on the newsstands -- yikes!!), and acquaintances say he kind of began a downward spiral after his older sister was killed in a car crash. And Lashaun/Lashuan Harris (spellings vary), the woman who threw her kids off Pier 7, reportedly told her cousin that she was going to feed her children to the sharks and left the house. The cousin tried to stop her but couldn't. Harris had apparently been saying this for some time, and other family members thought she would never do anything to hurt her children. Her family had been trying to get custody of the children, but had been denied. The VIllage People cop who got busted for crack failed to show up for his arraignment in Daly City, and a warrant's been issued. Hey, have you checked out the YMCA? And third graders in Mill Valley are happy again, after their classroom pet turtle, Myrtle, was anonymously returned after disappearing a few days ago. The principal isn't talking, but they think the turtle was returned by the turtlenapper's parents. The children are philosophical about not learning the identity of the thief, saying the teacher had "made a deal," which made sense because if they knew who did it, "a lot of people would be mad at him or her." The children then went back to encouraging Myrtle to eat the snails in her terrarium. "Go for the snail! Go for the snail!"

Courtesy of SFist Jon, creepiness a little outside our usual coverage area! Someone's been breaking into houses in San Lorenzo Valley, stealing stuff, and then writing on the walls, "I was here." Eep! However, this does also remind us of that old chestnut about the man who comes home to find that burglars have taken everything in his house except a toothbrush and a camera. We also feel obliged to report that the SF Alcoholic Beverage Control has finished an investigation of Les Natali and the various Castro bars he runs, and concluded that he did not discriminate against African-Americans, which allowed them to renew his liquor license. The ABC is requiring Natali to hang a big sign outside his door saying he doesn't discriminate, though, and public comment will be heard about the decision (no date given). Natali has also announced that he's selling the Pendulum, which is considered SF's main African-American gay bar. In other quick news items: Victor Conte, BALCO man, is taking a Martha Stewart-type plea (4 months in jail, 4 months house arrest). There was a shooting at the Hilltop Mall in Richmond. And they've ID'ed the guy who shot someone the other night at Van Ness and Post.

A weekly roundup of the bar scene, by Andrew Louder.

Summary of the this week in the Bay Guardian and SF Weekly.