The Tamale Lady (Virginia Ramos) is a San Francisco icon. She sells delicious homemade tamales to drunk patrons all over the city, but is a particular institution at a rowdy and crowded bar called Zeitgeist, where she's doled out munchies and advice to customers for over 20 years. Now, Zeitgeist claims the city has…

How fun, a naked San Franciscan did some acrobatics all over the 16th Street Bart Station last month! Well, that's how some local media outlets initially (and very regrettably) described the story. Based on new video footage, the man was definitely mentally ill and/or high — and he aggressively attempted to assault a…

Here we have San Francisco bookstore Adobe Books' "Women's Studies" section: all Twilight, all the time.

Late Saturday night, five women on the way to a bachelorette party died after a fire broke out in their limousine. The bride, who was just recently married, was among those killed. The driver and four other women managed to escape.

Once upon a time, a long long time ago (ok, a year and a half), I lived amongst the techies and burners of San Francisco. I'll always love that beautiful city for its breathtaking views and burritos, but Christ did all that chillness stress me the fuck out. I never felt more like a neurotic high-strung misfit than the…

At a news conference this morning announcing SF's decision to declare Valentine's Day in San Francisco "One Billion Rising Day" — which strives to draw attention to the fact that an estimated one billion women and girls are affected by domestic or sexual violence — District Attorney George Gascon reminded listeners that…

If waving your genitals at casual passersby in San Francisco is on your bucket list (and, let's be real, if it isn't, how can you be sure you're heart's really beating?), then you'd better hurry up and do it before Feb. 1 rolls around and makes genital-exposing in Fog City a much more fraught endeavor. That's when an…

San Francisco nudists are filing a lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco for violating their freedom of speech in order to prevent city leaders from passing an ordinance that would make it illegal to be naked in public places. The group's lawyer Christina DiEdoardo tells the New York Times, "The city is…

It looks like San Francisco will be the first U.S. city to cover sex reassignment surgeries, thus saving uninsured transgender residents from going into debt due to super costly gender transition operations. Related: San Francisco is the best.

Remember the good ol' days when you could just attend to your urges on public transportation and nobody said boo to you? Crap, piss, saliva, semen, anything goes — those were the days. Except that they really weren't, and it appears that we're still in them. One of the latest reports of such a crime comes from San…