Fans of the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera know they can see his work at City College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the old Pacific Stock Exchange building. They will be surprised to find that his colorful depictions of working class struggle have now somehow appeared on the walls at the Coit Tower — that is, according to San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department. In seeking a new vendor ......

What will no doubt be the next great Bay Area dance anthem has arrived — on public transportation. The official video for “BART Train” by East Bay duo Malki Means King and Juey Starberry dropped on YouTube last week.  The song features catchy lyrics like "We on the BART train/Shake that ass girl/[indecipherable] cookies", auto-tune, a pounding beat – and actually casts BART in a favorable light. Sitting in BART ......

The illicit Four Loko market is booming. The neon-colored caffeinated alcoholic beverage (I know, what could go wrong?) known as "blackout in a can" is being taken off shelves at the behest of the FDA after several tragic-yet-predictable Four Loko-induced accidents.  And already, as of Saturday night on the 49 bus traveling down Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco, entrepreneurial young folks were making shady deals for leftover cases of Four ......

With all the fog, the closest thing to fireworks that you could see was the Castro Theater sign changing from blue to pink. But the crowd that had gathered on Tank Hill -- near Twin Peaks with a view of the whole Bay Area on clear day -- refused to be disappointed. Someone's tinny iPhone played John Philip Sousa marches followed by Born in the USA by the Boss. And ......