(by D. Hanousek) So, this week I'm writing from Portland, Oregon. I'm in the middle of a two-week offsite and I've been away from San Francisco for eight days. I was lucky enough to see my husband and kids in Tahoe over the weekend, but as I sit in my hotel room feeling homesick and watching First Week In, I realize that I have another confession to make: I Love San Francisco. more ›

The man who allegedly stabbed a dog multiple times in Fort Funston in August 2010 will not be charged. Since there weren't a lot of witnesses, “the U.S. attorney doesn’t feel that the case is ready to take to court," National Park Service (NPS) Detective Robert Reidy explained to the Examiner. more ›

"On the beach" by Darwin Bell. more ›

The San Francisco Police Department’s bomb squad was called to Fort Funston on Sunday when someone found a box of military flares marked U.S. Navy below the hang glider deck. The box was found around 10:45 a.m., and SFPD cleared the area at 1:10 p.m. and blew up the box. more ›

Via a new management plan from the federal government, a number of coastal spots where dog owners are currently allowed to let their pooches roam off-leash will become on-leash areas, or no-dog areas. This is part of a new management plan for the Golden Gate Park National Recreation Area, which extends from Fort Funston up around to Crissy Field, and north to Muir Beach. The goal is to protect wildlife that lives in these areas. more ›

A reader, who sent in the above photo, tells us, "Most of Fort Funston is closed due to the discovery of an old, possibly active bomb." Twitter user fiercekitten reports: "Half of [Fort Funston] is closed because they found a live shell from the old fort." more ›

Dispatches from TJICistan points out a delightful fact about General Frederick N. Funston--the apparently sensitivity-free Medal of Honor recipient known for his manliness in both the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, and the current namesake for Fort Funston--who once boasted the following. Ahem: more ›

A man stabbed a 15-year-old girl and the man who tried to stop the attack on her, in a Twin Peaks bakery on Saturday (link fixed per comments). The man, Scott Thomas, had just been released from San Quentin the day before, where he'd been in solitary confinement for attacking a guard. Thomas had been sent to San Quentin for violating the terms of his parole (which he's done 8 times since 2001 -- it looks like he went in originally on a mix of grand and petty theft-type charges). Thomas was caught by two police officers who were in the area, and who described him as covered with blood, carrying a hunting knife, and speaking and singing incoherently. The girl is improving, and the man who intervened suffered only minor injuries. more ›

Last Saturday, a fight broke out at the "Hyphy High School Bash" at the Marin County Corte Madera Recreation Center. The police raced to the scene upon hearing reports of gunshots and a Golden Gate Transit bus being blocked on Tamalpais Drive by 80 teenagers. They couldn't confirm whether shots had been fired, but someone had sprayed pepper spray into the crowd and around the same time, someone broke into a nearby elementary school. Hilariously, the Marin Independent Journal describes hyphy as "a music and dance expression that grew out of the Bay Area hip-hop scene," and one Corte Madera parent says "It's really ironic. We live in Marin, and I feel safer sending my daughter to San Francisco." Ooooh, not dangerous San Francisco! Hyphy hyphy hyphy hyphy (or, as they call it in Marin, "a music and dance expression"). more ›

It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so. more ›

Jim Herd has sent us so many fantastic photos of the Bay Area that we asked him to join us. So please welcome our latest feature as every Thursday (at least and we hope), we'll have a little photo display of the area we all call our home. Up this week, dolphins! Or porpoises. We can't tell. Either way, we love dolphins/porpoises. These were taken at the hang glider launch area of Fort Funston more ›

--How come Gavin Newsom'll stop a ski jump for Laurie Beijen but they won't do anything about the Bay Bridge closure for the couple that's been planning their Treasure Island wedding for over two years? more ›

Be careful walking your dogs, folks -- there was a triple shooting last night at Fort Funston. A man described as a thin, bearded, 5'8" man acting strangely, approached two people who looked like they'd just finished hang gliding, started up a conversation, and then shot them before shooting himself. The shooter is dead, and the two hang gliders were critically injured. As one witness, there walking his dog, said, "When my dog took off, that's when I realized I should too." more ›

This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. We're just so happy to see thet no one makes Kiva wear any embarassing scarves or sweaters -- of course, if you adopt him, all this could change! more ›

destroying whatever acting cred he has left. Tucked away in some random corner inside a wood display case at the San Francisco War Memorial is a fabric that experts are beginning to think is the first Filipino flag. And try saying that ten times fast. more ›