- One member of the Planning Commission is calling out Ed Lee for appointing a Rose Pak-connected commissioner who has already risen to become the commission's VP. [SFEx]
- Upper Haight Irish Pub Martin Mack's was seized in a legal dispute this week. The regular owners are asking that you please boycott the bar under the new management. [Haighteration]
- The vintage Coca-Cola sign in Bernal Heights that caused a big hubbub last year will get a vibrant new restoration job. [SFEx]
- Slate explains why you should use Weather Underground for all your weather-related inquiries. It also calls the Sunset "the land of misery", so there's that. [Slate]
- The BBQ spinoff from Hog & Rocks gets a name (It's "Hi-Lo") and an opening date: "Juneish". [EaterSF]
- Wacky Japanese "real escape game" Escape from Werewolf Village is coming to Japantown in March and it sounds... exciting? [SFCitizen]
- Three arrested in Marin county child pornography sting. [KTVU]
- Three lanes of Eastbound I-580 near Pleasanton were closed this morning as CHP investigate the death of a woman who apparently tried to run across the freeway. [Chron]