SF News Elderly Pedestrian Struck By Cyclist At Castro And Market An elderly pedestrian was taken to S.F. General with life threatening injuries after a cyclist struck him in the crosswalk at the busy intersection of Castro and Market Streets around 8 a.
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Propping Up The Local Economy Newsflash! Tourism and tech are propping up the local economy. [SFEx] A bomb scare briefly emptied the cargo area at SFO. Nothing exploded. [BCN/Appeal] Tonight, thanks to Off the Grid, there will
SF News Day Around The Bay: Who Are These People That Run For The Bus? Based on a highly scientific Internet blog poll, a majority of you run to catch Muni buses. How gauche. [MuniDiaries] Prius driver crashes in to immobile object on Cesar Chavez [UptownAlmanac] Berkeley: great
SF News Woman Choked, Mugged By Four Suspects Near McLaren Park A 23-year-old woman walking home around 12:15 a.m. this morning at Felton and Harvard Streets near McLaren Park in the Portola neighborhood was attacked by four suspects who choked her and
SF News Skyline Watch: Second Rincon Hill Tower Goes Up In July After years of delays, the second tower at the One Rincon Hill development in SoMa is set to start construction this summer. At 50 stories tall and less than 300 units, the new
Arts & Entertainment Britney Spears Spotted Loitering Around Westfield Centre While swirling around some Lady Gaga rumors, lost in a Jean Paul Gautier fervor the city somehow failed to notice the recent arrival of another celebrity type in San Francisco. According to rumor,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dear Jelly Belly, Please Do Not Make A 'Santorum' Flavored Jelly Bean Locally based, but nationally beloved gourmet jelly bean maker Jelly Belly is hosting a rally for Rick Santorum at their Fairfield, CA factory today. Why is a GOP presidential hopeful holding a $1,
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Gaultier's SoMa Cruise We're still buzzing (buzzing!) about this month's celebrity darling Jean Paul Gaultier, who made a pretty impressive tour of SoMa. Besides popping up at Twenty Five Lusk for dinner, the Powerhouse and the
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Bay Citizen, Center for Investigative Reporting Make It Official The Bay Citizen and Berkeley's Center for Investigative Reporting made their merger official today. Expect the CIR to "assume the dominant role" and no more breaking news or culture coverage. [BayCitizen] Robin O'Conner,
SF News Young Startup Founder Deems San Francisco "Too Nice" Josh Miller, a young entrepreneur who left Princeton last year and headed West to become a protege of Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone at Obvious Corporation, is already bailing on San
Arts & Entertainment Video: Prolific S.F. Graffiti Artist Arrest Caught On Tape By Amateur Documentarian A prolific, yet apparently nameless, graffiti artist behind one of the few tags we actually kind of liked was busted doing his best Banksy-esque work recently. According to the folks at Uptown Almanac,
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Asks Nicely To Go Back To Work, Get Paid Facing the prospect of an empty home and nothing to fill his days except Nash Bridges reruns on the USA Network, suspended sheriff Ross Mirikarimi asked the San Francisco Superior Court to overturn
SF News Central Market Watch: Gaping Hole At Tenth Street Finally Filled [Photo] After years of delays, that sunken pit at Tenth and Market Streets finally saw some action last night. Construction crews working on the forthcoming 37-story, 754-unit apartment complex adjacent to the new Twitter
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Unraveling A Richmond District Mystery Unraveling the mystery of two 1890s Richmond District houses, and discovering a (amazing!) children's anti-drowning device at Sutro Baths in the process. [RichmondSF] Former Supervisor and former mayoral hopeful Michela Alioto-Pier is moving
SF News Photo: Car Fire Smokes Like Chimney, Backs Up Traffic On Bay Bridge Around 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, a BMW apparently caught fire on the westbound top deck of the Bay Bridge, causing a plume of smoke (seen here) backing up traffic past Yerba
SF News What's Up With Ross Mirkarimi? Probation Orientation And A Wife Out Of Town When last we checked in with Ross Mirkarimi, the recently elected — and even more recently suspended — Sheriff was refusing to resign from his post and ready to take on official charges of misconduct
SF News Wave Of Knife Crime Strikes Market Street [Update: At Revived Occupy Camp] A male victim landed in the hospital late last night after being stabbed at the foot of Market Street. The stabbing was reported around 11 p.m. last night and occurred either near
SF News Stabbing Victim Dies In Western Addition Homicide Around 10 p.m. Sunday evening, police officers responding to a report of a stabbing at Buchanan Street and Golden Gate Avenue in the Western Addition arrived to find a man in his
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Mission Bike Thefts On The Decline Bike thefts are on the decline in the Mission. Which means they're probably on the rise in every other neighborhood. [SFEx] Good morning. This is just a picture of some guy's crotch on
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dita Von Teese Strips Down For Gaultier More photos from that Jean Paul Gaultier gala that you weren't invited to, including a teaser of Dita Von Teese's 15-minute burlesque routine. [SFWire] Get your sunny happy hour moments in immediately, folks.
SF News Video: Heroin-Selling Tenderloin Deli Gets The Ken Burns Treatment As a bit of follow up to yesterday's news that Barah's Market in the Tenderloin would no longer be selling heroin, oxycontin and crack cocaine, reader Jesse passed along this delightfully jazzy documentary
SF News Dirty CoCo County Cop Sold Crystal Meth Disguised As Burritos When we last checked in on the case against former Contra Costa County drug czar Norman Wielsch and his fame-seeking private investigator accomplice Chris Butler, the pair were accused of selling confiscated narcotics
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Hanging With Jean Paul Gaultier Leah Garchik attends a politically charged spelling bee and hangs out with Jean Paul Gaultier's entourage. [Garchik] If Ross Mirkarimi keeps fighting to hold on to his job he could end up losing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wait At Divisadero Bi-Rite Is Already Too Long The long-awaited second outpost of upscale picnic goods supply shop Bi-Rite Market has been in the works on Divisadero for what seems like forever now. (Almost 2 years if we're bring sticklers with
Arts & Entertainment Video: Al Pacino's Castro Theatre Red Carpet Appearance Al Pacino was in town last night to premiere his new Oscar Wilde documentary Wilde Salomé to a sold-out Castro Theatre audience. Naturally the relatively rare appearance of Hollywood royalty in our fair
