SF News Stolen iPad Leads Cops To 780 Pounds Of Crystal Meth Palo Alto Police officers servicing the very important stolen iPad beat accidentally stumbled upon one of the biggest meth busts ever made in the U.S. this weekend. What's even more baffling than
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: An Inspiring Story Of Motherhood The inspiring Bay Area Mom who devoted her life to raising orphans while battling a chronic neurological illness passed away Saturday in Monterey. She was a sea otter named Toola. [Chron] Lime, the
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mirkarimi's Ex Reports To Court Christina Flores, the other Ross Mirkarimi ex-girlfriend who is accusing the sheriff of domestic abuse, went before the judge in a closed session today. Wonder what they talked about! [Chron] Metal thieves strike
SF News The Express Reportedly Replacing Gold Dust Lounge Earlier reports that Columbus, Ohio-based clothing chain The Limited would be taking over the Gold Dust Lounge's Powell Street space (and gallery next door as well) weren't too far off track apparently. As
SF News Photo: Lombard Street Turns Into Waterfall After Car Collides With Hydrant A car making its way down San Francisco's curviest street* crashed in to a fire hydrant this afternoon, sending a gush of water in to the air and flooding out basements and garages
SF News Reminder: Mission Street Muni Lines Extra Annoying, Starting Tomorrow Attention 14-Mission and 49-Van Ness riders: much needed road repairs are coming to Mission Street starting tomorrow, Saturday March 3rd. While the busiest stretch between 16th and Cesar Chavez will be nice and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Bars Are Super Crowded; Fire Department Doesn't Mind Have you been out in the Mission lately? Did the bars seem crowded to you? They did to Mission Local, who discovered that Blondie's on Valencia — always a popular place to get an
SF News 700-Pound Livermore Man Asks The Internet For Help On His Birthday Robert Gibbs, a morbidly obese 23-year-old from Livermore who says he weighs "600 or 700 pounds" is hoping a viral video posted to YouTube will help him get the assistance he needs to
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mayor Lee Loves The Nightlife Mayor Lee, who probably goes to bed promptly at 8 p.m. every night, praises the importance of nightlife in San Francisco. [SFBG] San Diego food critic roasts Lower Haight's Toronado for not
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bourbon Smoothies For Breakfast Park Tavern's new brunch menu includes bourbon smoothies. [GrubSF] An illustrated list of Lower Haight WiFi networks. [Haighteration] Supervisor Mar is ready to serve on the jury in Ross Mirkarimi's domestic violence case.
SF News Mentally Ill Woman Rides Muni To Poop At Nob Hill Bus Stop Today in the local news beat, ABC7's Dan Noyes has uncovered an unfortunate problem plaguing one Nob Hill bus stop: a local woman has been using it as her own public outhouse with
SF News Local Video Store Expands Their Business Model, Now Sells Plants After five years in business, Bernal Heights' much-loved Four Star Video is undergoing some changes. While they don't appear to be in any danger of shutting down despite countless lazier ways to watch
Arts & Entertainment Serra Bowl To Close In April While we anxiously await the opening of Lucky Strike Lanes next week and Mission Bowling Club later this spring, we've received some sad news in the ten-pin department. Serra Bowl in Daly City,
SF News San Francisco Wants To Eliminate Paper Paychecks As part of the city's ongoing war against paper waste, the Treasurer's Office unveiled a new plan yesterday to eliminate printed paychecks. The new effort, awkwardly named CurrenC SF like some kind of
SF News Metal Thieves Are Also Grave Robbers, Steal $85,000 Of Bronze From Colma Cemetery Railway bandits, church bell thieves, pirates and now grave robbers? This current recession stands to send the Barbary Coast in to a state of complete recycling lawlessness. As the Chronicle reports this afternoon,
Arts & Entertainment Tenderloin Erotic Massage Parlor Has Its Own Parklet! Seeing as how a parklets are popping up around the city on pretty much a weekly basis, and massage parlors are a dime a dozen in the Tenderloin this was bound to happen
SF News SF Zoo's Black Rhino, Gene, Dies Gene, a 41-year-old Kenya native who emigrated to San Francisco in 1978, passed away at the San Francisco Zoo, The Chronicle reports. Gene's health had been slowly deteriorating in the past few months
SF News Brian Wilson Becomes Part Owner of Lucky Strike Lanes Lucky Strike Lanes, the swank SoMa bowling alley scheduled to open next Friday announced a new business partner today: Giants reliever and Hammer pants-wearing Ed Lee shill Brian Wilson. The former lawn gnome
SF News Video: Former Cal QB Throws A World Record... With A Paper Airplane Former Cal Quarterback Joe Ayoob, who started nine games for the Bears while Nate Longshore was out on an injury back in 2005, can now add "World Record Arm" to his list of
SF News Local Metal Thieves Are Pirates Now, Have Taken To The High Seas [Updated] The reported cases of metal theft around the Bay Area are getting increasingly elaborate, it seems. What started out as opportunistic copper wire theft, ripping off Facebook, BART and even state parks, eventually
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Scott Wiener, Food Truck Crusader Supervisor Scott Wiener introduces an ordinance to counteract state legislation that would ban food trucks from most of the city. [Mission Local] Skateboard fashion company Volcom rips of Fourth-wave coffee roastery Sightglass, copies
SF News Eliana Lopez's Attorney Calls On Judge To Dismiss Mirkarimi Case Late breaking news in the Mirkarimi case this evening: as NBC reports Paula Canny, attorney for Mrs. Lopez, filed a motion today to have the case dismissed on the grounds that the District
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lady Gaga Visits Sonoma County Words cannot describe how excited the little monsters of Sonoma County were when Lady Gaga visited Geyserville over the weekend, but these words from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat will try their hardest.
SF News Excelsior Knife Crime Leaves Man In Critical Condition Just two months in to 2012 and this current wave of knife crime is showing no signs of slowing down. The latest incident occurred late last night/early Tuesday morning outside of a
SF News Luxury Car Drivers Are Jerks, Says UC Berkeley Study Here's a big news flash that ought to blow some minds: According to a study conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley, people who drive expensive cars in the Bay Area are four times
