SF News No Seriously, There's No Snow in Tahoe Things haven't gotten any better up in the Sierras after the complete lack of snow made national headlines last week. The high temperature for Squaw Valley was expected to hit 65 degrees today
SF News Local Bike Activists Want Your Bad Driver Photos As part of an attempt to document the "danger and dysfunction on the city's car-centric streets", local bicycle and alternative transit site Streetsblog would like you, San Francisco's put-upon bicycle/bipedal class, to
SF News Four Arrested In San Jose Child Porn Ring Bust Four suspects were arrested today in a bust of a potential South Bay child pornography ring, NBC Bay Area reports. The four suspects, all booked for allegedly possessing child pornography, were brought down
SF News Woman Escapes Would-Be Kidnappers In New Year's Eve Abduction A 26-year-old woman who was jumped by two men in broad daylight while walking in SoMa managed to escape her abductors in a New Year's Eve incident that ended after the two suspects
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Recapping 'The Bachelor' The latest season of The Bachelor features last season's rejected Sonoma Winemaker Ben Flajnik. Luckily for you, EaterSF will be recapping the whole season. [EaterSF] The Russia House, that restaurant you never went
SF News It Has Been A Whole Year Since That Former S.F. Supervisor Promised To Haunt City Hall Remember way back in January 2011, when the promise of a mayor with less exciting hair and a refreshed lineup at the Board of Supervisors had every political wonk in town excited for
SF News Soccer Games & Crack Rocks: Two Things People Get Stabbed Over If these two recent crime reports are any indication, the transition to 2012 was a stabby one for San Francisco. In less than a week, arguments over the price of crack cocaine and
Arts & Entertainment Post-Yule Pyre, S.F.'s Firey Christmas Tree Disposal Event, Alights This Sunday Sure, temporary holiday arborists can send their dry and withering Christmas trees to the wood chipper starting this week. But why put DPW and Recology through all that trouble for just a tiny
SF News Apple Looks To NYC For Bookish Media Event Aside from speculation that Steve Jobs' last initiative as CEO of the revered technology company was to finally conquer the clunky interfaces of television and the usual "when does it come out?" rumors
SF News Paramedic, Two Others Injured In Geary Boulevard Ambulance Accident Three people ended up in the hospital this morning after a San Francisco Fire Department ambulance headed East on Geary Boulevard in Laurel Heights was broadsided by another vehicle traveling North on Spruce
SF News Zoo Officials Suspect Monkey Business In Banana Sam's Return In the ongoing coverage of San Francisco's favorite prodigal primate, ABC7 reports that some Zoo officials are skeptical of his alibi. Sam, you'll recall, was reportedly found in the bushes at Stern Grove
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Getting To Know Bimbo's Naked Mermaid Acquaint yourself with Dolphina, the naked mermaid in a fishbowl at Bimbo's 365 Club in North Beach. [NYT] The Moss Room at the Academy of Sciences is closing up, to be replaced by
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From January's 'Nob Hill Gazette' As is our monthly tradition around here, we now present our favorite utterances from the January issue of San Francisco's "most exclusive news magazine". Provided (mostly) without commentary and in no particular order.
SF News Impromptu Polar Bear Club Splashes In New Year With Ocean Beach Dip Yesterday at high noon on Ocean Beach a group of about 25 otherwise warm people, brought together by social media and a shared desire for a meaningful beginning to 2012, jumped in to
SF News $25,000 Reward Offered In Fatal Shooting Of 5-Year-Old Oakland Boy A five-year-old Oakland boy died at Children's Hospital late Friday night after being struck in the neck by shots fired from a car passing by his family's taco truck on International Boulevard. Gabriel
SF News 2012 Starts Off With A Cough And A Spare the Air Whimper If you woke up to 2012 with your mouth tasting like an ashtray, as we're sure many of you did, you can take some solace in knowing it wasn't entirely due to overconsumption
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: The New Parkway Theater Returns in 2012 Oakland's New Parkway movie house (read: the one you can drink at) gets a new lease, just in time for a 2012 deadline. [EastBayExpress] This is just a picture of Gov. Jerry Brown's
SF News Deplorable Teens Busted For Mugging North Beach Alleyway Urinator Rounding out the year in deplorable teen news, KRON4 reports that three underagers were busted for mugging a 36-year-old man while he took a leak in a North Beach alleyway. The victim, who
Arts & Entertainment The Story Behind That 'Thanks For Paying Taxes' Billboard Drivers coming off the Bay Bridge in to the city during the last week of 2011 will probably recognize this curious billboard message from "The Bay Bridge". The billboard was part of a
SF News Banana-Sam, Missing S.F. Zoo Squirrel Monkey, Is Now Tweeting His Adventures The story of Banana-Sam, the Squirrel Monkey reported missing from the San Francisco Zoo earlier today, seems to have taken the city by storm on this slow news day. Like any good viral
SF News Another Muni Street Car Had An Accident This Morning Muni is certainly not doing itself any favors in terms of year-end accident statistics today. Bay City New reports a second light rail vehicle had an accident in SoMa during the morning rush
SF News Alleged Christmas Eve Hit-And-Run Driver Drank A Case Of Beer Before Fatal Incident Juan Martinez, the 23-year-old accused of fleeing the scene after his car allegedly hopped a curb and fatally struck a pedestrian on Cesar Chavez, admitted to police that he drank "13 or 14"
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: How To Write That Year-End Food Piece Best practices for writing that year-end food trend list. [SFoodie] Comedian Max Silvestri brings us a step-by-step cure to those New Year's Day hangovers. [BonApp] Japantown is losing the 105-year-old Sakai Market grocery
SF News SFFD Fire Truck Involved in SoMa Traffic Accident According to tweets from Emergency in SF, a San Francisco Fire truck was involved in a traffic accident en route to the scene of another accident at 4th and Townsend in SoMa this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Bowling Updates: Pete's Tavern To Become Ballpark-Adjacent Gaming Mecca In a bit of year-end bar news this week, we learn that Peter Osborne, the man behind such crowded Giants pre-game drinking spots as MoMo's, Pete's Tavern and Pedro's Cantina, has plans to
