Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Glen Canyon... Local blogger and La Lengua Activist Burrito Justice brings us this delightfully Ansel Adams-esque photo of today's pea soup.
SF News California Is Now Free To Raid $1.7 Billion In Redevelopment Funds [Update] The California Supreme Court ruled this morning that the state is free to eliminate redevelopment agencies across California and take $1.7 billion of their funds under Sacramento-approved legislation passed earlier this year.
SF News There's Absolutely No Snow In Tahoe We've been getting our share of chilly air here in the city, but this December dry spell hasn't exactly done much for the base on the slopes up in the Sierras. In fact,
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: The Chuck Nevius Radio Show Chronicle columnist and noted critic of the city's fecal matter, C. W. Nevius now has his own radio show. [KGO 810] We're not out of year-end list territory yet, here's the Weekly's look
SF News Your Neighbors Will Probably Snitch On You, Flagrant Spare The Air Violators The only thing that's been more out of control than the number of Spare the Air days this season is the actual amount of nasty particulate matter floating about in all that cool
SF News San Francisco Can Finally Ditch PG&E In 2017, Says Interactive Map Does anyone really like our local utility company? No, no one does. PG&E blows things up, deprives us of our pastimes and attempts to scramble our brainwaves on a regular basis.
SF News Three Teens Robbed In Pac Heights Shotgun Mugging Three 19-year-old men were robbed by a shotgun-wielding mugger and an accomplice on the tennis courts at Alta Plaza Park in Pacific Heights last night. According to police, the three victims were hanging
SF News Pro Bowl Picks Boatload Of Niners Seeing as how some of us are, admittedly, those sort of default Niners fans whose experience with the team is mostly limited to that one game we got free tickets to*, we went
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Blue Bottle Iced Coffee Headed To Stores Blue Bottle looks to expand in to selling bottled iced coffee drinks in stores, but you can get them now at the Ferry Building. [NBCBayArea] Big Nate's BBQ in SoMa becomes CatHead's BBQ.
SF News Local Astrologist Predicts Bad Vibes For Mayor Quan's Post-Occupy Career Occupiers, political pundits, twitter humorists and TV talking heads have all been speculating on what the post-Occupy future holds for embattled Oakland mayor Jean Quan. While the general consensus seems to be "she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Coast Dunkin' Donuts Drinkers Prove Too Sophisticated for Peet's Coffee In today's hard-hitting business news: the East Coast expansion of Peet's Coffee and Tea has not gone exactly as planned, it seems. East Coast coffee drinkers, with their delicate palates refined through years
SF News Copper Theft Popular Among Middle-Age Men, Apparently In the latest updates from the war on copper theft, four men were busted after swiping copper from a PG&E yard in San Rafael last Friday night. The four men, all
SF News Police Searching For Driver In Fatal Cesar Chavez Hit-Run. [Update: Suspect Busted] A hit-and-run driver apparently drove up on a traffic island beneath the Highway 101 overpass near Cesar Chavez early Saturday morning. According to police, the driver struck and killed a pedestrian before fleeing
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Cyclists Forced To Share Again Barely a month after cyclists on the Golden Gate Bridge reclaimed their exclusive speedway lane on the West side sidewalk, the bridge transit district has announced they will be closing off the bikes-only
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Plate Tectonics Observes No Holidays In case you missed it yesterday: a tiny, insignificant earthquake gently reminded the East Bay that plate tectonics observes no holidays, especially not Boxing Day. [KTVU] The first apartment complex to go up
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Market Street... Some kind of naked Santa wants to show you his Christmas package. Photo: Mister Mort. [Link: NSFW or mom's WiFi] Strategic holly bush: SFist.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom's New Kentfield Home Take a look around Gavin Newsom's new Kentfield, CA digs. Kinda snazzy and modern, actually. [SFGate] Clear and dry weather expected for the Holiday Weekend. [BCN/Appeal] What to drink with your dungeness
SF News Five-Alarm Western Addition Fire Started In a Trash Chute, Caused $8 Million in Damage According to SFFD officials today, yesterday's five-alarm fire in the Western Addition started in a trash chute in the alley between Golden Gate Ave and Pierce Street. The fire was called in around
SF News Wood Burning Officially Banned on Christmas Eve Sorry, folks: tomorrow, December 24th has been declared yet another winter Spare the Air Alert by the air quality misers at the BAAQMD. By now, you ought to know the drill: no solid
Arts & Entertainment What Are You Still Doing At The Office? You there: what are you still doing at work? Why are you not out in Union Square wandering the streets with a seasonal coffee drink and a pint of peppermint schnapps? (It makes
SF News Call Your Designated Driver Now: DUI Checkpoint Scheduled for Tonight With tonight being the last night for many to hit the sauce before getting in some quality time with the family over Christmas, SFPD has announced they will be setting up a sobriety
Arts & Entertainment Happy Holidays, From SFist's Awkward Family to Yours SFist's Editorial Team, (Bottom to top [Ed note: yeah, I know]: Brock Keeling, Andrew Dalton, Jay Barmann and Leanne Maxwell) would like to take this moment to wish you, dear readers, the very
SF News Candlestick Power Outage Resolved: Everybody Blew It In the latest and hopefully last bits of finger pointing surrounding Monday's nationally embarrassing Candlestick Park power outages, Mayor Lee and PG&E CEO Anthony Earley have resolved the causes of both
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In The Navy: First Gay Couple Shares Homecoming Kiss By way of the associated press: "Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta, left, kisses her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia
SF News Pre-Holiday Link Dump: Attending Warren Hellman's Memorial Here's a look at Warren Hellman's well-attended memorial service. And more reactions from the Chronicle's Leah Garchik. [Chron] [Garchik] Take a look at what's moving in to the former home of Modern Times
