SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire Definitely Not Caused By Meteorite Again, today's Western Addition fire was not caused by a meteorite, according to the rocket scientists at NASA. [Gizmodo] Select the 2012 Eat + Drink Reader’s Choice Awards, please! [7x7] The thrilling conclusion
SF News Occupy Berkeley Protests Eviction Notice By Occupying Berkeley Yesterday evening Occupiers in Berkeley's Civic Center park, like so many Occupiers before them, received an eviction notice. Citing increased crime in the park, Berkeley Police gave the campers a 10 p.m.
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Santa Goes Scuba Diving Santa Claus has been hanging out on the roof of the Academy of Sciences. Now he's going scuba diving in their aquarium. [RichmondSF] Whimsical urban swings appear on Valencia [UptownAlmanac] Still need to
SF News PG&E Flip Flops Again, While Mayor Lee Calls Candlestick Power Outage "A National Embarrassment" In a press conference yesterday afternoon, Mayor Lee called Monday night's power outage at Candlestick Park "a national embarrassment." This is, of course, the same Mayor Lee who once called PG&E
SF News Stagnant Winter Weather Threatens To Ruin Christmas [Spare The Air] Another windless December day means another Winter Spare the Air Alert declared for today, Wednesday the 21st. That brings our tally to eight days without solid fuel burning this season, and as we
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: The Emergency Hall & Oates Hotline It's basically a holiday weekend already, so you should definitely pick up that phone on your desk and dial (719) 26-OATES to reach "Callin' Oates", the emergency Hall & Oates Hotline. PRO-TIP: Press
SF News Day Around the Bay: The $28 Million St. Regis Penthouse Take a photo tour of the stunning $28 million St. Regis Penthouse, and then feel sorry for yourself because you will never, ever be that loaded. [CurbedSF] Caltrans crews started stringing up support
SF News Neighbors and Birdwatchers Hold Up America's Cup Planning In a move that should surprise exactly zero people the ambiguously named Environmental Council filed an appeal of the America's Cup environmental impact report last Friday, effectively putting any planning for the 2013
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Beer Week Announces Larger, Sudsier Opening Event San Francisco's Beer Week returns for ten days in February 2012 and thanks to the overwhelming, sloshy success of last year's festivities at YBCA, this year's opening day event will be making a
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does the Niners: S.F. Goes 11-3, Doubters Still Doubt [By Daisy Barringer] On the way to the game last night, I sat in the last row of the 89x Candlestick “Express” staring at the throngs of jovial Steelers fans totally unable to
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Deemed 'Communist' By Cuban Ex-Pat If you live in San Francisco, you're more or less guaranteed to run in to Sean Penn at least once during your tenure. It's a rite of passage like drinking your first Fernet
SF News PG&E Changes Its Mind, Blames Candlestick Power Outage On The City Although PG&E admitted last night's power outage at Candlestick Park was due to an exploding transformer, the historically volatile power company doesn't want to take the fall for the incident. As
SF News Deplorable Teen Busted for Fowl Concord Murders In the sleepy far east suburb of Concord, California a 17-year-old boy has been arrested for the serial murder of at least two dozen migratory waterfowl. In five separate incidents over the past
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Emeryville's Self-Aware Consumerism Emeryville's public art and/or Holiday displays are surprisingly self-aware. [UptownAlmanac] Former Oakland Raider Bill Romanowski, arriving late to the bacon fad, goes nuts about bacon on air. [GrubSF] For someone who wants
SF News Phoned-In Bomb Threat Kicked Off Last Night's Explosive Niners Game Adding to last night's blown-transformer situation at Candlestick Park, Bay City News now reports that San Francisco Police also received a bomb threat at the ballpark prior to kickoff at the Monday Night
SF News Power Outage at Candlestick Park Postpones Monday Night Football [Updates] First hand reports from friends and twitterers at tonight's Niners game against the Steelers are telling us Candlestick Park is currently in complete darkness due to a power outage. No lights means no
Arts & Entertainment Niners Preview: Steeling Ourselves For Pittsburgh [By Daisy Barringer] Since you’ve all been losing sleep worrying about my well being, I will first let you know that I am fine. I have recovered from the demoralizing loss to
SF News Day Around the Bay: The French Laundry's Swoon-Worthy Holiday Party Thomas Keller's holiday party at the French Laundry was so exciting the paramedics showed up. [Bunrab] Thanks to a slew of boring candidates, San Francisco's voter turnout was totally crap this year — except
SF News Carjacker Rams SFPD Squad Car, Is Promptly Shot Officers responding to a Hunters Point carjacking quickly found their suspect driving the stolen vehicle on Jerrold Avenue last Friday night. But the officers ran in to some problems — or some problems ran
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sh*t Girls Say, Episode 2 What? You haven't seen Episode 1 of the Internet-acclaimed short film masterpiece Shit Girls Say? (Or it's gay spinoff, for that matter.) You should have your Internet privileges revoked, clearly. As an early
SF News Bevan Dufty's New Public Transit Gig After an unsuccessful run at the Mayor's office, former District 8 supervisor and Willie Brown staffer Bevan Dufty has a new post with the San Mateo County Transit District. Dufty will be the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Disappointed By Much-Anticipated Wo Hing General Store Although Charles Phan's oft-celebrated Slanted Door consistently makes citywide Best Of... lists, Mr. Bauer failed to find that same consistency at Phan's widely anticipated Wo Hing General Store, which opened in the original
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Mounts a Bison in Facebook HQ As part of his personal challenge to eat only the animals he kills, noted nouveau riche person Mark Zuckerberg has been eating a lot of bison burgers, apparently. Thanks to that newly enlightened
SF News Elderly Man Found Dead In Mysterious Polk Street Homicide The body of 68-year-old Robert Slivoski was found near the intersection of Polk Street and Pacific Avenue in Russian Hill early last Thursday morning. SFPD officers responding to reports of a deceased person
