SF News Bomb Scare at Montgomery and Sacramento [Updated] Multiple twitter tipsters tell us there's currently (as of around 7 p.m.) a bomb scare in the Financial District near Montgomery and Sacramento Streets. At least one office building on Montgomery Street
Arts & Entertainment Tonight In Holiday Lights: The Embarcadero Center With all the sparkly, twinkly things lining the streets and plazas during the holiday season, we occasionally forget to stop and smell the pine trees and mulled wine, as it were. Thus, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sketchy Richmond District Jack In The Box Loses 24-Hour Privileges 24-hour service, along with round-the-clock breakfast, is a Jack in the Box trademark. Unfortunately for the discount burger chain, the siren call of two tacos for 99¢ at any hour of the night
SF News Copper Thieves Are Literally Tearing Apart BART And Vallejo Right after BART officials admitted Tuesday that they have a problem with metal thieves yanking wire off the system's tracks, yet another incident of copper theft was reported. This time, thieves ripped out
SF News FDA Decides Fremont Man Is A Sperm Factory In Fremont, the Food and Drug Administration has decided that one local man, a sperm donor who has fathered 14 children, should be legally classified as "a manufacturer of human cells" for his
SF News Golden Gate Park Bison Welcome New Calves Out in Golden Gate Park Diane Feinstein's thinning herd of bison got some new additions this week. According to NBC, seven new buffalo calves arrived at the bison paddock in the western part
Arts & Entertainment Mythbusters Mishap Sends Cannonball Sailing Through East Bay Home [Updated] It finally happened. A Mythbusters experiment went awry at the Alameda County bomb range yesterday. Despite the usual number of safety measures you might expect from a reality TV crew with high insurance
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Drake Spotted At Kokkari Rapper Drake was spotted dining with an entourage of 17 at Kokkari (a Willie Brown favorite). Drake & Co. reportedly ordered everything on the menu and spent the entire meal texting. [Garchik] Supervisor
SF News Occupy SF Evicted In Early Morning Raid, 70 Arrested Just before 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, SFPD officers in riot gear moved in to clear out the Occupy SF encampment in Justin Herman Plaza. After making an announcement over a loudspeaker, Police
Arts & Entertainment Tonight In Holiday Lights: The Hyatt Atrium With all the sparkly, twinkly things lining the streets and plazas during the holiday season, we occasionally forget to stop and smell the pine trees and mulled wine, as it were. Thus, we
SF News Spare The Air Day Declared For Wednesday, Wood Burning Temporarily Banned As we warned this morning, the current chill to the air is leading to particularly particulate-heavy breathing conditions around the Bay Area. And apparently conditions didn't get any breezier today, thus: the Air
SF News Police Seeking Stabby, Muni-Riding Phone Thief In the Tenderloin last night, a 50-year-old man was stabbed and critically injured after loaning his phone to a fellow rider on the 19-Polk. The knifecrime occurred near Turk and Hyde Streets around
SF News Did Mayor Lee Just Take Credit For Increasing Minimum Wage? As every news outlet in town noted yesterday, San Francisco's minimum wage will break $10 starting January 1st, making it the country's highest. (Maybe. Depending on whether you count Santa Cruz as being
Arts & Entertainment NoisePop Festival 2012 Lineup Announced NoisePop, the city's all-over-town music festival announced the lineup for their 20th anniversary festival this afternoon and true to form it's ripe with NoisePop alumni, recent noisemakers and younger up-and-comers. Below, the current
SF News Copper Thief Yanks Wire From BART Tracks The BART system has the unfortunate honor of becoming the latest victim in the Bay Area's ongoing war on copper thieves after one such bandit narrowly dodged an oncoming train over the weekend.
SF News Please Don't Burn Wood Today, Lest You Asphyxiate Us All The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, also known as the Spare the Air folks, are asking Bay Area residents, the ones with fireplaces anyway, to please refrain from burning wood today, Tuesday
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Confessed Murderer Goes Free Today's piece of investigative journalism: Alleged killer in Haight Street skateboard murder case confesses, still goes free. [SFAppeal] Chad Michael Murray, teen heartthrob, coming to Divisadero comic book store to pimp his graphic
Arts & Entertainment Liz Taylor's Likeness Appears In Household Sponge Today in bizarre news: local blogger TK discovered the likeness of the late Liz Taylor on the back of an ordinary household cleaning sponge. TK's initial reaction was one of confusion, which you
SF News San Francisco's Minimum Wage: More Than A Hamilton In 2012 Starting January 1st, 2012 wage earners in San Francisco will be making a minimum of $10.24 per hour. Thanks to 2003's Prop L, which ensures the local minimum wage increases along with
SF News Santa Clara Mayor 'Not All That Interested In Football' While the San Francisco 49ers were gearing up to clinch the NFC West, Santa Clara Mayor Jamie Matthews was confessing to the Chronicle on Saturday that he is just, "not that interested in
SF News The Mission Doesn't Want Occupy SF To Move There Either Although members of Occupy SF voted last week to reject the city's offer to move to 16th and Mission, some campers thought they might find support among the working-class denizens of the Mission
SF News N-Judah Train Squishes Toyota Prius In Cole Valley An N-Judah light rail vehicle passing through Cole Valley seems to have squished a Toyota Prius in an awkward position this morning. One Muni Diaries reader says the unfortunate mishap appears to have
SF News Two Caltrain Deaths, One Amtrak Fatality Recorded Saturday Two people died in separate incidents on Caltrain tracks on Saturday. The incidents occurred within an hour of each other near the California Ave Caltrain Station in Palo Alto and just North of
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Candlestick Shuttle Booze Cruise Muni's Candlestick Park shuttle has become a haven for public drinking, basically. [Twitter] District Attorney George Gascón's hair spotted looking impeccable at the Human Rights Watch Voices for Justice Dinner. [SFWire] Hipster candidate
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rides Muni Santa Claus spotted riding Muni. [MuniDiaries] SFMOMA Architect Mario Botta is going to miss his old staircase. [Chron] Scenes from opening night at Tikva Records, the Mission's only pop-up Jewish record store. [Bernalwood]
