SF News Architect Rem Koolhaas Tapped For Transbay Center Residential Tower In what will hopefully turn out to be a win for the less-than-impressive local skyline, San Francisco's Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure has selected noted Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to design a
SF News Palo Alto Man Googles Himself, Discovers He's One Of California's Most Wanted 27-year-old Palo Alto man Christopher Viatafa turned himself in to authorities last Friday after a Google search for his own name turned up NorthernCaliforniaMostWanted.org as the first result. The system works. Viatafa
SF News New Market Street Changes Will Banish Even More Cars Although the city is still a long ways from achieving Gavin Newsom's dream of turning Market Street into the Champs-Elysée of the West, the S.F. Municipal Transportation Agency will start enforcing new
SF News Pedestrian Struck By Tour Bus Sunday Morning Just after 8 a.m. Sunday, a man in his sixties was struck by a Gray Line tour bus while crossing Mission Street at Seventh Street in SoMa. According to one witness speaking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fair Weather Muni is hitting the gas on their overhaul plan. [Chron] Mike Judge thinks Silicon Valley is doomed. [TheVerge] Now is a good time to do a spring cleaning of who has access to
SF News Squirrel Scandal Rocks Berkeley's City Council The city of Berkeley is wrapped up in a very Berkeley-esque mixup after a plan to eradicate the ground squirrels and gophers at Cesar Chavez Park was met with an outpouring of backlash.
SF News Video: A Drone's-Eye View Of The Mission Bay Fire Speaking of drones, while we were glued to the aerial feeds from the news choppers during Monday's five-alarm Mission Bay fire aerial photographer Ross Barringer was flying his quadcopter overhead to capture the
SF News Drones To Start Making Drugstore Runs In The Mission Beating Amazon to the punch in their area of drone-delivered goods, local startup QuiQui says they will start offering drone-based deliveries of prescription medication and other sundry drugstore items to the Mission district
SF News Day Around The Bay: Legalize In-Laws Supervisor Chiu is pushing to legalize the tens of thousands of illegal in-law units in San Francisco. [Chron] SF Chefs, San Francisco's biggest culinary festival (not to be confused with a foodie festival,
SF News S.F. Evictions At Their Highest Point Since 2002 Between March 2013 and the end of February 2014, landlords in San Francisco filed 1,977 eviction notices — the most since Kozmo.com was still a thing in 2001. Meanwhile, use of the
SF News BART Police Creating Smartphone App For Reporting Bad Behavior Dirty business is not uncommon on BART, unfortunately. So BART Police would like to make it easier for you, the smartphone-carrying, eagle-eyed public transit rider to report any crimes, illegal activity, or suspicious
SF News Downtown Is Leaking: Water Main Ruptures Under Stockton Street [Update] Around noon today, downtown San Francisco sprung a leak when underground construction of Muni's Central Subway apparently broke a water main below street level. (See update below) A tiny spurt of water was
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sergey Brin In Vanity Fair Wendy McNaughton's new illustrated guide to San Francisco is delightful. (Although apparently toast is now $6?) [The Atlantic Cities] Vanity Fair goes inside Sergey Brin's marriage. It's a a love story in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Alembic Has Girl Scout Cookie Cocktail Pairings As a food term, the word "program" (as in "cocktail program" or "charcuterie program") is annoying and, as a matter of style, should be abolished from food writing forever. However, when it comes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Coffee Shops In San Francisco The best coffee shop in San Francisco, if we're being realistic, is the one closest to your house. But for those times when you need to enjoy your coffee in a carefully curated
SF News Breaking: 5-Alarm Fire Burning In Mission Bay Construction Site [Updates] Around 5 p.m. on Tuesday a construction site at Fourth Street and China Basin in Mission Bay caught fire. Emergency in SF reports the fire was burning on the ninth floor of
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Shuttle Bus Census One Wiredreport took a census of the corporate shuttle buses going past his house using their WiFi signals. [Wired] Larry Ellison is eyeing Hawaii for the next America's Cup, proceeded by a yacht
SF News Video: BART Rider Harasses Passengers, Gropes Woman Around 7:30 p.m. Monday night, a man headed south on BART near the Colma Station made his presence known via a boom box loud enough to be heard over the notoriously
SF News 26-Year-Old Man Killed By Gunshot Wound To The Head Monday Night Monday evening around 5 p.m., a male victim was shot in the head during a drive-by near the intersection of Egbert Avenue and Ingalls Street in the Bayview. The man was taken
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Franciscans Love To Tweet About Muni And Beer, Study Finds Today in data news, London-based social analysis (read: marketing) company Peerindex has analyzed the tweets of over 1.6 million people living in San Francisco and in New York to determine what we
SF News Downtown S.F. Highrise Erupts Into 12-Story Waterfall [Updates] Friday morning around 9:30 a.m., water was seen spewing out of the top of One Kearny onto the intersection near Market and Third/Kearny Streets below. No word yet on what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle's Iced Coffee Hits Stores Mid-March, Comes In Adorable Milk Carton After years of talk, noted Bay Area coffee purveyor Blue Bottle Coffee will release a packaged version of its New Orleans Iced Coffee in Whole Foods stores starting this month. Unlike the bottled
SF News Southwest Airlines Flight Diverted Due To Hash-Smoking Passenger Praising Jesus A man who admitted to smoking purple hash before boarding a Southwest Airlines flight out of Seattle was arrested on Tuesday after his unruly behavior forced his flight to land in Portland. According
Arts & Entertainment Stanley Roberts Adopts A One-Eyed Squirrel Not a euphemism! On his latest crusade, golden voiced local newsman and arbiter of good etiquette Stanley Roberts is wagging his finger at off-leash dogs in Golden Gate Park. Despite his tough exterior,
Arts & Entertainment Monocles, Trendy "Even so, Nearsights, an online retailer based in San Francisco that specializes in monocles, said its sales nearly tripled last year to $66,000, from $26,000 in 2012. The owner, James Berry,
