SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Newsflash: Bay Area roads are some of the most congested in the country. [Chron] Local band Midi Matilda sounds a bit like the Talking Heads, has a fun new music video. [UptownAlmanac] Public
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: November 16, 2011 As the days grow shorter and the nights grow colder and the local transient population (or Occupy camp) snatches up the paper weeklies for warmth and/or shelter, we continue to bring you
SF News Meanwhile, on California Street... Hundreds of Occupy SF protesters marched down California Street this afternoon where they are currently occupying a Bank of America branch. ABC7 is on the scene with live video.
Arts & Entertainment Sign of the Times: Glowing Yahoo! Billboard to Disappear in December After 10 year's proclaiming Yahoo! as "A nice place to stay on the Internet", the web giant's bright, flashy, Interstate 80-adjacent billboard will no longer be be distracting drivers headed for the Bay
SF News SFMTA is Creating Another Clipper-like Card for Taxis and Parking Because your wallet isn't already fat enough, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority is currently cooking up another universal payment card to give locals yet another way to feed parking meters or pay
SF News SFPD Clears Out Occupy SF Overflow Camp Around 1:30 a.m. last night, SFPD moved in to clear out the "bridge camp" that popped up over the weekend to span the tent-free blocks between Justin Herman Plaza and the
SF News Judge Blocks AT&T Utility Box Installation The 726 AT&T utility boxes planned to be installed on sidewalks around the city and necessary to expand the telecom company's home TV and Internet service in San Francisco, were blocked
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump The geniuses at Stanford have developed a "super-fast computer device". It's 10 times as fast as any current computer chip and uses 1,000 times less energy. [Chron] Parking fees are going up
Arts & Entertainment Locally-Sourced Calendar Features Adorable Pooches, SOMA Landmarks Behold, the city's first hyperlocal pet-centric paper-based calendar. Created by the bloggers behind the sprawling, formerly industrial neighborhood blog LiveSOMA and benefiting a local charity, the calendar features 12 months of bridges, puppies,
SF News S.F. State Students Hold Walkout, Sit-In at Administration Building Out west on the SFSU campus, State students protesting fee hikes and budget cuts to higher education staged a student walkout this afternoon. The group, organized by Students for Quality Education, Occupy SFSU
SF News Shooting Reported on U.C. Berkeley Campus [Updated] Berkeleyside reports that U.C. Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulov has confirmed there was a shooting at the Haas School of Business on the U.C. Berkeley campus just before 3 around 2:30
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Season Report: Local Fisherman Crabby, But Not Sunken Eager crackers may need to hold on to their crab mallets a few days longer. The Chronicle reports that the always eagerly anticipated dungeness crab fishing season, which was supposed to begin bright
SF News No, You May Not Use Your Cell Phone at a Red Light, Court Rules Answering that phone call or shooting off a quick text while waiting for the light to change can still net you hefty ticket, a state appeals court ruled yesterday. In a ruling that
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, at City Hall... Ta-da! City Hall's (ahem) Holiday Tree has arrived in Civic Center plaza to generally embarrass the denuded sycamores with its coniferous splendor. Not to be confused with the Macy's-sponsored Union Square tree, the
SF News Occupy SFist: Mayor Lee Drops In, Quan Admits to Pre-Raid Conference Call Mayor Lee wants Occupiers to find a private space (so we suggest a few), Mayor Quan hints at a nationwide coordinated eviction effort, and new reports surface of less-than-ideal conditions on Justin Herman
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup China's wealthiest are leaving the country. Where are they headed? To the U.S. and Canada, naturally. [GuardianUK] The Hunters Point Redevelopment Project gets some national recognition as a "Transformative Investment." [Chron] Final,
SF News SFPD Unloads Barricades Next to Occupy SF Camp On Justin Herman Plaza SFPD have shown up with metal barricades, the Examiner reports this afternoon. Predictably, the arrival of the metal fences has triggered fears of an impending raid amongst the demonstrators
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Best Restaurant Bathroom Named Sure, mid-November seems a tiny bit early to be releasing the year's "Best of" lists, but EaterSF's Best of 2011 Awards are notable for at least one category you won't find in any
SF News Proposed Cab Stands on Broadway Will Help You Vacate North Beach Faster, Possibly Alleviate Crime As part of their ongoing (and some might say misguided) efforts to fix the taxi situation in San Francisco, the Municipal Transportation Agency is fielding proposals for new cab stands spread around town.
SF News S.F. Giants to Give Away 20,000 Brian Wilson Garden Gnomes in 2012 Behold: the Brian Wilson Garden Gnome (pictured right), just one of the 2012 promotional items offered by the San Francisco Giants to entice local baseball fans and bolster attendance at AT&T
SF News San Jose Minivan Buyer Accidentally Purchases $500,000 Worth of Cocaine In San Jose, a suburban psychologist who bought a used Chrysler minivan for $14,000 in cash ended up driving around for 15 months with half a million dollars in Colombian marching powder
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Switching to Lottery System for Ticket Sales After tickets to Burning Man's weeklong fur boots and utility belts gala sold out for the first time this year, organizers have devised a new ticketing-by-lottery scheme they hope will eliminate the first-come,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup All the details on Maven, the new project from a couple Beretta alumni coming to the Lower Haight. [Haighteration] Local clothing store MAAS & Stacks has put together a fancy Fall lookbook, featuring
SF News Occupy Oakland Evicted in Early Morning Raid [UPDATED] Around 4:30 a.m. this morning dozens of Oakland Police officers in riot gear, along with backup from the Alameda County Sheriff's department and nearly a dozen area police agencies, again moved
