SF News Shell Gas Promotion Leads to Awkward Spare the Air Day Fuel Giveaway Yesterday while most of us were sweating it out on public transit on a particularly warm Spare the Air day, a San Francisco Shell gas station was giving away full tanks of gas
SF News BART Police to Get Officer-Mounted Cameras The transit agency's police force has finally made a move towards more officer accountability in the wake of the high-profile, fatal shootings of Charles Hill and Oscar Grant by BART Police officers. According
SF News Two Shot in Lower Pac Heights, Gang Task Force Investigating A man and a woman, both in their 30s, were shot while driving through Lower Pac Heights/Western Addition on Baker Street yesterday evening around 5:30 p.m. The pair were both
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup McCovey Chronicles puts the 2011 Giants season in perspective. [McCoveyChron] Popular music platform/startup SoundClound moves in on Treat Ave. [MissionLocal] Tenderloin hot dog joint moves out, becomes "dip-centric" sandwich joint. [TheTender] Delightful,
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Eric Mar might be saving birds from those tall shiny glass-and-steel deathtraps we humans have erected, but not even bird-safe building legislation can keep us from wanting to slam our heads against the
SF News Local Animal Rescue Crew Needs Your Help to Buy This Awesome Animal Ambulance Wild Rescue, the local animal rescue crew responsible for freeing tortured seagulls, saving blowdart-stabbed ducks and pulling sea lions from the mud all across the Bay Area needs some help to expand their
SF News Advertising Student Puts Bed in Haight Street Parking Space In a new turnabout for the city's Sit/Lie ordinance, parklets and wayward youth, a local advertising student has found yet another use for a Haight Street parking space: put a bed on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Ice Cream Today at the Three Twins Fire Sale [Update: All Gone!] Not that we ever find delight in the wake of a major fire that displaced 31 residents, but Three Twins Ice Cream whose Fillmore Street shop was in the same building as last
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump In the last Giants game of 2011, Madison Bumgarner and the relief staff (including Barry Zito) kept the Rockies scoreless while Conor Gillaspie rounded the bases on in an inside-the-park home run and
SF News Day Around the Bay The latest season of The Bachelor, featuring that winemaker who thought he could be SF's next mayor, is filming in town all week. [SFWeekly] Lou Seal, your favorite baseball mascot, holds the record
SF News Massive House Fire At Haight and Fillmore [Updates] Here's the scene at Haight and Fillmore just a few moments ago around 4:30 p.m. this afternoon. A KCBS crew on the scene reports it's a 3-alarm blaze. This afternoon's fire
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's Going on Here, Mayoral Forum on Urban Agriculture? Above is a photo of the crowd and candidates for mayor who showed up to debate issues relating to urban agriculture and green schoolyard initiatives at the SFUAA mayoral forum. From the looks
SF News Bryan Stow Sees Sunlight, Declares: 'It's Magical' Bryan Stow, the victim of a brutal assault at Dodger Stadium on opening day, saw the great outdoors for the first time in six months yesterday. Stow, who has been slowly recovering from
SF News Local Biplane Pilot Violates Obama's Airspace Today in Local TV news stories: a biplane pilot flying out of Watsonville, CA on a little sightseeing trip yesterday suddenly found himself the target of an F-15 assigned to protect the President
Arts & Entertainment Pop-up Pool Party Occurs Tomorrow While You Should be Working Chambers Eat + Drink and the adjacent Phoenix Hotel, owners of one swanky pool lounge that we never have a good opportunity to take advantage of, are seizing this little snap of Indian Summer
SF News Rand Paul Doesn't Care For Pipeline Safety Bill Rand Paul, Republican Senator from Kentucky and son of Ron, is taking a stand against the Senate's pipeline safety bill that would strengthen federal safety regulations in the wake of the deadly PG&
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup For the last homestand of the season, Bruce Bochy made sure the boys know to keep the energy up despite those extinguished postseason hopes. And Ryan Vogelsong did just that, pitching for seven
SF News Woman Kidnapped, Robbed in Bayshore Early Saturday morning around 2:30 a.m, a 28-year-old woman was punched and pushed into a sedan by a group of five suspects who stole her wallet and cellphone on the edge
SF News Day Around the Bay A few tipsy scenes from Cocktail Week 2011. [GrubStreetSF] What Not to Wear's Stacy London was in town. She hung out with Jennifer Siebel Newsom at the mall. [SFWire] Finally an answer to
Arts & Entertainment Will There Be a BART Protest Today? Here's a handy flowchart to help you figure it out! Print it out, pin it up in your cubicle and remind yourself to frantically check BART's service advisories and twitter hashtags before you
SF News Parks Service Could Put a Hostel on Alcatraz, Open Up Off-Limits Areas If you've ever wanted to spend a night on Alcatraz, the National Parks Service might be coming up with your next staycation destination. In a lengthy proposal (which the Examiner handily broke down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Marina Bar News: They Finally Named One "Campus" As reported by Inside Scoop, the post-collegiate neverland ranch in the Marina just got a little more self-effacing as the former Delaney's Bar on Chestnut Street suddenly becomes Campus. Scoop reports that the
SF News Monday Morning Roundup The Giants went in to Phoenix needing a sweep, but got swept instead. And with that, the 2010 World Series Champions saw their postseason hopes dried up like a mirage in the Arizona
SF News Multiple Earthquakes Gently Tickle San Francisco Did you feel that one? What about this one? Those two earthquakes hit within 5 minutes of each other on either side of the city: the first was a 3.5 on the
SF News This Week in Willie Brown: Hillary Clinton's Haircut Willie Brown is concerned with two things this week: Food and Women. Which is actually what he's concerned with every week. But this week the objects of his carnal and carnivorous desires are,