SF News San Rafael Hostage Situation Ends: Gunman Was Already Dead The hostage standoff at an Extended Stay Deluxe in San Rafael that lasted for two days and held up traffic ended this afternoon when police entered the hotel room to find an already
SF News San Francisco is Halfway to Becoming a Bicycle Utopia Would you look at that: just a year after lifting the bike plan injunction, city officials announced Tuesday that San Francisco's network of bike lanes and bike-related infrastructure is 50% completed. Over the
Arts & Entertainment The Inevitable Taiwanese Animation of Anonymous' BART Protest Well, it's been awhile since we've heard from those delightfully lo-fi, but possibly overplayed animators at NMA.tv. In their latest video, the comically misinformed Taiwanese news team sums up this whole messy
SF News Democratic Club Endorses Avalos and Herrera for Mayor, Snubs Ed Lee and Gascón Last night, the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee voted on their party's official endorsements for November's local elections and judging by the results, the DCCC wants to put some fresh meat in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Would Like to Dress You For School, Pack You a Boxed Lunch Edible Schoolteacher Alice Waters is a charitable person, we know this because she selflessly runs her high-end locavore restaurant as a cover for her secret agenda of sneaking vegetables in to every elementary
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup Matt Cain ruled the mound last night in Atlanta, giving up five hits and a walk before shutting down 18 consecutive batters. And the offense woke up too, with four runs in the
SF News Day Around the Bay Word on the tweets says the next BART protest will take place on Monday, August 22nd at 5pm in Civic Center Station. [@OpBart] After ordering the cellphone cutoff, BART Spokesman Linton Johnson took
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SFist Guide to Saturday's SF Street Food Festival Restaurant incubator La Cocina brings their 3rd annual San Francisco Street Food Festival back to the Mission this Saturday and with over 75 vendors in attendance, ranging from bacon-wrapped hotdog slingers to James
Arts & Entertainment The Red Vic Selling Off Vintage Movie Posters to Pay the Bills Although you may never again cozy up in one of the Red Vic's couches to see a movie, you can at least make your own barren, undecorated apartment that much more Red Vic-like
SF News Deplorable Teens Attempt to Steal Computers All Over SoMa Kids these days! Who even knows what they're in to anymore? Lackluster attempts at stealing computers, apparently. Two separate incidents were reported today in which grabby teenagers with little to no respect for
SF News Anonymous Hacks BART PD Site, Releases Officers' Personal Information Anonymous, the hacker group that took credit for organizing Monday's BART protest and hacking in to MyBART.org over the weekend, has announced a second data breach via the OpBART twitter feed today.
SF News Copper Thieves Strike Again, Pilfer Piping from Inner Sunset School In the third such news story in the past two months, Bay Area copper thieves have struck again, this time ripping out copper pipes and rain gutters from construction sites at two Inner
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump The Giants' offense struggled to get going in Atlanta last night until Cody Ross homered in the 7th for a tying run that would eventually send the game in to extra innings. Martin
SF News Day Around the Bay Here's a video of John Avalos riding a bicycle with no hands. Just because! [FogCityJournal] The U.S. Attorney's office is now looking in to this whole "Run, Ed, Run" campaign. [Chron] Transit
SF News Mitchell Brothers Heir Gets 35 to Life for Murder, Blames Conviction on Porny Provenance James Mitchell, heir to the Mitchell Bros. empire of adult films and strip joints, was sentenced today to 35 years to life in prison for the 2009 murder of girlfriend Danielle Keller. Mitchell
SF News MS-13 Trial Heads to Jury Today After months of testimonies the decision to hand down life sentences for seven members of the Mission district branch of the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang goes before a federal court jury today. Fans
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 29: May the Franchise Be With You After the Giants drew that delightful connection between late summer baseball and the struggles of a small group of rebels fighting to defeat the evil, intergalactic empire, our friends at the Tenderloin Geographic
SF News Transgender Woman Settles DMV Harassment Suit Amber Yust, the 23-year-old Software Engineer who received a threatening letter from a DMV employee after recording her sex change with the government agency, will recieve a $55,000 settlement the Chronicle reports
SF News Photos from Monday's Anonymous BART Protest As you know, protesters associated with hacker group Anonymous led a demonstration that shut down the Civic Center BART station during the evening commute yesterday. The demonstration was, by most accounts, relatively peaceful.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup The Giants were down. Then the Giants were up. And just when you thought Brian Wilson was coming in to mop up the Braves, the closer blew it. (His words!) Frown. Jonathan Sanchez
SF News Day Around the Bay As of this writing, the Giants are down two runs to the NL-Wild Card leading Atlanta Braves heading in to the 3rd inning. [MLB.com] The latest developments before the possible Anonymous protest
SF News San Francisco Schoolchildren Head Back to School Today Today is the first day of school for students in the San Francisco Unified School District, so we expect all you responsible parents sent the little rugrats off to school properly with sharp
Arts & Entertainment On the Calendar: LowSF's Bay Area Derby Girl Benefit As you know, several volunteers from the Bay Area Derby Girls were robbed at gunpoint last month, and lost a large chunk of change that would have otherwise gone towards organizing future bouts
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2011: Sunday Impressions Sunday's agreeable weather brought out the masses for the final day of this year's Outside Lands Festival. Like Saturday's festivities, the sun was hot, the was music loud and the crowds went deep
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2011: Saturday Impressions The weather was with us Saturday, heading out to the avenues for day two of Outside Lands. With the sun out and the temperatures up, the crowd adjusted their layers to a modest
