SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump The Giants bounced back from Monday's embarrassing loss to the Pirates by trouncing Pittsburgh 6-0 last night. Aubrey Huff had an RBI double and a solo homer, Chris Stewart had his first home
SF News The Power's Out in the Lower Haight [Updated] Heads up homeward commuters: some of you headed to the Lower Haight might not have power when you get home. According to sources at BCN and the Examiner, the power went out to
SF News Day Around the Bay Two men are suing California's Great America amusement park after employees scribbled a homophobic slur on their rollercoaster photo and put it on display. [KTVU] Do you have a mustache? Do you enjoy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Raw/Vegan Chain Accused of Socialist Tip-Pooling Scheme Cafe Gratitude, the popular local chain of raw/vegan restaurants with locations around the Bay Area and as far south as LA, has been slapped with a lawsuit from a former employer who
SF News Cops Seek Deplorable Teens Who Ransacked Ingleside Heights Home Yesterday, a 15-year-old victim was startled awake during an afternoon nap when two suspects broke in to his home around 12:40 p.m. The suspects, described as "men in their late teens
SF News SFist Attends: Last Night's Mayoral Debate at the Castro Theatre Not sure if you heard about it, but there was a big Mayoral Debate last night. Technically put on by the Castro/Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association and the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association, the
SF News Behold: We Have Seen BART Trains of the Future and they Feature 'Wipeable' Seats The next phase of BART's Fleet of the Future has arrived and designers from BMW Group Designworks USA unveiled yesterday their concepts for potential replacements to the barfy, 40-year-old fleet. After the transit
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 28: 'The Most Expensive Piece of Concrete in All the World' By The Tenderloin Geographic Society: For those of you who suffer from Gephyrophobia--fear of crossing bridges--the Reber Plan would have ameliorated your condition. If the name Reber doesn’t sound familiar, may we
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup "Giants Lose to Pirates in Battle of Slumping Teams" is just about the most depressing headline you'll read this morning. Pittsburgh swooped out of a 10-game losing streak to squelch the rally we
SF News Cops Seeking Teen Gang That Committed Duboce Triangle Hate Crime Attack On Saturday night, three white males described as being in their "mid-teens" attacked a 52-year-old Santa Barbara man with a baseball bat near Market and Sanchez in Duboce Triangle. The teens, who yelled
SF News Day Around the Bay Right on cue: Mayor Ed Lee's campaign website went live. It currently doesn't do anything other than take your money. [MayorEdLee.com] A fire hydrant showers El Faro, a tree falls on Valencia:
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars Day at AT&T Park Will Freeze Brian Wilson in Carbonite Look, nerds! The Giants have pulled off what could be one of the greatest promotional tie-ins in baseball history: a limited edition Brian Wilson-frozen-in-carbonite statue. The tchotchke (which features Han Solo on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Boulange to Crown a New Location Under the Dome at the Westfield Center [Chain Watching] Seemingly well-loved Bay Area French coffee-and-pastry chain La Boulange is getting another outpost downtown in the near future. As Inside Scoop reports, the new spot will be a mere two blocks down the
Arts & Entertainment Tim Lincecum's Soul Patch: Discuss A tuft of hair appeared just below Tim Lincecum's lower lip over the weekend. It didn't seem to hamper the young pitcher's throwing arm as he held the Phillies to one run yesterday,
SF News Department of Homeland Security Bringing High Tech Surveillance to Muni Buses We know Muni's in-vehicle cameras work, we've enjoyed/gasped at footage of at least one accident in the past year, but the Municipal Railway's aging fuzzycams aren't sophisticated enough for the surveillance geeks
SF News Monday Morning Roundup Your Weekend Giants scores in brief: We already saw the Giants clear the bench on Friday night, after which they still lost 9-2 to the Phillies. Saturday's game was a little more balanced
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Announcing His Full-Term Run at 9 a.m. Today In case you missed the four articles about it in Sunday's Chronicle, Temporary Mayor Ed Lee is set to make an unspecified announcement at 9 a.m. this morning from the Department of
Arts & Entertainment Watch the Giants Clear the Bench for a Brawl With the Phillies In case you missed it: In last night's game against the Phillies, Giants Pitcher Ramon Ramirez sent a fastball high and inside where it landed squarely in the back of Philadelphia's Shane Victorino.
SF News Day Around the Bay The SFWeekly Web Awards nominations are now open. We're not saying you should nominate a certain local writer as Best Political Blogger, but we're also not saying you shouldn't nominate him for Best
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Willie Brown Willie's most important date this week was his date with the president. The president and all of the San Francisco Giants. In his recap of the Giants visit to the White House, Willie
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton to Close The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton announced they'll be closing the doors on the hotel restaurant's 20-year run next month. On September 15th, Chef Ron Siegel will say goodbye to the current incarnation
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend: Two Blog-Sponsored Local Music Events Vie for Your Attention Music Fans: you have an embarrassment of riches in the local music department this weekend as not one, but two reasonably well-known local music blogs hosting their annual music events on Saturday night.
SF News 49ers Pick Up Wide Receiver Braylon Edwards Down in Santa Clara for training camp, the 49ers announced yesterday that the team has signed former New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards to a 1-year contract. Edwards, who has has 326
SF News AirBnB Ransacking Victim Has a Character Witness More brief updates today in the ongoing story of EJ, the woman with the harrowing AirBnB hosting experience. In only her second blog post since she originally detailed the incident at the end
SF News Google Engineer Worse Driver Than Google's Robot Car, Apparently Today in things that Google computers are better at than you, simple human: Driving. An incident involving a Google driverless Prius was originally reported by Jalopnik this morning as the first traffic accident
