SF News Golden Gate Bridge Considers Bicycle Speed Limit Not the actual Bridge itself, mind you, but the GGB Highway and Transportation District will be considering a 10 mph speed limit for cyclists this coming Thursday. According to Bay City News, if
SF News Fatal Escalator Incident Closes Entrance to Powell Street BART Tuesday Yesterday afternoon, a 50-year-old man who witnesses say was attempting to run up the down escalator towards Hallidie Plaza at the Powell Street BART Station suffered an unknown medical condition that caused him
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump With all the other "World Class" things San Francisco has to offer, we often forget about Golden Gate Park's status as a destination for internationally renowned fly fisherman. [SFRec&Park] If our
SF News Potential NIMBY Fight: Neighbors Not Keen On Lower Haight SRO Conversion Just off of the main drag in the Lower Haight, property owner David Nale's attempts to convert 15 rooms in three Fillmore street addresses he owns to an official Single Room Occupancy hotel
SF News Obama's Health Care Reform Won't Kill HealthySF, Just Slim It Down When President Obama's federal health care reforms finally kick in starting in 2014, it won't totally eliminate the need for San Francisco's city-wide universal health care coverage program, the Examiner reports today. According
SF News Inner Sunset Now Riddled With Sexual Assault, Indecent Creeps Police from Park Station in the Inner Sunset are on the hunt for suspects in multiple groping and indecent exposure incidents that occurred over the weekend, reports the Examiner. One incident, which occurred
Arts & Entertainment Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society, Volume 15: The End is Nigh at the 8th Street Off Ramp By Tenderloin Geographic Society: This was to have been an expose on billboards in San Francisco, at once an invective against their placement in a picturesque landscape and the manner in which they
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup Rockies and Giants fans can't agree on anything. Except that Colorado's stupid purple dinosaur mascot shouldn't be dancing behind home plate like a jerk. [McCoveyChronicle] Asterisk Magazine's meaty map of San Francisco left
SF News Day Around the Bay A kidnapped 22-year-old woman fends off her would-be attackers [MissionLocal] San Francisco inches closer to letting us pay inflated parking meter prices on our smartphones. No one is pointing out that the pilot
Arts & Entertainment This Week(end) In Your San Francisco Giants By Erick Pressman This weekend found our local baseball heroes defending their world championship in Arizona and if the temperatures at Coachella were in the high 90s to lower 100s, one could only
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for April 19, 2011 This week's Board of Supervisors meeting agenda lacks the star power of an Ed Lee cameo, so those of us following along at home will probably be left with nothing to discuss other
SF News SFist Blotter: San Bruno Missing Person Found Dead, Bayview Dice Game Turns Sour, Cyclist Hit by Fellow Partygoer in San Jose Body Found/San Bruno: A missing "at risk" alert was put out for 20-year-old Leonie Scott after she was last seen leaving her house Saturday morning following a fight with her boyfriend. Scott's
SF News Another Teen Survives a Fall from Golden Gate Bridge Yesterday morning, a Coast Guard crew pulled a teenage girl from the chilly waters beneath the Golden Gate Bridge after she survived the 220-foot fall from the road deck. According to a Coast
SF News Monday Morning Links Your San Francisco Giants were on the road this weekend for a series against the Diamondbacks. The boys picked up two wins on Friday and Saturday, but couldn't pull off the sweep through
SF News This Week in Willie Brown In his Sunday column this week, Willie Brown called out the GOP for creating a lineup of potential presidential nominees that looked like "a cast party for 'Dancing with the Stars.'" Much
Arts & Entertainment Casual Friday! Five San Francisco Supervisors Sporting Casual Attire Because it's Friday, that's why.
SF News Selling Endangered Animal Taxidermy on Craigslist: Apparently Not Legal A man in Pacifica has admitted to selling a whole range of mounted and taxidermied wildlife on Craigslist. Apparently James Dickson, 57, thought himself to be some kind of old-timey trophy trader. According
Arts & Entertainment Girafa, AKA Steven Free, Pleads Guilty to $38,000 Worth of Street Art Prolific Bay Area tagger and muralist Girafa (née Steven Free) pled guilty to two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts of vandalism in a Santa Clara Superior Court earlier this week. The 32-year-old
SF News Transgender Youth Assaulted Near 16th and Mission, Rally Planned for Tonight [Update: Rally Moved to 16th and Mission] A 20-year-old transgendered woman who says she came to San Francisco hoping "there would be more safety than [she] found," fell victim to a publicly witnessed hate crime that occurred on a busy
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional BurritoJustice has the San Francisco Panorama photo to end all San Francisco Panorama photos. Shot from the Farallons, it's a side-scrolling 26,000 pixels wide. [BurritoJustice] Planning on trying out for Big Brother
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Prevents Supe-on-Supe Chafing With Slick Transportation Commission Appointment Awhile back, the Board agreed to break tradition and let junior supes serve on outside boards and committees - which is how Jane Kim got to be the chair of the Rules Committee.
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Reactions to Showtime's 'The Franchise: A Season With the San Francisco Giants' Last night, Showtime dropped a preview episode of their reality show about everyone's favorite World Champion baseball team. Attempts were made to liveblog this thing, but some DVR mishaps occurred and caused most
Arts & Entertainment Put a Pot Leaf On It: Oaksterdam University's New Oaklandish Mural Over at Oakland's groundbreaking weed university, Brooklyn based artists R.B. Morris III & Munir Munir have replaced the building's faux-collegiate logo with a (ahem) dope new 725-foot mural overlooking Broadway and 17th.
Arts & Entertainment Pet Peeves: Things That Are "Only in SF" San Francisco, as you know, is a unique and special flower. A city unlike any other where whimsical and unique things happen that would never occur anywhere else. Like Bay to Breakers. Or
SF News Former 49ers Color Commentator Gary Plummer Fired for Discussing Lady Parts, Sexy Business Gary Plummer, the former 49ers linebacker and KNBR color commentator for the past 13 seasons was recently let go from his radio station gig under some pretty vague circumstances. While the Niners' director
