Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On Dolores: Insane New Home Redefines 'Median Rent' In Noe Valley, where home prices are soaring, some merry pranksters are taking the term "Median Rent" literally with this cozy-looking statement that popped up in the middle of Dolores Street. Frankly, we're
SF News Mysterious Google Barge Is Officially A Floating Retail Store About a month after news broke that Google's mystery barge in the San Francisco Bay was more like a fancy Google sailboat, a few more details have emerged about the floating heap loaded
Arts & Entertainment Video: Shot-For-Shot 'Bullitt' Remake Makes Us Feel Like Steve McQueen If you've ever felt the urge to re-live the groundbreaking car chase from Bullitt in contemporary San Francisco, but couldn't be bothered with finding a Mustang and participating in some moving vehicle violations,
SF News Weather Forecast: Frigid, Like The Rest Of America After a glorious Thanksgiving weekend of unseasonably warm days in the 60s and 70s, temperatures in the Bay Area are expected to come crashing back down to the point where you can no
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Jet Set Mayor They say it every year, but online holiday sales are up this year because no one wants to leave their house to shop anymore. [SFBiz] Our jet-setting mayor is fresh off a trip
SF News Suspect Shot And Killed After Thanksgiving Triple-Stabbing In San Jose On Thursday morning, a man was shot and killed behind the wheel of a stolen minivan after allegedly entering a home in San Jose and stabbing three residents. The suspect led police on
SF News Woman Struck By Garbage Truck On Interstate 80 In San Francisco Around 6 a.m. Friday morning a Recology garbage truck struck a woman walking on the eastbound section of Interstate 80 near Seventh Street in SoMa. She was taken to San Francisco General
SF News San Jose State University Has A Diversity Problem Just a week after four white San Jose State University Students were accused of hate crimes for tormenting their black roommate, a two-year-old study has surfaced indicating African-American students have faced similar racist
Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This Tonight: BFF.fm Launch Party At Bottom Of The Hill Terrestrial radio is dead, but streaming stuff over the Internet is doing just great. Case in point: locally sourced underground radio station BFF.fm is officially hitting the WiFi-enabled airwaves and data plans
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Bread Rising There Will Be Bread: the newest development in foodie culture is also its oldest. [SFWeekly] A Sonoma County high school principal was fired for posing as a Navy SEAL. [ABC7] The first college
SF News BART Experiencing Delays Due To Loose Sheet Metal In Transbay Tube #BART SF Embarcadero station packed. EB trains being turned around due to debris on tracks. pic.twitter.com/qdAqLM7vTl— John Alston (@JohnAlstonABC7) November 27, 2013 If you're wondering what's holding up your BART
SF News Authorities Seeking Horrible Human Who Drowned Two Cats In The Bay Monday afternoon, a woman walking along the Embarcadero with her two cats in a pet carrier saw her feline friends ripped from her and thrown into the San Francisco Bay. Although fire crews
Arts & Entertainment Test Your S.F. Neighborhood Knowledge With This Distracting Website Sure, making up neighborhood names is great. (Especially if you're a realtor.) But can you correctly identify 37 different, commonly accepted neighborhood locations on a map while a ticking stopwatch taunts you from
SF News Sacramento Judge Puts High-Speed Rail On The Slow Track Yesterday in California's flood-prone capital city, a superior court judge twice slammed the brakes on plans for the state's high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles. While the two rulings handed down
SF News Man Assaulted For Peeing On Carpet A 20-year-old man ended up in the hospital Saturday afternoon after using another man's carpet in lieu of the bathroom. The Lebowskian crime scene occurred on Matthew Court in the Bayview, where the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Transcontinental Tacos Woman arrested for assaulting Tenderloin bartender. [SFEx] After a little more than two years in their iconic North Beach location, the Bottle Cap is moving out. To be replaced by something from the
Arts & Entertainment Here's Your Holiday Season Kitten & Puppy Cam From The SPCA It's the Monday before Thanksgiving and all through the Macy's Holiday window display some creatures were stirring and they were all adoptable from the San Francisco SPCA*. Also, you can watch them tumble,
SF News Batkid: President Obama Denied Audience With Nation's Most Popular 5-Year-Old As Batkid's heroic rescue of our nation's cold hearts continues from the streets of San Francisco to the morning talk show circuit, our tiny national hero has suddenly found himself too busy to
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Art Is Awash Sand Art comes and goes. [Chron] The Academy of Sciences is getting a new glass-and-steel outdoor pavilion. [SFEx] American Cyclery at Stanyan and Frederick Streets is getting a sweeping new parklet. [CurbedSF] Seasonal
Arts & Entertainment Your Dog Definitely Needs This Earthquake Preparedness Suit After every tiny temblor and Loma Prieta anniversary, San Franciscans (and their mothers on more stable ground) like to take a moment to double-check the batteries and space blankets in their earthquake kits.
SF News Luxury Mid-Market Building Open House Featured Pool Mermaids, Dancing Monkeys, Plant People NEMA, mid-Market's most unabashedly homogenous new apartment building held an open house Thursday night for future residents, potential lessees, and local gentrification watchblogs in search of Instagram fodder. While the idea of a
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Black Friday Preparations Why San Francisco needs a bar like Emperor Norton's Boozeland. [7x7] An automated emergency alert system at SFO failed moments after the Asiana crash. [Chron] It's San Francisco's first Thanksgiving with a Target
SF News SFPD To Get Officer-Mounted Video Cameras Starting in December, around 50 SFPD officers will strap small, wearable video cameras to themselves. It's all part of a pilot program funded by quarter-million dollar federal grant. According to Chief Greg Suhr,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bejeweled Toilets Appear On Market Street Today, as part of a belated World Toilet Day stunt, enterprising local startup Lava Mae invited Market Street passersby to "C'mon, give a shit" with a series of colorfully decorated toilets that popped
SF News San Jose State University Students Accused Of Hate Crimes, Tormenting Black Roommate Three students at San Jose State University face up to a year each of jail time for alleged hate crimes including shackling their African-American roommate with a bicycle U-Lock and nicknaming him "three-fifths.