SF News Gavin Newsom To Fire Up New Weed Legalization Team Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will be the new point man on the ACLU's marijuana legalization task force, the civil rights group announced yesterday. Newsom, who reminds everyone he is not a smoker himself,
Arts & Entertainment 5 Easy Dos And Don'ts For An Enjoyable Treasure Island Music Festival San Francisco's Indian Summer/Music Festival season looks like it could peak this weekend during the annual Treasure Island Music Festival. (Likewise for the fans in the audience sometime around sunset Saturday evening.
SF News New San Francisco Residents Love This Town Where People Steal Cars And Children Just a day after an unidentified woman stole their car with two kids in the backseat, a new San Francisco couple is truly ecstatic about their decision to move here. McKay and Stephanie
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Dysfunction Fetish Government shutdown reveals Silicon Valley's dysfunction fetish. [New Yorker] Why Oakland coffee matters. [Sprudge] The story of Sam's in North Beach. [SFoodie] Hi Lo BBQ: now with a bar. [InsideScoop] Intensely dire litter
Arts & Entertainment HBO's 'Looking' Gets A Premiere Date, Cast Members Ride Muni HBO's new comedic drama about the "real life" of 20- and 30-something gay men in San Francisco got a release date today. On January 19th at 10:30 p.m., those of you
SF News Tell Bay Area Bike Share Where You Need More Bikes Bay Area Bike Share launched back in August and although it has generally been considered a success, our biggest gripe with it were the large swaths of San Francisco left without bikes and
SF News Twin Peaks Neighbors Hate Hiking Trails, Love Byzantine Bureaucracy On Twin Peaks a new Rec and Parks trail to the summit has provoked an outcry from the neighbors just down the hill who say the department forgot to properly notify them about
Arts & Entertainment Stanley Roberts Discovers There Are No Rules In Dolores Park "Behaving Badly" is sort of relative, when we're talking about the atmosphere at Dolores Park, but it is still baffling that newsman-about-town Stanley Roberts hasn't already found more people skirting the law in
SF News Cookie Monster Sets Fire to $1,400 Worth Of Baked Goods A 29-year-old woman became some kind of monster earlier this week when she walked into a Walgreens store at Market and Third Streets, sprayed lighter fluid all over an aisle full of cookies
SF News Valencia Street Condo Building Breaking Sales Records, Attracting Oldsters Units at a condo development in the (ahem) heart of the Mission at 19th and Valencia are flying off the market before the real estate company can even post them to the listing
SF News Palo Alto Fire Chief Uses Emergency Alert System To Notify Everyone About Pancake Breakfast Charity pancake breakfasts are a time-honored tradition at fire departments nationwide. And for good reason: who doesn't love charity and pancakes? Emergency alerts that go straight to your cellphone, on the other hand,
SF News Arrest Made In Early Monday Mission Homicide San Francisco Police announced Tuesday that they have made an arrest related to the fatal shooting that occurred around 4:30 a.m. Monday morning near 21st and Bartlett Streets in the Mission.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: The Car Contradiction Take a look around Square's new block-long office on Market Street and be jealous of their cereal selection. [Chron] San Francisco's car contradiction: fewer people are driving, but more cars are being registered.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Large Gourds Polk Street: now with BBQ. [EaterSF] Whats up with growlers of beer? The Chronicle investigates. [Chron] Wouldn't it be embarrassing someone went back and found all your old emo blog posts? The deleted
SF News Two Women Reportedly Roofied In Dolores Park [Update] Folks out enjoying the anything-goes and often hazy vibe at Dolores Park should be extra vigilant about the various vendors, sales people and fellow park users. A recent report claims two women tested
SF News Delivery Truck Driver Crushed To Death At 49ers Stadium Site This morning at the Levi's Stadium construction site in Santa Clara a delivery truck driver was crushed when a bundle of metal rebar that he was unloading fell on him. He died at
SF News Alleged Silk Road Kingpin Grants First Interview, Wears Socks With Flip Flops Two weeks after his arrest on federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges related to the online drug marketplace Silk Road, alleged proprietor Ross William Ulbricht has gone ahead and granted his first
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Patio Pains Raised crosswalks and traffic circles: an enlightened streetscape could be coming to the Wiggle. [Haighteration] The San Francisco Exodus: how S.F. became the least affordable city in America. [Atlantic Cities] S.F.
SF News Facebook Quietly Ditches Privacy Setting Because You Probably Didn't Know How To Use It Anyway Speaking of Facebook Privacy, the ubiquitous social network is quietly killing off a privacy setting that allowed users to set who could search for their profile and Timeline by name. According to Facebook,
SF News BART Station Agent Busted For eBay Ticket Racket While most BART employees are asking for a raise, one station agent came up with an enterprising side hustle in order to make a few extra bucks. Over the past three years, 40-year-old
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Buys Neighboring Houses So He Can Set His Own Privacy Settings Silicon Valley boy king Mark Zuckerberg dropped $30 million total over the past nine months to buy up four houses surrounding his five-bedroom home in Palo Alto. Zuckerberg reportedly snatched up the homes
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Bear Walks Into A Dispensary Even the upper middle class can't afford to live in San Francisco anymore, says real estate figures. [Atlantic Cities] Muni riders are loving the new 3-car shuttle service. [SFEx] Two more restaurants possibly
SF News BART Strike Averted, At Least Until Monday Although BART and the two transit unions still couldn't arrive at a deal before last night's midnight deadline, both sides agreed to a three day contract extension to keep the trains running over
Arts & Entertainment Bonus Outdoor Movie Night Added In Mission Creek Park If you were despondent when Film Night in the Park's 2013 season ended last month with Skyfall in Dolores Park, then here's your good news, outdoor movie fan: movie nights just went into
SF News Man Shot And Killed On Mission Street In Excelsior Yesterday afternoon around 4 p.m., police responding to a call in the area of Mission Street and Brazil Avenue a few blocks from the Balboa Park BART arrived on the scene to
