Arts & Entertainment Local Tiger Cub Easily Entertained It's been a couple month since we last checked in with Jillian, the San Francisco Zoo's tiger cub. Without further ado, here's video of Jillian being entertained by a simple pile of hay.
SF News Silk Road Trial Will Move To New York Ross Ulbricht will be heading to New York to face charges connected to the massive online drug marketplace Silk Road, which he allegedly ran from his laptop in a variety of San Francisco
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan: 'We're A Little Bit Like Brooklyn' In an interview with the National Journal published this week, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan discussed her beleaguered city's biggest challenge for the future. Which, surprise, is not "ensuring public safety," but rather the
SF News AC Transit Rider Shoots Himself In The Leg, Gets Transfer To Hospital Tuesday afternoon a male victim apparently shot himself in the leg while riding an AC Transit bus through the Oakland Hills. The bus was not injured in the shooting. The gun went off
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: A Blessed Bernal Bar Are you ready for a (very) long read about the history of Twitter? Good, because here's an excerpt from Hatching Twitter by New York Times technology columnist Nick Bilton. [NYT] New Bernal Heights
SF News Woman's Body Found Outside S.F. General Hospital, Believed To Be Missing Patient This morning at San Francisco General Hospital, a hospital employee discovered a woman's body inside a "rarely used" exterior stairwell. Although authorities have yet to confirm the woman's identity, sources say the body
SF News Rat King Lays Claim To San Jose State University On the campus of San Jose State, an embarrassing rat problem suddenly reared its ugly head yesterday when the rodent army's apparent leader interrupted a speech by retired federal judge and Prop 8-slayer
SF News BMW Crashes Off Twin Peaks, Occupants Mysteriously Disappear [Updated] Around 4 a.m. Tuesday, a BMW sedan coupe somehow drove over an embankment near the Twin Peaks vista point and apparently tumbled down the hill towards the Twin Peaks reservoir where it
SF News There Won't Be Another BART Strike This Week (Unless There Is) Although both sides have yet to agree on a new contract, the unions have decided not to issue a 72-hour strike notice for Friday. It's a good sign that there will not be
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Drone Flight Taking a close look at Facebook's company town. [Valleywag] Here's a good, balanced longread on how San Francisco's entrepreneurial culture is changing the country. [New Yorker] Shooting heroin. [Bold Italic] Dodgers, 2010 Giants
SF News Loaded Tech Guy Does Nice Thing For S.F. Schools Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff announced today that his company will donate $2.7 million to "the most important resource in San Francisco" — middle school kids. The donation will help bring the math
SF News Fireworks Blamed For Lighting Up Yerba Buena Island Fire Niners and bluegrass fans heading out of the city Sunday evening were met with a slow-moving traffic jam on the Bay Bridge thanks to a vegetation fire, possibly sparked by fireworks and dry
SF News Day Around The Bay: That Santa Cruz State Of Mind Behind the scenes of the original iPhone launch. [NYT] Losing the Lusty [Rumpus] Oakland residents are crowdfunding police. [Valleywag] Is Oakland destined to lose its sports teams? [Grantland] Man rents out San Francisco
SF News Alleged Silk Road Proprietor Denies Involvement In Online Drug Ring 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts, the man arrested on suspicion of running an online drug ring known as Silk Road denies any involvement in the operation. As Ulbricht's appointed
SF News Inconsiderate Napa County Fire Blows Smoke In San Francisco's Face #BREAKING: #PutahFire north wind is bringing smoke in from fire burning near Lake Berryessa. You smelling it? pic.twitter.com/cheXdKQzRR— Sandhya Patel (@SandhyaABC7) October 4, 2013 Were you one of those people
Arts & Entertainment This Is What HBO's 'Looking' Looks Like When last we checked in with "Looking," HBO's forthcoming non-dramedy original series about gay video game designers, the crew was looking for a few gay, hipster and gay-hipster extras to dress up their
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Chinatown, Great Behind the scenes at the groundbreaking of A.C.T.'s renovated Strand Theater. [CurbedSF] Chinatown is a "great" neighborhood, say people who know about these sorts of things. [Chron] Welcome to the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Limo Shooting Public library bathroom still smelly. [Chron] Folsom Street Fair NSFW Fashion Shoot. [TheBoldItalic] Who is getting rich from Twitter? [NYMag] Limo driver injured during a shooting in the Mission. [KTVU] Acquerello calls out
Arts & Entertainment Pointed Interests: Lesser-Known Attractions Of The Bay From time to time, SFist's erstwhile historical and geographic correspondent returns to these pages to bring us a lesson in the hidden corners of the city and the bay. Here now, a look
SF News No Charges Filed In Holly Park Hit-And-Run Death A month after 35-year-old Christine Svanemyr was struck and killed by a Rec and Parks Department truck as she lay on the grass in Holly Park with her infant daughter and family dog,
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Taco Abominations Jerry Brown's 90s-era 1-800 hotline still works. (Bonus: Willie Brown shortsightedness) [Hartlaub/Chron] Niners safety Donte Whitner just changed his name to "Donte Hitner." It's a football pun, you see. [SFEx] New York
SF News Day Around The Bay: Social Media, According To Dave Eggers Circle Jerks: Why Do Editors Love Dave Eggers? [Gawker] 23andMe receives patent to create designer babies. [TheVerge] Oakland Habitat for Humanity crew robbed at gunpoint. [CBS5] Deadly Folsom Street will soon get a
SF News Twitter In Talks For Second Mid-Market Office Ahead of their highly anticipated and high-profile IPO, Twitter is reportedly looking to more than double their square footage in mid-Market with a second office right around the corner from their current digs
SF News Alleged Muni Shooter Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Of S.F. State Student 30-Year-old Nikhom Thephakaysone, the man accused of shooting 20-year-old S.F. State Student Justin Valdez in the head as he stepped off a Muni Metro train late last month has pled not guilty
SF News Massive Online Black Market Silk Road Raided By FBI, Proprietor Arrested In San Francisco Silk Road, a popular online black market for buying drugs and other illicit services, has been shut down by the FBI. The site's proprietor Ross Ulbricht, whose identity remained a mystery until today,
