Arts & Entertainment Watch Stanley Roberts Get Yelled At, For Once We make no attempt to hide our unabashed fanboyism for local newsman Stanley Roberts and the fine work he does over at KRON4. But for every hilariously voiced People Behaving Badly segment, there
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Woody Bar To Call Their Own An official has blamed slow Bay Bridge commutes on all the gawkers who just haven't gotten used to the new sights yet. [BCN/Appeal] The woodworking handymen responsible for the carpentry at Hog
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Tamale Lady, Now Brought To You By Uber Enterprising businesswoman Virginia Ramos, better known as the Tamale Lady, will be giving away 100% of her tamales for free this Friday in order to raise money for her brick and mortar shop.
SF News Sacramento's Collective Indifference Just Renamed A Landmark This morning in Sacramento, the herd of water buffalo we refer to as the "State Senate" collectively decided that the west, city-facing span of San Francisco Bay Bridge shall henceforth be known as
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Spoiled Dogs Some local dog owners really pamper their pooches, a new C.W. Nevius report finds. [Chron] Police track an alleged iPhone thief, discover him wearing victim's clothes. [BCN/Appeal] California is very promiscuous,
SF News The Willie Brown Bridge Is Moving Forward Despite Growing Opposition, Common Sense Update: Sacramento's collective indifference has chosen to rename the bridge. On Monday, the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee voted 8-1 to move forward with a proposition to rename the western span of the
SF News Richmond, California Just Gave Wall Street A Big Middle Finger This morning in Richmond, California the city council of the small Bay Area city voted 4-3 to follow through with an unprecedented plan that will rescue local homeowners from a plague of underwater
SF News Van Ness To Get Speedy New Bus Line (Eventually) After what seems like years of talking and even more spent waiting for the 47-Van Ness, the San Francisco County Transit Authority and the Board of Supervisors finally cleared the way for Bus
SF News Bakersfield Mom Discovers Daughter Twerking, Enforces Extremely Embarrassing Punishment After learning her 11-year-old daughter was twerking at a middle school dance, Frances Hena of lovely Bakersfield, California did what any mother would do: made her kid stand at a busy intersection with
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Beach Cruiser Bruiser Nob Hill is no longer San Francisco's power center. It's just a park with a high altitude bar at this point. [Chron] A close look at the cocktails at Ziryab on Divisadero. [Alcademics]
SF News San Francisco Sues Nevada For Being A Horrible Neighbor After news broke earlier this year that a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas was loading mental patients on Greyhound buses and shipping them out of the state to San Francisco and L.A.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Today's Tech Bro Nightmare An initiative to name Fruitvale Station after Oscar Grant is gaining steam in the East Bay. [EBX] Monday afternoon, Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson became the new tech bro nightmare when everyone suddenly
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Drone's Eye View Of Burning Man Just over a week since the titular man burned and the drone footage that caused a mild hubbub is starting to hit the Internet. While this isn't the first time we've seen airborne
SF News Viracocha Named Finalist For America's Best Restroom In the annual contest thrown by the bathroom aficionados at Cintas, the facilities at Valencia Street's own noted typewriter repair shop/vintage home decor emporium/basement poetry slam space Viracocha have been nominated
SF News TechCrunch Conference Disrupted By Boob Gazing, Lame Dick Jokes Noted Silicon Valley tech blog and press release machine TechCrunch launched their annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco over the weekend with an "incredibly popular" Hackathon session during which hopeful entrepreneurs present new
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: America's Cup Rewind Mee San Francisco's fashion ambassadors. [7x7] Mayor Lee is finally asking the tech sector to pitch in on some civic projects. Also: a new "entrepreneurship-in-residence" program at city hall. [SFEx] Local luminary Burrito
SF News Weekend Weather Report: The Sky Might Try To Choke You To Death In case you are somehow oblivious to air temperature: it's hot today. Like sweaty keyboard hot. And while there's a gentle breeze keeping things from becoming simply unbearable (read: 83 degrees), that breeze
SF News Uber Will Give You A Free Ride In A DeLorean This Weekend Ridesharing service — scratch that — Transportation Network Company Uber will roll out their latest publicity stunt this weekend: As nostalgic former inhabitants of the 1980s, we are obligated to tell you this publicity stunt
SF News Woman Killed By City Truck Identified As 35-Year-Old Daly City Mom The woman killed by a Rec and Parks truck Thursday afternoon in Holly Park has been identified as 35-year-old Daly City mother Christine Svanemyr. She had been lying in the grass on the
SF News It Finally Happened: Private Shuttle Bus And Historic Muni Car Collide Google buses (et al.) are everywhere. Muni street cars are prone to accidents. Both of these things are common knowledge at this point. So we suppose this was inevitable, really: a private shuttle
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nancy Pelosi Goes Underground There's not much else to say about this headline: "Pelosi visits big hole in the ground" [Chron] The bikes of Burning Man. [Dodge and Burn] Mikkeller Bar, that new beer spot in the
SF News The Willie Brown Bridge Must Be Stopped Since we first mentioned it last month the petition to rename the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after Emperor Norton I has accumulated roughly 2,800 signatures in support of the effort. The Sacramento-based
SF News Meanwhile, On The Bay Bridge: Cyclist Takes The Wrong Bike Lane Earlier this week a brand new bike lane opened alongside the East Span of the Bay Bridge. It was definitely a win for the bike contingent, in the sense that it was 100%
SF News SFPD Recovers First Stolen Bike Share, Shames Thieves Appropriately Wednesday afternoon, barely a week after Bay Area Bike Share went live in San Francisco and the Peninsula, SFPD's anti-bike theft squad recovered their first stolen bike share bike. Naturally, the boys in
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Babies On Twitter These babies have way more Twitter followers than you. [NYMag] Knife crime: Fisherman's Wharf argument ends in stabbing. [BCN/Appeal] A sad reminder that even the most celebrated startups often go nowhere. [Valleywag]
