SF News Photo: The California Rim Fire, Seen From Space Monday afternoon, the orbit of the International Space Station crossed directly over the 150,000-acre wildfire burning near Yosemite National Park. NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg snapped this photo from over 200 miles above
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Yacht Rock-Inspired Cocktails From CUESA's Summer Cocktail Event This Wednesday, August 28th at the Ferry Building, the folks from CUESA are hosting their latest seasonal drinking event. For the August edition, the folks who put on your friendly neighborhood farmers markets
SF News Muni Bus And Tour Bus Collide In The Financial District Around 9:30 a.m. this morning, an articulated Muni bus crashed into the side of a double decker, open top tour bus in front of 101 California Street in the Financial District.
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: No Pressure, Kaepernick Chronicle columnist/local treasure Leah Garchik goes sailing. [Garchik] Is Colin Kaepernick the best quarterback ever? How ESPN manufactured a bullshit Colin Kaepernick story. [Deadspin] There's plenty of office space in San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Topless Day Was A Flop In San Francisco [NSFW] On Sunday, August 25th, San Francisco's edition of National Go Topless Day arrived on a sunny and humid day in Dolores Park. The event was billed as an opportunity for men to cover
Arts & Entertainment Sunday: Indie Mart Returns To Thee Parkside This Sunday Indie Mart marks its seventh year of crafty people, cheap beer, and rock n' roll with an all-afternoon street fair on Wisconsin Street in Potrero Hill. This year the celebration includes
SF News SFPD Officer Accused Of Molesting Teen Boy An officer with the San Francisco Police Department has been arrested in Concord for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old boy. According to SFPD spokesman Albie Esparza, the officer has been accused of criminal conduct,
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Breaking Up With Oakland After a year and a half of bargaining, a bunch of Chronicle employees finally got a raise yesterday. [Media Guild] You might think real estate prices have gotten a little out of hand
Arts & Entertainment Computer Simulation Lets You Live Your New Bay Bridge Commute Right Now For anyone who just can't wait until September to drive over the World's Largest Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge, this computer simulation released by CalTrans is basically the exact same thing as driving from virtual
SF News Jack Spade Cleared For 16th Street (For Now) Wednesday evening, the Board of Appeals voted 3-2 to allow a Jack Spade store to continue building out their controversial new store on 16th Street in the Mission. Despite an aggressive campaign from
SF News Teen Baseball Fan Also Assaulted During Brutal Giants Beating A 16-year-old baseball fan was assaulted in the stands Wednesday afternoon at AT&T Park. The boy caught a home run ball hit by Boston's Stephen Drew when a man tackled the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: 20th Street Block Party This Saturday, August 24th the recently hip corner of the Mission and Potrero Hill will celebrate itself with a block party thrown by neighborhood notables: Noise Pop, the Bon Vivants, and Flour + Water.
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Local Sourdough Ranked UC Berkeley students are helping to change how universities deal with sexual assault cases. [Chron] Is Tartine's sourdough the best sourdough? Sure, why not. Josey Baker's bread from The Mill named a close
SF News SOMA Cyclist Death Leads To Safety Rally And 'People Behaving Badly' Segment A week after 24-year-old cyclist Amelie Le Moullac was struck and killed by a semi truck near Sixth and Folsom Streets, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition held a rally this morning to call
Arts & Entertainment National Go Topless Day Disrobes This Sunday In Dolores Park This Sunday, August 25th local breasts will break free of their lacy shackles and fight back against an unjust patriarchy that denies everyone an equal right to public nipple exposure. It is National
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Spray-On Caffeine Driver who was caught drunk behind the wheel of a Hop On-Hop Off Tour Bus gets probation. [BCN/Appeal] Local rocker Ty Segall loves veggie tacos. [A.V. Club] Meet Beaux, the Castro's
SF News Oakland Man Claims City Workers Assaulted Him Over Discarded Gum 36-year-old Oakland resident Joshua Daniels claims he was assaulted by city workers at Frank Ogawa Plaza right outside of Oakland City Hall after he tossed his used chewing gum into a trash bin.
SF News The Lusty Lady To Close In Two Weeks San Francisco's celebrated, unionized and worker-owned peep show the Lusty Lady will close its doors in just two weeks on September 2nd. According to the co-op, which broke the news on Facebook and
SF News Stinson Beach Is Currently A Seaside Nightmare Are you afraid of the ocean? You should be. There are some terrifying things out there. Case in point: just hours after a 42-foot fin whale died on Stinson Beach, a 10-15 foot
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: A Heart-Stopping Outside Lands Performance Silicon Folly: one man's dream to turn the America's Cup into a war of giant, amphibious robots. [Gawker] Behold: Marissa Mayer's Vogue profile. [Vogue] This 52-year-old music fan suffered a heart attack during
SF News Deadly Limo Fire That Killed Five Ruled An Accident During a press conference Monday afternoon, California Highway Patrol announced the findings of their investigation into a deadly limo fire that killed five women on their way to celebrate one victim's wedding engagement.
SF News Hacker Updates Zuckerberg's Facebook Wall With Extremely Nerdy Status Last week, Palestinian security expert Khalil Shreateh tried to alert Facebook's security team to a hole in the social network's privacy settings, only to be met with tech support crickets. So Shreateh decided
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Nombe's Underwhelming Ramen Burger Saturday's San Francisco Street Food Festival was a much bigger and better organized event than previous years. With vendors that ranged from street tacos to vegan donut burgers to $8 garlic bread from
SF News Weekend Violence Leaves Three Dead, Nine Others Shot In Oakland Over the weekend, 12 people were shot in Oakland in three separate incidents during the 24-hour period between Friday evening and Saturday night. Three of the victims died. The first shooting happened around
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Silicon Valley's Age Problem Silicon Valley appears to have an age discrimination problem. In the words of Zuckerberg: "Young people are just smarter." [Chron] Those two recent bus fires on the 38-Geary weren't related, cost about $500,
