SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Livermore Beer Country The New York Times discovers the Exploratorium [NYT] Livermore: apparently a good place to go for a beer. [Chron] San Francisco before rent control [Mission Local] SF's finest force two squad cars into
Arts & Entertainment Highlights From Saturday at Outside Lands The crowds returned to Golden Gate Park for day two of the Outside Lands Festival on Saturday and the presence of those 10,000 extra music fans was definitely noticeable. Fists pumped along
Arts & Entertainment Highlights From Friday Night At Outside Lands Friday evening's misty fog did nothing to dampen the mood of the thousands of music fans who streamed into the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park, where The National's set of somber rock
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Top 5 French Fries We're Eating At Outside Lands If there's one thing we love more than weekend-long music festivals in the fog, it's taking one delicious food item and putting it on top of another, preferably fried and starchy, food item.
SF News Obama: Russia Will Be 'Weaker' Without Gay Olympians President Obama spoke out against Russia's new strict anti-gay laws this week. The first gay President first went on The Tonight Show to voice his opinions on the matter that has already sparked
SF News Online Date To 'Roll Around In Cash' Turns Out To Be (Deplorable) Teens With A Gun In the most unfortunate catfish meetup ever, three male victims were robbed on separate occasions when they thought they were meeting a woman who wanted to fulfill her fantasy of rolling around in
SF News SFPD Now Shaming Bike Thieves On Twitter Well, this is just great news for anyone who's ever had a bike stolen in San Francisco (which is everyone with a bike in San Francisco, basically): The San Francisco Police Department has
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Facebook's Summer Fling That time Sean Penn fought a phantom epidemic. (AKA: The ultimate Sean Penn story.) [Gawker] Two local foodies are making high-end artisan cotton candy now. It's called Sugar & Spun. [Inside Scoop] What
SF News Market Street Safeway Evicts Recycling Center, Expands Starbucks The Safeway on Market Street straddling the Castro and Lower Haight neighborhoods issued an eviction notice to the recycling center that has operated on their property for almost 30 years. While the grocery
SF News Breaking: Muni Bus Catches Fire On Geary Boulevard ABC7 and KTVU are both reporting that a Muni coach has caught fire on Geary Boulevard at 28th Avenue out in the Richmond. Firefighters are on the scene hosing it down and all
Arts & Entertainment Can't Make It To Outside Lands? Watch And Listen With These Livestreams We hear you: Outside Lands is expensive/dusty/exhausting/crowded. Music festivals might not be your cup of tea and that's fine. Or maybe you just can't get to the festival and you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Newspaper Luminaries Unimpressed By Pastry Fad Perhaps you've heard of the Cronut. Or the local knock-off the Cronot. Or the other local knock-off from the Paris Baguette. Or our very own knock-off: the GrandNut. There are countless variations of
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: The Weather Liam Mayclem talks about his culinary tours (and that show with Jason Priestly). [Bay Area Bites] Facebook's advertising conundrum. [Chron] Would the Presidio be a good place for a indoor batting cages? [Curbed]
SF News Ex-Pilot Supplied Fake Asiana Airlines Names To KTVU A former commercial pilot and trusted source of reporters at KTVU is the person responsible for handing the fake names "Captain Sum Ting Wong," "We To Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Daily S.F. Weather Updates In A Single Word OneWordSFWeather is a pretty self-explanatory Twitter account. And yet, with just one word it still manages to carry more sarcasm, wit and commentary than the entire Mission District. A sampling of the past
SF News Silicon Valley Exec Found Guilty Of Stealing LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a VP at software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, has been convicted of running an elaborate scam to steal LEGO toys from local Target stores. It is quite possibly the white
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Schoolchildren Fight Truancy With Adorable Rihanna Parody In Oakland's Unified School District, one in six kindergartners is chronically absent from class. Luckily for everyone involved, these youngsters are doing something about it with an adorable take on Rihanna's "Don't Stop
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Uncomfortable Selfies Here are 10 food gimmicks involving one food item stuffed into another food item, and where to find them. [Eater] Meet RobberBaron, a grownup spot to drink on Polk Street. [Tablehopper] Santa Cruz's
SF News Running Of The Bulls Stampedes Into Northern California In 2014 If you've ever wanted to run with the bulls in Pamplona, but missed out because you couldn't get cast on Road Rules: Europe, your chance may be coming up next Summer. A group
SF News Effort To Rename Bay Bridge After Emperor Norton Revived By Online Petition Although Sacramento's bright idea to name the western span of the Bay Bridge in honor of noted local hat wearer Willie Brown was met with derision locally, the effort did remind us of
SF News Teen Arrested For Hallidie Plaza Shooting Last night around 10:20 p.m. a 15-year-old boy shot a 25-year-old man in the leg after a verbal argument got out of hand near Hallidie Plaza at Fifth and Market Streets.
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Cronot Reviewed "Too much nut, not enough cro," Posh Bakery's Cronot reviewed. [SF Magazine] Bruce Bochy says "it's time to end this" PED scandal. Also, none of your San Francisco Giants have been implicated in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gayby Showering Former S.F. Bay Guardian stalwart Tim Redmond raising money for a new progressive newspaper under the banner of the newly formed San Francisco Progressive Media Center. [SFWeekly] Why San Francisco is the
SF News Naked, Meth-Smoking Bank Robber Claimed She Was Jesus Christ A woman suspected of attempting to knock off a local Wells Fargo branch was found naked and struggling to put on a nightgown in a SoMa alleyway near AT&T park last
SF News Helmet Cam Footage Reveals Details Of Asiana Flight 214 Victim's Death In the ongoing investigation into the death of Asiana Airlines flight 214 passenger Ye Meng Yuan, helmet camera video from the fire battalion chief Mark Johnson has revealed new details in the moments
