SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Baking A New Life Why Hayes Valley Bakeworks is good for San Francisco, and not just for the pastries. [Chron] 210 people were arrested at a non-violent protest outside the Chevron refinery in Richmond on Saturday. [BCN/
Arts & Entertainment Check Out These Cute, Young Beavers Up in Martinez, California the lodge of beavers that inhabits Alhambra Creek is doing just great after facing extermination due to anti-beaver sentiment back in 2007. Last month, three beaver kits appeared in
Arts & Entertainment Tim Lincecum To Replace Brian Wilson In Your Lawn Gnome Bullpen Now that Brian Wilson sports American flag mantanks and plays for Dodger Blue (alas), it's time to replace his diminutive likeness in your lineup of San Francisco Giants promotional items. Enter the Tim
SF News Suspect Pleads Not Guilty In Gruesome Brannan Street Murders Despite clear video evidence, 23-year-old Barry White Jr. of Antioch, the man accused of brutally murdering two employees and firing on police officers at the San Francisco GiftCenter & JewelryMart last month, pled
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: The Lonely Commute Most Bay Area commuters drive to work alone, survey says. [Chron] Just a week after that whole restaurant hacking debacle, UrbanSpoon sells off their reservation system to competitor OpenTable. [Eater] Man shot by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Tonga Room's Cocktail Menu Gets A Fresh New Squeeze The delightfully kitschy date spot that Anthony Bourdain once said left him "drunk and sticky," just got a fresh new makeover in the food and drinks department. While the forecast by the pool
SF News Exploding Firecracker Closes SoMa Streets, Sparks Brief Afternoon Media Frenzy Just after 2:00 p.m. this afternoon, near the intersection of Sixth and Tehama Streets in SoMa, reports started coming in about an explosion on a FedEx delivery truck. Police immediately shut
SF News PUC Ready To Legalize Ridesharing In California After mulling over how to regulate semi-legal ridesharing services like Lyft, SideCar and Uber, the California Public Utilities has handed down a proposed ruling that would create a new set of regulations for
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Copyright Infringement With Friends Zynga is now suing casual hookup app Bang With Friends over that "With Friends" trademark infringement. Even though Zynga is notorious for ripping off existing games. [Bloomberg] How has this current high-tech culture
SF News Day Around The Bay: Shear The Beard Millennial fired for tweet. And the world reacts. [The Awl] [Gothamist] That was quick: here come the Shear the Beard t-shirts. The man behind Lolinda, Beretta, and Super Duper Burger is opening a
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Miracle Of Gorilla Childbirth In This Graphic Video On July 17th, Nneka the western lowland gorilla gave birth to a baby girl at the San Francisco Zoo. Luckily for anyone interested in gorilla obstetrics, Zoo-goer and YouTuber Marwan Salfiti was there
SF News SFO Cracking Down On Rideshare Drivers With Citizen Arrests Travelers looking to get home from San Francisco International Airport using ridesharing services like Lyft, Sidecar or Uber, might have a harder time finding rides starting right about now. As CBS5 reports, SFO
SF News BART Negotiations Get Contentious, Could End In Higher Fares This does not bode well for the looming BART strike that could bring commuter rail to a halt for a second time starting next Monday. As BART representatives met with union leaders yesterday,
SF News Yahoo Moving Into The Chronicle Building, Hopes To Bring Back Flashy Billboards Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been working hard to make over her company's image from aging web dinosaur to hip new tech property. As part of that plan, the Sunnyvale company is reportedly
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Enviable Rents Here's a handy guide on how to tell if your cocktail is racist. [SFMag] A conversation with Laverne Cox, one of the many luminous stars in Orange is the New Black [Gawker] Here
SF News Day Around The Bay: iPhone Rumors Trump Workers' Rights Three potential plans for the Presidio Commissary (currently the Presidio Sports Basement) step into the limelight. [CurbedSF] Police seeking a hit-and-run driver who left a spewing fire hydrant and a critically injured victim
Arts & Entertainment President Obama Finally Addresses Alleged Torture (Of S.F. Giants Fans) Fans of the San Francisco Giants love to talk about their frustrating relationship with our home team as "torture." It would be cliché if only it weren't true. But you know who hasn't
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Penguin Chicks Waddle Their Way Into Our Hearts On Saturday, the San Francisco Zoo's new waddle of penguin chicks had a graduation of sorts. After several weeks worth of intense eating, squawking and napping at Fish School, the four girls and
SF News Local Newspaper Delivery Trucks Carry Nothing Of Value, Reports Local Newspaper Two muggers attempting to rob a newspaper delivery van last week apparently found nothing of value inside the vehicle, the San Francisco Examiner reports today. The deliveryman was doing his early morning paper
SF News Female Classmate Blamed For Encouraging Teen's Sexual Assault A new female classmate has been implicated in the bullying suicide of 15-year-old Audrie Pott. The fourth suspect is accused of encouraging three teen boys who sexually assaulted Pott as she was passed
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: A Topless Hamburger Does what it says on the box: 16 vintage images of old San Francisco Restaurants. [Inside Scoop] What it's like to drive a Google shuttle: "a nightmare" in the Mission. [Buzzfeed/FWD] Here
SF News Barnaby Jack, Notorious ATM Hacker, Dies In S.F. At Age 35 Barnaby Jack, a hacker who claimed he could stop a man's heart from 300 feet away by exploiting a flaw in medical implants, died Thursday in San Francisco at age 35. Jack was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Patio Report: Four New Outdoor Drinking Spaces Across Town From time to time, we here at SFist like to step outside and have a drink in the sun before it evaporates into fog and forces us to retreat indoors. Luckily for us
SF News UC Davis Pepper Spray Cop Claims He Suffered 'Psychiatric Injury,' Wants Workers Comp UC Davis police lieutenant John Pike, who notoriously and brutally doused a line of student protesters in the face with military-grade pepper spray, now seeks worker's compensation for psychiatric injury he suffered following
SF News Families Of Asiana Crash Victims Hire 9/11 Law Firm The families of the three passengers who died following the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash earlier this month have hired Kreindler & Kreindler, a high-powered New York law firm known for representing victims
