SF News Two Killed In Early Morning Shooting Near McLaren Park Just before 1 a.m. this morning, two men were shot and killed near the south side of McLaren Park in Visitacion Valley. Three suspects were seen fleeing the area near the intersection
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Noodle News Parking enforcement meets Robocop: SFPD will start using mobile devices to issue tickets and collision reports. [SFAppeal] This house on Billionaire's Row could be yours for a cool $14.5 million. [CurbedSF] A
SF News Uber Drops Prices On Hybrid Rides in S.F., Fares Now Equal To Taxis Not content with disrupting the taxi cab industry by simply existing, towncar-hailing app Uber has dropped prices on their uberX hybrid car rides to further undercut the local taxi industry by matching their
SF News Transamerica Windmill, Musical Greens: A Peek At Urban Putt's Forthcoming Playland Urban Putt, the Mission's forthcoming 18-hole indoor mini-golf course, is a few putts closer to becoming a reality this week. The city's Planning Commission will review the designs this Thursday, which means we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dangerous Burger News: Woman Discovers Razor Blade In Her Burger King While dining at a Burger King location in forgettable Willits, CA ("Gateway to the Redwoods!"), Yolanda Orozco says she discovered something extra sharp on her cheeseburger. Apparently Orozco peeled back the bun to
SF News Violent Naked BART Man ID'd As Acrobat Yeiner Perez After video emerged yesterday of a man terrorizing 16th Street BART Station with his naked and bizarre antics last month -- who also sexually assaulted a woman in the process -- questions still
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Behind The Tweets Elevator accident blamed for death at 49ers stadium construction site. [Previously] [SFEx] A report from the Hayes Valley Farm (with illustrations!) [SFAppeal/Grist] SFWeekly's cover story this week blows the lid off this
SF News 'Douchebags Like You Are Ruining San Francisco,' Gen-X Techie Says To Millennial Techies There's been enough tech vs. art or rich vs. poor handwringing going around lately that we suppose this was inevitable: A self-proclaimed "part of the gentrification" from the early '90s Mission district and
SF News Apple, Top Prosecutors Finally Make An Effort To Curb Smartphone Theft While you were oohing and ahhing (or hemming and hawing) over the slick visual redesign coming in Apple's next iOS software update, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York State Attorney
SF News Crazy NSFW Video Emerges Of Naked Man Terrorizing People At BART Station Video of the "naked, spitting and pissing man" who wreaked havoc on 16th Street BART station during a Friday rush hour last month has hit YouTube. And it is harrowing to say the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: 1,000 Swims To Alcatraz While you were out getting a bagel, these two gentleman were doing 1,000th swim to Alcatraz today. [BCN/Appeal] Vandals obscure Interstate 880 sign near MacArthur Maze, probably feel pretty good about
SF News Woman Seriously Injured By Sidewalk Biker Sunday afternoon a woman in her 60s suffered a life-threatening head injury when a 21-year-old male cyclist struck her as she walked in a pedestrian lane (commonly referred to as "the sidewalk") near
SF News Body Found Floating Near Hyde Street Pier Just before noon on Monday, someone near Fisherman's Wharf spotted a man's body floating in the water under the wooden wheel of the historic Eureka ferry parked at the Hyde Street Pier. The
SF News Calif. Elementary School Offering Toy Gun 'Buyback' Program While police departments in Oakland and San Francisco have seen success by offering cash in exchange for firearms, one Bay Area school administrator found a new opportunity to reduce gun deaths. This Saturday,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Mid-Market's Missing Pieces Anybody want to buy an historic (and possibly haunted — by dancers or otherwise) Market Street Theater? [SFAppeal] SoulCycle is the latest fitness craze sweeping the cool-kid coastal cities. And now its in Marin.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map Reasserts Northern California's Craft Beer Superiority From the always-thinking (always drinking?) folks at the New Yorker comes a handy new interactive map thing about beer. Craft beer specifically. Because this country is nothing if not a nation of people
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Smoothing Market Street Spare the Air today. Please and thank you. [BCN/Appeal] Market Street from Van Ness to Sixth Street is getting a $700,000 repaving job this weekend. [CBS] Unmanned drones: also good for
SF News Man Attempts To Swim With Pier 39 Sea Lions, Promptly Removed For Pestering Pinnipeds Just after 3 p.m. this afternoon, a 22-year-old man decided he would join the famous Fisherman's Wharf sea lions for a chilly swim in the bay near Pier 39. The San Francisco
SF News BREAKING: Man Shot On 19-Polk Muni Bus [Updates] Earlier this afternoon around 2:15 p.m., a female male victim was reportedly shot on a 19-Polk bus in the area of 25th and Wisconsin Streets in Potrero Hill. According to an
Arts & Entertainment Kennedys, Vanderbilts, & Liptons: When The America's Cup Was Actually Cool There was a time, before evil supervillians got involved and started throwing Sting concerts, when the America's Cup was just a traditional highfalutin boat race between a Scottish tea magnate and an American
SF News Fatal Limo Fire Was Caused By Mechanical Failure California Highway Patrol inspectors have spent the past month looking into what caused a limousine to burst into flames on the San Mateo Bridge, leaving five members of a bridal party dead. Although
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Margaritas Clarified Meth, guns, and dogs are all this guy's best friend. Cops not so much. [SFEx] How to make a see-thru margarita, featuring SF's own Tim Zohn of AQ Restaurant. [Gizmodo] Kurt Abney speaks
SF News S.F. Deemed 18th Most Competitive City, And We're OK With That A new study [pdf warning] released by the East Coast suits at Citigroup says San Francisco is only the fifth most competitive city in the United States and the 18th most competitive worldwide.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2013 Film Night In The Park Schedule With Drink Pairings It's that time of year again, when summer hits the rest of the country and the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation sets up their outdoor projection screens for the entertainment and delight of
SF News Oakland Police Headquarters Literally In The Crapper All day Tuesday, the Oakland Police Department's headquarters on Seventh Street in downtown Oakland were closed to the public due to severe flooding from an overflowing toilet on the third floor. An employee
