SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: The City's Soul Is In A Soccer Field East Bay Express reviews Tribune Tavern, a meat-and-potatoes-and-drinks spot in the old Tribune building, "it's hard not to like the idea of the place and to be glad that it's open." [East Bay
SF News Needle Crime: Thief Steals Soda Armed With Syringe Sunday morning in the Tenderloin a man walked into convenience store, told the 72-year-old store employee, "I'm taking this soda," and promptly walked out. When the employee tried to stop the guy, he
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Adorable Baby Swans Grace The Palace Lagoon Our yearly obsession with swans and collective nouns continues this Spring with a new lamentation of cygnets at the Palace of Fine Arts. Blue Boy and Blanche, the two remaining adult swans, have
SF News California Deer Experiencing Troublesome Hair Loss Problem In California, the local deer population is experiencing a problem most commonly associated with kindergartners: a mysterious scourge of exotic lice from Europe and Asia have been found on deer and elk from
SF News Morning Roundup: Oakland's Streetcar Desire Oakland poised to bring back vintage streetcars. [East Bay Express] An excuse to burn some gasoline: California roadside attractions. [Chronicle] Spirit of Burning Man coming to Berkeley for one day and one day
SF News 60-Year-Old Woman Convicted Of Stealing Her Granddaughter, Throwing Herself A Baby Shower Grandmother Ericka Gallego of El Monte, California was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping her own four-month-old granddaughter in 2011 and attempting to pass the girl off as her own two-week-old
Arts & Entertainment Brick & Mortar Music Hall Forced To Quiet Down Earlier this week, the Entertainment Commission handed Brick & Mortar Music Hall a ruling that will put a significant damper on a live music venue located on an already noisy part of Mission
Arts & Entertainment Crissy Field NIMBYs Not Fans Of Fabulous, Large Metal Objects Last week, eight massive steel beam sculptures went up in Crissy Field. The 50-foot-tall, 40-foot-wide pieces represent decades of work for local artist Mark di Suvero and a very visible piece of SFMOMA's
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rebooting Jerry Brown Jerry Brown's political reboot. (Does not include "shit happens," apparently.) [The Atlantic] Chilling out with some weed can help cure PTSD, a study shows. [East Bay Express] Thing that exists: a $125 dive
Arts & Entertainment 6 Other 'Free' Seasons Marin County Should Declare After news broke this morning that Marin County wants to help eradicate childhood obesity by declaring a Summer without soda, we couldn't help but wonder what other suburban Northern California issues our neighbors
SF News Woman Shot Near McAllister & Divisadero, Street Riddled With Bullet Holes [Updates] Last night around 10:15 p.m. a 26-year-old woman was shot on McAllister Street near the intersection with Divisadero. Haighteration reports neighbors in the area heard five or six "large caliber" shots
Arts & Entertainment Video: Goofball Mayor Ed Lee Misses Easy Layup A previously mentioned, Mayor Ed Lee held a special ceremony Monday to prop up the Warriors Arena announce the Super Bowl in Santa Clara celebrate Stephen Curry's three-point record with a key to
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Graffiti In Progress Driver killed in freak accident on Interstate 580. A metal pipe crashed through his windshield and hit him in the jaw. [Chron] Cuddling stalker embraces guilt. [SFEx] "If you see graffiti in progress.
SF News Man Jumps Off Golden Gate Bridge, Regrets It Shortly After A crew from Santa Cruz was out sailing on the bay Monday afternoon, when 23-year-old Hilary Walecka says she saw someone jump from the Golden Golden Bridge and plunge 220 feet to the
SF News S.F. Giant Speaks Out About Overcoming Crippling Homophobia In his new memoir To Stir a Movement: Life, Justice, and Major League Baseball, Giants pitcher and noted Jesus fan Jeremy Affeldt describes his experience coming out as a straight icon in a
SF News Google Glass Hits Craigslist: $6,000 To Be A Dork From The Future Missed the opportunity to get your hands on Google's technofocals and become one of the first to have Google search shoved straight into your retina? (Or maybe you cheated?) Well, here's your second
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Inside Urban Putt Inside Urban Putt. [Mission Mission] Plague of bankruptcy took down Stockton. [CIR] John McAfee's compound in Belize burned to the ground and John McAfee doesn't seem too concerned about it. [Previously] [Telegraph] Koji
Arts & Entertainment Stephen Curry Receives Key To San Francisco For Making A Bunch Of Three-Pointers In Oakland As part of the City's ongoing pro-Warriors Arena campaign, Mayor Ed Lee presented star three-point shooter Stephen Curry with a key to the city earlier today. A sort of consolation prize for not
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stanley Roberts Had To Skip Bay To Breakers, But The People Behaving Badly Didn't Like clockwork, Stanley Roberts has churned out the latest edition in his ongoing chronicle of local people behaving terribly. As Stanley told SFist on the phone late last week, Bay to Breakers is
SF News 27-Year-Old Bay To Breakers Runner Missing Since Sunday 27-year-old Beau Rasmussen of Oakland has been missing since shortly after finishing the Bay to Breakers race on Sunday afternoon. After finishing the 7.46-mile footrace, Rasmussen told his friends he was going
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Dystopian Larry Page Fan Fiction Shuttered Bernal Heights Produce store to re-open in the most Bernalian way possible. [Bernalwood] Welcome to Google Island. [Wired] Inside Smuggler's Cove's secret Rumbustion Society. [Hayeswire] Five-year-old girl killed in rollover crash near
Arts & Entertainment Welcome To The World, Tiny Magellanic Penguin! The San Francisco Zoo's colony of Magellanic penguins got a little bit bigger last week. It's hatching season and the chicks have started cracking out of their shells like downy, fun-size version of
SF News Yahoo Announces Plan To 'Make Flickr Awesome Again' At a pun-filled press conference in Manhattan this afternoon, Marissa Mayer brushed aside this weekend's big acquisition to focus on Yahoo's other brand that "dropped the e." After a quick pat on the
SF News Teen Shot To Death Outside Parents' Home In East Palo Alto A 16-year-old boy, known by neighbors as "one of the good kids," was shot and killed last night while sitting in a car outside his parents' house in East Palo Alto. Police say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: How Bi-Rite Divisadero Won Bay To Breakers During yesterday's Bay to Breakers festivities, the friendly neighborhood grocers at Bi-Rite took advantage of their prime location at Divisadero and Hayes by pivoting their business model for the day. In order to
