SF News Sailor Dies After America's Cup Yacht Capsizes [Update] One member of Swedish team Artemis Racing was killed earlier this afternoon when his team's 72-foot AC72 catamaran capsized during practice runs near Treasure Island on the San Francisco Bay. The sailor was
SF News Video: Watch Bike Thief Totally Ruin Bike To Work Day Police are on the lookout for a brazen bicycle bandit after the thief hopped on one very unlucky commuter's ride and sped off while the owner stopped to cheer on other bikers at
Arts & Entertainment 41 Signs You're A Jaded San Franciscan Sometimes it can be hard to tell what's normal in this town. Here now (with a tip of the hat to Buzzfeed listicles): 41 possible signs you've become that jaded San Franciscan. 1.
SF News 'Mummified Skull' Found In Oakland Recycling Center The remains of a heavily decomposed human head were found among a load of recycling at a West Oakland processing center around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. Employees at the California Waste
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Eyesore Abatement The way outdated Fluid Ultralounge in SoMa will become a trendy cocktail space called Novela, complete with old books, deco styling and subtle Twin Peaks references. (Rumor has it that gum you like
SF News Century-Old Subterranean Terror Blamed For Ripping Open Quiet Neighborhood Maybe we didn't take this sinkhole on Lake Street seriously enough the first time around. Investigators scoping out the scene yesterday determined the cause of the 20-foot sinkhole: a 100-year-old brick sewer line.
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: A Google Bus Named Desire Literary magazine N+1 seeks out everything you could desire in San Francisco, in a great long-reader that veers from Google shuttles to a Kink shoot at Showdown to relationship advice from East
Arts & Entertainment THE HORROR: Nonprofit Wants To Rename Jerry Garcia Amphitheater In what might be a perfect storm of San Francisco headbutting: Deadheads and neighborhood groups are ready to square off against a non-profit organization and the Rec and Parks Department over the naming
SF News 'He Didn't Want To Listen': Limo Fire Survivor Disputes Driver's Story Orville Brown, the San Mateo Bridge limo driver, initially said he misunderstood the cries for help coming from the passenger area. However, survivor Neila Arellano claims he refused to assist the women trapped
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Behind The Transbay Center Fences Construction porn: a first look at the progress behind the fences at the Transbay Transit Center. [CurbedSF] California Supreme Court says local municipalities are free to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. [SFEx] Murderous Orca
SF News Sinkhole Threatens To Swallow Inner Richmond Street Around 5:30 p.m. on Monday, a large sinkhole opened up beneath the intersection of Second Avenue and Lake Streets in the Inner Richmond. Several news helicopters were spotted hovering over the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Instagram's Meet-Cute A veritable who's-who of buzzy restaurants: Here's a list of all the food, wine and beer vendors that will be at Outside Lands Festival. [EaterSF] This article called "The Money Shot" is not
SF News Video: Burning Limo Was Over Passenger Limit As details unfold on Saturday's tragic limo fire on the San Mateo Bridge, the California Highway Patrol said today that the nine female passengers were over the vehicle's passenger limit. Over by one,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Rickhouse The Best Whiskey Joint In The U.S.? GQ Thinks So. "Not all that long ago, appreciating whiskey meant boring your friends with peat profiles or sucking up to your father-in-law on the golf course," reads the introduction to 10 Best Whiskey Bars In
SF News Limo Driver Recounts Horrific Fire That Killed Bride, 4 Others The driver of the limousine that burst into flames Saturday night on the San Mateo bridge says he initially misunderstood the cries coming from the bachelorette party in the back of the white
SF News Storm Watch 2013: Santa Cruz's Most Wanted Is Still On The Loose, Impervious To Tazers After we learned all about serial joyrider Dmitri Storm yesterday, the Santa Cruz Sheriff's Department held a press conference to lay out even more details about their current most wanted suspect, who also
SF News Minivan Swerves Off Twin Peaks Road, Crashes Into House The driver of a Nissan minivan apparently lost their brakes this afternoon just below San Francisco's car commercial vistas on Twin Peaks Boulevard. The minivan would have gone barreling all the way into
SF News This Mother's Day, Send Your Mom To Jail The San Francisco County Sheriff's Department would like you, upstanding San Francisco Citizen, to grab your mother and come on down to the County Jail this Mother's Day. Why? For a pop-up art
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Ego Tripping Larry Ellison's latest ego stroke: screening a documentary about himself. [Valleywag] Apple losing market share among muggers too. [Chronicle] Humphry Slocombe coming to the pinnacle of foodie-ness: the Ferry Building. [Inside Scoop] "Funky,
SF News Santa Cruz's Most Wanted Is A 42-Year-Old Master Of Dude Disguises Meet the Santa Cruz Sheriff Department's current most wanted suspect: 42-year-old Dmitri Koa Storm, a.k.a. "Dragon," a.k.a. "Wushen," a.k.a. "Casey." Wanted for string of 10 auto thefts
Arts & Entertainment Buffalo Are Immensely Stupid, So You Should Probably Read A Book "The buffalo owes his extermination very largely to his own unparalleled stupidity," conservationist William T. Hornaday wrote in 1887, speaking of an animal that would literally stand around waiting to get shot. Of
SF News New Plan Would Convert Valencia Street Gutters Into Delightful Urban Gardens In their ongoing efforts to soften the city's hard concrete edges, the San Francisco Planning Commission and the Public Utilities Commission are putting together a new plan that would create even more green
SF News 13-Year-Old Boy Arrested For Making Bomb Threats On Instagram Your ephemeral puppy shots and pre-run shoe photos might be casual fun to you, but to authorities on the peninsula they can be very serious business. A 13-year-old Catholic school student at Our
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Giants Hijinks Get an HIV or STD test, get free coupons to Castro businesses. [SFEx] Giants pull out a sweep against the Diamondbacks. Hilarious .gif hijinks ensue. [McCovey Chron] Mission Chinese Food expanding beyond S.
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco is a Gemini Michele Tea ">reads San Francisco's astrology chart. Turns out city is a Gemini, which makes total sense. [Bold Italic] Haight Street neighbors not so jazzed on Martin Mack's parklet anymore. [SFEx] Guy