SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Gay NFL 12 bars that made San Francisco gay, in chronological order. [Out.com] Gay NFL prospect is a potential pioneer. (Also a damn good kicker.) [NYT] Sports! Golden State Warriors panned the Nuggets 131-117
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Thai Joint Calls For Yelp Boycott In Hayes Valley, a local San Francisco restaurant Bai Thong Thai is calling on neighbors and diners to "Stop the Bully" by boycotting Yelp, alleging the user reviews site is engaged in some
SF News Yosemite Is America's Most Intoxicated National Park In the scenic vistas of Yosemite Valley, park rangers see more drug arrests per 100,000 visitors than any of the country's most-visited national parks. In the past year, 855 people were busted
Arts & Entertainment History Lesson: A Privileged Panorama Of Nob Hill, Circa 1878 In 1878, roughly a tech entrepreneur's lifetime after gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, and just as long before the Great Earthquake leveled much of San Francisco in 1906, the city was smack
SF News Cleaning Up 4/20 Park Mess Costs About The Same As A 2-Pound Joint [Update] Although original estimates for cleaning up the two tons of Funyuns bags and It's-It wrappers left in the wake of Gate Gate Park 4/20 celebrations was initially pegged at 10 grand, the
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Drawing Crowds On Chestnut The Grove on Chestnut Street in the Marina is closing, New York Times blames it on the tech crowd. [NYT] From the people who brought you such (fake) bars as Reclaimed Wood + Subway
SF News Twitter Experiencing Random, Hours-Long Outages Wondering why your majestic latte leaf photo isn't getting as many retweets as usual? It's not just because that is a dumb thing to tweet a picture of — it's because Twitter has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Maybe 50 Pounds' Of Marijuana Found In Joe's Crab Shack Dumpster More possible fallout from this weekend's 4/20 festivities: An employee at the faux-shabby Joe's Crab Shack found three garbage bags filled with marijuana in a dumpster behind the seafood chain's Fisherman's Wharf
SF News Reuters Social Media Editor Matthew Keys Fired For Poor Social Media Behavior [Updated] Matthew Keys, most recently the deputy social media editor for Reuters, was fired today following last month's accusations that he had conspired with Anonymous hackers to gain access to Tribune Company computers and
SF News Video: Police Confiscate $15,000 Joint During 4/20 Smoke Out At UCSC While things may have gotten violent in Golden Gate Park on 4/20, on the campus of the UC Santa Cruz the annual marijuana celebration was getting heavy in a completely different way.
SF News 4/20 Stoners Leave Trail Of Snack Debris In Golden Gate Park, Fight Videos On YouTube On Saturday, scores of weed aficionados from across the Bay Area piled into their friends' Hondas to descend upon Golden Gate Park for the annual (yet unofficial in any capacity) 4/20 celebration
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Oakland Soul Searching San Francisco declares 2013 "The Year of the Child" even though there are, like, four of them here. [Chron] Delightful artist Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the Petaluma See Bank. [ModernFarmer] "If I'm a 'gentrifier'
Arts & Entertainment Four 4/20 Events That Don't Necessarily Involve Smoking Yourself Stupid Tomorrow is April 20th, when suburban stoners across the country will celebrate that time some plucky teens from Marin set out in search of a lost weed treasure. Nowadays International Cannabis Culture day
SF News Shuttle-freude: Genentech Bus Accident Closes Four Lanes Of Divisadero [PHOTO] Around 7:20 a.m. Friday morning, a corporate shuttle for Genentech managed to not only make its own riders late for work, but probably a few other innocent commuters as well. Local
SF News Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Twitter Is A Mix Of Song Lyrics, Chechen Pride And Boring Teen Stuff During this morning's manhunt in Boston, several sources have identified the Twitter account @J_Tsar as belonging to 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. A cached profile photo (now replaced with picture of a
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Kale In Your Cocktail While the country is spending the morning with their eyes on Boston, here a couple lighter items from closer to home: Kale: not just for salads anymore. [GrubSF] Vacuum advertisement gets a little
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Delivers Engagement Ring Via Aerial Drone In Alamo Square Park Although unmanned aerial vehicles tend to be known for unleashing hellfire missiles on unsuspecting ground targets, earlier this month one local San Francisco man called in air support with a much gentler payload:
SF News Sick Puppy Tortures Young Pit Bull Pit bulls get a bad rap, we know, but if anyone is to blame for the breed's bad press it should be the awful human detritus and Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks responsible for treating
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Stabbing Suspect Shot To Death By SFPD In Potrero Hill Last night just before 10 p.m. San Francisco Police officers responded to an emergency call from a man in Potrero Hill who claimed to have just stabbed his brother-in-law. According to SFPD
Arts & Entertainment Great 1906 Quake: This Day In History, Everyone Was Suddenly Homeless 107 years ago at 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18 1906, the San Andreas fault leveled much of San Francisco with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and subsequent fires.
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Bicycle Barometer A $70,000 "bicycle barometer" will go up on Market Street to keep a running tally of eastbound cyclists. ($20k of the funds were donated, by the way.) [BCN/Appeal] Delfina changed the
SF News Disney-Lucasfilm To Release New 'Star Wars' Films Every Summer Starting In 2015 After Disney bought out Lucasfilm and acquired the rights to Star Wars, anticipation for the next installment of George Lucas' money-printing space epic shot way up among fanboys, fangirls, and merchandising opportunists. At
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thank God: Polk Street Bar Ban Approved On lower Polk Street the neighbors have finally won a campaign to halt any new drinking establishments from crowding up their corridor. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban new bars
Arts & Entertainment Best 5 Bike Rides In San Francisco With scenic vistas at nearly every turn and more bike lanes being built every day, San Francisco is well-known as a two-wheeled haven. Brave the notorious hills around the bay and you'll be
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Tacos In North Beach When is a little cocaine too much cocaine? Michelle Tea dives in nose-first. [BoldItalic] Meet the first digital generation. (Spoiler alert: they're all 20 years old.) [Wired] Poor grades for art school student
