SF News City's New 911 System Is 'A Nightmare,' Say Dispatchers The City of San Francisco's brand-new, multi-million dollar 911 dispatch system is reportedly full of software glitches that have longtime dispatchers worried about the safety of police officers, firefighters and regular citizens who
Arts & Entertainment Ai Weiwei's Alcatraz Exhibition '@Large' Opens September 27th Celebrated Chinese dissident, architect and artist Ai Weiwei's highly anticipated exhibition "@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz" will open this fall on September 27th and run through the end of April 2015. The exhibition
SF News Video: New Golden Gate Bridge Traffic Pattern Proves Calamitous Over the weekend, Caltrans crews moved the final San Francisco exit on Doyle Drive — the last one before drivers are forced to take in the scenic views of the Golden Gate Bridge and
SF News Bumbling Drug Runners Are Now Just Polluting Beaches With Weed And Garbage In Pescadero, California Monday morning, Sheriff's deputies found a panga boat and a Chevrolet SUV abandoned on a state beach. Both were loaded with an unspecified but "large quantity" of marijuana. Update: the
SF News Freeway The Chihuahua Rescued From Interstate 680 Late last week, a terrified-looking female Chihuahua was found stranded, trembling on the center divider on an Interstate 680 overpass in Walnut Creek. Lacking treats to talk the animal down, California Highway Patrol
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brace Yourselves For 'Exclusive' $300 Brunches Now that waiting in line for brunch is passé, and Lime's notoriously drunk breakfasts are a distant memory, a new invite-only brunch club wants to bring all the flair and exclusivity of VIP
Arts & Entertainment Laughable Local Teens Pull Penis Prank An unknown teen (or worse: a group of teens!) from San Francisco's Lowell High School is thought to be responsible for a prank flyer announcing "mandatory penis inspections on all male students, faculty
SF News Local Mission Market Targeted With Graffiti, Death Threats Thursday night in the Mission, a trio of stores under the Local Mission brand became the target of protests that later devolved into threatening vandalism. The protests stemmed from allegations of racial discrimination
SF News Crash-And-Grab Thief Turns Berkeley Apple Store Into A Drive-Thru #apple customers being turned away on 4th st in #Berkeley after Pontiac slams into store-- BPD says items stolen pic.twitter.com/xnBQlqze2n— Mike Mibach KTVU (@MibachKTVU) May 9, 2014 Friday morning around
SF News New BART Regulations Could Mean Even Less Service We've long since stopped holding our breath for late-night BART service, even despite local pols' best efforts, and now it seems new BART safety regulations could actually make the agency head in the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Taylor Swift Moving In? Cal Fire Battalion chief Orville Fleming is on the lame after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death. [Chron] Pac Heights home sells for a jaw-dropping $1.405 million over the asking price. [Curbed]
SF News Skee-Ball Inc. No Longer Cool With Drinking Skee-Ball League The makers (and legal copyright holders) of Skee-Ball games have decided they are no longer kosher with a national drinking and rolling league. After nine years, the nearly century-old Skee-Ball Inc. is suing
SF News Berkeley Police: 'We Are Not A Violent Department, OK?' Some of Berkeley's famously passive (and passive-aggressive) residents are up in arms over a proposal from the Berkeley Police Department to look into equipping their police force with Tasers. Where SFPD explored the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Safeway Is Possibly Unsafe KRON4 News, San Francisco's #1 source of grocery store health code violations and people behaving badly is back at it today, turning their attention from the meat case at Whole Foods to the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Forget The Goodyear Blimp, Get An Aerial View Of Levi's Stadium Now Today in aerial videos, we're taking a drone flight over Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The stadium literally rolled out the natural grass field last month, along with the bright, Niners-red seating that
SF News Newsflash: The UN Plaza Fountain Is Really Gross Prepare to be grossed out if you've ever walked by UN Plaza on particularly blustery day: our local FOX affiliate is peering deep into the plaza's abyss after one student from the Art
Arts & Entertainment Red Panda Gets Name Meet Tenzing. Hello, Tenzing, I believe we've actually met. Tenzing the 10-month-old red panda is named for Tenzing Norgay, a.k.a. Sherpa Tenzing, one of the most famous mountain climbers in history
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 8 Best International Markets In San Francisco San Francisco's culinary influences draw from every corner of the planet, and all those hard-to-source ingredients have to come from somewhere. Luckily, for home cooks with no Michelin stars and a hunger for
SF News Day Around The Bay: Taxi Drivers On The Decline San Francisco's taxi driver supply has dropped precipitously, apparently due to the proliferation of ride-sharing services. [SFEx] Meanwhile, female drivers prefer those start-ups to actual cab companies. [SFWeekly] One man's night in the
SF News NEMA 2.0 Coming To Van Ness & Market The rapidly changing stretch of MidMarket will soon get another infusion of developer money and marketing materials: as The Chronicle reports, the owners of the Honda dealership at Market and South Van Ness
SF News Uber Defends Their Non-Involvement In Death Of Six-Year-Old Sofia Liu Last week, Uber filed its defense in the wrongful death lawsuit of six-year-old Sofia Liu, who was struck and killed on New Year's Eve by driver Syed Muzzafar while he was allegedly searching
Arts & Entertainment Video: Our Red Panda Hysteria Continues Apace Last week we met the San Francisco Zoo's impossibly cute Red Panda. Then we took a look at his posh treehouse abode. Now our favorite Musteloid (sorry, otters, you're yesterday's animal news) has
SF News World's Coolest Dad Creates Backyard Roller Coaster When, after a long day of riding rides at Magic Mountain, 10-year-old roller coaster aficionado Lyle Pemble asked his dad why they don't have their own personal thrill ride, the 50-year-old father of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Putting 'Farm To Table' Out To Pasture Uber drivers are pissed at Uber, are planning a protest for this Thursday. [Chron] Jesse Draper, the venture capitalist daughter of Tim "Six Californias" Draper, is getting her own cable TV show called
