SF News Early Morning Water Main Break Leaves Giant Sinkhole In West Portal [Update] Around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, a ruptured water main at 15th Avenue and Wawona Street in West Portal sent a "waist high wall of water" rushing down the street, flooding homes
SF News Day Around The Bay: A True Fan An out of towner from Martinez has been arrested in connection with a brutal, body-slamming bar fight in Cow Hollow. [SFEx] Take a look around Google's forthcoming waterfront Googleplex called "Bay View", but
SF News Oakland's Lake Merritt: Less Urine-y, Still Plagued By Fowl Defecation Problem Over in Oakland the often-smelly Lake Merritt has been experiencing a renaissance thanks to $47 million worth of improvements over the past 10 years. Last week, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan opened up another
SF News 20-Year-Old Youth Advocate Shot And Killed At Oceanview Rec Center 20-year-old Lawrence Collins, a star graduate of the Inner City Youth program, was shot in the head Friday night outside the Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center on Capitol Avenue in Oceanview. It
Arts & Entertainment This Golden Gate Park Coyote Is All Dressed Up And Ready To Eat Your Cat Today in Outerlands nature photos: local photographer David Cruz brings us this shot of a Golden Gate Park Coyote, spotted last week all dolled up in a winter coat. We've been watching these
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: New Hotel Coming The folks who nurtured Gather in Berkeley are bringing Verbena to Polk Street. [Scoop] A new 11-story, 220-room hotel is coming to Fourth Street near the Moscone Center. [SFEx] Which drinking neighborhood gets
Arts & Entertainment PHOTO: Car Rolls Over At Fillmore & Eddy, Manages To Keep Everything The Trunk Earlier today, a sensible mid-sized sedan somehow managed to completely roll over on Fillmore near Eddy Street. Windows were smashed and the passenger side seems pretty banged up, but there were no skid
SF News Sacramento Man Sprays Down Western Addition Home With An AK-47 A 42-year-old Sacramento man was busted early Monday morning after he chased down a Western Addition man to his home and opened fire with a fully automatic AK-47 rifle. The Chronicle reports the
SF News Video: Circular Traffic Pattern Confounds San Francisco Drivers Out in the Richmond District, where the stop signs on the neatly spaced and gridded blocks are apparently too throttling for some folks, a newly installed traffic circle has also proven to be
SF News U Can't Touch This: MC Hammer Charged With Resisting Arrest, Goes On Twitter Rant Oakland native, would-be dotcom entrepreneur and aging former rap star MC Hammer (né Stanley Burrell) was arrested in Dublin, California last Thursday night after a police officer approached his car and asked if
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Bay Bridge Crane Mishap Is No Big Deal That Bay Bridge crane mishap last week won't delay opening of the new eastern span. [BCN/Appeal] Chronicle Food critic Michael Bauer is all over this olive oil cake trend. [InsideScoop] On 11th
SF News Oakland Rapper Kenny Clutch Killed In Las Vegas Strip Shootout Kenneth Cherry Jr., a rapper from Oakland who goes by the name Kenny Clutch, has been identified as one of the victims of rolling shooting down the Las Vegas strip. Cherry, who had
Arts & Entertainment Like The City Itself, This 'Adventures In San Francisco' Video Is Either Really Great Or Incredibly Annoying Living in San Francisco is great, right? We have cool restaurants, hip bars, at least like 12 or 15 cool people, endless amazing views, a public transit system that works sometimes and more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fish Are Lies Sad news, folks: about a third of the fish you ate last in the two years was probably not what you thought it was. According to a new study, this huge oceanic conspiracy
SF News Teen-On-Tween Crime Strikes The Bayview Two boys, ages 12 and 13, were robbed by a gang of older teen dudes in the Bayview during after school time yesterday afternoon. The two youngsters were walking on Keith Street near
SF News Mini Cooper Attempts To Mount Toyota Prius In Most Castro Car Accident Ever [Updated] Right in front of the Castro Theater this morning, a baby blue Mini Cooper ended up slightly on top of a red Toyota Prius in some sort of traffic mishap. Our tipster on
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Voguing In The Mission The Australian Vogue is totally in love with the Mission: "Following North Beach, The Castro and Haight-Ashbury, The Mission is the latest San Francisco village to capture the zeitgeist." [Vogue.au] Surviving the
SF News Day Around The Bay: Where To Eat After Midnight What does Scott Wiener think about his porn star doppelgänger? "At least he's good looking." [SFMag] Where to eat after midnight in the Bay Area. [Zagat] San Francisco just made it a little
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa-Sized Restaurant And Mezcaleria Aiming For Divisadero [Update] On the up-and-made-it stretch of Divisadero between the Lower Haight and Lower Pac Heights, a new latin-themed restaurant and mezcaleria is looking to renovate a former horticulture store at the corner of Divisadero
Arts & Entertainment Band To Watch: Warm Soda Debuts 'Busy Lizzy' Video Warm Soda, one of our local bands to watch in 2013, has a new album out on local garage rock superstart John Dwyer's own Castle Face Records. Brooklyn Vegan called the debut record
SF News Body Found Floating Near Pier 48, McCovey Cove A marine unit of the San Francisco Police spotted a body floating in the water near pier 48 and and AT&T Park's McCovey Cove around 10:40 a.m. this morning.
SF News Face-Punching Teen Girl Gang Terrorizes Berkeley Women Three teenage girls are wanted by UC police in Berkeley after they assaulted two women on Dwight Way and Prospect Streets near a residential part of the UC Berkeley campus. The Oakland Tribune
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Fact-Checking Newsom Five questions with Glide Memorial Church leaders (and now authors) Cecil Williams and Janice Mirkitani [USA Today] Fact-checking Gavin Newsom's new book. (He actually got some of them right!) [SFMag] NEWCOMERS THREATEN TOWN
SF News Life Of A Social Worker In The Tenderloin Is As Depressing As You Think Over at Vice.com, the original #1 advertiser of American Apparel products is running a stark interview with young Tenderloin social worker Lorian about her experiences working with mentally ill and drug-addled SRO
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Next Four Barrel Cafe Will Be Completely Off-The-Grid, Packed With Eco-Things After a successful opening at Divisadero's newest toast and coffee bar, The Mill, Four Barrel Coffee's Jeremy Tooker is looking forward to his next project: a completely off-the-grid coffee shop away from the
