SF News Day Around The Bay: Harbaugh Parents Speak If you're not following SFist on Twitter and/or liking us Facebook, then we can't be friends. (We kid!) Infinite City author Rebecca Solnit considers the frontierism of Silicon Valley's corporate shuttles. (It
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Zoo Rhinoceros Eats Baltimore Raven For Breakfast Well, sort of, anyway: This morning at the San Francisco Zoo, Boone the Black Rhino (named for Alex Boone, the white offensive lineman) devoured the Baltimore Ravens for a light morning meal. Unfortunately,
SF News Ridesharing Gets A Reprieve: PUC Agrees Uber & Lyft Are Both Legal For Now [Update] Good news on the ridesharing front today, as at least two of the big three ridesharing/sedan hailing apps have been granted a pass by the California Public Utilities Commission to continue operating
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Mark Zuckerberg Probably Went To Rave, Danced Awkwardly In 2009 Scandal has rocked — or at least gently swayed to a pulsing beat — Mark Zuckerberg this week as a British tabloid has dug up this ancient photo from 2009 which allegedly shows the young
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Flexi-Discs Beach Blanket Babylon pays tribute to our NFC Champion 49ers. [KTVU] Fairweather fan? Here are some smart things to say during the Super Bowl. [TheAwl] Forget vinyl, flexi-discs are the hot new obsolete
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Locally Source Your Super Bowl Party Cooking is a pain in the ass, but you can't host a Super Bowl party without some of the traditional artery-clogging, cholesterol-spiking, downhome American football snacks. While the rest of the country watching
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Moves Closer To Eliminating Unnecessary Human Interaction Starting today, the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza will be testing a new Pay-by-Plate system meant to eventually replace human toll takers and provide an alternative to the existing FasTrak payment system. Like
Arts & Entertainment Best Local Bands To Watch In 2013 The Bay Area's musical roots run deep with everything from folk to jazz and hip hop to punk rock. Given the massive popularity of food blogs over music news in this town one
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Pier 70 Illustrated Alex Smith prays for sweet release. [Chron] Dispatches from New Orleans: Calm amid the media day chaos. [Grantland] Artist Wendy McNaughton brings us an illustrated history of Pier 70. [Pier70Community] Mexican Fernet exists
SF News FBI Searches Upper Haight Home In 1984 Cold Case, Finds Skeletal Remains The FBI, SFPD and the Sheriff's Department served a search warrant at an Upper Haight home Tuesday morning searching for clues to the 1984 disappearance of Kevin Collins. Investigators on the scene discovered
SF News They're Going To The Super Bowl! Scammed Couple Gets Free Tickets From Ticketmaster That Hayward, California couple's embarrassing decision to wire $5,900 to some joker in Boca Raton actually paid off in the end. After the story broke yesterday, Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard called Sharon
SF News Map: Most Of America Likes The Niners, Says Facebook Data At the end of football season, Facebook actually did something semi-useful with all that data they've been collecting on you and mapped out NFL team allegiances by county. With about 35 million facebook
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Digital Divide Is Driving Kids To McDonald's As schools around the country have been moving towards online and digital tools for completing assignments, Internet access for low income families hasn't kept pace with the country's metro centers where Wi-Fi signals
SF News The Government Is All Up In Your Tweets Probably not surprising to anyone who prefers metallic headwear: government requests for Twitter users' account information has been on the rise ever since the short-winded social network started publishing this data in July
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Tycoons Of Yesteryear The Super Bowl is the exclamation point of America. [TheAwl] San Francisco's railroad tycoons were richer than you could ever hope to be, had awesome houses on Nob Hill. [Curbed] The Mission remembers
SF News Super Bowl Troll Sends 'GOO RAVENS!!! LOL' Note Instead Of $5,900 Tickets [Updated] A couple from Hayward, California hoping to see their San Francisco 49ers take on the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans on Sunday fell victim to a nefarious hoax this week after wiring nearly
SF News Day Around The Bay: Meter Maid Ticket Parade A 38-year-old hooker accused of beating an 82-year-old john to death with a brick is convicted. [Chron] The city is putting $200 million towards bike projects over the next five years. [SFEx] Chuck
SF News Michael Crabtree Won't Face Sexual Assault Charges 'At This Time' After an investigation by the San Francisco Police Department's special victims unit, District Attorney Gascón has determined 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree, who helped lead the Niners to victory in the NFC Championship
SF News Rumor Mill: New Apple Store Coming To Market & Castro Streets File this one under "rumors" for now, but the local real estate watchers around the Castro say that Apple is planning to install its next San Francisco store right in the heart of
SF News PETA Sucks The Life Out Of Manti Te'o Story For 'Faking Is Better' Super Bowl Billboard In their latest publicity stunt, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have bitten down on the meaty story du jour to promote fake meat products as an acceptable substitute for real buffalo
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Marian Brown's 86th Birthday Party Surviving San Francisco twin Marian Brown celebrated her 86th birthday at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Friday night. Although her twin sister and lifetime companion Vivian sadly passed away earlier this month,
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale' Wins Sundance Grand Jury Prize At Sundance, the momentum behind Ryan Coogler's debut feature about the last days in the life of Oscar Grant proved strong enough to propel the film to the festival's top Grand Jury Prize
SF News Local Restaurants Called Out For Pocketing Healthy S.F. Funds That $1 "Healthy S.F. Surcharge" you occasionally see screwing up the math on your tab at dinner bill was intended as a way for local restaurants to cover the cost of healthcare
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Does Facebook Really Owe Me Ten Bucks? Yes, that legal notice about class action settlement with Facebook is real, but chances are the $20 million funds will go to charity. [Forbes] SFO renaming debate hits new heights as Chronicle commenters
SF News Astronaut Tweets Best Golden Gate Bridge View Ever (From Space) Right now, Canadian Astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield is hurtling through space some 230 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, where he is currently installing neutron radiation detectors and watching hockey.
