Arts & Entertainment Photos: Rescued Bobcat Kitten Deemed 'Too Nice' To Live In The Wild Meet Chips, the bobcat kitten deemed "too nice" to return to the wilderness after being rescued from a 75,000-acre fire northwest of Lake Tahoe back in August. Chips was a mere three
SF News Governor Jerry Brown's Office To Fox News: Please Stop Lying [Update] Last week, the journalistic stalwarts at Fox News printed a striking piece claiming California's 2012 budget deficit would hit $28 billion and cause an exodus of high wage earners from the state. Unfortunately
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Sandwich News: HRD Coffee Shop Expanding To North Beach HRD Coffee Shop, the home of one life-altering Mongolian Beef Cheesesteak, is expanding beyond their tiny dive-diner space at Third and Bryant Streets in SoMa. Inside Scoop reports the second iteration, called HRD
SF News Wells Fargo Dodges $203 Million In Overdraft Fees Sad news for anyone who has ever felt the sting of an overdraft fee from the nation's largest bank: a federal appeals court in San Francisco declared yesterday that Wells Fargo Bank does
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: The Mission's Growing Mayan Community In 2012, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors failed change their reputation. (Note: Article appears alongside an image of a toilet.) [Griffin/SFEx] Newsflash: vehicular traffic poses a risk to cyclists on Valencia
SF News NextBus Even More Wrong Than Usual Today Wondering why your NextBus times have been even more unpredictable than usual today? It's not just the scaled back service the disastrous transit agency is running on for the rest of the year.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Ali Wong At Punchline Comedy Club If you're starting to feel a post-holiday depression and Les Miserables just doesn't seem like the right thing to lift your spirits, then tonight's set from (formerly) local comedienne Ali Wong ought to
SF News Four Injured In Christmas Day Sister Knife Fight In Alameda yesterday, a holiday argument between two sisters apparently got out of hand when one of them grabbed a knife — perhaps the very same one used to carve a Christmas ham or
SF News Zuckerberg Family Moment Made Public Due To Facebook Privacy Settings Randi Zuckerberg, older sister to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former marketing director-turned-reality TV producer, let a tender Zuckerberg family moment shared between friends slip out into the Internet at large over the
SF News Boxing Day Morning Roundup: The Pope's Anti-Gay Christmas Rally Thousands of East Bay residents lost power early this morning after someone crashed the car into a telephone pole. [KTVU] Meanwhile, in the city signal problems are causing Caltrain delays and another reminder
SF News Jim Harbaugh, 49ers Would Be Totally Cool With An Openly Gay Player In one of those shouldn't-be-a-story-but-is stories today, Niners head coach Jim Harbaugh has said, more or less, that the team would be totally cool with it if one of the players were to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Year in Review: The Animals We Loved in 2012 Because we are never more than a couple hundred yards from nature here in San Francisco, there seems to be no shortage of adorable creatures around town, both wild and domesticated. Unfortunately, the
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Hayes Valley, Circa 1911 Pro-carnival, Anti-saloon: Hayes Valley was a pretty bustling neighborhood in 1911. [Hayeswire] The rad motorized Santa sleigh that's been delivering joy through the Mission is apparently not street legal. [UptownAlmanac] As Bar Bambino
SF News SFist Year in Review: Things S.F. Banned in 2012 Boy, 2012 was quite a year, wasn't it? After gaining national notoriety for banning Happy Meals (and by proxy: happiness in general) in 2011, the city really stepped up its nanny-state game in
SF News Gun Control Advocates to Stage 'Lie In' at Justin Herman Plaza Saturday In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, a local chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence plans to host a silent protest on Saturday at Justin Herman Plaza to call attention
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: A Bar For The Twitter Building The bar team behind Bourbon & Branch are reportedly eyeing a new space for a bar inside the Twitter building. [InsideScoop] American Grilled Cheese Kitchen opening a second location in the Mission "very
SF News Burned-Out Fleishhacker Pool Building To Become Delightful Green Space The once-great, but now sadly derelict, Fleishhacker Pool building was something of a magnet for homeless people and graffiti artists in recent years. That all came to an end earlier this month when
SF News Muni Justice: Pepper Spraying 38-Geary Mugger Busted By Tipsters SFPD's new favorite thing is touting arrests that didn't require much legwork on their part, apparently. The latest crowdsourced arrest happened earlier this month when 25-year-old suspect Michael Diles was busted for allegedly
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Makes $500 Million Donation To Charity (In Facebook Stock) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a hefty charitable donation this holiday season. The 28-year-old entrepreneur, who pledged two years ago to give away at least half of his wealth to charity, has gifted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat These Things This Weekend: The Final Underground Market In the three years since its inception in 2009, ForageSF's Underground Market provided a venue for countless budding chefs and food entrepreneurs to realize their cottage industry dreams without having to first navigate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Giant Wiener Spotted In The Castro Local photographer Octoferret spotted this ginormous wiener out trawling for tubesteak-hungry Castro residents. Humorously enough: nitrate-rich lunch meats made from at least three different animals remain legal in San Francisco, while naked lunches
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Danny Bowien Pulls His Noodle For Playboy Thanks to the Giants, A's and the Niners, the Bay Area was named Grantland's Sports City of the Year. Go sports! [Grantland] Mission Chinese Food chef Danny Bowien photographed pulling his noodle for
Arts & Entertainment Filter Kerfuffle: Flickr App Quietly Gains Support As Instagram Looks Increasingly Greedy Although Instagram may have riled nearly 100% of their users by changing their terms of service late Monday, and claiming the right to use your photos and photos of you in any advertisement
SF News SFPD Needs Cash To Cover All Those Guns They Bought Back During the wildly successful gun buyback program at the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco on Saturday, local gun owners turned in nearly 300 firearms to the SFPD. (Likewise in Oakland, where residents
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: One Way To Steal An iPhone Brazen thieves in Concord tried to steal iPhones from display case in an GameStop store by crashing a car into it. [KTVU] New, "artful" bike racks unveiled around Yerba Buena Gardens and the
