SF News First S.F. Cyclist Death Of The Year Finally Identified Harold Swaggard, a 55-year-old homeless man, died last month while riding a bicycle the wrong way near the intersection of 13th and Folsom. His was the first cyclist death of 2014 in San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noe Valley Whole Foods Afflicted With Maggot Infestation Whole Foods clerk and maggot whistleblower Marc Melancon tells a horrifying tale of something squirmy he found in the Noe Valley store's meat case. According to Melancon, he found "more than 40" disgusting
SF News Tech CEO Ousted After Domestic Violence Conviction Tech tycoon and RadiumOne CEO Gurbaskh Chahal has been fired by his company's all-male board of directors after pleading guilty to two misdemeanors for battery and domestic violence. Security footage from Chahal's San
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Cal Academy's Big Bang Gala Thursday night at the California Academy of Sciences, the noted scientific institution hosted their annual Big Bang Gala — their largest After Dark event of the year. It's a nerd prom of sorts. A
SF News Woman Assaulted, Pepper-Sprayed By Bike Thieves Local cyclist Jocelyn Drew had a doubly unfortunate experience with some local bike thieves last week. After Drew's black and yellow Raleigh was stolen off the front of a Muni bus on Monday,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Killing The Killswitch A bill to deter phone theft by creating a cellphone killswitch was killed by lawmakers, probably because they're in deep with the wireless communications industry. [Chron] Author Gary Kamiya takes on the much-talked-about
SF News In 2016, Your Pristine Hetch Hetchy Water Will Have A Little More Recycled Runoff Although San Franciscans love to talk about our pristine tap water — siphoned directly from Yosemite National Park and into our increasingly expensive apartments — things could get a little murkier in the near future.
SF News Starting Today, Anyone In The U.S. Can Buy Google Glass [Update: Not Really] After briefly making their $1,500 face computer available to the general public earlier this month, Google has apparently re-opened the sale of Glass to anyone in the U.S. Before going on
Arts & Entertainment Paul McCartney Will Close Out Candlestick Park After some handwringing that Sir Paul might bring his summer tour to Santa Clara, Macca has announced he'll get back to Candlestick Park to close out the stadium and his "Out There" summer
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: 4/20 Arrests It was another night of extra innings for the Giants in Denver last night, but Hector Sanchez's 11th inning grand slam, put San Francisco on top 12-10. [KTVU] The 49ers regular season schedule
SF News Day Around The Bay: Paying Off The Albany Bulb Ed Lee doesn't think Treasure Island is as radioactive as everyone else says it is. [Chron] How the Warriors' Mission Bay deal went down. (Spoiler alert: it included a phone call.) [SFEx] Police
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uptown Bar Owner Scott Ellsworth Dies In another loss for the Mission's dive bar scene, Scott Ellsworth, owner of noted grungy 17th Street bar the Uptown, has passed away. Ellsworth died unexpectedly over the weekend after suffering a heart
SF News Yet Another Proposal To Give Us Late Night Transit Hope At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, D8 supe Scott Wiener introduced the latest plan to try improving the BART's and Muni's after-hours transit options. This isn't the first time we've heard that one
SF News 126-Year Old Shipwreck Found Near San Francisco Bay After 126 years spent sitting on the sea floor just outside the Golden Gate, the wreckage of San Francisco Bay's second worst maritime disaster was found by a crew of National Oceanic and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Live-Work Lofts Facing Eviction In Potrero Hill, tenants in live-work lofts that were so contentious during the first dotcom boom are getting evicted to make way for higher-paying renters. [SFEx] A man had his weed and fireworks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Will Save Chinatown From Itself In Chinatown, the owner of tourist friendly knick-knack shop China Bazaar wants to clean up the perfectly dingy face of the neighborhood, which she believes is plagued by too many tacky souvenir shops
Arts & Entertainment HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Will Return For a Second Season After only three episodes have aired, HBO has announced plans for a second season of Mike Judge's techie-thwacking comedy Silicon Valley. According to Variety, the show drew in just shy of 2 million
SF News LinkedIn Plans To Lease Entire 26-Story Office Tower In SoMa In the latest high-profile office lease, Mountain View-based buttoned-up social network LinkedIn will be expanding to San Francisco proper with 450,000 square feet of office space in the forthcoming 222 Second Street
SF News Man Spotted Having Sex With BART Seat Convicted For Lewdness According to a state appeals court, 28-year-old transit lover Leslie Bailey was rightfully convicted of misdemeanor lewd acts when he was spotted getting busy with a BART seat last year. Bailey was cleared
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Report: Patrolling Hippie Hill With Stanley Roberts "There are no bad people," Stanley Roberts says casually as we navigate between blankets in Golden Gate Park, "just people behaving badly." It's Sunday, April 20th: marijuana's unofficial high holy day and I'm
SF News Warriors Abandon Pier 30 Plan, Will Build In Mission Bay Instead The Golden State Warriors will not be building on Piers 30-32, the Chronicle is reporting this afternoon. Instead, the team will construct their new arena further south in Mission Bay, on a 12-acre
SF News New BART Seats Are Too Seahawks-esque, Say Niners Fans Local fans of football and public transit are not excited about the BART cars of the future, apparently. As some have pointed out, those blue and chartreuse seats are just a little too
SF News Two Hikers' Bodies Discovered On Mt. Tam In Less Than A Week Two women have turned up dead around Mt. Tamalpais in less than a week. Most recently, 50-year-old Marie Sanner of Mill Valley was found inside a drainage ditch Thursday evening after her father
Arts & Entertainment Video: 108-Year-Old Earthquake Survivor Explains San Francisco And Silicon Valley Over at Hoodline, our friends in the Lower Haight remember the big one via an interview with 108-year-old earthquake survivor Bill del Monte, who, at more than a century old, has some astounding
