SF News 33-Stanyan Bus Strikes Pedestrian In The Mission A roughly 60-year-old pedestrian was hospitalized after being struck by a Muni bus at 16th and Shotwell around 10:30 a.m. this morning. The pedestrian apparently forgot to check for traffic and
Arts & Entertainment Abandoned Warehouse To Temporarily Become 36,000-Square-Foot Graffiti Museum On September 8th, West Coast graffiti blog Endless Canvas will unveil Special Delivery, a massive mural exhibition showcasing the work of over 80 of the most prolific local street artists in a three
SF News Mitt Romney Once Stayed Up For Four Days To Protect The Stanford Axe Over at Mother Jones, the San Francisco-based magazine has a whip-smart listicle telling the complete history of Mitt Romney in 30 defining moments. Like the time in 1965 when young Mitt Romney took
SF News Thanks For Not Being Cheapskates While Enjoying Back Door Boarding, Everybody With only one month of data gathered on the effects Muni's earth-shattering back-door boarding policy, the transit agency has already found another promising, but possibly meaningless, statistic to tout: the number of fare
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Fortified Wine Cocktails Noted alleyway cocktail bar 15 Romolo adds fortified wine cocktails to the menu. [SFoodie] Notorious NIMBY group the Telegraph HIll Dwellers forced the Board of Supervisors to hold "a do-over vote" on the
SF News SFPD Officer Busted By Mall Cop For Alleged Shoplifting According to an eyewitness, a uniformed SFPD officer was busted by a mall department store loss prevention officer for allegedly trying to swipe a cheap bracelet while shopping downtown Wednesday afternoon. haha just
SF News Day Around The Bay: 800+ Types Of Soda Under One Roof Say hello to the Fizzary, the store with over 800 types of soda. [UptownAlmanac] SFPD arrests jewelry thieves during a heist in the Richmond. The robbers were wanted in connection with several other
SF News Instagram Deal Could Lose $273 Million Thanks To Facebook's Plummeting Stock The $1 billion price Facebook agreed to shell out for Instagram back in April might turn out to be more than 25% lighter by the time the deal finally goes through. That deal
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: Cabaret And Burlesque To Benefit The Beloved Brown Twins Thursday night at the Red Devil Lounge on Polk Street, a band of local Jazz legends, burlesque stars and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will pitch in to celebrate San Francisco's iconic set
SF News Infamous Silicon Valley Hoaxster Takes Con Act To GOP Convention Shirley Hornstein, noted in today's morning links as the notorious hoax artist outed by TechCrunch for using photoshopped pictures of herself with celebrities to climb Silicon Valley's greasy social ladder, has apparently already
SF News This Local Dog Is A Miracle Of Modern Science Meet Whiskey, the 80-pound Munsterlander (already off to a great start with today's animal news) who survived a common form of canine oral cancer when he became one of eight pooches to undergo
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: How To Win At Silicon Valley By Photoshopping Celebrities In To Your Instagram Giants rally in the Ninth against the Astros, pick up a game on the Dodgers and another win for Matt Cain. [McCoveyChron] New Polk Street bar named for the lamest Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Manhattan' Director Films Haight-Ashbury Backdrop Woody Allen's latest filming location: Aub Zam Zam, the Upper Haight bar known for a surly bartender and Arabian Nights decor. [Uppercasing] The Chevron refinery in Richmond is still leaking unlawfully high levels
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Intelligentsia To Wedge Itself Into San Francisco's Crowded Coffee Scene Popular Chicago-based, LA-approved coffee company Intelligentsia will soon join the ranks of San Francisco's fourth wave, glass-and-steel-and-reclaimed wood coffee houses. The company, which has seven coffee bars in Chicago and LA, will be
SF News Jaguar Driver Beats Woman With Her Own Windshield Wiper Monday afternoon in the Mission, a man driving a light blue Jaguar became exceptionally irate after he rolled the stop sign at 17th and Harrison Streets and nearly collided with a woman driving
SF News Shockingly Low-Quality Meth Leads To Tasering, Stabbing On Sixth Street after midnight last night, a man in his 50s who had just purchased some methamphetamine quickly discovered that meth dealers, especially the ones who set up shop near Mid-Market's Comfort
Arts & Entertainment Goodnight, Sweet Goober: S.F. Zoo's Tapir Dies Goober, the San Francisco Zoo's Baird's Tapir passed away Sunday morning after a two-year battle with oral cancer. Goober, who looks to have been aptly named, given that goofy grin of his, spent
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Neighbors Debate Crappy Muni Stop Bernal Heights neighbors say this bus stop on the 23 line really sucks. [Bernalwood] Michael Bauer is weirded out by the food in Branson, Missouri the "family-entertainment version of Las Vegas." [InsideScoop] Chartreuse
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Purple Onion Will Shut Down In October The Purple Onion, where many a notable comedian got their start will shut down in October. [UptownAlmanac] [InsideScoop] Whistlerblowers at SFO's airport security contractor claim the company has been routinely breaching federal airport
SF News Seven Photos Of America's Cup Sailors Spraying Each Other With Champagne Last week's America's Cup events were thrilling, right? Sunday's atmosphere out on the Marina Green felt like one of the city's nicer street festivals. A street festival with boats. With two Team USAs
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Shakespeare In A Bar Tonight at the Cafe Royale in Russian Hill, the San Francisco Theater Pub Company will end their summer season with a production of Bill Shakespeare's Measure for Measure while you get pleasantly drunk.
Arts & Entertainment Red Bull Flugtag Splashes Down In McCovey Cove In November Red Bull's splashy, taurine-fueled crash festival will return to San Francisco for the first time since 2003 this November. The Flugtag, for those who may not remember the nascent days of hyper-caffeinated beverages,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Clean Vietnamese Food Discovered Ron Conway, mover & shaker. [Chron] "Quirky" wedding! [7x7] A fire broke out Sunday morning in the Richmond, everyone is OK, but there are pictures [RichmondSF] Say hello to Hanna, a Swedish tattoo
SF News Day Around The Bay: Baby Ostriches And Terrifying Intersections Stop what you're doing and look at these adorable baby ostriches at the Academy of Sciences right now. [RichmondSF] These intersections are terrifying, say local pedestrians. [BayCitizen] California mulling legislation to allow self-driving
Arts & Entertainment Eight Photos Of Willie Brown And Gavin Newsom Making Faces At Each Other Tonight on the Lieutenant Governor's groundbreaking television talk show, the former mayor will match wits (or match something) with another former occupant of San Francisco City Hall's Room 200: Subway sandwich spokesperson and
