SF News 19-Year-Old Woman Shot In The Face At East Oakland Motel A 19-year-old woman with a criminal record was found lying dead in a pool of blood at Oakland's Starlite Motel early this morning. According to Oakland PD, the victim was shot in the
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: What's That Smell At 16th And Mission? In the best headline you'll read today, the Chronicle discovers that "16th Street BART smells like urinal". [Chron] Another reason why climate change will kill us all. [EBX] Willie Brown knows where to
SF News Entire Internet Claims San Francisco Will Boycott Apple Products In their rush to be the first to tweet the sensational "San Francisco Bans Apple Computers" headline, several reputable news sources including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Huffington Post* and countless tech
SF News Bay Area's Largest Pot Club Threatened With Federal Seizure We suppose it was only a matter of time before U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag got around to serving her latest boilerplate warning to Harborside Health Center, which bills itself as "the largest
SF News If Mayor Lee Loves Stop-And-Frisk So Much, Why Doesn't He Marry It? New updates today on Mayor Lee's controversial pet project, Actually, the only update is that, outside of the Mayor's office, no one seems to think exploring a stop-and-frisk policy is a good idea
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Is San Francisco Becoming A Mall? San Francisco is getting malled! (Get it? It's turning in to a mall.) Anyway, that's the Guardian's front page news today. Discuss. [SFBG] Speaking of which, we have updates on the Hayes Valley
SF News Facebook HQ's Yoga Teacher Fired For Banning Facebook In Class Last month, a local yoga instructor with a perfectly reasonable no-phones-in-class policy suddenly found herself getting the boot from a weekly gig at Facebook's cushy Menlo Park HQ thanks to complaints from one
SF News Pelosi, House Dems Take A Shot At Boehner's DOMA Defense Since John Boehner seems to be the only person left willing to stick up for the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the recently gay-married Barney Frank and 130 other House
SF News Former City Employee Officially The Worst Landlord In San Francisco History Despite what you may think about your landlord, he or she probably has nothing on James Blanding of Bayview Property Managers who was just ordered to pay a record $800,000 civil fine
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Mark Ruffalo Woos Local Ladyfolk Mayor Lee says one thing, does another on the city's solar program. None of this was on his Pinterest page, sadly. [SFEx] Celebrity spotting! Mark Ruffalo kicking it with a million ladies at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Parklets Will Be Gavin Newsom's Legacy The 29-year-old DUI suspect who ran in to everything in the Inner Richmond and tried to escape via Muni bus, has been identified. His name is Rostislav Bushler and he is the worst.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Lee's Pinterest Page Is Predictably Mediocre In an official announcement from the Mayor's office today, Ed Lee and Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann revealed that the latter will be moving his company and its social networking scrapbook service from dull,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AT&T Park Dropped From PETA's Veggie-Friendly Ballpark List Perhaps reflecting on how badly Tim Lincecum has been getting slaughtered on the mound, everyone's favorite stunt advocacy group has eliminated San Francisco's AT&T Park from their annual list of Top
SF News Woman Sues FDA For Her Right To Free Sperm A local Jane Doe is suing the Food and Drug Administration over regulations she claims are unnecessary and unconstitutional in the way they seek to regulate her chosen method of getting pregnant. Specifically,
SF News The Vapor Room To Close Under Pressure From Feds The latest victim of U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag's crusade against medical marijuana dispensaries is the Lower Haight's oft-celebrated Vapor Room Cooperative. As owner Martin Olive tells Haighteration, the Feds have been tightening
SF News Metal Thieves Are Now Just Stealing Playground Equipment After an epidemic of missing copper wiring, an historical marker, a disappearing cathedral bell, mass grave robberies, and some seafaring pirates, this rash of Bay Area metal thefts has officially gone from baffling,
SF News 17-Year-Old Shot Saturday Afternoon In Portola A 17-year-old boy ended up in San Francisco General with life-threatening injuries after shots rang out in late Saturday afternoon on the corner of San Bruno Avenue and Felton Street. The teen victim
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: LA Possibly Not So Bad? Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte decides Los Angeles is not so bad, just "different, interesting." [Chron] Authorities waited 22 minutes to clear Mayor Lee out of City Hall during a bomb threat last month,
Arts & Entertainment Ten Brief Excerpts From July's 'Gazette' As is monthly tradition around here, we present our 10 favorite utterances from the July issue of the Nob Hill Gazette, "San Francisco's original social network". Provided (mostly) without commentary and in no
SF News Drunk Driver Attempts To Flee Hit-Run Scene Via Muni Bus, Fails In the Inner Richmond Thursday evening, a drunk driver piloting a white Ford Explorer made a series of unfortunate mistakes while trying to ditch out on the scene of a vehicle collision near
SF News Nerds' Newest Ventures: 'Hacker Hostels' While the newly rich continue to gobble up overpriced real estate in San Francisco proper, the budding young entrepreneurs who continue to flock to Silicon Valley, heads all filled with Zuckerberg dreams, are
Arts & Entertainment Now Would Be A Great Time To Spot Some Whales When was the last time you spotted a blue whale? Never, probably. Whale watching seems like the sort of expensive pastime reserved for people who have entire rooms filled with back issues of
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Ann Curry Spotted Celebrity Sighting! After getting fired from the Today show, Ann Curry zipped over to San Francisco to have dinner at Ame. No word yet on what she drank to ease the pain. [GrubSF]
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Bike Courier Reality Show The Weather Channel is possibly filming a reality show about bike couriers. It's like the 90s all over again. [UptownAlmanac] Woman driver crashes. [MissionLocal] The awkward Professor Muni is back for episode 2
