SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits She Screwed Up Something Else Over in the East Bay, Oaklanders skittish from what we can only assume is the constant wee-ooo-wee-ooo-wee-ooo of Police sirens have been waiting patiently for updates on Mayor Quan's 100 Blocks Initiative. The
SF News Video: Extreme Googlers Use SF As Their Playground During today's keynote speech at Google's I/O Conference, co-founder and tech industry heartthrob Sergey Brin one-upped every tech CEO ever with a publicity stunt/technology demo/Super Bowl-caliber viral commercial for his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tecate Promotes Public Urination In The Mission [Updated] Tecate, the beer of choice for budget-conscious parkgoers who are all like "can we get something other than PBR?", has recently launched a pro-tree peeing ad campaign in the heart of the city's
SF News Eliana Lopez Willing To Give Testimony In Exchange For Airfare In Ross Mirkarimi's misconduct hearings, the sidelined Sheriff's wife is apparently ready to give her own testimony before the city's Ethics Commission — but only if the City agrees to fly her back from
SF News Tenderloin Shoe Mugger Socks Victim With A Gunshot Wound A 20-year-old man with an apparently enviable pair of sneakers was mugged at gunpoint in the Tenderloin early Monday morning. The victim was walking on Leavenworth near the infamous heroin-selling Tenderloin deli at
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Beat L.A. Ryan Vogelsong's 2-0 win against L.A. in AT&T Park last night puts the Giants one game back on the Dodgers. Tim Lincecum will take the mound this afternoon, looking to
SF News Orbitz.com Starts Fleecing Fancy Mac Users Orbitz.com, purveyors of cheap travel and hotel accommodations, has finally figured out how to capitalize on the expensive tastes and smug sense of superiority of folks who choose to do their computing
SF News Google Supercomputer Network Figures Out There Are Cats On YouTube What do you and 16,000 computer processors hooked up to Google's secretive machine learning neural network have in common? Well, you and the neural network both have something resembling a human brain,
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Regarding That Plan To Drain The Reservoir The plan to drain Hetch Hetchy is gaining traction (says the Examiner). [SFEx] What late night shenanigans go on in the back of a gaming store? Magic the Gathering, obviously. [Haighteration] An ode
SF News Early Morning Brushfire Breaks Out At Stern Grove Homeless Camp Around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning firefighters responded to reports of a quickly moving wildfire inside the park at Stern Grove in the Outer Sunset. According to SFFD Captain Kevin Smith, the fire
SF News Day Around the Bay: School District Workers Obliterate Children's Mural Students and teachers at Horace Mann Middle School in the Mission took two years planning and painting a mural featuring dragons and the Golden Gate Bridge, only to have it obliterated by some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The S.F. Chronicle Gorges Itself On Sausages So We Don't Have To In Sunday's Inside Scoop section, the Chronicle Food & Wine staff asked an interesting question: What's the quickest way to become terrified of sausage? We're paraphrasing a bit, but the answer, of course,
Arts & Entertainment Look At Supervisor Jane Kim's Pink Pride Heels Right This Instant San Francisco's most fashionable city supervisor (sorry, Eric Mar) strutted out to yesterday's Pride Parade in these amazing, jewel-like pink numbers, which we can only assume sent all onlookers in a a fit
SF News Hideous Sea Creature Attempts To Save Fish With Tweets With populations of the Pacific lamprey on the decline, officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are hoping to win over the public's interest in the horrifying, bloodsucking creatures with a
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Two Stabbed In Pride-Adjacent Box Cutter Incident Sunday Two men ended up in San Francisco General Hospital after a confrontation near Sunday's Pride Parade got out of hand. According to Bay City News, the two 27-year-old victims were with friends a
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Who Will Ticket The Ticketers? A DPT Cushman enjoys some free parking. Spotted by Christopher Matson.
SF News More Details Emerge On Missing 22-Year-Old Man [UPDATE - FOUND!] Additional details have come out in the search for 22-year-old Evan Flanary, who was allegedly on his way to meet a contact from a social media app before he went missing nearly a
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: "Game On!" For Pride In Oakland, the Giants took the A's 9-8 on Saturday, but lost 4-2 on a walk-off homerun from Derek Norris on Sunday. [CBS5] [MLB] Friendshake is Facebook's new feature for friending nearby people,
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The Foie-pocalypse Is Nigh Foie gras protesters reveal location of "secret" foie dinner. More importantly: Sonoma Artisan Foie Gras has exhausted its supply. The foie-pocalypse is upon us. [KTVU] There may be hope for ending the foie
SF News Day Around The Bay: Where To Take A Cheap Dip This Summer Where to swim in the Bay Area this summer for under ten bucks. (Bonus: some of them are heated!) [CurbedSF] The ATF is investigating the fire in Oakland that halted BART for hours
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Lucky Peach' Deems Swan Oyster Depot The 'Best Place To Eat In America' Lucky Peach, the quarterly food journal from McSweeney's and Momofuku chef David Chang, is preparing to unleash the fourth edition of their wordy and occasionally sanctimonious (but thankfully never gushy) collection of foodie
Arts & Entertainment Pier 29 May Be Demolished, America's Cup Ready To Give It A Makeover Anyway The newly rainbow-anointed Pier 29 suffered over $2.4 million worth of damages in yesterday's 4-alarm fire on the waterfront. The bad news is that the historic facade (the only part of the
SF News Cyclist Pleads Not Guilty To Felony Manslaughter Charges In Castro Pedestrian Death Chris Bucchere, the cyclist accused of fatally striking a 71-year-old pedestrian at Castro and Market Streets back in March, pled not guilty to felony charges of vehicular manslaughter yesterday. During his brief arraignment
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Is <s>Down</s> Back! Notorious Whale Fails To Make An Appearance [Update] [UPDATE - It's back! Wait, it's down again!] KEEP CALM, everybody. There's a big hole missing in the Internet as Twitter is reportedly experiencing some unscheduled downtime Thursday morning. As many of your
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Fifty Shades Of Golf After the U.S. Open, Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik talks about the pornography of golf. Also: Golfer fashion faux-pas. [Garchik] The next trend in cocktails? A spritzing of perfumes and essential oils. A
