SF News Falling Tree Causes Wrecks, Man's Death On Highway 13 A multi-car crash on Highway 13 Thursday morning resulted in several car wrecks and the death of an 18-year-old Washington man. The tree crashed down onto southbound traffic near Park Boulevard in Oakland
SF News Day Around The Bay: Brown Joins Forces With Millionaires Tax Backers Gov. Brown joins forces with millionaires tax backers. [LA Times] Oakland police keep track of anarchists. [SFBG] Did you pee on BART? Because someone did. [UA] Live sand drawing on Ocean Beach this
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: 'It's Getting Lonely Out Here' By D. Hanousek Maybe it's the nonstop rain or the traffic on 101. Maybe it's the news that one of my SFUSD-champion parent friends is pulling her kids out of public school and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ame Honors Anniversary Of Japanese Tsunami-Quake With Prix Fixe Benefit From now until March 18th, St. Regis' Michelin-starred food joint Ame honors the one-year anniversary of the tsunami and earthquake in Miyagi, Japan, with a special prix fixe dinner option. Dishes inspired by
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Giants Fan's Hat Features Action Figures, Astroturf, Glory Giants fan Lonee Hoffman of Fremont sports this breathtaking baseball cap anointed with figurines of San Francisco Giants players as she watches her favorite team workout before a spring training game against the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pie, Science, Kate Bush: Celebrating Pi Day Today is Pi Day, a holiday in which we honor the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th since 3, 1 and 4 are the three most noteworthy digits of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Hooded On Hyde "Hooded sweatshirt on Hyde Street" by Troy Holden.
SF News NYC Man Sues Apple Because Siri Doesn't Understand Him Those of us with an iPhone 4S boasting Apple's personal-assistant Siri, we understand the frustration when the nice lady inside our phone doesn't grasp a word we're saying. However, one New York man
SF News TL Plays Host To Separate Shooting, Stabbing A shooting and a stabbing shook the already shaken Tenderloin this morning, both incidents unrelated. First, police responded to a shooting was a little after 3 a.m. near Larkin and O'Farrell streets.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around The Bay: Redistricting Madness Burritt Room is closes temporarily for a facelift. Hmm. [Grub Street] Grandparent scam cheats Woodland woman out of $14,000. [Sacramento Bee] CBS 5 news reporter Mike Sugarman has 14 Emmys?! He's the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Food Critics Debate Restaurant Stars Two of San Francisco's (increasingly rare) faceless critics, the Chronicle's Michael Bauer and SF Weekly's Jonathan Kauffman, face off today regarding the star system for restaurant reviews. Why? Because the LA Times (who
SF News UC Berkeley Assistant Vice Chancellor Gave Unfair Raise To Lover At a time when UC Berkeley students can afford neither tuition nor another beat down from campus police, assistant vice chancellor Diane Leite "gave repeated raises to a subordinate during their 15-month romance"
Arts & Entertainment 7 Reasons To Love San Francisco There are countless stories to tell in San Francisco, but sometimes a picture says so much more that mere words. Each Tuesday (or, in today's case, Thursday), we present to you 7 Reasons.
SF News Report: Police Called To Jackson And Davis Police have been called to Jackson and Davis in San Francisco, which is currently blocked off. One SFist tipster suggested that a man has "jumped to his death...from one of the high-rise
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch The New iPad Unboxing Part of what makes Apple's fandom so rabid is the act and art of opening up a new Apple product. Like mainlining heroin, it's a quick high that the buyer can never reach
SF News Weather: Nothing But Rain After a winter that left us dry and cracked, this week promises to see nothing but rain pound the Bay Area until next Monday. "As much as 5 inches of rain could fall
SF News Day Around The Bay Cyclist who killed woman only gets probation. [SF Appeal] Tea, sandwiches, and gossip at Crown & Crumpet in Ghirardelli Square. [SFGate] Hot on the heels of North Dakota critic Marilyn Hagerty, a tale
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Takeru Kobayashi Eats 13 Grilled Cheeses In 1 Minute Good heavens, that's a lot of American cheese! Incomparable hot dog swallower Takeru Kobayashi showed up at dippy SXSW this weekend to chow down on 13 grilled cheese sandwiches in 1 minute. Looks
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Giants Spring Training... Giants' favorite Buster Posey grounds out during the third inning of a spring training baseball game against the, ahem, Seattle Mariners, Sunday in Scottsdale, Arizona. Remember, home opening is Friday, April 13th. Buy
Arts & Entertainment How We Date: Learn How To Do It Online The Right Way When you tell your grandkids that you met grandpa shit-faced during last call at Taco Tuesdays, you might as well say you met on a Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande
SF News ACLU Doesn't Like Siri's Loose Lips Siri — the iPhone 4S's personal-assistant feature that lets you use your voice to send messages, make calls, set reminders, and ask filthy questions — has come under fire from the American Civil Liberties Union
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Literal Sign Of The Times "Literal Sign of the Times" by Ariel Dovas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jean Paul Gaultier: New Creative Director Of Diet Coke Before designer étonnant Jean-Paul Gaultier arrives in San Francisco next week to kick off the de Young Museum's Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the man who
SF News Mission Plays Host To SF Murder No. 9 Of 2012 On Saturday Friday night, 39-year-old Ronald Monzon of Newman, CA was shot and killed in San Francisco's Mission District. SFPD responded to reports of gunfire near 23rd and Shotwell streets at 7:20
