SF News BART 'Upstreamers' Frustrate Lazier Commuters At Downtown Stops Presumably denizens of Powell Street BART, the staff of the Chronicle is officially hip to a transportation hack they're dubbing "Upstreaming." That refers to the practice of riding trains back a few stops
SF News Rain Will Continue Through Friday, With The Worst Tomorrow Yeah, it rained this weekend, and pretty heavily yesterday. But it's going to do that harder this week, especially tomorrow. In what was anticipated as a five-day storm beginning this past Saturday (which
SF News Steve Jobs' Emails At Center Of Oakland Class Action Suit Steve Jobs is alive and, well, very much himself in emails and a videotaped deposition to be presented in an Oakland courtroom tomorrow. As one story goes, when Google's Eric Schmidt informed Jobs
SF News Pre-Holiday Airport Report: Delays, And Ways To Pass The Time At SFO The Bay Area's busiest airport, SFO, expects to handle 1.3 million travelers between last Friday and December 1, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Add that to the designation as the
SF News Video: Tribute To Local Skateboarder Murdered on Haight Street Malcolm Armstrong, a transplant from New York, had found his place in San Francisco's skateboarding culture before he was stabbed and killed on Haight Street recently as Mission Local reports. While an investigation
SF News Supreme Court Takes Case Of SFPD Shooting Of Mentally Disabled Woman The U.S. Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear San Francisco vs. Sheehan, 13-1412, a case that could set precedents for police treatment of the disabled and mentally disabled. According to the AP,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dunkin' Donuts To Open 26 Bay Area Franchises Starting In 2016 As we told you earlier this year, third-wave Coolatta® purveyors Dunkin' Donuts will be dipping into the Bay Area. Now we know to expect them in 2016, and where. 26 Dunkin' "restaurants" will
SF News New Lyft Service Lets Commuting Drivers Pick Up Passengers Along Their Route To Work According to Lyft, around 80% of commuting drivers make their daily trek alone. So, the company is debuting a service called Driver Destination. Lonely commuters stand to gain $400 a month just picking
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter CFO's DM Fail Twitter CFO means to DM, tweets instead: "I think we should buy them." Remember, always screenshot the tweet! [Buzzfeed] Google removed a homophobic/gay killing game called “Ass Hunter” from the Android store.
Arts & Entertainment Local Band's Candid Story Of Losing $11k On Tour Don't tell the NorCal bandmates of Pomplamoose that they've "made it." Sure, they've graced the cover of the Weekly and just got off a national tour, but as one half of the band's
SF News Local Man Pays Homeless Person $1 For Each 'Like' Of Their Picture Together A San Francisco man named Daniel Polk was explaining homelessness to his children when he decided to take a photo with a homeless man named Edward near the Castro Walgreens, promising to donate
Arts & Entertainment Noe Valley's Delightful Wishing Tree The Wishing Tree of Noe Valley is getting some love this holiday season, already bedecked with hopeful notes. Now in its fourth year the tree is located on Eureka Street between 21st and
SF News Report: Which Neighborhood Home Values Appreciated The Most? A suspicion-confirming report from Paragon Real Estate Group points to three neighborhoods that have seen the greatest bump in home values since the financial crisis: Bayview, the Inner Mission, and Bernal Heights (in
SF News Here's How Much Tech Companies Are Paying Interns Who Can Code In a list guaranteed to make you do a spit-take, here are some of the absurd "top offers" for undergraduate summer internships at tech companies in the Bay Area. They were tweeted out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay Area's Six Best Winter Beers Given the Bay Area's subtle seasons, it's sometimes easier to tell the time of year by what beer you're holding. According to that calendar, we're slipping out of pumpkin season and approaching a
SF News Geico's Leaked Stance On Coverage for Rideshare Drivers An internal sales-training document from Geico suggests an answer to the question of whether policyholders can give paid rides through Uber and Lyft while maintaining their personal coverage: Nope. "If a customer advises
SF News Report: SF's Dirtiest Stretch Of Street Is Still Mid-Market Newsflash: Mid-Market, despite high-profile revitalization efforts, is still very dirty and smells resultantly horrific. According to a survey conducted by the City’s Office of the Controller, Tweet Street the Twitter section of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hail And Waterspouts This afternoon, a big-rig fire on I-80 in Berkeley caused a traffic nightmare. [Berkeleyside] Condoms: best practices, they're great, just don't put them on in too much of a hurry. [HuffPo] One store
SF News SoMa Tech Co-Op The Negev Facing City Scrutiny For Sub-Par Living Situations The Negev, a network of three commune-style SROs in SoMa that we wrote about last week, are marketed on Craigslist and a snazzy website as a paradise for young urban professionals: "Instant Friends
SF News Report: SF's Postal Service Is Incredibly Slow, Wastes $21 Million Per Year It's not just the food movement that's "slow" in the Bay Area. Postal Service employees in San Francisco move far less mail every hour than is typical of a processing and distribution center,
SF News Local News Station Goes After Craigslist For Allowing The Sale Of A Recalled Baby Seat ABC 7 is breathlessly reporting that Craigslist is playing "recall roulette," a snappy accusation that the classified advertising website is allowing the sale of dangerous items. But Craigslist calls the story a "hit
SF News Surviving Brown Twin Marian Has Died Marian Brown, a San Francisco grande dame best known as the surviving half of the iconic sister act The Brown Twins, has died. The news broke on Twitter and and was confirmed by
SF News UC System Adopts 5 Percent Tuition Increase "Hey, hey, ho, tuition hikes have got to go," demonstrators chanted at today's UC Board of Regents meeting, as the AP reports. The board voted to increase tuition 5 percent per year for
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Nixes Bill Cosby's SF-Filmed Special After numerous rape and sexual assault accusations against comedian Bill Cosby have come to the fore, networks such as Netflix are responding by pulling Cosby's work. In a statement, the streaming service said
SF News New York Times Wants Silicon Valley To 'Grow Up?' Not So Fast! After Uber henchman Emil Michael bragged about his bright idea to spend $1 million to investigate "shady" journalists' private lives (and "Dude, Where's My Uber?" star Ashton Kutcher stepped in right beside) the
