SF News Study: Overdue 'Mega Storm' Could Do Same Damage As Loma Prieta Quake Forget droughts and earthquakes for a moment. According to a new report from the Bay Area Council, a business foundation dating back to 1945, an overdue "mega storm" that could make the rainpocalypse
SF News The SFist To-Do List: 13 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, APRIL 21 READING: SF-based Eli Horowitz was the
SF News [Updated] Uber Driver Arrested For Allegedly Attacking Cyclist In Fisherman's Wharf KCBS reports that this afternoon an Uber driver was arrested following an incident of road rage involving a cyclist at around 1:30 p.m. in Fisherman's Wharf. The Uber driver, 38-year-old Emerson
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 55 Years, North Beach Mainstay Capp's Corner Has Closed At the end of last month, the public learned that one staple of North Beach's traditional Italian dining scene, Capp's Corner, would close. But, writes KTVU, a last supper at Capp's on Sunday
SF News Rent Your Dungeon, Cage, Or Adult Playroom on 'KinkBNB' It's 2015, and kink is on the table. Or on the floor, in the basement, or hanging from the ceiling, as the case may be. And now San Francisco, innovation capital of the
SF News TV Pilot '94110' Posts Mission Casting Call, Knee-Jerk Haters Gonna Hate Casting call for "94110" a TV drama set in the Mission. pic.twitter.com/v1TfSr9e0K— Doctor Popular (@DocPop) April 19, 2015 There's an open casting call for a TV pilot to be held
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Bros Disclose Fun fact. In Season 2's intro, a Sim City style cartoon of Silicon Valley, we've got a few new "easter eggs." The @Yahoo building got quite a makeover between Seasons 1 and 2
SF News Day Around The Bay: 1906 Quake Photos In Jeopardy Photos from the 1906 earthquake might disappear if $40K isn't raised to save them. [Chron] Speaking of which, take a look at these photos from the Smithsonian of the 1906 quake. [SacBee] Even
SF News PG&E Gas Line Explodes Near Fresno, At Least 14 Injured A photo posted by Alan-Michael (@81vlvnmvc) on Apr 17, 2015 at 2:29pm PDT An explosion near Fresno at about 2:30 p.m. halted north and south traffic on Highway 99, KCRA
SF News Sunken WWII Aircraft Carrier With Radioactive Material Found Off SF Coast Scientists announced yesterday that they have completed the first ever survey of a 623-foot-long World War II aircraft carrier sitting 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface, a full 30 miles off the
SF News Instagram And Tinder Hook Up For Seamless Stalking Instagram and Tinder are natural bedfellows. First, Tinder already integrates with Facebook, which owns Instagram, so basically it's all in the same incestuous family. And second, with the right degree of determination and
SF News [Update] London Breed: 'Traffic Will Be A Nightmare' On 4/20, Traffic Diversion On Fell [Update] A previous version of this story noted several street closures, but in fact, there will only be a traffic diversion on Fell Street to northbound Stanyan Street, effectively shutting down Kezar Drive
SF News Marin Wars: George Lucas Keeps Trolling NIMBY Neighbors With Massive Affordable Housing Plan Visionary Star Wars creator George Lucas is no stranger to drawn-out, episodic battles. Most recently, the filmmaker was spurned by the Bay Area when the Presidio Trust rejected his illustration museum, which might
SF News 100 Local Catholic Leaders Sign Full Page Chronicle Ad In Plea To Pope: 'Replace Archbishop Cordileone' "Holy Father, please provide us with a leader true to our values and your namesake," begins the text of a full page ad in today's edition of the Chronicle imploring Pope Francis to
SF News Busy Wiggle Intersection To Get A Self-Appointed 'Referee' Next Week Imagine the horror of being publicly shamed by a concerned citizen after blowing through an intersection on your bike along the Wiggle. Well, you won't have to imagine it much longer. Next Thursday
SF News [Update] Civic Center Station Reopened After Death On Tracks After a passenger was struck and killed by a BART train just after 10 a.m. this morning, BART issued a service advisory that Civic Center station would be closed and that there
SF News Leap Purposely Made Their Private Buses Inaccessible For Wheelchairs It turns out that a private bus startup catering to Financial District workers might not care about everyone. As the Chronicle reports, a complaint filed last month with the Department of Justice alleges
SF News Day Around The Bay: Call For Parklets Mayor Lee and Supervisor Farrell have announced their proposed methods to tighten up that Airbnb law. You know, because it's basically gotten no traction so far. [Chron] It's the first open call for
SF News Will This Year's 4/20 Be Another Potpocalypse? Despite encouragement from their cultural icons to "smoke weed every day," some among San Francisco's pot-crazed population still prize a single day of the year as their a high holiday. The traditional 4/
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Hayes Valley's Place Pigalle To Close Next Month, Plans To Relocate After a feud with the building's landlord, the owners of Place Pigalle are closing their bar on May 10th. The establishment has seen dramatic changes in its surroundings since it opened back around
Arts & Entertainment This Guy Looks And Sounds Exactly Like Robin Williams (R.I.P.) I would tell you to close your eyes and picture the late Robin Williams while you watch these nearly 20 brilliant impressions, but part of the effect of South Carolinian actor and impressionist
SF News With 20,000 'Driver-Partners,' Uber Is Now Kinda-Sorta A Top Bay Area Employer In just a year, Uber reports that its Bay Area driving force has more than doubled to reach 20,000 "driver-partner" contractors, a number that presents a fascinating conundrum. As the Chronicle reports,
SF News Weed Delivery Startup Eaze Snags Snoop Dogg Investment, $10 Million In Funding It's not seed funding anymore. Eaze, the medical marijuana delivery service that launched last summer just ahead of several other competitors, is beginning to blossom. Today an email to customers announced that the
SF News Commercial Sardine Fishing Banned As Plummeting Population Starves Sea Lions West Coast commercial sardine fishing for the 2015-16 season, which regularly occurs between July 1st and the following June 30th, has been banned. The decision was made yesterday by a vote of the
SF News Berkeley Student Charged With Cell Phone Peeping In Dorm Bathrooms At 11:30 p.m. on March 29, a 19-year-old female Berkeley student was using a co-ed restroom in her dorm. There, she noticed a cell phone "extended underneath the stall partition with
