Arts & Entertainment Video: Whales Appear Along The NorCal Coast, Leave Everyone Breathless Two different videographers caught footage of whales doing their whale thing off the coast of Northern California this weekend. In one case, a slickly professional TV news team was the first, ever, to
SF News Woman Who Was Shot In Golden Gate Park Refuses To Cooperate With Police Things turned violent in Golden Gate Park this weekend, when a party that continued until the early morning hours culminated in a shooting that injured one. A 19-year-old woman was shot in the
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: SFPD's Chief's Pricey Defense Your weekend ICMY: A power line fall closes 101 Saturday and Sunday night, a rent increase closes Boogaloos, SFPD recovered a guitar that once belonged to a Red Hot Chili Pepper, some guys
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: The Golden Days Of The Cole Valley Suitcase Murder As you might have guessed from the photo above, there was a Super Moon last night. [CBS5] A librarian pedals around SF on a bike trailed by books. [Visual News] The Madame Tussauds
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Four Injured When BART Escalator Snaps Two shot on 880 in Oakland late Friday night. [KRON4] [Bay City News] [Twitter] says that they want to get more diverse. [Cnet] [Wired] [SF Chronicle] A petition demanding that developers be required
Arts & Entertainment Stephen Colbert Demands To Be Sold On San Francisco Stephen Colbert's fondness for Silicon Valley tech is well known, and he certainly made Colbert Report hay lampooning San Francisco's eccentricities — but now that he's made the big show, is he less eager
SF News As SF's Crime Wave Continues, Police Chief Touts City's Relative Safety We've talked before about how crime is spiking in San Francisco: some blame the income divide, others blame the passage of Prop 47, and still others blame SF's rapid population increase. Today the
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sioux Falls Is Coming To Get Us Does a student loan refinancing company's survey really equal "How some in San Francisco and New York manage to pay low rent"? [Fusion] Sorry guys, the [Huffington Post] says that the hot new
SF News 'White Power' Tags Appear In Mission District The Mission District is no stranger to graffiti, from anti-gentrification messages spray-painted on businesses and buildings, to the defacement of an LGBTQ-themed mural, to the campaign of vandalism and threats against Local's Market.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fan Of SF Grocery Store Sushi Shocked To Discover Live Roach In Meal Mark Wolfe "always" gets the prepackaged sushi sold at the Lucky supermarket at Fulton and Masonic Streets. But that "always" turned to "never" Wednesday, when he says he found a live cockroach in
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Techie Lunch Hotspots Revealed The Burlingame pet sitter who was caught on video abusing a dog has been charged with animal cruelty. [KRON4] [Cnet] runs an article on and slideshow of places on where SF's tech workers
SF News Video: Watch Fillmore Shopper Stumble On, Steal $33,000 A Fillmore produce market that was storing tens of thousands of dollars in an unsecured box got a nasty surprise earlier this month, when a pillaging patron stumbled upon the stash and pocketed
SF News San Francisco Men Identified As Suspects In Russian Hill Tourist Shooting A day after the shooting of a tourist near San Francisco's iconic crooked portion of Lombard Street, police have identified the men they say are responsible for the crime. As previously reported, at
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Google Wants To Track Potholes Now Google has filed a patent to track potholes. [KRON4] How screwed up was a recent New York Times op-ed on transgender folks? This screwed up. [Vox] Big Sunset development takes pains to keep
SF News Muni's Killing Off Their Iconic Paper Transfers Nostalgic people, take note: Soon that (somewhat arbitrarily) torn Muni transfer for cash fares will disappear, to be replaced by a computer-printed slip. According to the Chron, the current cash fare boxes Muni
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Ditches Dodge Durango, Flees On Foot Saturday's Mission Street hit-and-run wasn't the only such crime last weekend — Sunday night, two more people fell victim to a driver that struck them, then took off. According to an San Francisco Police
SF News Life-Threatening Injuries For Pedestrian Struck By Porsche Driver 6th St closed between Market and Mission after Porsche slams into pedestrian pic.twitter.com/FOWLSwjN1W— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) August 25, 2015 A SoMa pedestrian is fighting for his life this morning, after
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Drug Users Lose Sign Merl Reagle, a beloved crossword puzzle maker whose work anchored the magazine of the San Francisco Examiner and later the [SF Chronicle], has died. Beware: Bay Area condo values are slipping slightly, [SocketSite]
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Critically Injures Woman On Mission Street The San Francisco Police Department is seeking witnesses to a Mission Street hit-and-run that critically injured a 24-year-old woman. According to an SFPD spokesperson, the woman was crossing Mission Street at Precita Avenue
SF News Pack Of Raccoons Swarm Richmond District Couple A Richmond District couple says they feel so menaced by area raccoons that they won't leave the house after 11 p.m. for fear of the masked beasts. And, sure enough, when their
SF News Hang Glider Slams Into San Francisco Cliff A San Francisco hang glider died Sunday, after witnesses say that he flew straight into a Fort Funston cliff. San Francisco Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeff Barden says that crews including an officer
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Toy Grenade Snarls SFO ICYMI this weekend: Two NorCal guys are getting the hero treatment in France, a tagger gets sued by the city, remembering the 50th anniversary of the Giants/Dodgers brawl, a San Jose cat
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Calling The Cops On Homeless People The [SF Chronicle] takes a walk with a woman who calls the cops any time she sees a struggling homeless person (and the Coalition on Homelessness thinks it's great). [Update: Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Lands End Labyrinth Sets Rebuild Date SF cop and cancer patient have breakdance battle. [KRON4] SF employment numbers hit a record high. [SocketSite] Is being a developer in SF like being a victim of the Nazis? [San Francisco Magazine]
SF News Honda Driver Turns SoMa Collision Into Gunpoint Robbery Was it an impromptu crime or a targeted robbery? That's just one of the questions the San Francisco Police Department is mulling after a vehicle collision in SoMa turned into a midday mugging.
