SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: SF's Homeless Shelters Are 'Cesspools' "The average [San Francisco] renter is paying nearly 47 percent of his or her monthly income on rent in the second quarter of 2015." [KRON4] Why the logarithmic scale for earthquakes is terrible
SF News Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's Suspended Driver's License Nightmare Is Over, But Big Questions Remain According to a statement from the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, the Ross-Mirkarimi's-suspended-driver's-license saga has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper (and a call to California's Department of Motor Vehicles). Still,
Arts & Entertainment Fainting Goats: NorCal's Hot New Pet Jeez, Eve, my landlord won't even let me get a cat you say. Yeah, it's tough out there! But maybe your landlord will be won over if you show up with what one
SF News Woman Plummets From Bay Bridge After Early-Morning Crash No sign of woman who fell from #BayBridge earlier this morning. Search continues w/ CHP and Coast Guard. pic.twitter.com/L27xWbMFxG— CHP San Francisco (@CHPSanFrancisco) August 12, 2015 Crews are searching the
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Reddit Mods Speak An SF State prof was part of a team that discovered a new planet orbiting around two stars as part of NASA’s Kepler Mission. [Bay City News] Mods of Reddit's flagship subreddits
SF News Outside Lands 2015 Arrests, Citations, And Crimes By The Numbers Nearly everyone had a great time at Outside Lands, right? Especially this guy. But some folks had a little too much fun (or tried to) and the numerous San Francisco Police Department officers
SF News Two Critically Injured In 24th Street Drive-By Shooting Two men are fighting for their lives after a shooting just steps from the 24th Street/Mission BART station Monday night. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak, at 10:
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi Says No One Told Him His Driver's License Was Suspended The odd story broke late Monday: embattled first-term San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been driving on an expired license since February, after an October collision, and didn't even realize it until a
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: So Long, BART Carpets Stanley talks to some cyclists. [KRON4] Expect confused drivers on/near Market Street, since most GPS systems won't reflect the new ban on turns onto the street. [Bay City News] Farewell, [BART] carpet.
SF News Not Guilty Plea For 43-Year-Old SF Woman Accused Of Killing Teenaged Lover The 43-year-old woman accused of shooting and killing an 18-year-old student at Balboa High School cohabited with the youth prior to the slaying, her attorney says. As previously reported, 43-year-old Silvia Lorena Montoya
SF News SFPD Investigates 'Suspicious' Mission District Death After a young woman died near San Francisco General Hospital, police say they are investigating her death as "suspicious." Police say that the body of 23-year-old San Francisco resident Melanie Oliveri was found
SF News Long-Vacant Mission Grocery Store Might Finally Get A Tenant After sitting empty for five years, a long-shuttered grocery store just steps from a highly desirable Mission District stretch of 24th Street might reopen with a new tenant. 1245 South Van Ness Avenue
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: No More LOLing Your weekend ICYMI: CA probably won't pay for a transgender inmate's surgery, Fantastic Negrito's Outside Lands show was canceled after his intern was busted for scalping, there was a little earthquake Sunday, a
SF News 3.3 Magnitude Earthquake Jostles San Francisco A 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Bay Area at 1:26 this afternoon, with a jolt that was felt in San Francisco and beyond. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake
Arts & Entertainment Saturday At Outside Lands 2015: Billy Idol, The Black Keys, Twin Peaks All photos: Annie Lesser And with the weekend came the crowds to Golden Gate Park. All in all a pleasant, fun seeking bunch, the throngs teemed from the main stage for acts like
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: SF Weekly's New Logo Questioned A firefighter battling a wildfire near Lake Tahoe was killed when a burning tree collapsed. [KRON4] SF's planning commission gears up for the first vote on a huge SoMa development. [SF Chronicle] Dick
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Yankee Laid To Rest In North Beach Here's how the new Parkmerced development's going to look. [SF Business Times] The SF Art Institute just found a bunch of frescoes from the 30s. [SF Chronicle] The oldest New York Yankee was
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trans SF Singer Tells 'American Idol' Off According to the [East Bay Express], that smartphone app BART created for riders to report bad behavior is instead being used to racially profile people. Today is Shrimp Boy/Ed Lee news: HRC
SF News Dirty Medical Device Endangers Hundreds Of UCSF Patients 417 patients at UCSF Medical Center received an alarming letter warning them they they might have been exposed to diseases like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV after a medical device used for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proprietor Of Valencia Street Bar Calls Out 'Ugly' Entitled Millennials Longstanding Valencia Street bar Blondie's always seems to evoke mixed reactions from SFist's commenter community, from those who say things like "this place was over run by young bankers and dot.com 1.
SF News With Thursday Death, SF Is On Track For Its Highest Homicide Rate In Years A man found dead in a Tenderloin residence appears to be a victim of San Francisco's 30th recorded homicide for 2015, putting the city on track to hit its highest number of annual
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: No More #EDM On Instagram, Sorry The SFPD officers who shot Alex Nieto have been cleared. [Bay City News] The family and some friends of Kate Steinle gathered in SF last night. [KRON4] In "several weeks" a judge in
SF News Taking Muni To Outside Lands? Don't Forget The Subway Closure All set for Outside Lands? You've got your picks made from the lineup, you know what you're going to eat, you're even prepared for inclement weather. And, of course, remembering the remarkably high
Arts & Entertainment Cut Through The Bad News With This Ocean Beach Sand Dollar Crumbling newspapers, staggering start ups, institutions in jeopardy, corrupt officials...even when it's interesting/schadenfreude-y, bad news is still just that: bad news. And sometimes it feels overwhelming! Look, don't get me wrong.
SF News Report: 42-Year-Old Woman Might Have Been Dating SF Teen She Allegedly Killed A 42-year-old woman arrested in the shooting death of a San Francisco teenager might have been dating the high-schooler, according to a local newspaper's report. According to a press release sent by San
