Arts & Entertainment Video: East Bay SPCA's 'Uptown Funk' Parody Will Bowl You Over With Cuteness While the well-funded San Francisco SPCA gets a lot of press, the East Bay SPCA's good works aren't always as prominently displayed. With an "annual live release rate" ("the percentage of animals that
SF News Video: Dastardly Couple Swipes Teen's $8500 Instrument From Car Parked In Union Square Garage It's a typical Union Square story — a 16-year-old girl and her mom park in the Ellis-O'Farrell garage while they shop for a special outfit, in this case duds for the teen's upcoming cello
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Alas, Poor Yahoo I'm not that married to the past or anything, but the way these folks apparently tore all the cool details out of this Queen Anne really bums me out. [Curbed SF] "You’d
SF News Yet Another Pedestrian Killed In SF: That's One A Day For The Last Three Days An 88-year-old man was struck and killed by a driver in the Outer Sunset Monday morning, the third such fatality in as many days. A driver hit Jinrog Ouyang of San Francisco at
SF News City Agency Proclaims That 'Brown Is The New Green' San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission sees your drought-conscious "Ugliest Yard In SF" competition, Department of the Environment. And now they're ready to raise you, with the disquieting slogan "Brown is the new Green.
SF News Bumbling Thief Gets Stuck On Curb 10 Minutes After Carjacking Cab Sunday was not the best day in Zacharias Solteronelson's life, not by a long shot. It was 12:10 a.m. Sunday when Solteronelson, a 23-year-old Sacramento man, got into a taxi cab
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Dead Whale Defaced Now Twitter's made it possible for any rando to DM you (if you enable the feature). [Wired] No one seems to want to buy former San Francisco Mayor Elmer E. Robinson's house. [SocketSite]
SF News SF High School Senior Struck And Killed By Cab On Pine Street Two pedestrians were struck and killed by drivers in San Francisco over the weekend: a SF high school student was hit by the driver of a cab on Pine Street, the other killed
SF News Bay Area Man Busted For Scaling White House Fence Sunday Night Another day, another person nabbed while trying to breach the White House, right? The most recent incident, a brazen attempt to scale the fence on the south side of the White House complex
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Amber Alert Cancelled After 8-Year Old Is Found Safe ICYMI this weekend: Goatchella drew protests, there's going to be a Silicon Valley Comic Con, a man was seriously hurt in a Haight Street fight over weed, and the Cartoon Art Museum has
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Leap Says 'We Want To Inspire Muni' Livermore firefighters and cops talked a woman down after she threatened to leap from an overpass. [Bay City News] Franklin Street was (loudly) paved from 10 p.m. to 4:30 a.m.
SF News Saturday Morning Special: 1906 Quake's Anniversary Commemorated Everyone got up early to commemorate the 1906 quake's anniversary this morning. [SF Chronicle] The Fisherman's Wharf [Madame Tussaud] wants your nominations on what "Bay Area Innovator" they should immortalize in wax next.
SF News We'll Probably Never Get Another In-N-Out In San Francisco Back in 2009, then-Eater head (he's now a Chron staffer) Paolo Lucchesi said that his biggest dining surprise of the year was "That there is still only one In-N-Out—sans drive-thru—in this
SF News Survey Says: San Jose Is Happier Than San Francisco How happy are we all today? Happier than we were yesterday, maybe, because the weekend beckons. But are those of us in SF or the East Bay less happy that the folks in
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Barbie Bike Rider Menaces Mission According to a scathing report, Oakland's police discipline system is completely broken. [SF Chronicle] Why SFFD uses handmade wooden ladders. [Popular Mechanics] Sign-wielding man promotes Uber outside Yellow Cab HQ. [Pando] A look
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: 'True Crime' Comedy At The Great Star "Tragedy plus time equals comedy" is an axiom that's been used by stand-up comedians since the form began. A comedy show this Saturday aims to put that dictum to the test, by featuring
SF News 5-Year-Old Injured In Unprovoked Marina District Attack A homeless man has been arrested after allegedly attacking a 5-year-old girl as she passed him on a Marina sidewalk. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Carlos Manfredi, 31-year-old Adras Kosdi
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Pot Startups Are Fighting For Your 4/20 Business [Wired] gives Twitter's new homepage the thumbs down. Driver crashes into Oakland building during police chase. [KRON4] Even following a necropsy, marine mammal experts can't figure out why that giant whale that washed
SF News Video: Gigantic Sperm Whale Washes Up In Pacifica If you smell a strange odor as you're headed through Pacifica, it might not be the cosy burg's usual funk: a dead whale, 49 feet in length, was discovered Tuesday morning on the
SF News Is 16 Hours Of Training Enough For Muni's Gun-Wielding Security Guards? A vote to approve a controversial agreement to employ handgun-equipped private security guards at Muni yards was postponed Tuesday over concerns that the guards would not receive a sufficient amount of firearms training.
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Apple Bans Selfie Sticks Kiss left turns on Fillmore at Oak and Fell during peak morning and evening traffic hours goodbye. [Hoodline] The NTSB has released their report on the fatal BART collision that killed two track
SF News SFPD Says They Know Who's Behind Hayes Valley's Quadruple Homicide, But They Still Need Witnesses Three months after a quadruple homicide shocked the residents of Hayes Valley, the San Francisco Police Department says that they know who the killers are — but that they can't do anything to arrest
Arts & Entertainment Did You See The Sand Mermaids In SF Last Weekend? Hello beautiful! #SanFrancisco #sand #Mermaid A photo posted by Yev Pusin (@yevp) on Apr 11, 2015 at 4:34pm PDT Spotted last weekend near the Marina harbor (above) and on the steps of
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Former 49er Linked To Jailhouse Homicide Ex-49er running back Lawrence Phillips is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Fresno prison. [Associated Press] Listen to the Grateful Dead sing an a cappella version of "The Star Spangled Banner" on
SF News Man Arrested For Friday's Fatal Outer Sunset Stabbing An arrest has been made in the fatal stabbing of a man who was found face down and bleeding on an Outer Sunset sidewalk last week. As you might recall, San Francisco Police
