SF News 'Botox Bandit' Scams SF Plastic Surgeon Out Of Thousands In Cosmetic Improvements You know that ruse where you pretend to be absorbed in your cell phone to avoid talking to someone? Well, apparently that deception also works if you want to get out of paying
Arts & Entertainment Video: The SF Zoo's Adorable River Otters Frolic In Real Time, Slow-Mo No, there's no snow (just water), but that doesn't mean these two videos of the SF Zoo's river otters swimming merrily along aren't a joy to behold. Posted to YouTube by the Zoo
SF News Should Twitter Buy Yahoo? If you're reading this site, it's likely you have an idea of what Twitter does. Yahoo is a little harder to figure out (even, it appears, to those inside the organization). So why
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SF To NY On A Greyhound Bus This [Wired] guy rode in that driverless car that traveled from the Bay Area to Las Vegas and lived to tell the tale. This [Huffington Post] guy rode in a Greyhound bus that
Arts & Entertainment Video: Drone Check-In On Construction Of Apple's 'Spaceship Doughnut' Campus Back in September, we marveled at (or criticized, depending on what side of the bed we got up on) drone footage of Apple's under-construction campus in Cupertino. Four months later, we've got an
SF News SFPD Officer Shoots At Unarmed Man During Union Square Search Sunday's tragic suicide at the hands of Mission Station police officers was not the only officer-involved shooting the San Francisco Police Department was contending with that day — according to a department spokesperson, earlier
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: 16th Street BART's Fancy Garbage Cans The CFO at SF-based company Xoom has resigned after it was revealed that scammers swiped $30.8 million in corporate cash. [SF Business Times] Mayor Lee still can't make a decision on who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Regular Is A Tipper For Jesus, Drops $2000 On $50 Check Big thanks to Manny, Jared & the crew at Tacolicious in the Mission... :) #tipsforjesus #godbless #thumbsup #boomboom #happynewyear #2015 A photo posted by tipsforjesus (@tipsforjesus) on Jan 1, 2015 at 8:47am PST
SF News SFPD Complies With Judge's Order, Releases Names Of Officers Who Killed Bernal Heights Man The Friday news release is long-known as "a transparent attempt to evade fallout by burying bad news ahead of the weekend," as Slate put it over a decade ago. Perhaps that's why, after
SF News Video: People Being Far Less Than Their Best Selves On BART, Muni You might want to sit down before you hear what I am about to tell you. Seated? OK, here we go: people do not always behave with an appropriate level of decorum on
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Uber Disses SF's Party Lifestyle Uber says we didn't party that hard on New Year's Eve, but maybe we just didn't party with them? [Quartz] Photographer bribes San Francisco subjects with cigarettes. [PetaPixel] Those flying lanterns you see
Arts & Entertainment One Year After Her Rescue, Gem The Trash Puppy Raises Thousands For SF ACC It was December 20, 2013 when a Recology staffer rescued a wounded, two-month-old puppy just moments before she was dumped off a conveyor belt from a truckload of recyclables. At first, officials weren't
SF News [Update] Police Unsure How Long People Were Stepping Over Dead Homeless Person In Front Of Market Street Coffee Shop Unfortunately one of the n'hoods homeless just passed away in front of Peet's coffee just now. Saw him every day on Mkt. St. @Castro_Biscuit— Dennis Richards (@PlnCom_Richards) December 31, 2014 A
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Why Your PG&E Bill's So Much Higher This Month After a hiatus, [Valleywag] returns, now run by a marketing guy who lives in Boston. Here's his first post, a list of industry predictions for 2015. Hundreds gathered at Fruitvale Station yesterday to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Beware The Millennial Invasion Of 2015 More restaurant closures: Cafe Des Amis in Cow Hollow is being forced out by their landlord [Eater SF], and Financial District pub Elephant & Castle to make way for Fish & Farm, because
SF News Should Stockton Street's Pedestrian Holiday Plaza Become Permanent? We've come down to the final hours of the Stockton Street Winter Walk, the stretch of Stockton between Geary and Ellis Streets that was astroturfed into a pedestrian plaza from the day after
SF News Suspect In At Least 10 FiDi Bank Robberies Nabbed By SFPD In Mid Market A man who police say is responsible for at least ten recent bank robberies in San Francisco is behind bars today, after a monthlong investigation into a Thanksgiving-week credit union heist. According to
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SF's 'Bubbly' Housing Market Former SF Bay Guardian staffer Caitlin Donohue's [4U Magazine] takes "a queer, feminist look at the influence Beyonce had on us in 2014." [Eater SF] discusses the various price options at Saison, makes
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Bids Jim Harbaugh A Heartfelt Farewell The coach that drafted me, chose to start me, and stood behind me through it all! I will never forget what you have done for me coach thank you for everything! A photo
SF News Video: Here's How The Golden Gate Bridge's New Movable Median Will Look We've been telling you about the Golden Gate Bridge's new movable median for ages, and now the time for its installation has come — and with that, a weekend-long closure of the span, the
SF News Arrest Made In Mission Street Shooting Of EMT Who Tried To Stop Fight The San Francisco Police Department has made an arrest in the fatal shooting of an emergency medical technician who was reportedly trying to break up a Mission Street altercation when he was killed.
SF News Have You Seen This Missing Western Addition Man? Police are seeking your help to find Gerald Penn, a 63-year-old Western Addition man who disappeared on Saturday afternoon. According to the San Francisco Police Department, Penn, who suffers from "a severe case
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: AOL Email User Speaks Want to buy a small house on 19th Avenue with tenants who “do not want to provide interior access" for a million bucks? Then [SocketSite] has a place for you! Deal to develop
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Recalls Homophobic-Slurring Motorcyclist, Sassy Elmo Shirt Guy "I am not a typical newsman," says KRON4's Stanley Roberts, the man behind SFist's favorite local broadcast segment "People Behaving Badly." "Every day I go out and do the exact same thing that
SF News Mugger Critically Injures Woman In SoMa Robbery Gone Wrong A woman is fighting for her life after she was stabbed during a South of Market mugging on Saturday morning, officials say today. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy,
