SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Earthquake Resistant Iron Will you become a San Francisco Chronicle "member"? [Poynter] The SFPUC is testing "earthquake resistant iron" in SF. I feel like I'm ripping off some hack 80s comedian, but I must ask: why
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rage Against Reddit Someone who was digging without permission knocked out power to thousands of SF PG&E customers. [KRON4] Castro Soulcycle rolls (heh) forward. [Bay Area Reporter] CPUC member says he's sorry for trying
Arts & Entertainment Here's Your Escape Route For When The Zombie Apocalypse Hits San Francisco As Max Brooks has told us more than once, no one who stays in a city will survive the zombie apocalypse. From the threats of the undead themselves, to infrastructure and supply issues
SF News Here's What You (Still) Can't Do In The Library: The SFPL Revises Their 'Code Of Conduct' When the Chronicle reported that, following a "frosty note" sent to San Francisco Public Library officials by Mayor Ed Lee, the library had come up with "a laundry list of offenses and penalties"
SF News Pedestrian Struck By Driver Of SUV Near 'Jefferson Airplane Mansion' A pedestrian was seriously injured this morning, after being struck by a sports utility vehicle while crossing a street near San Francisco's infamous Jefferson Airplane Mansion, the San Francisco Police Department says. According
Arts & Entertainment Watch The SF Giants' Madison Bumgarner Chug Four Cans Of Something (?) At Once It's unclear what the SF Giants' Madison Bumgarner is pouring into his mouth as he celebrates last night's breathtaking win, but whatever it is, it was well-deserved. As noted in our game report,
SF News Family Of Oakland Girl Pronounced Dead In 2013 Wants Her To Be Declared Alive After an Oakland girl was declared brain dead following a routine tonsil surgery at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital last December, her family, refusing to believe the diagnosis, had her moved to a
SF News Video: Netflix Tech Shuttle Bursts Into Flames A group of Netflix staffers found themselves in a direct-to-online-video action scene of their own Wednesday night, when the shuttle bus they were in abruptly burst into flames. The 12 Netflix employees were
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: You're Drinking Too Much Organic Milk Woman who fought development when she lived in Philly moves to SF and can't find anywhere to live, so now she's a pro-development agitator. [SF Examiner] [7x7] runs down the Bay Area's youngest
SF News Day Around The Bay: Biz Stone's Newest Boondoogle The results of Robin Williams' autopsy have been delayed. [ABC7] A "Violence Reduction Network" is coming to Oakland and Richmond. [NBC Bay Area] There are strange, conflicting reports regarding this attack on a
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 5 Best Movie Theatres Yes, it's true, between internet skullduggery and On Demand, you can see an awful lot of movies without ever leaving your couch (or bed). But you've got to admit, in the right circumstances
SF News SF To Pay $15.1 Million To Family Of Woman Killed By Rec And Park Worker In Holly Park Hit-And-Run One year after a woman was run over and killed by a Rec and Park worker in a Bernal Heights park, the city of San Francisco has agreed to settle with her family
SF News Wacky Coincidences: Muni Has Two Wrecks At The Same Time, Just Like It Did Two Months Ago Do wrecks involving Muni vehicles come in twos? Of course, not, don't be silly. But that doesn't mean that we can't marvel at the coincidence of two big Muni collisions that took place
SF News UberX Driver Accused Of Bashing Cavalier Bartender With Hammer Took Freeway To Get From SoMa To Lower Haight A few more details have emerged in the alleged hammer attack by an UberX driver on a San Francisco man, including information on how the route the driver took might have precipitated the
SF News A Year Later, SF's Free WiFi For 32 City Parks Finally Kicks Off Well over a year after San Francisco announced a partnership with Google to put free WiFi in San Francisco parks, the service is finally ready for launch. As reported in July of 2013,
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: SF's Tree Care Confusion The name of the man SFPD officers shot in the Financial District last week has finally been released, he was a San Rafael man named Giovany Contreras-Sandoval. [SF Examiner] Now you can charge
SF News Day Around The Bay: Reddit Gets Rich "Tech's Push to Help Schools Looks Like a Campaign Ad For Ed Lee." Yes, it absolutely does. [Valleywag] 11 facts about San Francisco (like the fact that it's 49 square miles) that are
SF News Plastic Bag Manufacturers Ready To Delay, Undo California's New Bag Ban In a move that surprised no one today, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB270, aka "California's plastic bag ban" into law. Just as unsurprisingly, the folks who make plastic bags are pissed, and say
SF News Today In Fancy Robbers: Green Hair And Escalades We've told you about a lot of robberies over the last ten years. But few have been as stylish as a couple of San Francisco's most recent heists. Jeez, are even our criminals
SF News Man Shot And Killed By SFPD Officers Last Week Remains An Enigma Though it's been five days since officers with the San Francisco Police Department shot and killed an alleged carjacker after a multi-city pursuit, problems tracking down the dead man's family have kept us
SF News Hit-And-Run Driver Remains At Large After Striking Embarcadero Cyclist A hit-and-run driver remains on the loose after striking a cyclist riding on the Embarcadero Sunday night. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Albie Esparza, an 18-year-old man was riding his
SF News Man Shot During Mugging Outside Asian Art Museum An early morning mugging turned violent Tuesday morning, when a robbery just outside the Asian Art Museum ended in a shooting. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy, at about
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: A Slideshow Of Smells Holy shit, fashion designer/costumer Patricia Field is in SF on Friday. [Eventbrite] A former SF firefighter who was blinded on the job says her caretaker has stolen all her savings. [NBC Bay
SF News Day Around The Bay: Instagram's Walmart Connection Did you know that Muni has "90 busy crew members who work doggedly to clean up the junk, graffiti, dirt and detritus left on Muni vehicles"? Now you do. [Moving SF] Meet San
SF News The Bay Bridge's Bird Problem, By The Numbers State and federal laws intended to protect birds like the double-crested cormorant, which nests on the Bay Bridge, mean that Caltrans must use extreme care as they demolish the old eastern span. After
