SF News 8-Inch Water Main Breaks, Flooding Sunnyside Street Crews are working to repair a water main break in San Francisco this afternoon, fire and SFPUC officials said. According to SF Fire Department spokesperson Mindy Talmadge, fire crews responded to a report
SF News Poor Training, Fatigue: Asiana Flight 214 Report Takes Pilots To Task Nearly a year after Asiana Airlines Flight 214 slammed into a seawall at San Francisco International Airport, safety officials are saying that mismanagement of the airplane’s descent by the flight crew caused
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Pacific Heights? The above photo came to us via email, with the simple caption "Found at Green & Scott. Presented without comment." The sender's name was not included. The Muppet Godfather? The remnants of some
SF News San Francisco's Mid-Market Tax Break By The Numbers San Francisco's office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector has released its reports on the impact the so-called "Twitter tax break" has had on the city as of 2013. An incentive for companies
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Giving Piers 30-32 To The Fish The guy who created Defenestration is pretty bummed that it's gone. [LA Times] [SF Gate] polled the Chron newsroom to pull a slideshow of "Things you’ll never see again in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Glasshole For The Day “Do I look like a Glasshole?” [Sacramento Bee] reporter spends a day in San Francisco while wearing Google Glass. Twitter founder Biz Stone tells the [The Observer] "You can be nice and successful
SF News Drivers Run Over Three Pedestrians, Police Charge One With Jaywalking Three pedestrians were struck in two separate collisions on Saturday, and all have been left fighting for their lives. Thus far, neither of the drivers have been cited by the San Francisco Police
SF News Lombard Street Residents Finally Get Peace And Quiet In Form Of Massive Crowd Of Pedestrians After residents of the visitor-beloved stretch of Lombard known (dubiously) as the "world's crookedest" asked the SFMTA to consider keeping tourist traffic off their street, the MTA complied, launching a "pilot program" of
Arts & Entertainment Video: All Hail Peanut, The World's Ugliest Dog He came to the 75th Sonoma-Marin Fair Friday night! He saw! And, oh boy, did Peanut, a shelter rescue dog of unknown heritage with deformed lips and eyelids, conquer. At Friday night's Drooling,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Quora's Misogynistic Trolls Inside the San Francisco shower bus. [CBS5] San Francisco public schools have a wealth of librarians. [SF Examiner] Check out these photos of San Francisco gay life in the 80s. [Huffington Post] The
SF News Marin Man Nabbed For Squeezing Chihuahuas A San Rafael man remains in custody today after witnesses say he was violently squeezing and biting two small Chihuahuas. Jennifer Parker, who lives in the area of Merrydale Road in San Rafael,
SF News Video: Muni Passenger Wearing Sock On Junk Empties Bus 1 California service was briefly delayed Thursday when a passenger removed all his clothing, covered his penis with a sock, and refused the leave the bus. SF Weekly spoke with SFMTA spokesperson Paul
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 49ers Begged To Behave SF grand jury has harsh words for the mayor's office, at least when it comes to waterfront planning. [KPIX] [SF Examiner] The coach of the San Francisco 49ers begs his employees, all of
SF News Want To Visit Lombard's Crooked Stretch This Weekend? Then Take A Cab So, you have out-of-town guests, but they're too delicate for Fisherman's Wharf's Dungeon and too afraid of ghosts to go to Alcatraz. All they want to do it visit that crooked street they've
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown: 'Waiters Don't Need A Higher Minimum Wage' (Unless They Work At Subway) Apparently, it's not just restaurant and bar owners that are fretting over the impact an increase in minimum wage might have on business! Former San Francisco mayor, now alleged lobbyist and SF Chronicle
Arts & Entertainment Meet This Year's Candidates For World's Ugliest Dog Though the 75th Sonoma-Marin Fair kicked off yesterday in Petaluma, California, the main event isn't until tomorrow night: "The Drooling, Needs Schooling, Gonna Win - No Fooling World’s Ugliest Dog Contest." The
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: 'The Most Hipster Item Of Clothing Ever,' Really? Details on the nine-story condo development that could replace Flax. [Hoodline] Biotech VC based in SF is fired from his own company, sued for fraud. [Xconomy] Merchants want to keep sex workers out
SF News It's Officially Curtains For Sunday Parking Meters: No More Enforcement As Of July 1 And that's how San Francisco's brief flirtation with Sunday Parking meter enforcement ends, folks, not with a bang, but with a whimper. It was all the way back in February, 2012 when the
SF News Oakland Home Sales Prices Growing Far Faster Than San Francisco's While the median home sales price for the city of Oakland is far lower than many of its neighboring areas, it might not be that way for long: an analysis of MLS data
Arts & Entertainment British Tourists Claim Their iPhone Captured An Alcatraz Ghost Finally! After years of wondering if ghosts are real, today you receive your answer. Yes they are, and one of them "lives" (if you can call it that, because, ghost) at San Francisco's
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Biker Busted If this [Bloomberg] report headlined "San Francisco’s Tech Frenzy Reaches Biggest Bank Tower" doesn't make you say this, nothing will. The [SF Chronicle]'s urban design critic gives the new Moscone Center
SF News Angry Uber Drivers Rally Against The Future Remember when the argument was cabs vs Uber? Well, there's a new player in the game, and Uber's drivers sure don't like it. Sometimes the fall from the cutting edge can be the
SF News SF Won't Be Upgrading Ancient Public Safety Radio System Until 2018 In the year 2000, San Francisco police, fire, and other public safety agencies got a brand spanking new communications system. 14 years later, they're all still using that same ancient system, and they
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Reforming Crack Sentencing Even more minimum wage fears: restaurant threatens to replace staff with computers if increase proposal passes. [KPIX] "Reputed street gang member" convicted of stabbing SF 49er Aldon Smith in the leg during wild
SF News San Francisco's Proposed $15 Minimum Wage, By The Numbers Last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee introduced a proposed measure that, if approved by voters in November, would gradually bump San Francisco’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by July 2018.
