Arts & Entertainment After Almost Two Years Of Complaints, SF's $2,258,300 Skate Park Remains Full Of 'Festering' Puddles Of Urine Since its opening in July of 2014, San Francisco's SoMa West Skatepark has gotten mixed reviews: While skaters seem to love the place, neighbors have complained about noise and graffiti, and both area
SF News After Raising Delivery Fees, Struggling Instacart Cuts Driver Pay By 63% It's not easy being a grocery delivery startup! Just ask Webvan, the dot-bomb-era delivery service that flamed out so spectacularly in 2001 that its name is synonymous with early 00s startup excess. Is
SF News Squatters Blamed For Three-Alarm Fire In Remains Of Mission Building Destroyed In Earlier Blaze Fire and smoke at 22nd and Mission pic.twitter.com/QglIX7rSEI— Michael Margolis (@yipe) March 14, 2016 The ruins of a Mission building that was the site of a deadly fire in January,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Flower Mart Will Be One SF's Largest Commercial Developments Your weekend ICYMI: Manually-changed clocks were changed, Uber has a secret phone number for non-emergencies, the Tenderloin's iconic Lafayette Coffee shop closed, those teetering Pacifica apartments were demolished, yet another pedestrian was killed
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Pier 80's Medical Warriors That exhausted feeling you have right now might be Daylight Saving Time going into effect. [SFist] If humanity is to be won or lost on a game of Go, chalk one up for
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Jack London Square Has Been Sold Time to look at some doughnut photos. [SFist] Stolen Zipcar excitement on Third Street! [Captain Vaswani/Twitter] "A couple in front of me ordered a beautifully plated ahi appetizer, which they ate while
Arts & Entertainment 'Black Lives Matter' Named As Grand Marshal Of San Francisco's 2016's Pride Parade San Francisco's LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is a huge event, with an estimated million folks at the last one in 2015. The event is so massive, in fact, that they typically have
SF News Mayor Refuses To Allow Likely Statewide Smoking Age Increase To Rain On Local Prohibition Parade Though buying cigarettes might soon become a 21-and-over activity for any smoking Californian, San Francisco isn't content to wait for Governor Jerry Brown to decide if he's gonna OK the package of tobacco
SF News Driver Of White Van Kills Broadway Pedestrian, Speeds Away .@SFPD investigating fatal hit/run on Broadway at Powell. Westbound Broadway closed at Stockton. pic.twitter.com/gHUoCruzF0— Kale Williams (@sfkale) March 11, 2016 The San Francisco Police Department is seeking the driver
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Apple Ditching Genius Bars Don't throw away your shot to go to the "Hamiltunes" El Rio sing-along. [SFist] Beth ventures inside Ed Lee's "man cave." [SF Gate] It sounds like SFPD's union doesn't actually know how much
SF News Attention, Gucci: The Fresno Police Just Found Your Biggest Fan When Fresno police pulled 33-year-old Khamprasong Thammavong over at 5:40 p.m. Monday, they say they were just performing a routine traffic stop. But what followed was anything but routine, from Thammavong's
Arts & Entertainment Piglet That Terrorized Mission Now Menacing ACC Staff After Janice, the pig who rampaged through the Mission Tuesday was captured, she was taken back to San Francisco's Animal Care and Control shelter to await her fate. Would her guardian step forward?
SF News The Massive Cost To Clean Up BART, By The Numbers We all know BART has a well-earned reputation as a grimepit, from the skin-infection hosting seats to their infamous poop escalators. And the problem seems to be getting worse, as a study from
Arts & Entertainment Police Tell Rapping, Tapping Sebastopol Goat 'Nevermore' Once upon a 1:38 a.m. dreary, while a Sebastopol resident pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While they nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there
SF News Brave Vigilante Thwarts Cell Phone Theft On Muni A brave bystander thwarted an all-too-common crime yesterday, after a thief picked the wrong day to steal a cell phone. According to the San Francisco Police Department, at 8:58 Wednesday morning a
SF News Four Injured When Cable Car And Recology Truck Collide Another wet foggy morning on Mason St. I look out my window & what do I see? The Little #CableCar That Could(n't). pic.twitter.com/n0SjtXZwhr— Ivy Something (@ivysomething) March 9, 2016
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Hanging Out With SF's Exorcists Hey there, Jeremy Meeks. How you doing? [SFist] Uber and Lyft drivers are pretty much on their own when it comes to safety. [Wired] Judge in lawsuit against the planned Warriors arena in
SF News CHP Performs Daring Helicopter Rescue Of Man Trapped Overnight on Marin Cliff Amazing rescue of man stuck 18 hours on cliff near Rodeo Beach @CHPSanFrancisco @uscoastguard @southernmarinfire pic.twitter.com/LcpEu2qVb3— Golden Gate NRA (@GoldenGateNPS) March 9, 2016 A Marin County man was the subject
SF News United Says 'HELLO HELLO' To Flight Attendants Canned After Refusing To Fly On 'BYE BYE' Plane The unlucky 13 flight attendants who got canned by United after expressing fears over working on a plane emblazoned with graffiti that read "BYE BYE" have gotten their jobs back, after a battle
Arts & Entertainment Man Of The Cloth Helps Save Mission District From Rampaging Piglet Sure, San Francisco's Animal Care and Control's director called Tuesday "just another day at the office." But for the rest of us, it was the day a pig unleashed holy hell on the
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Hillary's Silicon Valley Dominance Will SF's parks and library suffer if we shut off the oil funds pipeline? [SFist] Why it’s so hard for the Giants to make a “splashdown.” [Beyond The Box Score] California's first
SF News BART Director Proposes $500 Fine For Seat Hogs Loungers, luggage-bearers, and other folks who spread out into more than one seat beware: If BART Director Joel Keller has his way, seat hogs might soon face fines of as much as $500.
SF News Soccer Player Suspected Of SF Ref Assault Busted In East Bay Investigators from the San Francisco Police Department's Taraval Station crossed the Bay Bridge Friday, as they tracked their prime suspect in a soccer game gone horribly wrong to Richmond. Maybe you remember the
SF News Identity Of Muir Beach Dead Body Stumps Investigators Marin County investigators are scratching their heads today, after they found themselves unable to link the latest dead body found on their shores with anyone who has been reported missing. According to Darrell
Arts & Entertainment Photos And Video: Sea Otter Mom Gives Birth To Sweet Little Pup Have you ever watched a sea otter pup emerge into the world? I sure haven't. But that's exactly what folks at Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Great Tide Pool got to witness Saturday — and
