SF News South Bay Couple Buys Private Street Near Presidio, And Wealthy Residents Are Dismayed A savvy couple from the South Bay who do some real estate investing happened to catch that a private street, and all the common areas surrounding it including sidewalks and planted medians, went
SF News Peter Thiel Quoted As Saying There's A 50 Percent Chance Trump Administration 'Ends In Disaster' It turns out that billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel's public support for the president is not all that it seems. According to a piece by BuzzFeed News that relies on statements from several
SF News Detwiler Fire Caused By Gunshot, Investigators Say The nearly 82,000-acre Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County, which was still smoldering as of the weekend and 98 percent contained, was sparked by a gunshots on public lands, investigators now believe. As
SF News Video: Alcatraz Ferry Captain Rescues 10 Aboard Sinking Boat Around 8:45 p.m. Thursday night, just as one of the last ferries was leaving Alcratraz with 438 passengers on board, a distress call went out about a 31-foot recreational boat with
SF News Google Employee Writes Internal Memo Railing Against Women, Diversity; Rage Ensues A memo from a senior software engineer that went "internally viral" at Google last week titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber" reportedly laid out a manifesto for why women are less well suited for
SF News Two Men Suspected In Strange Chicago Murder Come To Bay Area, Turn Themselves In Two middle-aged men, one a university professor from Chicago and the other a university employee from England, appear to have taken a long road trip to the Bay Area after they were both
SF News Uber's CEO Short List Is Now Down To Three White Guys Despite appearing to intend to hire a female chief executive as a means of reshaping Uber's corporate image as a fratty boys' club, it looks like Uber is going to end up with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: $180 Kobe Beef Sandwich Coming To SoMa The big food-and-drink news in town this week was the purchase of SF's signature brewery Anchor Brewing by Japan's Sapporo Holdings, which follows a trend of such deals but still feels kind of,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Alleged Pedophile Caught Via Large-Print Texting On Airplane [Wired] spends the night with Yelp’s robot security guard. As he did for codefendant Max Harris, an Alameda County judge lowered the bail for Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena to $750,000,
SF News Photo: Tech Shuttle Blocks J-Church Train While Driver Grabs Coffee Yes, that's a tech shuttle bus, on an unapproved route, stopping so the driver can get coffee, blocking a Muni train... #SanFrancisco #NoeValley #TheWayWeLiveNow #grrrrrr A post shared by Ted (@eyeofted) on Aug
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Toronado To Celebrate 30th Birthday With 30 Custom Beers Made Just For Them Next weekend, on August 12, craft beer mecca Toronado will be ringing in 30 years in the Lower Haight, and as Eater explains, they'll be doing so with a "insane" list of special-edition
SF News Supervisor Floats Wildly Expensive Plan To Move The 'Hairball' Underground #SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen pushes to untangle freeway Hairball: “It’s a mess.” https://t.co/mX30fHDVHu via @rachelswan pic.twitter.com/FGaWs1McyM— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 4, 2017 What's it going to take
SF News SF Police Seized Huge Gun Arsenal From Mentally Ill Man Two Months Before Fatal Shooting And Standoff A mentally ill man who was put on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold two months previously is now in custody after allegedly murdering his mother, engaging in a 15-hour standoff with police Sunday
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Most Reliably Sunny Places Around The Bay It's a question many newcomers have when July and August arrive in San Francisco and they're wondering where to find the sun. Newscasts tell you that it's out there, somewhere, in parts of
Arts & Entertainment Hear Bob Dylan Live In San Francisco In Previously Unreleased Allen Ginsberg Recording From 1965 A bit of previously unreleased tape has just surfaced, seemingly from an archive of Allen Ginsberg recordings, that features Ginsberg and Bob Dylan talking backstage on December 11, 1965 in San Francisco, and
SF News Are Smartphones Making A Generation Of Kids Isolated And Depressed? Adults know well enough how depressing it can be to see your friends cavorting about some beautiful international locale on Facebook while you're stuck at work too poor to travel. And we've also
SF News Arson Suspected In Oakland/Berkeley Hills Fire, Which Is Now 70% Contained The #GrizzlyFire in the East Bay Hills is now 70% contained, and crews hope to put it out by tonight. https://t.co/EHbKYu8VyB— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) August 4, 2017 A suspected arsonist who
SF News Weird August 'Monsoonal Moisture' Brings Lightning To East Bay, 'Fognado' To Santa Cruz I think most of us can agree that the weather's been a little funny, especially on Thursday, especially for August. And while some rare thunderstorms were predicted because of this weird mugginess, perhaps
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland High-Speed Chase Ends Peacefully A suspect in a stolen car led police on a high-speed chase through Oakland and Piedmont today, including going the wrong way on I-580, before peacefully surrendering. [ABC 7] More on Facebook's alleged
Arts & Entertainment Drone Video Shows A Seal And A Dog Playing In The Surf Interspecies good times! This drone video picked up by KRON 4 shows (albeit from high above) a dog leaping and swimming into the waves in Morro Bay as a seal comes in to
SF News Van Ness Goodwill To Shut Down August 12 The long expected closure of the big Goodwill store at Mission and South Van Ness is happening next week, on Saturday, August 12. As ABC 7 reports, Goodwill already has another store up
SF News Alt-Right Calls For 'Free Speech Alternative To PayPal' After Company Begins Freezing Accounts PayPal has taken to freezing the accounts of a number of high-profile personalities on the so-called alt-right who use the payment processing platform to fundraise and they're not too happy about it. BuzzFeed
SF News Air Canada Jet In SFO Near Miss Was Just A Few Feet From Hitting United Plane The terrifying near-miss incident on July 7 at SFO has just gotten even more terrifying as the National Transportation Safety Board reveals in a new report that the misguided Air Canada pilots came
SF News 20-Acre Fire Breaks Out In Berkeley Hills, Now 50 Percent Contained The latest on the fire near Grizzly Peak in the hills above #Oakland and #Berkeley: https://t.co/YtSihgLxcG pic.twitter.com/coKLWBryVT— KPIX 5 (@CBSSF) August 3, 2017 A 20-acre wildfire broke
SF News Day Around The Bay: Amazon Goes On Big SF Hiring Spree In an attempt to distract as as Muni shuts down the underground on nights and weekends for weeks on end, they just posted these photos of bearded hipsters testing Muni’s first light
