SF News Oakland Fire Was So Hot It Was Detected In Space The massive blaze at a seven-story construction site in Oakland Friday morning was so hot that it was picked up by a satellite in space. The National Weather Service tweeted the news, noting
SF News Day Around The Bay: Postal Worker Shot In East Oakland A female US Postal Service worker was shot while on the job Friday in East Oakland, and was hospitalized in stable condition. A USPS spokesman said it appeared the shooting was unrelated to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hoorah! Julius' Castle Approved To Reopen On Telegraph Hill Despite a reported "litany" of complaints and letters of objection from the always cantankerous dwellers of Telegraph Hill, the Planning Commission unanimously approved a developer's plans to revive 93-year-old Julius' Castle for a
SF News Exclusive Photos: The Progression Of The Friday Morning Fire In Oakland Oakland-based photographer Jonathan Goody captured these images this morning just as the sun was rising on that massive construction fire near Lake Merritt. The seven-story Alta Waverly complex, which spans several blocks and
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Adorable Gray Wolf Pups Are Some Of The First Seen In California In A Century Driven nearly to extinction a century ago, gray wolves, also known as timber wolves, are slowly coming back into California and brand new wildlife camera images show a family of three pups, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Seven Most Expensive Steaks, Ranked What's more American than a huge, juicy, cast-iron seared, wood roasted, or charcoal grilled steak? In this week of celebrating American independence and all things "red-blooded," SFist brings you a roundup of the
SF News Planning Commissioner Compares Salesforce Tower Lighting Scheme To 'A Carnival' We just heard this week that the architect team behind Salesforce Tower had nixed a planned redwood grove that was to be a feature of what will be called Mission Square the public
SF News You'll Now Be Charged For Making An Uber Driver Wait Two Minutes, And Tipping Goes Live In NY, SF & LA The promised addition of an in-app tipping option for Uber rolls out today in a few dozen American and Canadian cities, and will be live nationwide by the end of July. Also today,
SF News [Update] Huge Construction Fire Near Oakland's Lake Merritt Causes Mass Evacuation A large mixed-use complex under construction near the Whole Foods and Lake Merritt in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood caught fire early Friday morning, reaching four alarms and leading to the evacuations of hundreds of
SF News Day Around The Bay: 4 A.M. Last Call Bill Clears Another Hurdle Testing out potential new commutes. Always take the boat. ⛴ A post shared by Andrew Dalton (@dolfapedia) on Jul 6, 2017 at 4:01pm PDT OMG, you guys! That bill proposed by state Senator
SF News Jury Convicts Man In 2013 Double Murder At SF Gift Center The trial has come to a close in a shocking case involving a dispute over jewelry at the SoMa wholesale mart known as the Gift Center. Despite defense attorneys efforts to argue that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Phase Two, In Historic Upstairs Banquet Hall Space, To Open By Year-End If you haven't been to Mister Jiu's yet, you're missing out on one of the best new restaurants to hit SF in the last two years. (Read some more about it here.) Chef
SF News New Footage Of Asiana Flight 214 Crash Shows Long Delayed Evacuation Four years ago today, on July 6, 2013, Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash landed and caught fire at SFO, killing three teenage girls and injuring scores of others. Newly surfaced footage, zoomed in
Arts & Entertainment Replacement Banksy Rat Mural Pops Up At Red Vic, Was Not Done By Banksy In a defiant move that is totally in keeping with guerrilla muralist Banksy's MO, the mural of a rat that first appeared seven years ago on the side of The Red Victorian bed
SF News Day Around The Bay: No One's Using The Millbrae BART Station Ridership to the Millbrae BART station is very, very low. [Chronicle] Hate crimes in California are increasing, particularly attacks on Muslims and gay men. [Chronicle] After all SF homeless shelters refuse them, SFPD
Arts & Entertainment Catching Up With Five Surviving Members Of the Beat Generation In Northern California Writing for the Washington Post, writer Jeff Weiss has just done a moving and thorough job of tracking down five people in their 80s and 90s, all members of the Beat Generation who
SF News Newly Discovered Photo Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Plane Crash In Marshall Islands A recently discovered photograph, found in the National Archives among previously top-secret documents, may be a major new piece in the 80-year-old mystery of what happened to pioneering airwoman Amelia Earhart. The story
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Survey Says Millennials Eat Out Or Go To A Bar At Least Four Times A Week Millennials don't like staying home at night! That's the basic take-away from a new survey from a site called Bankrate and their fairly judgey-sounding Millennial blogger nicknamed The Cashelorette, and picked up by
SF News Lunchtime Links: Cable Car Collision Causes Rush-Hour Delays A 48-year-old man who was attempting to intervene in a fight at Sixth and Mission Streets was beaten with a cane for his efforts on Tuesday afternoon, and sent to the hospital with
SF News 10 Arrested For Starting Fights At Alameda County Fair The Alameda County Fair, usually a pretty peaceful holiday weekend event, was almost ruined by a troupe of ne'er-do-wells on the Fourth. 10 people ranging in age from 15 to 20 entered the
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, SF Fireworks Were Half Obscured By Fog, But Not In The Mission And Lower Haight! Tourists, East Bay families, and assorted San Franciscans flocked to the Embarcadero Tuesday night to see if this year might be the exception in which the fireworks aren't shot into a fog bank
SF News Day Around The Bay: Crime Drop In California Linked To Increased Immigration Somebody is putting googly eyes on statues in Golden Gate Park. [BrokeAss Stuart] In addition to nixing the large sculpture at the base of Salesforce Tower and adjacent to the Transbay Terminal, they're
Arts & Entertainment Video: Woman Goes Off On Anti-Circumcision Protesters At Ferry Building Happy (almost) Fourth of July, everybody! And celebrating her Constitutional right to free speech is this woman from last week, on Saturday of Pride weekend, letting some men wearing bloodstained pants who were
SF News Trail Opens To Public Making Big Sur Accessible Again, By Foot Anyway A trail that had previously only technically been open to locals has now been made accessible to the public, giving at least Northern Californians and tourists coming from the north a way in
SF News Quick Reminder: Muni Fares Just Went Up 25 Cents On Saturday, July 1, Muni fares paid in cash or on Clipper cards went up 25 cents, with cash fares now costing $2.75 something that likely led to a lot of awkward
