SF News Burners Beware: Federal Agents Will Be In Costume As they have in previous years, undercover federal agents are currently roaming Black Rock City, in proper playa garb, trying to bust unsuspecting souls for drugs. The place is not, in fact, the
SF News Researchers Succeed In Creating Real-Life 'Vulcan Mind-Meld' Two faculty members at the University of Washington have apparently succeeded in executing the first non-invasive, brain-to-brain interfacing between humans, via the internet. The experiment involved two men in separate labs across campus
Arts & Entertainment Stanley Roberts Shames Carpool Cheats "Have you thought about riding with a passenger maybe?" asks intrepid reporter of Bay Area rule-breaking Stanley Roberts as he confronts carpool lane cheats alongside a CHP officer who's ticketing them. C'mon, Stanley,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Forgot My Phone' Please enjoy this very short but poignant film about what ridiculous, alienating, divorced-from-the-present losers we all are when it comes to playing with our phones, both in public and in private. In some
SF News Rim Fire Update: 280 Square Miles, 20% Contained The Rim Fire grew further overnight, covering another 30,000 acres since yesterday morning, with a total of 180,000 acres now burning or burned (or 280 square miles). The blaze has now
SF News 4.1 Earthquake Strikes Reno Just as a bevy of Bay Area folk were passing through Reno yesterday evening en route to Black Rock City, a small earthquake rolled through the area just to make them feel more
SF News New Interactive Map Will Keep You Off Of S.F.'s Steepest Hills Let's say you're walking from SoMa to the Marina something we'd never recommend, but hey, some of you are masochists and you want to know what the least hilly route would be. Well,
SF News Mother And Two Daughters Injured In Oakland Shooting Another shooting in East Oakland happened Sunday afternoon, injuring the intended target, a 17-year-old boy, as well as a mother and two daughters, aged 8 and 12, who happened to be standing outside
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Arena Pricetag Goes Up A new memo from the Port, uncovered by the Chronicle, shows that the projected cost of rebuilding the crumbling Piers 30-32 that will hold up the new Warriors Arena is on the rise.
SF News Victims, Suspects Flee After Shooting On Party Bus In SF's SoMa District There was, very clearly, a shooting aboard a party bus in SF's SoMa District late Saturday night/early Sunday, but the SFPD was unable to locate any victims or identify a shooter. Police
SF News Rim Fire At 234 Square Miles And Counting; SF Power And Water Supplies Threatened The wildfire burning in the remote woods north of Yosemite National Park in California has grown rapidly since Friday to become one of the biggest fires in the state's history. Crispy dry conditions
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Down At Fraggle Rock FYI, Hulu just started streaming all of Jim Henson's brilliant '80s Muppets spinoff, Fraggle Rock, and for many of you, the antics of Gobo, Red, Mokey, Wembley, and Boober will bring back nice
SF News Bay Bridge Bike/Walk Path Will Open Too, Sort Of; Three Toll Lanes Will Be Closed This Weekend Some good news/bad news about the new eastern half of the Bay Bridge, which we can't stop talking about, we know. First off, the biking/walking path that will take people on
SF News Rim Fire Grows Near Yosemite The Rim Fire, burning up in the Sierra Nevadas south of Reno, is now the fourth largest wildfire burning in the nation, clocking in at 64,000 acres. It is only 1% contained.
SF News Castro Sidewalk Widening Approved, Will Happen In 2014 At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, a plan to shrink the vehicle traffic area to two lanes and double the width of the sidewalks on the main drag of Castro Street was approved.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lizard Belly Rubs Aww. Even widdle wizard wikes his bewwy wubbed. [via Laughing Squid]
SF News Elderly Oakland Couple Punked, Robbed By Fake PG&E Guys Oakland needs to be on the alert for two dudes (or anyone for that matter) posing as PG&E workers with clipboards and claiming they need to "check an easement" on your
SF News BART Will Run 24 Hours During Bridge Closure Once again forcing the question as to why they can't do it all the time, BART will be running trains all day and all night during the closure of the Bay Bridge starting
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Hate San Francisco' I Hate California: San Francisco - watch more funny videos Comedian Suzi Barrett, who previously made this video about the various things to ironically hate about L.A., has now made this video
Arts & Entertainment Be Careful With Your Drone At Burning Man For the first time this year, organizers at Black Rock City convened a Drone Summit to discuss the growing proliferation of drone-mounted video cameras swarming about the playa. And now, there are guidelines.
Arts & Entertainment New iPhones Are Coming, In Colorful Plastic, And Maybe Gold September 10 has been set for the next big product unveiling by our overlords at Apple, and the media is already abuzz. It's been rumored since June that Apple's manufacturers in Asia were
SF News Look Out: Here Comes The Twitter IPO If you have friends who work at Twitter, or if you have friends who concern themselves with such things, be prepared to be hearing an earful about the long-term profitability and valuation of
Arts & Entertainment Yachtenfreude Redux: America's Cup Remains A Joke To Everyone But Larry Two more editorials today, one on Gawker and one from Mother Jones, succeed in eviscerating Larry Ellison and his great big, ultra-expensive, no-good boat race in which there's barely anyone competing at this
SF News Bay Bridge Gets Its Temporary Shims The quick fix to the much discussed bolt problem on the new span of the Bay Bridge was completed over the weekend, and now we're all set for a September 3 opening of
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: A Mural Goes Up On Masonic This mural, by an unknown artist Lango, went up a few months ago at Masonic and Haight on a wall that has featured rotating murals. It replaces this mural by Apex, which was
