SF News Two Detained After Shots Fired On Market Street There were reports of shots fired on Market Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets around 3 p.m. Thursday, and the subsequent police activity caused a traffic jam as the entire block was
SF News Berkeley City Council Tables Vote On Topless Ban, Gypsy Taub Loses It, Gets Naked, Yells True to form, Berkeley's City Council meeting on Tuesday night included some lengthy public debate about an issue that's not exactly vital city governance at the moment, and ultimately devolved into some yelling
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Civic Center Plaza Yarn-Bombed With Giraffes People voted for an animal theme for phase 2 of #knittingthecommons so the first 3 trees got a family of giraffes. These cuties have quickly become one our favorite yarn bombs! A post
SF News Redwood City McDonald's Worker Charged With Trying To Flush Newborn Baby Down Toilet A worker at a Redwood City McDonald's who claims she didn't know she was pregnant was allegedly seen by a coworker trying to flush her newborn infant down the toilet, and she's now
Arts & Entertainment 'South Park' Opens 21st Season By Screwing With Everyone's Alexa South Park had its 21st season premiere Wednesday night, and amid jokes skewering white nationalists and home improvement shows, Trey Parker and Matt Stone brilliantly did something no satire show has yet succeeded
SF News Waterspout Touches Down On Lake Tahoe, Prompts Tornado Warning Funnel cloud over Lake Tahoe 🙀#tahoe A post shared by Cathy E (@flyinshoez) on Sep 13, 2017 at 4:50pm PDT A waterspout, which is a tornado that touches down on water, hit
SF News Did You Feel It?: 3.3M Earthquake Rattles San Jose Area A small earthquake shook part of the South and East Bays this morning at 10:32 a.m., and the USGS is saying it had a magnitude of 3.3 and was centered
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle Coffee Sells Majority Stake To Nestle The cycle from homegrown, artisanal coffee bar on an alley to selling out to an international food conglomerate is complete, as it's announced today that Swiss food giant Nestle has purchased a 68-percent
SF News Day Around The Bay: Apple Mocked For Calling New Stores 'Town Halls' Everyone on social media is mocking Apple for saying their stores will now be called “town halls.” They are still stores. [Chronicle] NTSB agrees that Tesla’s autopilot played significant role in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Casey's Pizza Opening First Brick-and-Mortar Location In Mission Bay Thursday It's been almost exactly six years since pizza man Casey Crynes launched the city's first mobile pizza operation out of a food truck, Casey's Pizza, having grown out of a sidewalk pizza oven
SF News Chelsea Manning Appears In SF, Speaks Out On Privacy In New York Times "It was always unclear to me whether we were helping or perpetuating violence in a particular part of the country." https://t.co/9zcmP7YLlH— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) September 13, 2017 Just as we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisor Calls For Excelsior Bar La Oficina To Be Closed After Murder Of Patron Around 12:30 a.m. on the morning of May 28, police officers arrived at La Oficina, a bar at 4234 Mission Street in the Outer Mission/Excelsior, to find bar patron Alvaro
Arts & Entertainment See A Few Branches From The Tree of Ténéré, Off Playa For This Weekend One of the highlights, art-wise, of this year's Burning Man was the three-story, LED-filled, climbable man-made tree called the Tree of Ténéré, which provided shade during the dust-filled days and glowing, colorful light
SF News SF Air Regulators Issue Russian Consulate Citation Over Smoke; Kremlin Calls It A 'Russophobic Stunt' Bay Area Air District cites now-closed #SF #Russian consulate for smoke violation on Spare the Air day https://t.co/GFekKSMqP8 pic.twitter.com/bfjv7LM9AF— KRON4 News (@kron4news) September 12, 2017 Remember how
SF News Experts (And The Farmer's Almanac) Already Predicting Another Wet Winter For California Will California be slipping back into a drought come January 2018, or will we see deluge after deluge again, causing dams to burst at the seams, sending trees, roads, and bridges into ravines
SF News iPhone X's Facial Recognition May Be Terrible For Multiple Reasons One of the big revelations though a widely anticipated one from yesterday's Apple launch event was the Home-button-free iPhone X and its facial-recognition technology. The internet has been abuzz ever since with concerns
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017 Lineup Features Cheap Trick, Big Freedia, Conor Oberst, & Many More Following some teasers, we now have the full lineup for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017, and it features a bunch of festival regulars as well as some surprises. In the former column we have
SF News Video: Hail In Santa Rosa This Morning Drive safely, #SantaRosa! Make sure to turn your headlights on, your wipers on, and reduce your speed when driving in the rain. pic.twitter.com/98ADrv53Rc— Santa Rosa Police (@Santa_Rosa_PD) September
Arts & Entertainment Serena Williams And Alexis Ohanian Release Adorable Video Of Serena's Pregnancy Meet Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. You have to check out link in bio for her amazing journey. Also check out my IG stories 😍😍❤️❤️ A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on Sep 13,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Building Owner Sued Over UPS Shooting Electric Light Orchestra 😎 It was lots of fun chasing these rare Bay Area bolts yesterday evening. This image consists of two consecutive strikes which happened shortly before the cell moved offshore. ----------------------------------------------------- I
SF News Right-Wing Berkeley Students Claim Steve Bannon Is Definitely Coming For 'Free Speech Week' Once again, Republican and other right-aligned students at UC Berkeley are upping the ante in booking speakers or pretending to book speakers that the general student population will find abhorrent, and as was
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week If you manage to escape another possible thunderstorm tonight (two in one week, in SF, with every other disaster of last week, definitely feels like End Times), there's a week of fun and
Arts & Entertainment One More Photo: Lightning Strikes Salesforce Tower #Lightning strikes the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/T01WHOLFt4— Karl Mondon (@karlmondon) September 12, 2017 This is just one more extra dramatic photo of last night's crazy storm, via Mercury-News
SF News New Details In Death Of Bubbles May Point To Hate Crime, Police Still Deny Hate Was Motive A few more details have trickled out in the ongoing investigation into the Saturday murder of 44-year-old Anthony Torres, a.k.a. Bubbles, in the Tenderloin. Police have been insisting since Sunday that
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star PewDiePie Again In Trouble For Racist Speech, This Time With SF Game Company 27-year-old Swedish vlogger PewDiePie, who for reasons I can't even wrap my head around made $15 million last year for essentially rambling like a crazy person and taking video of himself playing video
