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
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Releases Full Schedule, Set Times If you're headed to Outside Lands, it's now time to strategize. The full complement of set times just went online today, and now you have a lot of decisions to make. The first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food TV Personality Andrew Zimmern Says Instagram Has Replaced Yelp We've heard it all before when it comes to gripes about Yelp, why many in the food scene hate it, and why many avid diners think it's indispensable nonetheless. But here's one more
SF News Uber And Lyft Permanently Banned From Most Of Market Street Under New Plan A new design is emerging for #sanfrancisco's Market Street #sfmuni #bicycling https://t.co/eVEw0l8EVQ pic.twitter.com/KoOqTmtQ43— Human Streets (@humanstreetssf) July 31, 2017 The Better Market Street Plan, which has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Try Not To Panic: The 500 Club Is For Sale Long-lived and long-loved Mission dive the 500 Club, a necessary fixture on SFist's Best Dive Bars list, is hitting the market, according to a real estate source who prefers to remain anonymous. And
SF News BART Fills Budget Gap By Letting Ford And United Airlines Wrap Whole Trains With Ads BART debuts train cars wrapped in ads. https://t.co/VXMWCoNeRm via @matierandross pic.twitter.com/BI8rQbP6rZ— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 2, 2017 In yet another case of a public transit entity making ends
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Team Takes Over Former Wo Hing/Urchin Bistrot Space On Valencia There's some movement finally on the vacant space at 584 Valencia Street that once housed the original Slanted Door location, and in recent years was home to Wo Hing General Store and, briefly,
SF News 80 Percent Of Walk Signal Buttons In SF Don't Do Anything To Change The Signal Confirming what you've surely always known deep down, the vast majority of those buttons you push at intersections do not do anything to shorten the amount of time you are going to wait
SF News Day Around The Bay: Butcher Posts Anti-Meat Signage Homicide and petty theft are on the rise this year in SF, but most other crime is stagnant in so far. [Examiner] Direct Action Everywhere convinces Berkeley butcher to post an anti-meat sign
