SF News Air Canada Jet's Near-Miss Landing At SFO Was Within 300 Feet Of Disaster A new animated simulation illustrates just how close an Air Canada jet was last Friday to killing about 1000 people at SFO. As we now learn via NBC Bay Area, Air Canada Flight
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Might Settle With Waymo Uber had a call with investors yesterday in which the company frantically tried to ease worries about their financial standing, and suggested there would likely be a settlement in the Google/Waymo case
SF News Mills College In Oakland Votes To Lay Off Faculty Rather Than Admit Men The Bay Area's oldest (and now only) women's college, Mills College in Oakland, faced another crossroads this year as they've seen a steady decline in enrollment and are now facing a $9 million
Arts & Entertainment By Popular Demand, Kink.com Is Holding Another Moving Sale At The Armory This Weekend When Kink.com announced they'd be selling off a bunch of used props and furniture a few weeks back, interest was high, and the story went around like wildfire because San Franciscans love
SF News With Newly Reopened Alamo Square Park Comes New Wave Of Broad Daylight Car Break-Ins All around Alamo Square, in the plain light of day, you can likely hear the sound of glass shattering. The problem is heightening, perhaps just with the summer tourism rush, near the crooked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Il Casaro To Bring Neapolitan Pizza To Church Street In The Castro Good news for pizza fans in the Castro environs: North Beach's Il Casaro Pizzeria & Mozzarella Bar is expanding with a second location, into the former Chilango space on Church Street, three doors
SF News Videos: Drone Surveys Oakland Fire Damage New drone video from KRON 4's QuadCopter4 gives us a picture of the extent of the damage following Friday's fire at the Alta Waverly complex in Oakland. The mixed-use development had been set
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You Can Now Get Soylent At Some 7-Eleven Stores For all those who don't read tech blogs (or SFist) and have missed the news about the mail-order meal-replacement non-food known as Soylent, you may have your first introduction to the stuff via
SF News Reddit, Facebook, Other Tech Giants Rally For Net Neutrality In 'Day of Action' Today is a day of protest and calls for action from major players in the tech industry as the FCC prepares to roll back two-year-old protections for net neutrality. CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kendrick Lamar Opening A Pop-Up Shop Here In August Surprise! An umbrella-sharing startup in China, modeled on bike-sharing only with no way to track the umbrellas once they've been taken, ends in loss of 300,000 umbrellas. [SFGate] Kendrick Lamar is opening
SF News Oakland Police Department Chastised In Federal Court Over Recent Sex Scandal A judge who ordered reforms and imposed federal oversight on the Oakland Police Department nearly a decade and a half ago took the city and department to task again Monday at least verbally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Startup Young Fava Halts Service To Seek Larger Kitchen Former Locanda chef Anthony Strong's upscale delivery-only concept Young Fava, which just debuted less than a month ago serving things like a "90s-Style Crudo" and a full caviar service with house-made potato chips,
Arts & Entertainment Muralist 'Believe In People' Completes Brain Flower Piece In Tenderloin UPDATE 2 downtown San Francisco! if you see me in the bottom right red circle you can imagine what it feels like to have these golden plants towering over me as I work.
Arts & Entertainment Japanese Blogger Handily Debunks Purported Photo Of Amelia Earhart A military history blogger in Japan has, with very little effort, debunked a widely publicized theory that was at the center of a documentary that aired Sunday on the History channel, claiming that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Truck Announces Tater Tot 'Fest,' 9000 People Are 'Interested' Can't wait for #totfest this Friday, July 14 at @barebottle! We've got some awesome new flavors to share. Details at Bit.ly/totfest! A post shared by Jackrabbit Kitchen (@jackrabbitkitchen) on Jul 10,
SF News Close Call Involving Air Canada Flight Friday At SFO Could Have Caused Major Aviation Disaster A terrifying near miss Friday involving an Air Canada pilot apparently unfamiliar with the runways at SFO could have led to the "greatest aviation disaster in history" according to one aviation expert contacted
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wildfire Near Oroville Burns 17 Structures #WallFire near Oroville is 35% contained after destroying 17 structures. https://t.co/WqQ0JKFAuw pic.twitter.com/CvtI5Df2Nj— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 10, 2017 A wildfire near Oroville, dubbed the Wall Fire, is 35
SF News Former Facebook Exec Launches Telepathy Hat Startup Former Facebook executive Mary Lou Jepsen, who previously had headed up the company's Oculus VR division, has founded a "wearable MRI" startup called Openwater where she hopes to create hats that can read
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Plans To Expand Into Next-Door Space Ever-popular beer garden Zeitgeist has recently applied for a liquor license for the space next door to it, a former sheet metal shop that backs up to the beer garden's back wall. As
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The Bold, Tacky, And Beautiful Americana Of Northern California Roadside Architecture "My parents’ generation thought it was the ugliest stuff in the world,” said photographer John Margolies in a 2015 interview with the Washington Post. “I liked places where everything was screaming for attention:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Truck Fire Involving Hundreds Of Pounds Of Melted Cheese Backs Up 680 In Fremont Tractor trailer fire SB 680 south of Automall. Fire is out/no injuries/no spread. Tow onsceneTrailer carried frozen cheese. pic.twitter.com/U7AzQUkdHF— Fremont Fire Dept. (@FremontFire) July 10, 2017 A truck
SF News $110,000 Reward Now Offered For Capture Of East Bay Arsonist Without yet concluding that the massive Oakland construction fire on Friday morning was the result of arson, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is now offering a reward of $110,
Arts & Entertainment Video: 85-Year-Old Rollerblading Daredevil Conquers California Street Hill Retired Muni worker Zigfried 'Ziggy' Stuhl will admit to being a daredevil, and at age 85 he's not done with his stunts. ABC 7 was on hand to capture him flying down California
SF News Millennium Tower Update: Outside Consultant Finds Gaps In Walls That Could Indicate Fire Risk You may remember how earlier this year, piling on top of the many troubles facing the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, several residents were complaining of odors drifting into their units from elsewhere
SF News Kate Steinle's Father Once Again Asks That Her Case Not Be Used For Political Ends After the House of Representatives passed a pair of bills related to immigration two weeks ago, one of them dubbed Kate's Law for the woman, Kathryn Steinle, allegedly shot in San Francisco two
