SF News Local Kook Rides High-Wheeler Cycle Down Market Street And Local Paper Calls The Cops On Him This guy has been seen riding a penny-farthing, also known as a high-wheeler bicycle, in the bike lane down Market Street, and SF Weekly immediately called the SFPD on him to see if
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cosby Is Coming Bill Cosby, despite everything, is on tour doing a standup show, and he's performing to a soldout house at the 1,000-seat Turlock Community Theatre in Stanislaus County on Sunday night. [Chron] London
SF News Young San Francisco Is Better Educated, Richer, And More Likely To Be Single Than They Were In 1980 The US Census has released a bunch of cool charts comparing data about 18- to 34-year-old San Franciscans in 1980, 1990, 2000, and now (2013). What's revealed are some fascinating figures about how
Arts & Entertainment What I've Learned From Sober January (So Far) Sober January / Dry January (as they call it in England) has been catching on in various U.S. cities in recent years as one way to balance out the decadent, functionally alcoholic lives
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Psychedelic Haight Light Sculpture Dubbed 'The Hippie Trap' A guy in the Haight hung this piece of LED-based artwork outside his building in December, just before Christmas, and one of his neighbors jokingly told him they had nicknamed it The Hippie
SF News A Drone Thief, A Tech CEO, and a Tech COO Walk Into A Radio Shack... This hilarious bit has come across the crime blotter this morning: A thief tried to pilfer a small drone and a remote-control helicopter from a Radio Shack on Polk Street Thursday morning, only
SF News Truck Driver Who Killed Cyclist Amelie Le Moullac Found Negligent The SoMa collision that took the life of 24-year-old bicyclist Amelie LeMoullac in August of 2013 has officially been found to be the fault of the driver of the truck that hit her,
Arts & Entertainment Niners Make Extremely Boring Choice For New Head Coach: Jim Tomsula You'll recall that the NFL was abuzz just over a week ago with rumors about all the coaching talent that the 49ers were interviewing to replace Jim Harbaugh. Well, it turns out that
SF News Here's How Mayor Lee Promises To Ease The Housing Crisis In His 2015 State Of The City Address This morning Mayor Lee delivered his State of the City address at the newly completed Phase 1 of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market in the Bayview chosen because it's the first new
Arts & Entertainment Once Again <i>The Advocate</i> Crowns Random American City That Is Not SF As 'Queerest' Just To Be Different Every damn year The Advocate has to pump out another list of America's gayest/queerest cities, and every year they try their hardest to be edgy, or something, by switching up the criteria
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Berkeley Tiki Hut Edition For this week's edition of Apartment Sadness, I take you across the Bay where someone is renting out an "in-law" that is more accurately described as a "tool shed in the backyard with
SF News If You Get In A Vehicle Accident In West Oakland You Will Get Robbed Proving that West Oakland is in fact still a rough place in which you don't want to take any unnecessary pauses, a cyclist was struck by a pickup truck there on Tuesday, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video Makes False Claims About The History Of The Mission Burrito SFGov TV, the SF city media arm, has a running web series called QuickBites, and they've just done a piece on the Mission-style burrito that makes some highly spurious claims. The big falsehood:
SF News Shutdown Averted For City College Of SF Speaking of community colleges, 18 months plagued with fights between the administration of City College of San Francisco, the City, and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges over the college's accreditation
Arts & Entertainment First SF Episode Of <i>The Mindy Project</i> Airs, Includes Jokes About WIRED, Tech Billionaires The first Bay Area-located episode of The Mindy Project aired last week, but last night was the first one in actual SF, titled "San Francisco Bae," and in it Mindy Kaling's character reconnects
Arts & Entertainment Video: Seattle Dog Takes Public Transit To Park By Herself Ahhhh... This is amazing. A Seattle dog has learned to ride public transit by herself after not wanting to wait around for her human to take her to the dog park, which is
SF News Tom Hanks Lends Support For President's Community College Plan, Says Chabot College 'Made Me What I Am Today' Oscar winner and recent Kennedy Center honoree Tom Hanks has voiced his full support in a NYT op-ed for President Obama's proposal to make two years of free community college available to all
SF News SF Not Quite As Bad As Manhattan Or Miami When It Comes To Absentee Condo Owners Remember back in September when 48 Hills sorted through a bunch of condo sales data to determine that some 39 percent of new condos in the last 14 years had been sold as
SF News SF Native Who Fought For Soccer Field Takes Us On A Gentrification Tour Of The Mission We already knew from his speech-making in the now infamous Mission Playground soccer field incident that Kai, the college student and Mission native who's preferred not to give his last name in the
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Woman Seeks Birthday Dinner Date In Tokyo This semi-tragic SF woman seeks date for her 39th birthday dinner in Tokyo at the super exclusive Noma pop-up. Also, she's paying. And you should be a straight male from SF between the
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Creators Discuss How The Russian River Got Gay, And Why They Shot The First Episode Of Season Two There As I mentioned yesterday in my recap/review of the opening of Looking's second season, the new episodes get off to a fun start with a trip up north to the Russian River
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Pop-Up Beer Garden Next To AT&T Park To Feature Anchor Steam, 4505 Burgers A Proxy-esque food-and-retail development in the parking lot behind AT&T Park called The Yard will greet baseball fans in the 2015 season, as the Chronicle is reporting. Like Proxy in Hayes
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Divisadero Time-Lapse Artist Sadie Mellerio has installed this site-specific video installation for the window of hip kid magnet Madrone Art Bar which shows a time-lapse of the view outside Madrone Art Bar, at Divisadero and
SF News Study Proves You Can Never Survive Without Your Phone Again A new study shows that iPhone separation anxiety is not only real, but it negatively affects cognitive ability. Yes, sadly, as Consumerist reports, just putting your phone in the next room may now
SF News Kamala Harris Will Go After Boxer's Senate Seat California's newly reelected Attorney General and former SF District Attorney Kamala Harris will, as predicted, be vying for the Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer in 2016. She has succeeded in brokering
