SF News Video: Sausalito Dog Swims To Safety After Houseboat Sinks, Reunited With Owner Who Thought She Drowned CBS 5 brings us the heartwarming tale of a Sausalito man named Alioto (not clear on the relation to the San Francisco Aliotos) and his dog Daisy, who he thought had drowned when
Arts & Entertainment HA!: Brian Wilson Dumped By The Dodgers For all those Giants fans still bitter at Brian Wilson for defecting to the enemy LA Dodgers in 2013, the day of his comeuppance has arrived. After two seasons playing mostly middle relief,
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Skyscraper At First And Folsom Will Look Like Some revised designs for the new Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed high-rise at First and Folsom have arrived, and it's going to be a pretty one. The project is primarily residential, with 545 new
SF News Oakland Airport Connector Already Experiencing Breakdowns Due To Windblown Trash The three-week-old, $484 million boondoggle fancy tram to the Oakland Airport ran into some major trouble last Friday, during the tail end of the rainpocalypse, shutting down for seven hours due to windblown
SF News Ack!: Video Shows Bicyclist Colliding With Deer In Sausalito YouTuber Silas Patlove just posted this video, taken he says from a bike-mounted camera as he rolled down a hill near Sausalito and the Golden Gate Bridge. There's quite a bit of suspense
Arts & Entertainment Supervisors Give Green Light To 'LightRail' Art Project Up Market Street At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, the Supes unanimously approved a proposal by the foundation that brought us The Bay Lights to install another light-based art project, this one up Market Street from
SF News Among SF's Top Searches Of 2014 Were Robin Williams, The Giants, And How To Macrame Google has released their 2014 Year in Search, the 14th annual such list detailing the top searches of the year. Both nationwide and here in San Francisco, topics like Ebola, the World Cup,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cats vs. Christmas Trees Cats don't like Christmas trees. Or, rather, they really like to jump on them and knock them over, and play with tinsel, and lights. Anyway, this is funny. [h/t: Tastefully Offensive]
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Heklina Talks About Mother, The New Incarnation Of Trannyshack At The Oasis Earlier in the year, local drag star Heklina announced that she would be retiring the name "Trannyshack" after careful consideration, and after getting significant flack from a younger generation of fans. As she
SF News Police Officers Pissed Over Board Of Supervisors Resolution Supporting Protests A resolution being voted on today by the Board of Supervisors, sponsored by John Avalos, has got the Police Officers Association riled up because it paints a broad picture of all police as
Arts & Entertainment SF Film Critics Award 'Boyhood,' Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards were on Sunday, and the big prizes of the night went to two movies likely to capture a bunch of Oscar nominations as well: Boyhood, and
SF News Family Of Woman Found Dead In SF General Stairwell To Receive $3 Million Settlement From City The family of Lynne Spalding, the woman who tragically died while under the care of SF General and remained missing for 17 days due to the flubs of both the hospital and the
SF News SoMa Firebug Accused Of Torching Mercedes Acquitted Remember Anthony Bejerano, the man the SFPD nabbed back in June for allegedly setting more than a dozen small fires around SoMa and the Mission, including one in the parking garage at One
SF News Uber Commands $100 Surge Fares During Sydney Hostage Standoff, Apologizes Uber took some heat in Australia, and the international press, on Monday when the app started commanding quadruple-rate surge pricing in Sydney's central business district during what would become a 16-hour hostage crisis
SF News A Weekend Of Protests Continues Into Monday Morning At Oakland Police Headquarters Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in well organized, peaceful marches in Oakland and San Francisco on Saturday as part of a national event dubbed Millions March. The San Francisco march included a mass "die-in"
SF News Safeway Delivery Truck Crashes, Takes Out Several Cars On Guerrero A Safeway delivery truck collided with another vehicle at 21st and Guerrero on Sunday at around 4:20 p.m. and proceeded to barrel into three parked cars and a building, as KRON
SF News Day Around The Bay: Protesting In the Rain Despite pouring rain last night, 150 protesters still marched from Berkeley to Oakland, again, and a smaller group blocked traffic on Market Street in SF. [SF Weekly, Chron] Jesse Jackson and some 100
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside The Progress, The State Bird Spinoff That Opens Tuesday Earlier in the week I alerted you to the opening of The Progress, the long-awaited, larger sister restaurant from the team that brought you State Bird Provisions which is right next door. Today
SF News Photo Du Jour: A Tree Dies In The Rainpocalypse City crews are out today cleaning up debris and downed branches after yesterday's storm, but despite there not being terrible winds in here in SF, for the most part, a large, very old
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink TBD Restaurant Closed For At Least A Week After Mysterious Fire The next-door sister restaurant to AQ, TBD suffered a weird, between-the-walls fire last night around 1 a.m. that led to the fire department punching holes in the ceiling and letting in a
SF News Rainpocalypse 2014 Wrap-Up: Major Flooding In Guerneville, 101 Reopens Near Palo Alto, Most Power Now Restored Yesterday's big rainstorm, which is still dripping its last bits of wetness on San Francisco between breaks in the clouds, was not as debilitating or damaging as some expected, however joking memes like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best New Bars Of 2014 San Francisco remains a stellar drinking town. And after helping lead the charge in the last decade alongside our brethren in New York in the cocktail renaissance, our bar scene is settling into
SF News Rainpocalypse 2014: Alcatraz Closed, Widespread Power Outages Persist, School's Back On Tomorrow [Updated] Today's predicted, panic-inducing rain disaster is becoming a bit more disastrous now in its first few hours. As reported already, Montgomery BART Station had to shut down due to a power outage, which
SF News SF, Oakland, And Marin Public Schools To Close Because Of Predicted Rainpocalypse Because of the biblical rain* predicted for tonight and tomorrow, the public school districts of San Francisco, Oakland, and Marin have all cancelled classes for Thursday. Is this just what happens when it
Arts & Entertainment Warriors Unveil Pretty New Arena Renderings Though the initial, non-detailed drawings were highly toilet-like, the Warriors have today released a new set of much prettier, more detailed renderings of their new arena in Mission Bay, and they're quite handsome.
