SF News Judge, City Attorney Give City College A Break Judge Curtis Karnow of San Francisco Superior Court issued an order Thursday blocking the disaccreditation of City College of San Francisco, which was ordered last July. City Attorney Dennis Herrera has been fighting
SF News Early Morning Meltdown Causes Big Delay On J-Church A stalled J-Church train this morning caused the entire line to shut down in both directions for an hour this morning, greatly saddening everyone in Bernal and Noe Valley who takes Muni to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Choreographer Yanis Marshall Tackles Beyoncé's 'Partition' We brought you a palate cleanser some months ago that featured talented 22-year-old dancer and choreographer Yanis Marshall dancing in heels with a couple of friends around Paris. Now here he is, in
SF News 5th Anniversary Of Oscar Grant Shooting Marked By Occupy March, Vigil in Oakland It was early on New Year's Day in 2009 that Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale Station, and on Wednesday the fifth anniversary of
SF News NSA Has Been Trying To Hack Our iPhones Since 2008 The gift of Edward Snowden's NSA docs just keeps on giving (the NYT is calling for his clemency as a whistle-blower today, in case you missed it), and this week we learn that
SF News BART Fares Go Up Today For the first time since July 2012, BART fares are getting hiked a few cents, with the minimum fare within the city at $1.85 starting today. The increase is part of a
SF News The Year In Muni Failures As we noted yesterday, it wasn't the worst year we can remember our municipal transit system having in recent memory, but it wasn't a great one! Here's our roundup of the ways in
SF News The War On The Waterfront: Development Foes Propose New Height-Limit Restrictions Enemies of new development along the bayside waterfront won their first big battle with the defeat of propositions B and C in November's local election. Bolstered by that victory, they just brought a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink For the New Year, Delfina Made This Fun Video. Maybe You're In It. To celebrate the end of another year the beloved Mission restaurant's fifteenth, in fact Delfina commissioned this swell day-in-the-life-of-the-restaurant video. It begins at 4 a.m., with the guy who shows up to
SF News Teen Struck By Muni Train In Bayview, Train Does Not Stop A 17-year-old girl was struck and injured by a Muni light-rail train on Sunday afternoon, as Bay City News reports. The operator of the train apparently did not see that s/he had
SF News Is There A Lot To Fear With Fukushima Radiation In The Pacific? Some of you may have noticed a video spreading on Facebook and Twitter lately in which a man took a Geiger counter to a beach in Pacifica and found levels of radiation that
SF News Current Economic Boom Surpasses Dot-Com Boom In Half The Time Call it the Early Twenty-Teens Tech Boom, or whatever you want to call it, but it has officially surpassed the late-'90s Dot-Com Boom with no slowing in sight. In fact, as Ted Egan
misc Extra-High Tides To Hit Starting Today King Tides, the term for the especially high tides that occur a couple of times each winter due to an alignment of the sun and moon's gravity with the tilt of the earth,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Restaurants Are Exempt From Spare the Air Days It turns out that despite some confusion about this, restaurants that use wood-burning ovens and grills for cooking are exempt from the wood-fire ban on Spare the Air days, because, of course, complying
SF News Lyft Expands To The East Bay, Sheds That 'Donation' Business Good news for Oaklanders: Lyft is expanding your way, all the way from Oakland down to Castro Valley. And good news for Lyft: They don't have to pretend they're taking "donations" in California
SF News Did You Know Incandescent Light Bulbs Are Disappearing In 2014? If you were totally unaware of the fact that incandescent light bulbs are becoming illegal in the U.S. as of January 1, you're not alone. A recent survey showed that only 4
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Quirky the Blind Kitten Let's hear it for kittens. Even blind, they can find their way to toys they like to play with, and generally enjoy life bounding around a room exploring. This one's name is Quirky,
SF News Pfeiffer Fire Burned 34 Homes Total In Big Sur The wildfire, known as the Pfeiffer Fire, that ignited down in Big Sur on December 15 reached full containment before the Christmas holiday weekend, but not before destroying a total of 38 building,
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Sunrise With Bay Lights Just another view of this clear, dry day as it began.
SF News Weather Report: It Just Keeps Getting Better, And Drier We're pretty sure most of you didn't mind the balmy, sunny Christmas weather, but the plants could really use some moisture right about now and everyone with a Tahoe share is hoping for
SF News Christmas Night Fire At Baker And Fulton Injures Two A three-alarm fire that broke out last night in a four-story Victorian in NoPa sent two residents to the hospital with severe burns, and displaced two others. The fire broke out shortly after
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: Pee-Wee's Christmas Special, 25 Years Later If you ever doubted how amazing, imaginative, cheeky, and twisted Paul Rubens' signature character was in his heyday, doubt no more as you take in this full version of an hour-long Pee-Wee's Christmas
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: A Real Snowman In Precita Park It may seem improbable, but it's true! Courtesy of Bernalwood, and Bernal Heights neighbor Linda, we have this delightful surprise for your Christmas Eve. Someone seems to have imported some of the real,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Watch Chef April Bloomfield Working On the Revamp Of Tosca Cafe There's a brand new segment of the Bourdain-narrated PBS series The Mind of a Chef featuring chef April Bloomfield. The series talks with, and follows around chefs, delving into their craft and processes,
Arts & Entertainment Stanley Roberts Saves Christmas, Reunites Carlos Santana With Homeless Former Band Member All because of one of Stanley Roberts' annoying, finger-wagging "People Behaving Badly" segments for KRON 4, Carlos Santana has gotten back in touch with a down-on-his-luck former bandmate, a drummer nicknamed Marcus the
