SF News Yelp Claims Space in Historic Pacific Telephone Building The historic, Art Deco Pacific Telephone & Telegraph building at 140 New Montgomery is undergoing a major renovation as we speak, and they just signed their first major tenant: Yelp. As the Chron
SF News Cyclist Critically Injured In SoMa Crash A cyclist riding near 13th Street and South Van Ness yesterday morning collided with a PG&E van and sustained critical injuries that are life-threatening. The van was traveling south on South
SF News Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert React To Obama's Gay Marriage Evolution We imagine many of you were waiting to see how The Daily Show and The Colbert Report reacted to President Obama's historic endorsement of gay marriage yesterday. Well, in case you missed them,
SF News Homicide Suspect Dies After Standoff With Police in Tenderloin [Updated] A man who was wanted for questioning in connection to a murder yesterday in Rohnert Park holed himself up in an apartment building at Post and Hyde tonight. After being approached by police
SF News George Lucas To Force Poor People On Marin NIMBYs Having stomped off and given up on developing a new movie studio on property he owns in Lucas Valley, filmmaker George Lucas is waving a figurative middle finger back at the NIMBYs who
SF News Ramos Found Guilty of First Degree Murder Edwin Ramos, the the MS-13 gang member accused in the 2008 murder of Tony Bologna and his two sons, was just found guilty of first-degree murder after a trial that's lasted four months
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Video Release Delayed, Attorneys Call Suspension Absurd We know that you've all been dying, since yesterday, for an update on embattled and suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and his plight to keep his job amidst an Ethics Commission hearing. Well, here
SF News UC Police Kick Occupiers Off Farm Tract In Albany On Earth Day, a couple of hundred protesters descended on some UC Berkeley-owned property in neighboring Albany and began planting beans, and raspberries. The protesters, along with some neighbors in the area, want
SF News SFPD Conducts Junkyard Sting, Finds Copper-Buying Culprits in Bayview The SFPD has been taking the rampant copper thievery around the Bay Area in the last year very seriously. Today we hear that they've been tracking the scavengers in boats near the Hunters
SF News Mirkarimi Update: Lopez Still Fighting To Keep Video From Mayor Though she's in exile (or, from another perspective, back home) in Venezuela, Eliana Lopez is still fighting, through her attorney, to keep Mayor Ed Lee from using the video she and neighbor Ivory
SF News Weather Report San Franciscans talk about how we usually have to pay for it when we get weather like this. A couple of days of perfect park weather, or beach weather, or strolling-through-the-typically-foggy Sunset weather,
SF News Mother And Daughter Found Dead In Pleasanton Home A family newly arrived in the Bay Area from Missouri experienced a tragedy last night. 28-year-old Christopher Burton says he arrived home from work to find his wife, Amy Freeman Burton, 37, dead
SF News Chronicle Tries To Get Inside The Minds Of Black Bloc Anarchists The Chron made the rare move of trying to see the plight of vandalizing anarchists from their side of things today, but the story still ends up being an indictment of them as
SF News Walnut Creek Begs George Lucas to Build Studio There The other week told you about how George Lucas, finally fed up with the rich Marin NIMBYs bitching about his LucasArts expansion plans in Lucas Valley, gave up on his plans to build
SF News S.F. Wants To Remind Everyone There's An Election On June 5 Despite being the most populous state and one of the most diverse California's opinion doesn't matter a lick when it comes to picking this year's Republican Presidential candidate. But nonetheless there's a primary
SF News Landlord Tries to Oust Low-Income Tenants, City Intervenes The owners of 639 Geary Street issued letters last month to 33 low-income tenants informing them that their rents were going to be raised to market rates after more than 20 years of
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: A Capella Dubstep Somebody give these kids an award. It truly is just as offensive and assaultive as real dubstep.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Mint Julep at District in Oakland District, the wine bar near 3rd and Townsend in SoMa, just opened a second location in Old Oakland that features not just wine but a 40-bottle whiskey list. And today, on the eve
SF News Oakland Not Just 'Cooler,' It's Also Great for Business? The Guardian tried to tell us Oakland was cooler than San Francisco a few weeks ago, and now Fast Company is selling folks on the idea that Oakland is where it's at for
SF News The Chronicle Thinks Facebook Stock Could Be A Tough Sell There's a curmudgeony piece in the Business section of the Chron today titled "Facebook must convince investors of its value" and goes on to quote one analyst who tries to compare Facebook's upcoming,
Arts & Entertainment Everyone Hates Party Buses Drunken hordes descend on North Beach every weekend, but they're not all recently graduated frat boys and brogrammers from the Marina tripping their way down Broadway from Polk Street. A lot of them
SF News Knife Crime 2012: 18-Year-Old's Face Slashed On Muni In Gang-Related Incident An 18-year-old girl riding riding the 49 bus on Mission near Bernal Heights had her face slashed Wednesday evening by one of four assailants, described as two men and two women in their
SF News Trans Woman Murdered In Oakland In Apparent Hate Crime A transgender woman was shot and killed while sitting in her car in downtown Oakland last weekend, and it's taken a few days for local media outlets to catch up to the story.
SF News Airbnb The Latest Tech Company To Sign Big Lease In SoMa Airbnb, the legitimate way for people to get cash for letting people crash on their couch, just signed a 10-year lease in the Giftcenter building at 888 Brannan, for a space that's about
SF News Veterans' Hospital Lab Worker Dies Of Meningitis A 25-year-old researcher at S.F.'s VA hospital died Saturday morning very shortly after showing the first symptoms of a serious meningitis infection, which he likely contracted from working with the bacteria
