Arts & Entertainment Bernal's Wild Marmot Finally Nabbed The charismatic wild marmot one commenter said "should run for Board of Supervisors" after an SFist interview has finally been captured in Noe Valley. The self-described "giant ground squirrel" was nabbed after succumbing
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Is Steep, In Leaning House Photos Do you have vertigo? Do you want some? It's one of San Francisco's favorite photo subjects, and today we bring you a selection of our favorite leaning house photos to illustrate just how
Arts & Entertainment Yahoo To Showcase 30 Logo Thingies, Debut Another Purple Design Perhaps spurred but its far more logo-curious neighbor Google, Yahoo is launching a new logo after a 30 day countdown that will feature one iteration of its hideous purple logo per day. Why
SF News AC Transit Strike Averted In Last-Minute Deal A possible strike was called off hours before the midnight deadline that would have seen 1,800 drivers, mechanics, and AC Transit dispatchers walk off the job in labor disputes. The compromise calls
SF News Bank Robbers Strike Again, Acquire Cute FBI Nickname A group of bank robbers the FBI have dubbed the "High Jumper Bandits" is believed to have struck again last week. The crew, who impressed the FBI with their ability to leap over
SF News Tree Wars Brewing Over Removal Of Nonnative Eucalyptus A city plan to remove about 18,000 nonnative plants from San Francisco public parks over the next 20 years has some residents up in arms over "plant fascism." The plan has been
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Any of These First Friday Events It's summertime, it's the first Friday of the month, and it's pretty impossible to tell you exactly what you should be doing. But if you're searching for plans and especially if you're feeling
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Pay-What-You-Wish At The Parkway There's no shame in being cheap, but there are also benefits to being magnanimous, especially when local charities are on the line. Luckily, you can choose between the two for the whole month
SF News Are Tickets for Double Parking A Real Thing? Double parking tickets: have you actually ever seen one issued? Supervisor Scott Weiner hasn't, and he's clashing with the SFMTA over the issue. Weiner called a board meeting Tuesday to discuss the scourge
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Daily Show' Is Sick and Tired of LinkedIn Spam The Daily Show's summer anchor John Oliver finally came out and said what we were all thinking: "Leave me alone, LinkedIn!" He then attempted to unsubscribe from LinkedIn's constant barrage of job status
SF News Visitacion Valley Fire Reveals 60 Plant Pot Grow House A two-alarm blaze that broke out on the 100 block of Tucker Avenue at about 12:40 a.m. this morning summoned firefighters to the scene, where they discovered about 60 marijuana plants
Arts & Entertainment Barn Owls, Flamingos and Cat Burglars: Your Animal News Digest If you haven't noticed, we're avid followers of animal-related news in the Bay (we're far less interested in children, as evidenced by the city's demographic information). Here's a handy digest of Monday's animal-related
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Moving Day A loyal pup looks on as his owners pack up their Scott Street apartment and move on out, presumably to Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment A Conversation With John Oates, As Told Through Hall & Oates Album Covers We're not shy to admit it: we love Hall & Oates. The '70s and '80s hitmakers are still going strong, as evidenced by their upcoming appearances at Outside Lands, where we hope they'll
Arts & Entertainment So There's An Airbnb for Boats Now In inevitable startup news, that one guy who was telling you that his idea is "like Airbnb, but for boats!" got funded. The result is Boatbound, "the first fully insured 'pier-to-pier' boat rental
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On 24th And Mission... The sun is out and even the 24th Street McDonald's looks cheerful at the weather forecast, which calls for temperatures in the 60s and clear skies through the weekend.
SF News Three KTVU Producers Fired Over Asiana Reporting Debacle KTVU sacked three producers over the on-air reporting mess that named the pilots in the Asiana 214 crash as "Captain Sum Ting Wong," "We To Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow.
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: GunbyGun.org Launch Party Hey, remember when gun control was in the news? We do too ... just barely. Now politicians are stalled, shootings continue unabated, and regular folks who don't own guns really don't seem to have
SF News Mercury Cougar Hits, Kills Actual Cougar In Los Altos In a depressing twist of fate, a cougar (the mountain lion kind) was struck by a Cougar (the Mercury kind) on Monday morning on a stretch of Highway 280 going through Los Altos.
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Has The Skinniest Men In The Nation In the land of skinny jeans, the thin man is king. A new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington found that in 2011 (the year
Arts & Entertainment Horrid Puck From 'Real World S.F.' Arrested For Domestic Violence, Again Twenty years on, detestable Puck from MTV's vintage The Real World: San Francisco just can't seem to stay out of the news. In fact, it's almost like he's trying to keep getting arrested.
SF News New S.F. Rent Map Says 1 BRs Now Average $2,800 Unless you've been living under a (rent-controlled) rock, you know that rental wars are in full swing, and another rent map shows just how expensive the city has become. According to the map,
SF News Richmond High School Gang Rape Defendants Found Guilty The verdicts have been delivered in the cases of two of the men accused in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl on the Richmond High School campus in 2009. After a six-week
SF News SFMTA Backpedals On Bike Lanes In Polk Street Revamp Reversal In the SFMTA's continued efforts to please no one with their Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project, a new plan (PDF) was unveiled yesterday that would backpedal on separated bike lanes but still remove
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Zodiac Redux At The Old Mint By now 'Zodiac', the 2007 movie based on the events surrounding the Zodiac Killer's reign of terror in 1970's San Francisco, is a bit of a classic. From scenes depicting a Chronicle newsroom
