SF News Amid Pressure To Discipline Ray McDonald After Domestic Violence Arrest, 49ers Jed York Says They're Holding Off With the NFL's suspension of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice this week, following a video that surfaced of him assaulting his then-fiancée, much of the local response has focused on 49ers defensive
Arts & Entertainment Video: Last Night's Supermoon Emerging From The Fog The last of this summer's three supermoons rose on Monday night and our reader Mark Farinas captured a crazy close-up of it in the above video. The bright, full moon — which gains its
SF News A First Look At The Apple Watch: Photos The Apple Watch, the company's first new product in four years and first move into the wearable tech space, is highly designed and has lots of bells and whistles. As we reported via
Arts & Entertainment Bill Murray Was In Oakland Last Week, Taking Over A Taxi So The Driver Could Play His Sax There's an Oakland cab driver out there who has a pretty amazing Bill Murray story to tell his passengers. Last week, as the actor told an audience at the Toronto Film Festival, Murray
SF News You May Soon Be Able To Pay For Muni Using Your Smartphone Already tired of using your precious laundry quarters to pay for Muni's new $2.25 fare? Well, if a new pilot program set to start in early 2015 works out, you will have
SF News 6-Year-Old Boy Attacked By Mountain Lion Near Cupertino, Game Wardens Hunt For Animal A Sunday afternoon hike turned into every parent's nightmare when a 6-year-old boy was attacked by a mountain lion. Around 1:00 p.m. yesterday, September 7, a mountain lion along a trail
SF News Day Around The Bay: Toxic Pot Brownies Five Richmond high school students got very sick off pot brownies they bought from a classmate. Two were rushed to the hospital and remain in serious condition. [SFGate] An apartment fire in Twin
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Amazing Things A little inspiration, found in the Inner Sunset. Photo submissions for Photo du Jour, Morning Links and Day Around the Bay are gladly accepted right this way in the SFist Flickr Pool, or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of New Alameda Bar, Capone's Speakeasy, Gets Arrested At His Own Opening Party Mark Strachan might still be hungover from what sounds like a wild party last Saturday, August 30 at his new bar Capone’s Speakeasy in Alameda. At the very least, he's probably still
SF News The Severity Of California's Drought Captured In Disturbing New Photos As California's "once in a generation" drought continues, our reservoir water and groundwater reserves are at record lows. Over the last few months, Getty photographer Justin Sullivan has visited Shasta Lake and Lake
SF News Letter To The Editor: A Small Business Owner Responds To Yelp's Legal Triumph Many people were surprised by our story yesterday about a 9th Circuit ruling in favor of Yelp's advertising practices, saying that even if plaintiffs could prove the company had manipulated reviews and star
SF News Mission Fire, The Next Day: Photos Yesterday's five-alarm fire on Mission Street between 22nd and 23rd has left two buildings destroyed. As seen in the above photos, courtesy of Onpublico, the sidewalks are littered with scorched merchandise from discount
SF News Day Around The Bay: Luxurious Freeway Exit Housing A new housing development planned at 9th and Bryant Streets, right off Highway 101's exit, seems like a bad idea [Examiner]. What if all of S.F.’s rental housing stock was rent
SF News New Law May Reinstate Buffer Zone Around S.F. Abortion Clinics When last we checked in with the Planned Parenthood on Valencia Street, they said that harassment and intimidation of patients and staff had escalated since a 25-foot buffer zone was no longer in
SF News Breaking: Five-Alarm Fire On Mission Between 22nd and 23rd Streets [Updated] Reports of a three-alarm five-alarm structure fire on Mission between 22nd and 23rd streets have surfaced on Twitter. The San Francisco Fire Department is on the scene, which started at 2632 Mission Street,
SF News Day Around The Bay: 'Stop SFMTA' MoveOn.org says it "messed up” by promoting a “Stop SFMTA” petition, which protested parking meters in San Francisco. [Streetsblog SF] Tesla disses California to open new factory in Nevada. [CBS San Francisco]
SF News Child Actor Works The System To Enter UC Berkeley As A 15-Year-Old Junior There's a story in today's Chronicle about a 15-year-old "hacking" his way into UC Berkeley after dropping out of middle school, doing home-schooling, and taking classes at community colleges. He starts Cal as
Arts & Entertainment Dragons, Mushrooms, Zebras, Oh My: The Art Cars Of Burning Man 2014 [Video] Some things you can't escape — even at Burning Man — including waiting in line at the DMV. But in Black Rock City, the DMV is called the Department of Mutant Vehicles and the "cars"
SF News Day Around The Bay: Brass Knuckle Muni Attack A man and his son were attacked on a bus near 21st and Mission Streets by "young thugs" with brass knuckles. [Examiner] The Napa earthquake caused at least $300 million in damages. [Chronicle]
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Arturo Galster, S.F. Drag Performer Known For A Spot-On Patsy Cline [Updated] San Francisco lost a legendary figure in the arts and drag community this week with the passing of Arturo Galster. Tributes to the performer — known for his impeccable Patsy Cline and appearance in
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man By Night And Day Via Live Stream: Photos You're not at Burning Man? Yeah, neither are we. But the live stream has been going strong since Monday's rain storm passed and we've been checking it out to see how it's going.
SF News CEO Of Catering Company For Levi's Stadium And AT&T Park Caught On Video Kicking Dog Centerplate, the company that provides concessions for the 49ers' Levi's Stadium and the Giants at AT&T Park, is doing damage control after a surveillance video went public showing its CEO, Desmond
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Exposed Uber’s aggressive tactics to squelch Lyft and other competitors have been exposed in an in-depth story that includes interviews with current and former contractors and internal documents. [The Verge] Bay Area Bike
SF News Manslaughter Verdict In 2011 Buena Vista Park Gay Killing The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office announced today that a Superior Court jury has found 25-year-old David Munoz Diaz — who stood accused of murdering a man he had a sexual encounter with
SF News Runaway Napa Quake Pets Posted To New Facebook Group Worried pet owners searching for their furry friends in the wake of Sunday's 6.0 earthquake that shook Napa and the surrounding areas now have another place to look. Some good citizens started
