SF News Port Wants Pier 29 To Be The Next Ferry Building Since America's Cup dissed San Francisco to host its next edition, the Port of San Francisco is aiming to revitalize Pier 29. But its plan, published here, looks an awful lot like Pier
SF News Sonoma County Deputy Won't Be Charged For Killing 13-Year-Old Boy With Toy Gun The Sonoma County Deputy that last year shot and killed 13-year-old Andy Lopez—who was carrying a replica AK-47 mistaken for an assault rifle—will not face criminal charges. At a press conference
SF News Pinterest's Move Into San Francisco Design Center Halted By Board Of Supes [Updated] Updated: Pinterest's deal to move into 2 Henry Adams Street is pretty much dead. Today, the Board of Supervisors' Land Use & Economic Development Committee voted to table the building's request for landmark
Arts & Entertainment Local Baby Birds Land In Hand-Knitted Nests This isn's a storyline out of Portlandia season 5, though it could be: Orphaned baby birds are being rehabilitated in hand-knitted nests created by local residents. San Rafael nonprofit WildCare put the call
SF News Rising Rents Push Nonprofits Out Of Mid-Market More than a dozen nonprofits have been forced out of San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood due to rent hikes, the Chronicle reports, and the ones that remain are struggling. As Twitter, Zendesk, Square,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Competitors Take First And Second At Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest [Updated] Updated: San Jose's Joey Chestnut ate 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes, winning Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Contest in Coney Island for the eighth time. San Jose's Matt Stonie came in second, just
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Through The Modern Lens Of Acclaimed Photographer Arthur Tress Photographer Arthur Tress visited San Francisco in the summer of 1964 and ended up documenting a historic moment in time. Fifty years later, he’s returned to the city for a new series
SF News SoMa's Cubix Is Getting A New Nine-Story Condo Neighbor Harrison Street, between 3rd and 4th, is getting more housing. A new narrow, multi-unit condo development at 766 Harrison Street will raze the former location of Ed’s Autohaus, which moved to 980
Arts & Entertainment The Race For America's First Cat Cafe Heats Up As Oakland's Cat Town Cafe Signs Lease Back in January, when KitTea announced it would be opening a cat cafe in San Francisco, the news made us weep with joy and sparked national interest. What many didn't know at the
SF News Watch Out: SFPD Is On The Hunt For Illegal Fireworks As the 4th of July approaches, the San Francisco Police Department is cracking down on illegal fireworks sales—busting both sellers and buyers. And be aware: All fireworks are illegal in San Francisco,
Arts & Entertainment Watch Hunter Pence Play Video Games...For Two Hours Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who liked to play video games? Did you enjoy hearing them make references to things like "The Coin", "Bananas," and "King Mukla" (see: "Hearthstone:
Arts & Entertainment Levi's Goes Normcore In New Ad Campaign Simply another name for the casual, comfortable style San Francisco has embraced forever, normcore became the fashion meme of 2014 when New York Magazine discovered some trend-setting Brooklyn kids dressed like they came
SF News Berkeley Is Jumping On The Soda Tax Bandwagon [Updated] Update via Berkeleyside: The #BerkeleySodaTax is going onto the November ballot; passed unanimously #berkeley #berkmtg— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) July 2, 2014 Berkeley will likely join San Francisco in its push to tax surgery-drinks linked
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Meet What May Be The World's Shortest Cat There are adorable cats and then there's this munchkin tortoiseshell cat, Pixel, which might be the shortest in the world at 5-inches-tall. In this video produced by Barcroft Media, watch Pixel playfully chase
SF News Protest Planned After Headdress Incident At Giants Game, Claiming 'Assault' By SFPD Last week at the Giants’ Native American Heritage Night, two attendees got into an alleged altercation with white men wearing a headdress and were detained by the San Francisco Police Department. Now, a
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Pride Parade Photos: Turnout Includes Google Protesters, NASA, Apple More than a million people attended the 44th Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29 and it might have been the largest turnout ever. The official numbers are not yet in, but Pride publicist
SF News Mayor's Report Says 19,000 Homeless Off SF Streets, But 8,000 Were Just Bused Out Of Town Mayor Ed Lee's progress report on homelessness was released Thursday—and if you've got a few hours to kill, you can read the 40-page document here—but one of the city's biggest accomplishments
SF News The Battery Turns SF Street Into 'Private Parking Lot' If you’ve been avoiding San Francisco's private club The Battery because A) You're not a millionaire B) You have actual friends you don't have to pay for C) They won't let you
SF News Why Won't Twitter Announce Its Diversity Numbers? File under a positive trend, but depressing news: Facebook is the latest tech company to reveal its workplace diversity demographics and the breakdown is as white and male as data recently released by
SF News Fight Breaks Out In T.J. Maxx, Ends In Shooting On Wednesday evening at around 9:20 p.m., a T.J. Maxx shopper was shot just outside the store, following an argument with another customer. According to SFPD, the suspect fled on
SF News Video: Guys In Headdresses Spark Protest At Giants Game, Two Detained The Coachella kids think it’s hip, someone at Elle U.K. thought it was cool for Pharrell Williams to wear one, and the daughter of Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin posed in one
SF News Darth Vader Clad Protesters Swarm Google I/O Conference If you spot Darth Vader and other Star Wars characters outside Moscone Center this morning, they're going to be too busy protesting Google to pose for pictures. At 10 a.m. today, a
Arts & Entertainment Is 'San Francisco Doomed?' Musician Hannah Lew Talks Tech And The City Hannah Lew has been a fixture on the San Francisco music scene since starting the beloved, now-defunct band Grass Widow in 2007. Lew and her family moved to San Francisco when she was
