SF News Exploding Transformer, Errant Raccoon Knock Out Power To Thousands Of San Franciscans Huge swaths of San Francisco found themselves without power Saturday, after two separate incidents — one caused by a transformer that exploded, the other caused by a raccoon — took out lines across the city.
SF News Video: Why Is This Bike Messenger Stomping On Plants In Bernal Heights? What exactly is this bike messenger doing to those poor plants in Bernal Heights? Is this another example of Bad Bikers Busted On Video? In a video shot by Tom Cook and shared
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vandal With Vocabulary Tags Twee New Business In Bernal Heights Shocking news from pleasant Cortland Street on the south side of Bernal — or should I say "Banal"— Hill. A vigilante with a vocabulary has tagged a new business, Epicurean Trader — or per the
Arts & Entertainment The Steps Of San Francisco: The Esmeralda Stairs Up Bernal Hill This is part of an ongoing series about the various staircases, and stair streets, of SF. See the first installment here. The Esmeralda Street Stairs offer a steep but direct climb up Bernal
SF News Man Arrested In Mission Street Machete Attack An early-morning altercation on Mission Street took a bizarre direction, after a machete was thrown into the mix. San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Grace Gatpandan says that it was almost 2 a.
SF News Bernal Heights Woman Who Was Given 400 Percent Rent Hike Moves Out Today Back in March, the story of Bernal Heights resident Deborah Follingstad getting pushed out of her home of ten years went viral around the Bay Area after she posted the notice from her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bernal Heights Restaurant Little Nepal Hosts Earthquake Fundraiser One of San Francisco's two Himalayan/Nepalese restaurants, Little Nepal (925 Cortland) in Bernal Heights, is hosting a fundraiser Thursday, April 30, to benefit victims of the devastating earthquake that occurred there Saturday.
SF News Bernal Hill Paramours Who Crashed Car Through Gate Arrested Despite Man's Claims To Be Steve Jobs Crazy crash on Bernal Hill @Bernalwood @ @MLNow @SFGate two detained pic.twitter.com/YqNVCJGclL— Bernal Journal (@bernaljournal) March 16, 2015 Who doesn't enjoy recounting the story of a tryst or narrating a strange
SF News [Update] Lawyer Behind Egregious Bernal Heights Rent Increase Gives Snide Statement Denouncing Rent Control The story that broke earlier this week about the longtime tenant in a Bernal Heights rent-controlled unit has continued to churn, despite the fact that the tenant herself seems to have no legal
SF News City Sues Bernal Heights' Kingston Shack 'Gambling Den' City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who last year successfully shuttered underground Excelsior gambling establishment Next Stop Business Center, is once again in crackdown mode. As the Weekly notes, this time his target is Kingston
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bernal Dads Racing Blows Engine On Cool Dad Volvo As chronicled by Bernalwood, the race car driving fathers of Bernal Dads Racing are looking for a new Volvo 240 engine for their beloved whip named "The Whale." If you're curious, you can
Arts & Entertainment Salon Founder Goes Off About Bernal Gentrifiers, 'Stanford Douchebags', And The Destruction Of SF In a new, rather angry op-ed published on 48 Hills, which is actually a speech that Salon founder David Talbot recently delivered at Stanford, Talbot has no shortage of bad things to say
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour: Real Snowman Reappears In Precita Park Last Christmas Eve some clever, anonymous Bernal resident installed a snowman made of real snow in Precita Park, and on Wednesday, another real snowman appeared, right on schedule in what now may be
SF News Report: Which Neighborhood Home Values Appreciated The Most? A suspicion-confirming report from Paragon Real Estate Group points to three neighborhoods that have seen the greatest bump in home values since the financial crisis: Bayview, the Inner Mission, and Bernal Heights (in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Devil Moon Will Bring Craft Beer To La Lengua A new beer bar and restaurant is headed for the Mission/Bernal border next year, and it's called Old Devil Moon. The folks at La Terraza on Mission and Cortland are retiring from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emmy's Spaghetti Shack Closes Tonight, Will Reopen Up The Street This Weekend Remember how Emmy's Spaghetti Shack is moving? Well, tonight will be its last night in its longtime home at Virginia and Mission, and it's set to reopen in its new digs at 3230
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The 'Fairy Door' Phenomenon, And The New One That Just Appeared in Bernal Heights Delighting pretty much anyone with an imagination or sense of humor, "fairy doors" are miniature, whimsical fixtures that some anonymous creative folk have tucked around the human world. These would-be portals to another
Arts & Entertainment The Evolution Of Bernal Dads Racing It's the club for Bernal Heights thirty- and forty-somethings who won't let fatherhood slow them down. They’re called Bernal Dads Racing, and for the last seven years, they've been running on dad
SF News Seriously Injured Man Discovered Outside SF General A man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds was found just steps from San Francisco General Hospital on Thursday night, and now police are trying to figure out where the shooting took place. According
SF News Arrest Made In 'Suspicious' Bernal Heights Death [Update] The San Francisco Police Department is investigating what they're describing as a "suspicious death" in Bernal Heights, after firefighters who discovered a body suggested that there was more the the case than meets
SF News S.F. Protestors Rally For Ferguson, March For Alex Nieto Planned Today About 100 people gathered at United Nations Plaza last night around 7 p.m. in a show of solidarity for Ferguson, Missouri and the ongoing protests of the police shooting of unarmed teenager
Arts & Entertainment Quadcopter Selfie Reminds Us How Small We Really Are Photojojo founder Amit Gupta and a gaggle of his pals, Nick Bilton (columnist/tech reporter for The New York Times) and Zach Klein, climbed atop Bernal Hill this weekend to take what could
SF News Local Pranksters Are Flipping Smart Cars For Kicks Last night around Bernal Heights and Portola, three Smart cars were flipped over in the streets. One witness described seeing a group of about six to eight hoodie-wearing suspects huddled around one of
SF News Fatal SFPD Shooting: Chief Suhr To Face Tough Questions Tonight San Francisco police department Chief Greg Suhr had better be prepared for some tough questions tonight, when he is scheduled to face the public to answer questions about a controversial SFPD shooting that
