SF News Day Around The Bay: Native American Tribes Band Together With Forest Service To Preserve Water The Old Way Los Altos residents need to boil their water after E. coli was discovered in their supply. [ABC7] Sinbad's is in court to fight their eviction this week. [Chron] Local doctors appear to be
SF News Day Around The Bay: Updates On Three Wildfires Still Raging The Wragg Fire near Lake Berryessa, which we talked about last week, remains at 6,591 acres as of early Monday and is 70 percent contained. Further north and east, the Lowell Fire
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Lurks On Instagram Apple is throwing its weight behind The Equality Act of 2015, a sweeping piece of legislation introduced Thursday to outlaw discrimination against LGBT people under federal law. [Wired] After 35 years in business
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bowling Alley Still Up For Grabs! Remember that old Oakland bowling alley we told you about a couple weeks ago that was on the market and a sale was pending? It fell through. [SF Mag] There's a battle being
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hayward Cop Shot And Killed During Traffic Stop San Francisco wants luxury condo developments and private universities to pay for Muni upgrades. [Business Times] Supervisor Farrell proposes reforms following the Pier 14 murder of Kathryn Steinle, says Fox News and Donald
SF News Day Around The Bay: MTV's <em>Real World</em> Casting Comes To SF Again Apple's financials didn't turn out so bad, with profit up 38 percent, but their stock price still slipped in after-hours trading. [NYT] The Real World, which apparently will never end on MTV, is
SF News Day Around The Bay: Russian Billionaire Gives Berkeley $100 Million In Search For Extraterrestrial Life A judge has ruled that CA taxi companies can sue Uber for false advertising. [Chron] A permitting issue at the Castro Starbucks has led to the removal of outdoor seating. [Hoodline] An argument
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wanna Buy A Watch? A startup called Building Snitch hopes to help landlords nail tenants who Airbnb their places. [Weekly] Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is calling for a hearing to clarify what his department’s legal obligations are
SF News Day Around The Bay: Missing Snake Found! SF was just ranked the 4th worst city in which to drive. [HuffPo] That poisonous snake that apparently went missing at the SF Zoo over the weekend and was presumed dead? It wasn't
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supervisor Farrell Wants All Gun Sales On Video Supervisor Farrell wants us to videotape all gun and ammo sales. [KRON 4] Facebook broke the record as the fastest company to surpass a $250 billion valuation in the Standard & Poor’s
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland A's Fan Sues MLB For Foul Ball Safety Nets The Chron did lengthy “special report” on Airbnb and its impact on SF in the Sunday paper, and comes up with the lower-end-of-the-spectrum number, 350, for an estimate of how many rental units
SF News Day Around The Bay: Muir Woods To Require Reservations It's tough being popular, so soon you'll need to make a reservation to visit Muir Woods. [Chron] What the what? In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco. It was
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cholo Speaks Out Against LGBT Mural The aunt of the two-year-old girl who was killed in a crosswalk near the Metreon last August has been acquitted of child endangerment charges. [Examiner] Portlandia moment: this Tyrannosaurus Rex art bike is
SF News Day Around The Bay: Supervisors Don't Want You To Drink At Taco Bell, Starbucks Senator Mark Leno’s E-cig regulations bill went up for discussion today. [KRON4] Russian Hill car burglaries have doubled. [KRON 4] This is how Twitter recognizes porn. [Wired] The SF Arts Commission is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around The Bay: Local Chefs Save Water While Cooking Too California chefs, in particular several in San Francisco like Octavia/Frances chef Melissa Perello, are doing their part to conserve water during the drought, doing things like watering plants with leftover cooking water,
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Cool Kids Of TaskRabbit Hipster TaskRabbits don't want to work for the man, so they just gig, receive no health insurance. [BuzzFeed] Google Glass, back by popular demand. [9to5google] Pleasanton police shot a unarmed man. He died
SF News Day Around The Bay: Yelp Sale Stalls UC Berkeley has offered admission to more than 13,300 students for the 2015-16 freshman class. [KRON4] Tank down on Capp Street. [Capp Street Crap] Bryant Street resident awakes to stranger in his
SF News Day Around The Bay: iPhone 6S Details Leaked Zillow now claims that $4252 is SF's median rent, up from $4225, but we know better. [CBS 5] Caught on tape: man walks into Richmond District bike shop, steals thousand-dollar bike, assaults owner.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Term Sheet Shows Company Operating At Heavy Loss Uber reveals to its potential investors that the company generates $470 million in operating losses on $415 million in revenue. They're saying the numbers are old. [Bloomberg] Cal Berkeley is getting sued over
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dolores Park 'Trashed' Over Pride Weekend Trans person who works at Facebook (and even pioneered their agender policy) was banned from the site over the "real names" policy, and says the company's got "a very WASP notion of how
SF News Day Around The Bay: Silicon Valley Saved Marriage Equality [Wired] thanks "the giants of Silicon Valley" for helping make marriage equality happen. OK! 37-year-old man busted for child abduction in SF. [KRON] Facebook is now changing users’ names without their consent, as
SF News Day Around The Bay: This Weekend Will Be Very Trafficky A new proposal would slash stolen car towing fees for auto theft victims in SF. (Under current law, victims have 20 minutes to come claim their car wherever police find it, or pay
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker Plans To Give Away All His Money The Board of Supervisors narrowly voted to approve an advisory resolution (that is, it’s not enforceable) to hire more police officers after a lengthy argument, [Chron, Examiner] That unruly jerk of a
SF News Day Around The Bay: Black People Are 7.1 Times More Likely To Be Arrested In SF Than White People Watch this artist render code even less scrutable to a mainstream audience in her latest work at Twitter HQ. Qinmin Liu is "the biting Dadaist artist known for trading her kidneys for Apple
SF News Day Around The Bay: Instacart Converts A Bunch Of Its Contractors Into Employees Apparently seeing the direction in which the wind is blowing, Instacart’s converting some independent contractors into part-time employees. CEO Apoorva Mehta acknowledges that the company's best "shoppers" are the ones who are