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
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD’s Racist Texting Scandal Disciplinary Process 'On Hold' Here's a sneak peek of what's to come tonight in celebration of City Hall's 100th birthday http://t.co/SgQTHp6Svu pic.twitter.com/xG7S0ujBXO— Only in SF (@onlyinsf) June 19, 2015 Remember that
SF News Day Around The Bay: Kids Sickened At Antioch Water Park About 40 children are being treated for respiratory ailments related to chemical exposure at an Antioch water park which may just have been related to a leak of excessive chlorine. [ABC 7] Chuck
SF News Day Around The Bay: Giants Say OK To 40% Affordable Housing For the upcoming, 28-acre mixed-use development behind AT&T Park, at Mission Rock, the Giants have now agreed to build an unprecedented 40 percent of the housing units as below-market-rate. [Socketsite] The
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Ancient Ruins Of Candlestick Park A photographer for Deadspin maybe went trespassing and got some amazing photos of what was once known to a local civilization as Candlestick Park. [Deadspin] Misters Matier and Ross of The San Francisco
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pink Party Entertainment Announced In a suspected DUI, a motorcyclist hit and critically injured a cable car operator as the operator was disembarking. [Contra Costa Times] SF General has joined UCSF in no longer offering sugary drinks.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Hetch Hetchy Still 90 Percent Full! Reddit is banning its worst Subreddit communities, such as Fat People Hate. [The Verge] Judge accuses Uber of deceptive practices in ruling that rejects Uber’s bid to keep that case out of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Why Cyclists Matter More Than Everyone A plan to give artists pieces of the old Bay Bridge span will cost toll-payers $2.2 million. [Chron] Today in Clickhole: Poking fun at cyclist politics. [ClickHole] John McCain (yes, that John
