SF News Day Around The Bay: A Little Bit More Rain On The Way LGBT groups are planning a big "real names" demonstration at Facebook HQ on June 1. [Daily Dot] And, in related news, a local woman whose legal name is Tru Love was booted from
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Black Population Among Lowest Of US Cities The Hapa Ramen scandal, now as fully explained as it probably will or need be. [Eater] A judge ruled against Google lawyer and infamous Mission evictor Jack Halperin. [Mission Local] Here are renderings
SF News Day Around The Bay: Watch Out For The 420 Games Like they did during the drought in the 70s, state officials began building an emergency, 40-foot-tall, $40 million rock wall to prevent saltwater intrusion into the Sacramento River Delta. [Chron] The 420 Games
SF News Day Around The Bay: Could Narrower Streets Solve SF Housing Crisis? Smash-and-grab season continues, and this time one was caught on video. [KRON 4] Some more details and figures for the “floor plan,” and timing of the massive Pier 70 development. [Socketsite] A man
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Layoffs At Zynga We may be in for some thunder and lightning with the storm that's passing through Thursday. [CBS 5] Zynga is having more layoffs, getting out of the sports game category, getting rid of
SF News Day Around The Bay: What Did Mark Twain Really Think Of SF? The last thing Silicon Valley needs is a Hollywood-like “Silicon Valley” sign, and yet... [Chron] [SFmag]. You can buy Steve Jobs’ old business cards, if you're inclined to pay thousands for them. [SFGate]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Inside The Miss Russian SF Contest Jonathan Kauffman penned a piece about why upscale vegan spot Millennium leaving SF matters (even though they're just moving to Oakland). [Inside Scoop] The Chron's Tony Bravo attended that Miss Russian pageant at
SF News Day Around The Bay: Alleged Mrs. Doubtfire Arsonist Is Representing Herself Is a new tech co-working hub in Chinatown violating city law? [Ex] Tesla has introduced a fascinating new solar battery. [Consumerist] Starbucks’ bottled water plant in Merced draws drought-focused criticism. [Business Times] Now
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter's Demise Predicted A look back at the victims of the San Francisco riots. [Huffington Post] The median incomes of California cities, ranked. [SocketSite] Corrupt SFPD officer/racist texter expected to surrender to authorities, head off
SF News Day Around The Bay: Those Water Usage Fines Might Hit $10,000 The SFPD cites eight times as many black people as they do white people for resisting arrest. [Chron] An iPad app used by pilots in all American Airlines cockpits malfunctioned Tuesday causing widespread
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Woman Trapped On Everest The above photo of San Francisco was taken from space and tweeted by astronaut Scott Kelly. [Twitter] Peter Ragone is back! The former communications director for then-mayor Gavin Newsom became a figure of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Which Supes Agreed To Ride Muni? You know how the Transit Riders Union issued that challenge to the Supervisors and the Mayor to ride Muni to work at least 22 days in June? Well, seven of them signed on,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bay Area Binge Drinking Shoots Up The cello stolen from a Union Square garage was left at a Great Avenue bar by a mysterious person who told the barkeep to give it to the cops. [SF Examiner] As if
SF News Day Around The Bay: An End To Homeless Veterans A Fillmore Safeway security guard injured an alleged shoplifter during an altercation. [Chronicle] This reprehensible Stanford PhD student was just sentenced for beating his girlfriend so horribly that she was disfigured. [Kron4] Barry
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Has The Third Worst Commute In The U.S. Now Good question: Why isn’t the MTA making Uber and Lyft drivers take their mandatory safety courses? [Hoodline] “Market demand” for bigger units means the Transbay development will cut 99 units, including 27
SF News Day Around The Bay: Texting The Olsen Twins The number of evictions in San Francisco is at the highest level in at least ten years. [48 Hills] [Mission Local] Fusion and Matter both have big interviews with the lawyer taking Uber,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Port-a-Potty Lands In Lake Merritt This portable toilet appears to have fallen, or was tossed, into the cleanly waters of Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend. [JesseBudlong/Twitter] Season of the Witch author David Talbot contemplated running against
SF News Day Around The Bay: 1906 Quake Photos In Jeopardy Photos from the 1906 earthquake might disappear if $40K isn't raised to save them. [Chron] Speaking of which, take a look at these photos from the Smithsonian of the 1906 quake. [SacBee] Even
SF News Day Around The Bay: Woman Punched Over Muffin A Mission thief actually punched a woman in the face over a muffin. [Examiner] If you pony up enough dough, you can have lunch with Tim Cook. [Chron] Museum head in charge of
SF News Day Around The Bay: Call For Parklets Mayor Lee and Supervisor Farrell have announced their proposed methods to tighten up that Airbnb law. You know, because it's basically gotten no traction so far. [Chron] It's the first open call for
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dolores Park Gets 'Pop-Up' Trash Clean-Up Help In addition to almonds, here are California’s top water guzzling culprits. [KQED] There's an "eco pop-up" launching this week in an effort to hold everyone's hand and show them how to remove
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Pablo Cop Caught In SF Drug Sting Is this “co-living” project seeking to circumvent SF's affordable housing rules? [Business Times] That mandatory helmet proposal has been dropped. [KQED] A San Francisco deputy guarding a drug kingpin who he escaped from
SF News Day Around The Bay: Guess How Much That Apartment Costs Wife of a San Francisco doctor accused of writing bogus painkiller prescriptions for homeless people has now been charged with money laundering. [Chron] Vice President Joe Biden was here last night and today,
SF News Day Around The Bay: PUC Votes To Penalize PG&E $1.6 Billion For San Bruno Explosion After the PUC penalty of $1.6 billion to PG&E, that's $2.2 billion in total fines for the 2010 blast. [Business Times] A successful tech entrepreneur writes about her attempts
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rose Pak Hates Techies One Oakland A’s player unwilling to pay Bay Area’s rents is returning to the Midwest. [SFGate] Rose Pak says techies ruin neighborhoods and basically insults them in a bunch of weird
